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Live Review: Anna Meredith and the LCO – Barbican, London 30.4.22

Anna Meredith’s electronic pop music has always been orchestral in scale, layered, interconnected, harmonically complex and structured like a tight stack of circuit boards, wired for glorious sound. So the…

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LIVE REVIEW: The Divine Comedy, Barbican, London

TWO GIGS in one calendar week in 2020; this is unprecedented. Both live streams, maybe, but that’s just fine by me in a world which looks to have decided its…

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LIVE REVIEW: Erland Cooper, The Barbican, London: bringing the soul of Orkney to the heart of the capital

TO THE Barbican, that beautiful, brutalist residential and cultural hub in London EC2: for a gig. A gig! Livestream or not, it’s a red letter day in 2020. Ah ……

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TRACK: Erland Cooper shares ‘Holm Sound’ ahead of this weekend’s streamed Barbican show

THE DELICATE and psychogeographic recent canon of Orcadian Erland Cooper has, to partially quote Camper Van Beethoven, “increased by exactly one” today, with the release of the gossamer piano yearn…

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NEWS: Erland Cooper announces Barbican performance; tour dates confirmed

YOUR favourite Orcadian psychogeographer and acclaimed forger of musical atmospheres, Erland Cooper, is to give a special performance at London’s Barbican on Saturday, October 10th. The event, designed for live…

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