Blackett

From the bestselling author of Guadalcanal Diary: The thrilling true story of the future president’s astonishing act of heroism during World War II.

by Francis Hegarty (Author), John Amoore (Author), Paul Blackett (Author), Justin McCarthy (Author), Richard Scott (Author)

The spring term of 1975 at Westfield College, West Hampstead, saw a small group of second-year undergraduates from Westfield and UCL specialising in the ‘Baroque period’ assemble for David Bindman’s class on English and French Sculpture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Günter Kowa1 and Carol Blackett-Ord (née Scott-Fox)2 were amongst them.

Loneliness, isolation, alienation, the need for connection and community. The salient themes of our times resonate with a haunting, predictive and vital power on the third album from London four-piece Landshapes. Released through Bella Union this December, Contact is an album that digs deep into the past, looks ahead to the future and burns with vivid life in the present, where its mind-expanding soundscapes, beguiling melodies and resonating emotions exude a tremendous in-the-moment vibrancy.