505, September 24 8/10 Drop a glass and there’s a moment when it seems to hang in the air before it shatters. The first set of this concert was like that. Tina Harrod’s singing was all tension and edge, but you sensed the show could explode to another level. When…
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ONWARDS TO MARS (Asphalt Tango/Planet) 7.5/10 Some music is so well-mannered as never to jar polite sensibilities, and then there’s the stuff made by Balkan Gypsy brass bands. Politeness be damned: their music must provoke dancing and fill the heart with joy, or make that same heart bleed with desolation.…