John Baker’s Blog

Their gig at Thorganby Village Hall last night was a sell out event.
Miranda Sykes was confident on the back of her new CD, Bliss, and gave us great late-night vocals, accompanying herself on double bass.
She doesn’t have a soaring voice, but the way she uses it is intriguing, exploring traditional jazz and cabaret forms [...]

Expressionists were amongst the most interesting of the Modernists. They believed that modern industrial capitalism had hijacked the human spirit, had somehow increased the ability to manipulate the external world by appropriating the inner life of the individual and the community. The spirit, which had always been free, was now forced into the service of [...]