“The kids – anime kids, Black kids – need more heroes”: As the new Netflix series Yasuke is released, featuring a score by Flying Lotus, the musician reveals how he wants to change anime
With this third flight in the history books, the Ingenuity Mars helicopter team is looking ahead to planning its fourth flight in a few days time. On its first flight, Ingenuity spent roughly 40 seconds off the ground, hovering just about three metres, while the second test went hire, closer to five metres, spending approximately one minute in the air.
The biggest difficulty in flying on the Red Planet is the extremely thin atmosphere, which has just one per cent of the density here on Earth, making it hard for the Ingenuity to get off the ground.
Also, the distance from Earth to Mars puts remote control out of question, as it takes radio waves over 16 minutes to cover the distance between the two planets. Instead, Ingenuity takes its commands from the Perseverance rover, the mission’s main robot.
The EP was loosely inspired by American trumpeter Jon Hassell’s concept of ‘fourth world’ music, which brings together primitive and modern sounds, to bring forth “fantastical fictional cultures”, or imagined worlds that feel real. The three tracks are divided into past, present, and future. Opening track “The Princess and the Clock” is a peppy, 8-bit fairytale about a kidnapped protagonist who’s trapped in a castle, while “21/04/20” recounts a day in Bromley during the first lockdown: needing to go for a walk, seeing ambulances pass, scheduling in a call with a friend. Delivered in an unaffected tone, Perry’s lyrics are matter-of-fact, like a diary entry or a shopping list: “
Several signatories of the letter hid behind false names, including those of dead women writers including Emily Dickinson and Daphne du Maurier, “because of the threat of harassment by trans extremists and/or cancellation by the book industry”.
According to the signatories of the open letter, the decision to longlist Peters for the Women’s prize “communicates powerfully that women authors are unworthy of our own prize, and that it is fine to allow male people to appropriate our honours … the moment you decided that a male author was eligible, the award ceased to be the Women’s prize and became simply the Fiction prize”.
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Nadiah Adu-Gyamfi has always been interested in the spaces between cultures and sounds. Growing up, the London-based artist would walk through New Cross on her way to school, passing Goldsmiths, where Blur’s “Parklife” would be blasting out the student’s union, before crossing the road to hear muffled dub bass vibrations coming from the local Cumin Up. “I guess I’ve always grown up sandwiched between British culture and African and Caribbean Black culture,” she explains.
One half of electronic duo NULA, which she formed in 2017 along with friend and fellow Goldsmiths graduate Luke Osbourne, Adu-Gyamfi channels the classic sounds of her gospel and soul forebears, as well as the warm, velvety tones of R&B and the electronic alchemy of 90s groups like Portishead and Massive Attack. The music oozes with quiet lust and introspection. On “Moon Chasing”, Adu-Gyamfi’s voice is like velvet as she sings, “