Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet

have a tendency towards music that unfolds very slowly: the compositions of Gavin Bryars (e.g. ‘The Sinking of the Titanic’) or The Necks (e.g. ‘Sex’). The latter, an Australian jazz trio (about whom it was famously written that in their live performances anything can happen and seldom does), create songs that build steadily, patiently, minutely in

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