Sarah Gillespie/Gilad Atzmon: In the Current Climate – review

(Pastiche)Singer/guitarist Sarah Gillespie doesn't often take her foot off the gas, in which respect she mirrors her arranger and sax-partner Gilad Atzmon's appetite for politically charged intensity. But Gillespie, who joins Bob Dylan's lyrical bite and languid delivery to the forthrightness of Joni Mitchell, with a little rap-like percussiveness thrown in, is an original of real promise, even if she does, perhaps, try to hurl in too many ideas at once. The title means what it says: the son...

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