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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


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


How to spread a jam

India, March 29 -- There is a chapter early in Shabaka Hutchings's creative lore that feels almost mythological in retrospect. A young man with roots in Barbados, born in Britain and training at Londo... Read More


How to spread a jam: Sanjoy Narayan writes on the genius of Shabaka Hutchings

India, March 27 -- There is a chapter early in Shabaka Hutchings's creative lore that feels almost mythological in retrospect. A young man with roots in Barbados, born in Britain and training at Lond... Read More


Putting the rock in Ragnarok: Sanjoy Narayan writes on Nordic blues

India, March 13 -- It was one of those wonderfully wet Finnish summer days - unexpected, slightly comic, and, in hindsight, perfect. I was on the Kuopio leg of a bike-and-train trip through the count... Read More


Ghost notes: The gigs I missed

India, March 8 -- I t began, as reveries tend to begin for me these days, with a lazy afternoon and a pair of headphones. I had put on audio from the Monterey International Pop Festival of June 1967, ... Read More


Ghost notes: Sanjoy Narayan writes on the gigs he missed

India, March 6 -- It began, as reveries tend to begin for me these days, with a lazy afternoon and a pair of headphones. I had put on audio from the Monterey International Pop Festival of June 1967, a... Read More