Tracks of the Week 24.06.23
At the confluence of the downtown scene inaugurated in the loft of a Chambers Street apartment by Yoko Ono and La Monte Young, which from its roots in sustained tones and minimalist...
Tracks of the Week 20.05.23
In the spring of 1971 the release of What’s Going On saw Marvin Gaye switch things up with a song cycle written from the perspective of a Vietnam War veteran, who returns...
Tracks of the Week 18.03.23
Sometimes a wind blows and nothing rises. No plastic bags which remain wantonly discarded on the sidewalk filled with rainwater and city sediment, no helium mysteries or daydream fantasies or premonitions of...
Tracks of the Week 26.02.22
As shelling roils the northeastern city of Kharkiv and tanks continue to close in on the Ukrainian capital, one of the clearest achievements of Vladimir Putin and his cronies to date has...
Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2021
Shut up but not shutdown or vice versa, the music business gained succour from the margins in 2021 with so many lip-smacking delights from far-flung fields and hitherto unexpected quarters. Labels like...
Tracks of the Week 18.09.21
On the album Sediments We Move, set for release next month on New Amsterdam Records, the singer and saxophonist Charlotte Greve and her art-pop quartet Wood River join forces with Cantus Domus,...
Tracks of the Week 28.08.21
Alongside a virtual appearance at Pop-Kultur Berlin, Marie Davidson and L’Œil Nu are back this week with ‘Persona’, a single in three shades and three faces as the trio add Jesse Osborne-Lanthier...
Tracks of the Week 07.08.21
Teetering on the threshold between urban expanse and boundless forest, sublimating the propulsive beats of the club through operatic vocal loops and fraying electronics, on ‘Stars Light Up (Посмотри на небо)’ the...
Tracks of the Week 24.07.21
When the Metropolitan Opera reopens in September, the occasion will be doubly historic after eighteen months in the dark. Some semblance of light at the end of a long tunnel, opening night...