Tracks of the Week 20.01.24
For the Uyghurs of the Tarim Basin who continue to raise a voice against the twin spectres of internment and cultural assimilation, muqam remains a key mode of expression, the name for...
Mekit Dolan Muqam Group – Bayawan
For the Uyghurs of the Tarim Basin who continue to raise a voice against the twin spectres of internment and cultural assimilation, muqam remains a key mode of expression, the name for...
The San Lucas Band – La Voz de las Cumbres (Music of Guatemala)
The Ayler tone is apparent and overwhelmingly so from the very first moment of La Voz de las Cumbres (Music of Guatemala) by the San Lucas Band. With its duelling trumpets and...
Culturedarm’s from the Vault 2023
The vault might seem to connote a sense of authority, visions of round doors, time locks and bank currency or rows of booklets and stacks of boxes whose contents have been carefully...
Culturedarm’s Songs of the Year for 2023
In the year of 2023 artists from Tyla, Bad Bunny and NewJeans to Vagabon, Tems and Sofia Kourtesis continued to redefine the borders of contemporary pop, while Cassandra Miller covered Beethoven’s ‘Heiliger...
Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2023
It’s an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never...
Jess Williamson – Time Ain’t Accidental
The pandemic marked a change of direction for Jess Williamson, as a protracted break from a romantic partner and musical collaborator set the stage for a solo act of rare candour and...
Tracks of the Week 09.12.23
On her latest album as Slowfoam the curator and researcher, composer and sound artist Madelyn Byrd not only imagines but seeks to cultivate an idealised post-Anthropocene environment, where nature, technology and human...
Tracks of the Week 02.12.23
Drawn to the art of marginal living, between his first spurts on the conga and bongo drums as a backup musician for Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Anger and Tiny Tim and his more...