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...
Tracks of the Week 07.10.23
Around the turn of the seventies, the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad was the place to be as a hub of industrial development meant to furnish the needs of a thriving...
Tracks of the Week 19.08.23
In the fall of 2015 the drummer and composer Mike Reed read a harrowing story in The New York Times about ‘The Lonely Death of George Bell’, a 72-year-old New Yorker who...
Tracks of the Week 14.08.21
An album rollout can sometimes seem like a yellow brick road, thoroughfare to some magical land, beacon of hope and conveyor belt of dreams, full of pitfalls and detours and broken-down sidemen....
Tracks of the Week 10.07.21
This week on Mythopoetics, Nandi Rose of Half Waif folds out shimmering synthpop under clear blue skies. Catching the light which reflects from shallow pools and bends through glass houses, buoyant in...
Tracks of the Week 10.04.21
On Mycelial Echo the vocalist Eliza Bagg and percussionist Booker Stardrum root their modular experiments in a language of glitching cyberspace, rising oceans, and willowing trees. On Late Spring the Japanese composer...
Tracks of the Week 13.02.21
On the first track from the upcoming Fresia Magdalena, Sofia Kourtesis makes a mosaic out of field recordings from Lima and the undulating sounds of her own voice. Sandy Chamoun dwells inside...
Tracks of the Week 26.09.20
Bruce Springsteen sees ghosts, Sufjan Stevens finds ascension in immanence, and Oneohtrix Point Never puts on his driving goggles. Kodie Shane gets soaked by the rain, and while Fleet Foxes doff their...
Tracks of the Week 15.08.20
A trio of women stand tall atop this week’s roundup, as Ciara puts in the labour on her new video for ‘Rooted’, Rico Nasty gets gassy with one half of 100 gecs,...