Tracks of the Week 10.02.24
From ‘Old Shep’ and ‘Old King’ to ‘Cracker Jack’ and Campfire Songs with its crackling ode to an aeriform doggy, the small corpus of music about losing a pet has tended to...
Tracks of the Week 03.02.24
The creative life of the composer Cergio Prudencio – a Guggenheim fellow and Platino Award winner for his score for the Bolivian drama Utama, an intergenerational meditation on life in the Altiplano...
Tracks of the Week 27.01.24
Back in 2008 as Jon Irabagon prepared for his first album as a leader, his plans were as simple as they were ambitious: to take his main three horns in the alto,...
Laura Cannell – SEALORE
12,000 years ago around the end of the last major ice age, the North Sea which now lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France was an area...
Jon Irabagon – Recharge the Blade
Back in 2008 as Jon Irabagon prepared for his first album as a leader, his plans were as simple as they were ambitious: to take his main three horns in the alto,...
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...