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Bruce Hornsby and YMusic Deep Sea Vents review: This experimental album about water is a little rarified, but it has its lively moments, writes TULLY POTTER

Best known for his 1980s hit The Way It Is, a song about economic strife and race relations in America, Bruce Hornsby's days as a 'Top 40 band guy' are gone.The singer now prefers a jazzier approach.

But there’s a lively rap about, of all things, a duck-billed mammal on Platypus Wow, while the funky Deep Blue is bolstered by trumpet and electric sitar. Ma Vlast (My Country) starts with a harp solo evoking the ancient bards and continues with six sections portraying the legends, landscape and history of the Czech people. Smetana makes good use of folk and traditional material, especially the noble Hussite chorale ‘Ye who are God’s warriors’, heard in the last two sections, Tabor and Blanik.

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