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Jordan Peele · LondonIn his latest Secret History of Film Music column, Philip Brophy considers Michael Abels’s musicalisations of Black aspiration in Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017) and Us (2020).
An affluent American suburb at night: old trees, manicured gardens, maintained roads, restored street lamps. A Black man has just been thrown into a car. On cue with the trunk slam: Appalachian strings, ukulele finger-picking, and Swahili choral humming intoning “Sikiliza K…Read Article
Michael Abels: Song Lines and Slave Songs
London, England · LondonThe reissued early 1990s output of Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns aka The Sabres Of Paradise still cuts deep, writes Ken Hollings in The Wire 498
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You remember the face, but you can’t quite place the name – though both seem familiar to you. Start with the former. That wonky blade piercing his ears, the shaved head, the crossed eyes and wincing smi…Read Article
