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Showing 1 - 15 results of 59 for "Andy Battaglia"
Four Brazilian releases brilliantly capture the country’s beauty and dark underbelly by mixing experimentation with rousing vocals. And it's impressive.
September 27, 2016
From vinyl to 8-track, cassettes, CDs, MP3s and the cloud, for record buyers, substance has vanished into thin air. But for one musician, the medium is the message.
August 18, 2016
Two avant-garde albums hark back to an ecclesiastical past to make sense of the present: Solas by Claire M Singer and Love Streams by Tim Hecker.
July 20, 2016
But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, an exhibition of Mena artists at the Guggenheim in New York, focuses on migration and anxiety in the region.
June 23, 2016
Electronic sounds from Cape Verde to Ethiopia are showing just how diverse and expansive African music can be. We survey some of the best new releases from the continent.
June 8, 2016
Modernist designer Harry Bertoia was also a pioneer in experimental sound, creating otherworldly sonic landscapes from simple metal sculptures. Now a box set of his dreamlike works takes us to a wider cosmos.
May 11, 2016
Half a century ago, writer Paul Bowles travelled through Morocco to record the sounds of its people. A CD box set breathes new life into this joyous, mystical music.
April 14, 2016
The Met Breuer, the new home for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s modern and contemporary collection, has opened in New York with a Nasreen Mohamedi exhibition. We report on the institution’s new commitment to a global perspective.
March 24, 2016
All the forces flowing through their songs, which often run like a river towards a waterfall, can put an impressionable listener in mind of the drones that course beneath Indian music or circular patterns from other traditions.
February 16, 2016
Mexican cabaret music, Haitian roots grooves, Arab-flamenco fusion, and a wild, wily group that proudly identifies as a Russian mafia band will appear at Sunday's globalFEST.
January 14, 2016
It is easy to mourn the loss of a pop culture that we at least somewhat understand, but the blurring of borders makes for more exhilarating aural travelling, writes Andy Battaglia
December 26, 2015
The sounds of Oneohtrix Point Never reside in the realms of fantasy. It's a journey through utopian and dystopian worlds, along with some mesmerising, discordant beats.
December 3, 2015
In the first American survey of his work, Raad challenges his audience on the blurring of fact and unreality in Arab art.
November 26, 2015
The larks and snarks of !!! make for engaging listening. We compare their unusual use of humour with New Order’s latest brooding sounds.
October 22, 2015
Ahead of performing for the first time in Abu Dhabi, the genre-busting Kronos Quartet talk about why they're so exited to be coming here.
September 10, 2015
Covid-19 latest: UAE reports 2,959 new cases after 242,159 more tests
Arab Americans hit 'disproportionately' hard by Covid-19
How one man continued to fly around the world during the pandemic
Oil prices rally to highest since 2019 after Opec+ rolls over output curbs
Saudi Arabia's Al Ula airport will welcome international flights