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Francis Gooding: Dr John and ‘Gris-Gris’, 6 November 2025

Two-Headed Doctor: Listening for Ghosts in Dr John’s ‘Gris-Gris’ 
by David Toop.
Strange Attractor, 397 pp., £23, November 2024, 978 1 913689 60 5
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... radio station is gonna play this crap?’).The album ended up in the hands of a young David Toop. Unspooling its peculiarly effective mixture of sideshow fraudulence, oneiric hokum and deeply coded, deadly serious New Orleans folklore on a mono Dansette in a friend’s bedroom – a device that was hardly up to deciphering ‘the ...

At White Cube

Nick Richardson: Christian Marclay, 19 March 2015

... their meaning. ‘My reason for pulling out of DJing,’ Marclay said in an interview with David Toop at around the time The Clock went crazy, ‘is that I feel that records have lost their meaning in a strange way. They’re not the objects that we all used to interact with and that brought us all the music we enjoyed.’ The Clock was a way of ...

Nom de Boom

Ian Penman: Arthur Russell's Benediction, 15 August 2024

Travels over Feeling: Arthur Russell, a Life 
by Richard King.
Faber, 296 pp., £30, April, 978 0 571 37966 8
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... circles and scenes.One place where this crossover logic was always embraced was the Loft, run by David Mancuso. On any given night, the playlist might include club hits like Taana Gardner’s ‘Heartbeat’, the Peech Boys’ ‘Don’t Make Me Wait’ or Fingers Inc’s ‘Mystery of Love’; but you’d also likely hear Marianne Faithfull and Yoko ...

At K20

Frances Morgan: On Yoko Ono, 6 March 2025

... again in the late 1950s and early 1960s. (This period, in which she became friends with John Cage, David Tudor and La Monte Young as well as George Maciunas and other Fluxus-affiliated artists, and became something of a conduit between New York and Tokyo’s experimental music and art scenes, is carefully surveyed in the exhibition.) The works of the early ...

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