Anatomy of an Uncanny Shoreline: Olana Light’s Between Land and Tide and the Ecological Imagination

Executive Overview Against the sun-scorched, drought-yellowed turf of a municipal park in Portsmouth, England, five interconnected silhouettes move with slow, unsettling deliberation. Draped in layered, hessian-coloured fabrics and crowned with wild, overgrown fiber-dreadlocks that blur individual identities into a single collective organism, the figures process toward a deflated, five-armed star shape lying inert on the … Read more

A Final Soliloquy for a Soul Architect: Inside Steve Cropper’s Posthumous Masterwork ‘Watching The Tide’

Executive Overview The global music community today marks the arrival of Watching The Tide, the final, posthumous studio record from soul icon, songwriter, and Stax Records architect Steve Cropper. Released as a monument to a career that fundamentally reshaped 20th-century American popular music, the dozen-track collection features an unprecedented gathering of rock and blues royalty … Read more

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