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    Recognition, raw ambition and raw power: Alba New Music 2017

    by 5:4 October 13, 2017 • 12:51
    October 13, 2017 • 12:51

    Last weekend brought the welcome return of Alba New Music, Edinburgh’s nascent new music festival. Having got the ball rolling with a bang last year, the 2017 festival as a whole felt more focused, in part due to deliberately having something of a thematic thread running through it. With an emphasis …

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    Gigs, gigs, gigs: BCMG, Nordic Music Days, Alba New Music

    by 5:4 August 27, 2017 • 10:42
    August 27, 2017 • 10:42

    Having packed up for their summer break, ensembles and festivals are starting to get going again in the weeks and months ahead. Most immediately, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group is poised to pop the corks in celebration of their 30th birthday. There’s a couple of events happening in London: on 2 …

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    A mass of miniature miracles: Alba New Music 2016

    by 5:4 October 12, 2016 • 11:01
    October 12, 2016 • 11:01

    A couple of miles out of the centre of Edinburgh, emblazoned in brightly-lit capital letters, is a stark, startling sentence: THERE WILL BE NO MIRACLES HERE. Created by Nathan Coley in 2009, and situated outside the Modern Two gallery, the unequivocal message of this bold piece of art rang entirely …

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    Gigs, gigs, gigs: Alba New Music

    by 5:4 September 27, 2016 • 17:14
    September 27, 2016 • 17:14

    A quick heads-up about a forthcoming mini festival that will, i’m sure, turn out to pack a punch inversely proportional to its duration. Alba New Music is a new Scottish charity “devoted to celebrating the sonic avant garde”. Following a couple of one-off gigs earlier this year, they’re launching their first …

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