Tag: Adam O'Farrill
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Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2025

Albums of the Year
For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

Adam O’Farrill – For These Streets

Albums
Conceived several years ago when he read Henry Miller's rousing and anguished Tropic of Cancer and John Steinbeck's dusty classic of the Depression era The Grapes of Wrath and had Charlie Chaplin's late silent romance City Lights on repeat view, on his new album For These Streets the trumpeter Adam O'Farrill seeks to channel some of those artistic currents...

Patricia Brennan Septet – Breaking Stretch

Albums
Muzzled by the use of electronics, it is Adam O'Farrill's trumpet which drags us headlong into the whirlpool of Patricia Brennan's new album Breaking Stretch, her third as a leader following the solo effort Maquishti in 2021 and More Touch the following year, a quartet outing which was released to widespread acclaim on Pyroclastic Records. The percussive gulp of...