Genius on The Edge

"Poetry is a narcotic that develops the mind. It induces the imagination and makes it explode. It's a kind of escape, a way to go over the barriers and barbed wire that we put ourselves," explains Peter Doherty. Settled in Normandy, with the cliffs of Etretat to contemplate and cross, at all hours, even if he prefers the greens and grays of the morning, the ex-Libertines draws new inspiration, like Monet, Courbet, Delacroix, Hugo, Offenbach and others before him.

Emily Carr, often called Canada’s Van Gogh, was a post-impressionist explorer, artist and writer. In Artist Emily Carr and the Spirit of the Land Phyllis Marie Jensen draws on analytical psychology and the theories of feminism and social constructionism for insights into Carr’s life in the late Victorian period and early twentieth century.

Fasten your seat belt, please. Get ready for the full tilt, barely tamed, beautiful monster that is Gard Nilssen’s sixteen-piece Supersonic Orchestra. Audacious and experimentalist, like everything the Norwegian drummer and composer touches, Supersonic flouts convention and, in particular, realigns the longstanding relationship between pre-composition and improvisation in orchestral jazz. If You Listen Carefully The Music Is Yours, its debut, was recorded live at the adventurous Molde International Jazz Festival in 2019, where Nilssen was Artist in Residence. The band’s uniquely configured, all-star lineup features three drummers, three double bassists and ten horn players, most of them saxophonists. It is a big band, Jim, but not as we know it.