An Evening with Kazuo Ishiguro & Stacey Kent at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
Briefly

An exotic, and slightly subversive, tone was instantly conjured by the opening number: "Tango in Macao", with its evocations of rusty ceiling fans, dark alleys and broken hearted gangsters...
"Postcard lovers", next, amplified the nostalgic, overtly cinematic, feel with the deceptively simple interplay of flute and keyboard underlining Ishiguro's wistful lyrics...
"Waiter, Oh Waiter", the lyrics take a decidedly playful turn, with yet another displaced traveller, agonizing over the mysteries of a foreign menu...
Read at London Jazz News
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