Live
Roundhouse, London, 13/5/2011
Mark Rowland at the Roundhouse in London watches Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and electronic artist Alva Noto play a show of tense, but enormous emotional impact to promote 'Summvs', their fifth collaborative album
King's College, London, 2/6/2011
At their debut gig, Anthony Strutt watches the Black Ships, the new band of the Verve's Nick McCabe and Simon Jones, play a convincing and spectacular show
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Alva Noto
Interview
Alva Noto is a German sound designer who has worked with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto on five albums, as well as put out dozens of records of his own. He talks to Lisa Torem about his and Sakamoto's work together, and their latest project which will be premiered in London in May