Category: Articles
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Music of the Millennium – Various Artists
[This CD review was first published in Kansai Scene magazine.] Compilations of these kinds usually get me a bit twitchy. The idea of taking a relatively wide range of “hits” from the past thirty five years and throwing them together in this way seems like a blatant marketing ploy. However, if you’re like my…
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Vicente Amigo – La Cuidad de las Ideas
[A version of this CD review was first published in Kansai Scene magazine.] If you’re like me and you think that the term “ethnic music” is insultingly broad, you might also still believe that it’s possible to find good sounds in this same section of your local music shop. One example of this is Vicente…
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The Zanzibar Zone
[First published in Japan’s Kansai Scene magazine, unknown month, 2000.] A small island off the coast of Tanzania in central-eastern Africa, Zanzibar has a colourful history as a stop-off along the slave and spice trades of past centuries. Kansai Scene writer Brett Hetherington attempts to see how modern day realities have met the past. Arriving…
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Prose Poem 28
[Photo: Pedro Duarte] How to fill the hours? The hours and minutes that cluster around demanding to be entered, insisting to be used or abused or taken downtown to be trod into the cracks in the pavement, only returning with intent to malinger, or linger, or finger the night. The hours where only the…
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Japan’s untouchables
[A version of this article was first published in Kansai Scene magazine, 2002] THE PLIGHT OF THE BURAKU PEOPLE In Japan there is a minority people who have been outcasts for more than 200 years, yet they remain little-known in the rest of the world. KS contributing writer Brett Hetherington spoke with *Kohei, of the…
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OTRA VIDA (Note To Self)
[First published at Milton Keynes library, England 2006.] [Image: Hans] So you’ve got this meat of the mouth urge To write to write to self-ignite You hear something that’s never been said An idea given birth to and raised in your head You just think somebody’s got to hear you They can’t live…
Brett Hetherington 