Tracks of the Week 09.03.24
Great Britain likes to think of itself as the country which ended slavery, what with Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce and all that. Yet a few years ago a BBC documentary pulled...
Moor Mother – The Great Bailout
Great Britain likes to think of itself as the country which ended slavery, what with Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce and all that. Yet a few years ago a BBC documentary pulled...
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 01.07.23
From its birth in the eighties the Brazilian genre of funk carioca cast a wide net, pulling from samba soul, Miami bass and Latin freestyle, the chanted vocals and hybrid rhythms of...
Tracks of the Week 27.05.23
Conceived as an amorous response to the digital age, the steamy outpouring of soundtrack work for Virgil Abloh at Louis Vuitton and Bafic whose documentary short Sub Eleven Seconds poetically envisioned the...
Tracks of the Week 25.03.23
Partially inspired by dialogue from Edward O. Bland’s seminal 1959 documentary The Cry of Jazz, which intersperses performances by Sun Ra and a series of conversations on the nature of jazz by...
Tracks of the Week 25.02.23
Taking the stage in 2018 for a spontaneous performance in their adopted hometown of New York City, the trio of Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily shared an immediate chemistry, a...
Tracks of the Week 26.06.21
This week on Icons the percussionist and composer Eli Keszler makes abstract expressionism out of the cultural detritus of New York. Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, the Superwolves together with Emmett...