Small is beautiful

Rather gear collection of punky outsider artists’ BBC work recorded between 1978 and 1980.

The newly reconfigured band throw open the doors on an expansive sixth album. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Quinton Winter.

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An obsessive fan rummages behind the Iron Curtain to show us how the East was jazzed.

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