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Heard instinct: On the hunt for new routes to music

India, May 31 -- From dark rooms to deep dives, the best music finds you when you're actually listening I wrote last time about a Pitchblack Playback deep-listening session I attended in Helsinki, and... Read More


Heard instinct: Sanjoy Narayan is on the hunt for new routes to music

India, May 29 -- From dark rooms to deep dives, the best music finds you when you're actually listening I wrote last time about a Pitchblack Playback deep-listening session I attended in Helsinki, an... Read More


A million Miles: In his 100th year, see how Miles Davis revolutionised jazz

India, May 22 -- It was sometime in the late 1970s, on a woozy summer afternoon in a city I no longer live in, that a much older friend - someone I admired and looked up to - put a record on that stop... Read More


A room full of stars

India, May 17 -- It was a weeknight in Helsinki, cold in the way Finnish spring evenings stubbornly insist on being, and I was filing into a modest cinema. My phone was off. I had no beverage, noteboo... Read More


A room full of stars: Sanjoy Narayan writes on the Pitchblack Playback experience

India, May 15 -- It was a weeknight in Helsinki, cold in the way Finnish spring evenings stubbornly insist on being, and I was filing into a modest cinema. My phone was off. I had no beverage, noteboo... Read More


The many moods of Thundercat

India, April 26 -- At 41, Thundercat is one of those musicians whose name, or rather whose work, we encounter more often than we realise. Stephen Lee Bruner, to use his given name, is a bassist, produ... Read More


Bass to the future: Sanjoy Narayan on the many moods of Thundercat

India, April 24 -- At 41, Thundercat is one of those musicians whose name, or rather whose work, we encounter more often than we realise. Stephen Lee Bruner, to use his given name, is a bassist, prod... Read More


A sway with words

India, April 12 -- There is a moment near the end of Baz Luhrmann's EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, released in February, in which Bono's voice arrives over the closing credits like a man leaning in t... Read More


50 years of

India, April 12 -- On a hot August evening in 1974, four young men from Queens walked on stage at a grimy bar in Lower Manhattan and launched into a set so short and ferocious that the audience barely... Read More


A sway with words: Sanjoy Narayan writes on talk-singing

India, April 10 -- There is a moment near the end of Baz Luhrmann's EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, released in February, in which Bono's voice arrives over the closing credits like a man leaning in t... Read More