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Natural Selection
Szperling's short, punchy novel paints a vivid pen-portrait of the savage and amoral nature of this stratum of Argentinean society.
Fish Tank
A film that gets inside the mind and feelings of a young person deeply at odds with the world. Written and directed by Andrea Arnold.
Birdwatchers
The reality of indigenous life in the Amazon. Directed and co-written by Marco Bechis
Thursday Night Widows
Nominally a thriller, Thursday Night Widows is less concerned with the 'whodunnit' aspects of plotting than with a psychological dissection of a social class obsessed with bickering and petty jealousies as the pillars of their world dissolve.
Rishte
An album with a range of references stretching from a lazy Delta blues to the yearnings of Urdu devotionals. By Najma Akhtar and Gary Lucas.
Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast
Guitars blast, synthesizers go mad and a group of gospel harmonizers strain for the heavens as sitar strings twang. By Cornershop
Three Miles North of Molkom
At a new age festival in Sweden, a group of people who’ve never met before explore tree-hugging, sweat lodges, shamanism, tantric sex.
Also worth a mention...
CDs that didn't quite make a full review, but are still worthy of a mention.
2666
It takes a singular talent to make a book of 1,000 pages that is as hard to put down as it is to pick up. Despite its size, 2666 retains the agility of a thriller.
The Rough Guide to Afrobeat Revival
Starting where founding father of afrobeat Fela Kuti left off, this album features energetic tracks of sweaty inventiveness.
Siwan
For all its ancient antecedents, Siwan is a very modern album and a joyous meditation for that.
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born. Jens Erik Gould tells a tragic story that changed the law on
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The fourth generation
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