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Music and culture have never been divorced for me,” he says. “How can you go to somewhere like Cambodia and have no sense of the history and the politics of the place? Music does not exist in isolation. It’s dynamic, like language. It’s self-referential and always changing.
I’m delighted by the wonderful news this week that Andy Kershaw will soon be back on our airwaves with an amazing new global music series called Music Planet. I, along with many others I’m sure, have sorely missed Andy’s adventurous spirit, mischievous sense of humour, brilliant observation, and exceedingly good musical taste.
It is so good to see him back on the rails. I can’t wait for the series to begin, for all the unexpected, undiscovered, sonic delights that will come our way, and to resume my aural education with Kershaw - a man who always stimulates my ears and mind.
In the meantime here he is telling it like it is in the Observer today.
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