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SonarSound’s most intriguing act isn’t strictly musical

Ryoichi Kurokawa
SonarSound—the Barcelona-based electronic music festival—first touched down in Tokyo in 2004. Since then it’s been a sporadic affair. But last year’s event, held just three weeks after 3/11, was cathartic. SonarSound 2011 was the first big music fest to be held after the disaster. When headliners Battles took the stage there was almost a collective...

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