Il Manifesto – 6 January 2019
Elaine Mitchener e il suono della paura
Marcello Lorrai
An interview in Italian with national newspapaer Il Manifesto about Elaine Mitchener’s latest project SWEET TOOTH.
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Jazzwise Magazine – 10 January 2019
Mitchener And Yarde Break Blues Boundaries As Black Avant-Garde Comes To Cafe OTO
Kevin Le Gendre
“This gig is a potent, provocative event that underlines the blues as a foundation for progressive black culture”
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Financial Time – 8 January 2019
Vocal Classics of the Black Avant-Garde, Café Oto, London — a taste of the age of experimentalism
The band captured the genre-bending energy of the 1960s and 70s
Mike Hobart
“The band captured the genre-bending energy of those times without imitation and added emotional force to the songs presented. (…) Mitchener was a syllable-stretching, sound-crunching force of nature throughout.”
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The Sunday Times – 23 December 2018
Classical review: London Contemporary Music Festival
Paul Driver
“b r e a d t h b r e a t h had a genuine vitality”
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The Guardian – 22 December 2018
The week in classical: LCMF review
Fiona Maddocks
“Elaine Mitchener’s b r e a d t h b r e a t h (2018, world premiere LCMF commission) had an improvisatory mystery, arriving and departing slowly and delicately.”
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Jazzwise Magazine – 23 February 2018
Elaine Mitchener delivers dramas of defiance at St. George’s, London
Kevin Le Gendre
“SWEET TOOTH is a vital black British addition to those seminal creative statements of resistance and defiance from the African Diaspora.”
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The Blue Moment – 23 February 2018
Elaine Mitchener’s SWEET TOOTH
Richard Williams
“Last night Elaine Mitchener made Hawksmoor’s old stones shake.”
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The Wire – February 2018
Breaking the chains: Elaine Mitchener on the British Empire’s legacy of cruelty
Chris Bohn
A Q&A with Elaine Mitchener about her performance piece Sweet Tooth – a visceral, overwhelming indictment of the role sugar and the slave trade played in building the British Empire.
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SWEET TOOTH: Interview with Elaine Mitchener – 5 March 2018
Gilane Tawadros
“Musical ideas spring from the strangest source.”
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