Reverb review – summer’s here and the time is right for dancing in a concrete basement!

180 Studios, London
This pounding show explores the magic of collaborations – between musicians and between the worlds of art and music. Our writer gets so deep in the groove he can’t get out

I was so engrossed by Reverb’s first installation I struggled to get past it. Stan Douglas’s Luanda-Kinshasa is a masterpiece of filmed live music, here projected in the long, sloping concrete vestibule of the subterranean warren of 180 Studios. I could easily have sat through all six hours of it. When I did finally drag myself away, I carried its joy through the rest of the show.

Reverb explores collaboration: between improvising musicians; between the worlds of art and music; between producing outfit The Vinyl Factory, which commissioned these installations; and between the artists and pop stars it has worked with. It is also about the profound mystery that is the making and sharing of music.

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