Motionless as the dead, writhing with memory. Nguyễn Hồng Nhung forces me to pay close attention to her career as it unfolds—each new thing she does as […]
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Equipped with only cassette player and guitar, respectively, the duo first lay low, moving unmarked through a sunken lane in the landscape, shoulder-high, green embankments veined with […]
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Akşak is a drummers’ album for people who don’t like drummers’ albums. Many tracks are “just” percussion, but uncannily melodic—some angular, others flow like the river […]
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