Tom Beedham
Joseph Shabason. The Fellowship. On the first track of Joseph Shabason’s third solo album, The Fellowship, the voice of a child emerges from a sepia-toned gloom, repeating in various speak-singing phrasings, “Did you get a good picture?” Legacy, intergenerational interdependence, and our[...] Read more
Oiseaux-Tempête. From Somewhere Invisible. “He sips tea with lemon, while I drink coffee. / That’s the difference between us.” Transporting the words of the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish into contemporary us-and-them politics, Dutch vocalist G.W. Sok (cofounder and former frontman of The Ex) returns to[...] Read more