Patrick Gamble

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Freelance writer specialising in film, music and artists’ moving image. “I enjoy all the meats of our cultural stew.” Email: [email protected]

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Articles

Nazar album review: Demilitarize

3 days ago | theskinny.co.uk | Patrick Gamble

Album title: Demilitarize Artist: Nazar Label: Hyperdub Release date: 25 Apr On his debut album Guerilla, Nazar combined field recordings with ‘rough Kuduro’ – his hybrid version of Angola’s upbeat dance music – as a way of processing his experience of growing up in the aftermath of the Angolan Civil War. Although Demilitarize sees the Amsterdam-based producer retreat from those battle lines, he continues to push his club-derived soundscapes into uncharted territories.
hexed! album review: The Skinny

1 month ago | theskinny.co.uk | Patrick Gamble

Album title: hexed! Artist: aya Label: Hyperdub Release date: 28 Mar 'Where to begin?
Marie Davidson album review: City of Clowns

1 month ago | theskinny.co.uk | Patrick Gamble

Album title: City of Clowns Artist: Marie Davidson Label: DEEWEE Release date: 28 Feb With companies like Google and Meta harvesting our data for profit and AI-driven automation threatening job security, tech anxiety is at an all-time high. Inspired by Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Montreal producer Marie Davidson places this unease at the core of her latest album.
Family trusts and wills: The case that confirms families must have open conversations about inheritances

2 months ago | nzherald.co.nz | Patrick Gamble

"Surprises in a will reading rarely enhance family harmony." Photo / 123RFOpinion by Patrick GamblePatrick Gamble is the chief executive officer of Perpetual Guardian Group. THREE KEY FACTSNew Zealand has between 300,000 and 500,000 trusts, according to the Ministry of Justice. However, there is no national database or requirement to report trust numbers. The adult children of a man who abused them lost a legal bid in the Supreme Court to gain access to $700,000 of his assets.
Sam Amidon album review: Salt River

Jan 21, 2025 | theskinny.co.uk | Patrick Gamble

Album title: Salt River Artist: Sam Amidon Label: River Lea Records Release date: 24 Jan Traditional folk songs are often regarded as artefacts that allow us to peer into the past. However, there’s an argument to be made that attempts to preserve these songs in their original form are destroying the oral tradition that gave them life. Thankfully, Sam Amidon understands that nothing about culture is static.
The Brutalist review: Adrien Brody at his very best – The Skinny

Jan 20, 2025 | theskinny.co.uk | Patrick Gamble

Film title: The Brutalist Director: Brady Corbet Starring: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Emma Laird, Isaach De Bankolé, Alessandro Nivola, Ariane Labed Release date: 24 Jan Certificate: 18 What is it about Brutalist architecture that makes it look so bleak yet awe-inspiring? Emerging in the 1950s, the imposing geometric shapes and rough concrete textures of Brutalism were designed to be egalitarian.
Elori Saxl - Earth Focus

Nov 12, 2024 | theskinny.co.uk | Patrick Gamble

Album title: Earth Focus Artist: Elori Saxl Label: Western Vinyl Release date: 15 Nov Elori Saxl’s debut, The Blue of Distance – named after Rebecca Solnit’s observation in A Field Guide to Getting Lost, that faraway mountains appear blue – investigated the ways in which technology has altered our relationship to the environment. So who better to compose the soundtrack for PBS’s environmental documentary series, Earth Focus?
No Other Land review: devastating stories from West Bank – The Skinny

Nov 5, 2024 | theskinny.co.uk | Patrick Gamble

Film title: No Other Land Director: Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor Starring: Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham Release date: 8 Nov Certificate: 15 When No Other Land won best documentary at this year’s Berlinale, Israeli filmmaker and journalist Yuval Abraham used his acceptance speech to address the deep inequalities between himself and his Palestinian co-director Basel Adra. However, his call for a ceasefire was met with charges of antisemitism and death threats.
Yasmin Williams - Acadia

Sep 30, 2024 | theskinny.co.uk | Patrick Gamble

Album title: Acadia Artist: Yasmin Williams Label: Nonesuch Records Release date: 4 Oct Earlier this year, Yasmin Williams raised the hackles of the Beyhive when she criticised Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter in an op-ed for The Guardian.
Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

Sep 2, 2024 | theskinny.co.uk | Patrick Gamble

Album title: Endlessness Artist: Nala Sinephro Label: Warp Records Release date: 6 Sep You don’t need to believe in reincarnation to appreciate Nala Sinephro’s latest album, but as a device for forcing you to listen closely and ponder deeply, it works beautifully.