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READ: The Autobiography of Deux Filles' Gemini Forque, by Claudine Coule

Gemini Forque (°1982, Lourdes) is an artist who mainly works with contemporary strategies. By rejecting an objective truth and global cultural narratives, Forque tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way, likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical and believes in the idea of function following form in a work.
By Claudine Coule

  • Snarky Puppy and GoGo Penguin: The New Standards of Jazz?

    What is Jazz, actually? No, you don't have to answer that question because it is an unanswerable one, all be it theoretical one. Throughout its tracable history, the burden of this question has plagued many, mostly those who have tried to answer it in an attempt to exclude somebody else. The argument is about as old as jazz music itself and with the emergence of two new popular acts, GoGo Penguin and Snarky Puppy, that debate has been reenergized once again. Both bands have attained a popularity and complaints about being filed in the jazz genre.
    By Thomas Swan

  • RETRO: "Zero Tolerance for Silence (Part 1)" by Pat Metheny

    Let's face it, protest songs are a dime a dozen. Be it Britain or Iraq, Roe vs. Wade, black power or white guilt, nearly everyone's got an axe to grind.
    By Logan K. Young