{"id":60667,"date":"2024-01-09T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/?p=60667"},"modified":"2024-03-02T04:47:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T03:47:30","slug":"culturedarms-songs-of-the-year-for-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/culturedarms-songs-of-the-year-for-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Culturedarm’s Songs of the Year for 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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 Dankgesang’ and Arvo P\u00e4rt looked back a couple of centuries to a ‘tiresome footling little Anglican parson’ as the Estonian minimalist reworked his Littlemore Tractus<\/em>. Familiar faces like the R&B supreme Tinashe ducked down grocery store aisles and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy discerned folk by their perennial value as Gabrielle Cavassa over the sonorous saxophone of Joshua Redman emerged as one of the great voices in jazz music. This illustrative list of some of Culturedarm’s favourite songs from 2023 serves as a complement to a compendium of best records, while a selection ‘from the vault’ recognises that even the brightest of minds keep one eye firmly on the posterior.<\/p>\n

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Aditya Prakash – \u2018XenoF.O.B.\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Created in his garage studio during lockdown, on\u00a0ISOLASHUN<\/em>\u00a0the virtuosic Karnatik vocalist Aditya Prakash explores the discrimination and upheaval which elides or otherwise animates life across his two homes, questioning the weight of privilege which informs Indian classical music and the Karnatik tradition, while on \u2018XenoF.O.B.\u2019 he examines a history of political rhetoric around immigration to the United States, juxtaposing Lyndon B. Johnson\u2019s remarks upon signing the Immigration Act of 1965 with the incendiary bombast of the Trump presidency.<\/p>\n