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2026-02-13 03:12:42 (1 day ago)

Joshua Chuquimia Crampton: Anata review | Safi Bugel's experimental album of the month

(Self-released)
The Aymara musician takes inspiration from an Andean tradition, resulting in a scrappy sonic meditation with woozy melodies and pockets of warmth

The new album from Joshua Chuquimia Crampton takes its name from the Andean ceremony Anata, which gives thanks for the harvest before the rainy season. Made up of seven dense and distorted instrumentals, the record is the California-based Aymara musician’s attempt at capturing the energy of ceremonial music – not some rosy, polished version, but how it might sound recorded on a phone, clipping and all.

The concept might sound bizarre, but for fans of JCC, it makes total sense. His music, often self-released and proudly unmastered, is characterised by its murky textures and amp-blasting volume. He took this rudimentary approach to the max with last year’s collaborative project Los Thuthanaka, alongside his sibling Chuquimamani-Condori, which was splattered with cartoonish vocal samples, whistles and syncopated rhythms. Here he returns to his solo formula, with just guitar, bass and a few Andean instruments. You’d call it stripped-back if it wasn’t so noisy.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-02-13 03:05:26 (1 day ago)

Madagascar cyclone death toll hits 38, 12,000 displaced; Mozambique braces

Gezani is forecast to return to cyclone status when it strikes southern Mozambique on Friday evening.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-02-13 03:00:44 (1 day ago)

How Pam Bondi and the Democrats turned a hearing into hysteria, right in front of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims

Congressional hearing on Jeffrey Epstein case devolved into partisan theater as both sides seemed to prioritize viral moments over substantive answers.

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-13 03:00:41 (1 day ago)

How to plan Ramadan meals: minimal work, maximum readiness

Preparing simple, repetitive meals is the key to 30 days of fasting

Ramadan arrives this year in February, in the heart of winter. Short days, cold evenings and the pressure of everyday work mean that preparation is no longer about producing abundance, but about reducing effort while maintaining care. For many households balancing jobs, children and long commutes, the question is not what to cook, but how to make the month manageable.

The most effective approach to Ramadan cooking is not variety but repetition. A small set of meals that are easy to digest, quick to prepare and gentle on the body can carry a household through 30 days of fasting with far less stress than daily reinvention. The aim is to do the thinking once, not every day.

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-13 03:00:41 (1 day ago)

Sports quiz of the week: romance, heartbreak, crime and punishment

Have you followed the big stories in the Six Nations, Winter Olympics, Premier League, Super League and Super Bowl?

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-13 03:00:40 (1 day ago)

Chess: Magnus Carlsen triumphs in London speed event but Nakamura fails

The Norwegian showcased his skills in the chess.com speed championship, but the US star and streamer was twice beaten

Magnus Carlsen, the world No 1, visited Central London last weekend and won the chess.com speed championship for the fourth time in a row. The Norwegian, 35, defeated France’s Alireza Firouzja, 22, by 15-12 after a three-hour struggle. Last year in Paris the same two players met, but Carlsen’s winning margin was a much wider 23.5-7.5.

The format for speed chess is 90 minutes of five minutes blitz, 60 ­minutes of three minutes blitz, and 30 minutes of one minute bullet. All the segments had additional increments of one second per move.

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-13 03:00:39 (1 day ago)

It's risky, but it could change everything: Labour is at last beginning to focus on the young | Polly Toynbee

People my age have been privileged all our lives, yet we’re still the political priority. Votes at 16 is the start of a welcome change

Here it is as promised, a bill introduced to parliament on Thursday proposing to give the vote to 16- and 17-year-olds by the next general election. Good. The accusation from the Conservatives and Reform last year was that this was gerrymandering. “Rank hypocrisy” says the Sun. If polls had shown that the young traditionally swing to the right, would Labour have espoused this? I don’t know.

Nigel Farage’s claim that the young are turning to him is largely overblown, according to YouGov polling, with only 9% of 18 to 24-year-olds saying they would vote Reform – no better than what Ukip achieved in 2015. However there is a gender gap, says More in Common, with boys nearly twice as likely to support parties on the right. The Tories, who will lose out, search for reasons to oppose the bill and come up with some rum arguments. I particularly enjoyed Claire Coutinho’s concern that young people do not need the “added pressure” of deciding whether to focus on their exams or “stay up to watch” political debates, as elections are often in the summer exam season.

Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-13 03:00:38 (1 day ago)

‘We thought Midnight Cowboy might end everybody’s career’: the diverse, disruptive, Oscar-winning cinema of John Schlesinger

In the 60s and 70s, he pioneered kitchen-sink drama and made bisexuality mainstream. So why did the director end up making Tory ads? Those who knew him best reveal all

Michael Childers was a 22-year-old Los Angeles student when a friend set him up on a date with John Schlesinger, a visiting British director nearly two decades his senior. The esteemed film-maker was licking his wounds: his most recent picture, Far from the Madding Crowd, which imbued its 19th-century rural characters with an anachronistic King’s Road style and panache, had flopped stateside.

Childers approached the date with mixed feelings. He adored Schlesinger’s previous movie, the jazzy Darling, starring Julie Christie as a model on the make, and had seen it three times.But he had heard the director described as “mercurial”. His solution was to take a friend along with him to the bar at the Beverly Wilshire hotel for backup. “I thought: This guy might be a total shit,” recalls Childers, now 81, on the phone from Palm Springs. “I told my friend, ‘Two kicks under the table means we’re out of here. One kick means you’re out of here.’”

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-13 03:00:38 (1 day ago)

Week in wildlife: a thirsty raccoon, a superhero squid and a delinquent swan

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-13 03:00:37 (1 day ago)

Love Story: John F Kennedy Jr & Carolyn Bessette review – TV to send you cross-eyed with boredom

Ryan Murphy turns his increasingly unsteady hand to the tale of America’s privileged, cursed dynasty – even diehard fans will find this tedious drama a punishing slog

A new product from the Ryan Murphy brand is becoming ever less dependable a delight. Will it be a Nip/Tuck or Glee-level triumph? A return to inaugural American Horror Story form, as his recent outing The Beauty so nearly was? Or will it be something towards the other end of the scale, where the so-bad-it’s-bad, Kim-Kardashian-as-a-divorce-lawyer All’s Fair lurks?

Hmm. The latest one is Love Story: John F Kennedy Jr & Carolyn Bessette. It is a nine-episode series that lasts roughly as long as the golden couple’s relationship did in real life and is (unlike All’s Fair) punishingly boring. Some of this will be due to the fact that for a UK audience the Kennedys simply do not hold the fascination they have always held for Americans. Ever since the patriarch Joe successfully manoeuvred his telegenic son John F Kennedy into politics, the political dynasty have been the United States’ answer to the royal family. The minutiae of their privileged, cursed lives have been breathlessly chronicled in books by hagiographic biographers, tabloid articles seeking scandal, and everything in between. Over here, of course, we have naturally been less enthralled.

Le Monde - World News

2026-02-13 02:53:46 (1 day ago)

Iran releases two senior reformists arrested after nation-wide protests

Javad Emam and Ebrahim Asgharzadeh were released 'a few minutes ago after posting bail,' their lawyer, Hojjat Kermani, told local media.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-02-13 02:50:24 (1 day ago)

BNP claims victory in landmark Bangladesh election

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party is claiming victory in the country's first election since the 2024 uprising.