Matthew Herbert turns the Guardian into music

Heard the news? Well you can do now – literally – since I have taken stories from an edition of the Guardian and turned them into musicThe bulk of readily accessible new music is concerned with little more than itself. It is no surprise that pop largely prefers the cosy, coddled simple fun of indoors to the dark, complex, jagged edges of the outside world, but jazz, too, has lost its way. The iTunes UK jazz chart – with Robbie Williams at No 1 and Norah Jones at No 2 – reads like a list ...

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