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• Album: Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens - American Railroad | theartsdesk.com | Nov. 14, 2024, 12:08 a.m.
Conceived in 1998 by the renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma to remind the world of the benefits of globalisation in bringing people together, Silkroad is a non-profit organisation with a mission to create “music that engages difference, sparking radical cultural collaboration and passion-driven learning for a more hopeful and inclusive world”.

• Album: American Railroad Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens | theartsdesk.com | Nov. 14, 2024, 12:08 a.m.
Conceived in 1998 by the renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma to remind the world of the benefits of globalisation in bringing people together, Silkroad is a non-profit organisation with a mission to create “music that engages difference, sparking radical cultural collaboration and passion-driven learning for a more hopeful and inclusive world”.

• Album: Willie Nelson - Last Leaf on the Tree | theartsdesk.com | Nov. 1, 2024, midnight
Well, seems like only yesterday when I reviewed Willie Nelson’s last album, Borderline, an excellent set from the man’s ninth decade, and now here comes Last Leaf on the Tree, a consummate set that’s at a higher level.

• Album: The Cure - Songs of a Lost World | theartsdesk.com | Oct. 31, 2024, midnight
Could melancholia be an elixir of creative youth? Or is it that sad people were never really that youthful, so age suits them? Certainly it seems that there was something in the water for so many of the foundational 80s indie bands who dealt in sadness, pain and existential angst that makes longevity suit them: The Jesus & Mary Chain, Dinosaur Jr., Throwing Muses, Ride, Slowdive just for starters have all somehow ambled into the 2020s on the creative form of their lives.