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Brilliant Corners 2025: Days 5-8

by Ian Patterson
March 16, 2025

Brilliant Corners 2025 Black Box/Various Venues Belfast, N. IrelandFebruary 28-March 8, 2025 If the first four days of Brilliant Corners 2025 leaned towards long-form contemporary composition and free improvisation, the music of the last four days had a more spiritual tone, and a more heavily African-accented character. Many would say that ...

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Afro-Harping

By Dorothy Ashby

Label: Cadet
Released: 2003
Track listing: Soul Vibrations; Games; Action Line; Lonely Girl; Life Has Its Trials; Afro-Harping; Little Sunflower; Theme from the Valley of the Dolls; Come Live With Me; The Look of Love

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Dorothy Ashby: Afro-Harping

Read "Afro-Harping" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner
November 2, 2003

Cue up “Soul Vibrations,” the first track on Verve’s reissue of Dorothy Ashby’s Afro Harping, and revel: a one-note syncopated bass line over a slamming drumbeat that you’re sure you’ve heard sampled somewhere. Enter the double-tracked theremins, followed by swoopy strings. Next, over the relentless beat, an echo-plexed harp solo by Ashby, during which the strings ...