Mar 25, 2014 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Mark Gevisser has done something quite substantial with this book. It’s an intellectual treatise that reads like a relaxed memoir, and examination of the difficulties involved in coming to terms with both his homosexuality and the changing...
Feb 23, 2014 | chART
BY BRUCE DENNILL Film soundtracks are usually about creating atmosphere for the visuals – sharp jabs at a violin to signify a man with a knife behind a shower curtain; two notes on a cello to suggest that you’re about to lose your abdomen to a giant...
Feb 15, 2014 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Pastor, writer and music label head Louis Giglio is driven by a calling to minister to young people, with college-age kids the major focus of The Passion Movement, which he founded. Much of Giglio’s reputation is based on his ability to take...
Feb 13, 2014 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL There’s no idiomatic phrase, using the same imagery anyway, to describe the process of coming out from “under the radar”, but that is what Johannesburg-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shaun Jacobs is currently doing. That it...
Jan 20, 2014 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Following up on the near-perfection of a full debut like Barton Hollow was never going to be a simple matter, especially when the band went through some difficult in-house politics – a bigger issue than usual when there are only two people...
