A sticker on the cover of American Dust is says it’s “an ode to the beauty of the American Southwest,” specifically the High Desert area within the wider setting of California's Mojave Desert.

In terms of technical achievements, The Ode Islands is both inspiring and captivating, with that particular sense of enjoyment that comes from marvelling at how something’s being done while ...

For Delius – then a young man, visiting Norway in the late 1880s to walk in its mountains – his first encounter with Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra was nothing less than an epiphany. Already high ...

"Crazy comedy" was a recognised subgenre in post-war Czech cinema. Turn to this disc’s bonus features first and watch Michael ...

Cat Cohen, Pleasance Courtyard ★★★★★In Broad Strokes Cat Cohen paints a fascinating picture of events leading up to the ...

What would TV screenwriters do without drugs? In Flight, created by Mike Walden and Adam Randall, is yet another drama ...

There’s a Proms paradox that’s familiar to Early Music fans. Some works are too challenging – too big, too expensive, too ...

Gibby Haynes is the wild-eyed crazy man who used to front the Butthole Surfers back in the 1980s and 1990s. At the time, ...

UK dub maestro and producer, Adrian Sherwood is hardly what anyone might call a slacker, but it’s 13 years since the release ...

Right from the bracing brass fanfare that began this Sea Symphony, you know exactly where you were: right in the midst of the ...

Love was the Norwegian climax of Dag Johan Haugerud’s Oslo trilogy, the most lovestruck vision of his city and boldest ...

In many ways, The Horse of Jenin is a pretty straightforward show, as Jenin-born, now Amsterdam-based Shehada looks back on ...