Tracks of the Week 19.02.22
This week the improvisational pianist Tigran Hamasyan turns from the Armenian folk tradition to embrace jazz standards by the likes of Richard Rodgers, Charlie Parker, and Jerome Kern. Heavee returns to Hyperdub...
This week the improvisational pianist Tigran Hamasyan turns from the Armenian folk tradition to embrace jazz standards by the likes of Richard Rodgers, Charlie Parker, and Jerome Kern. Heavee returns to Hyperdub...
Illuminating a story from their national history, this week the composer Pepa Päivinen and the percussionist Jussi Miettola recount the Finnish Civil War, as layers of woodwind and flute, the Seagull Merlin...
This week Ethel Cain issues avowals of love in the form of a thirteen-minute drone swarm, citing as references the Whore of Babylon and an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror...
Through smooth jazz and a steady recitation of anecdotes, from Saint Germain and the chakras to talk of sculpture in Queens, Cassandra Jenkins goes digging for gemstones and wraps her finds in...
Coi Leray comes in hard with the seasonal greetings, Julianna Barwick offers extended healing, and Oneohtrix Point Never wards off the nightmares as the camcorder flickers and the hands of the clock...
Jon Hopkins embraces the crackle and hum of daybreak, Caroline Shaw calls out across a narrow sea, and Chance The Rapper settles down by the fireplace with a grab bag of Christmas...
SZA – ‘The Weekend’ * * * Waxahatchee – ‘Never Been Wrong’ * * * Zola Jesus – ‘Exhumed’ * * * Sheer Mag – ‘Need to Feel Your Love’ * *...