Category: Concert Reviews

Clarendon Guest House, September 1 7/10 Harry Manx strips music back to its most basic building blocks, and then adds embellishments as deftly as the most Spartan of poets adds a simile. On one level little changes across a song, a set, a year or his career, but then his…

505, August 4 9.5/10 Wisely it came last, because it couldn’t be trumped. The late Ornette Coleman’s Lonely Woman is one of the 20th century’s masterpieces; a sonic equivalent of the shattering sadness of Picasso’s Weeping Woman. Here it was played with almost frightening intensity, spawning a dialogue between Peter…