Tracks of the Week 20.04.24
Where other artists who have embraced the windy strains and shifting timbres of the pipe organ tend to go in for liturgical refrains, celebrations of the mundane or juxtapositions of the two...
Where other artists who have embraced the windy strains and shifting timbres of the pipe organ tend to go in for liturgical refrains, celebrations of the mundane or juxtapositions of the two...
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...
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...
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...
Eight years in the making, the found sound purveyor Janek Schaefer and frayed loop master William Basinski reshape a piano passage from their collective archive in a meditation on the mirrored facades...
Blurring the boundaries between genres and traditional concepts of high and low art, turning the construct of world music inside out as popular forms suffuse only to be reanimated by life on...
Shut up but not shutdown or vice versa, the music business gained succour from the margins in 2021 with so many lip-smacking delights from far-flung fields and hitherto unexpected quarters. Labels like...
On her third album Vulture Prince, the Brooklyn-based Pakistani artist Arooj Aftab draws from Sufi devotionals and odes to separation and unrequited love, stretching out over a sound palette that encompasses the...
On ‘peak chroma’ the experimental composer claire rousay uses snippets of conversation, faintly melodious autotune, ambient droning and the sinking cello of Lia Kohl to linger on the cusp of the end...