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Tracks of the Week 23.03.24

Tracks of the Week
Since her last solo album Black Origami - which musically still feels of the present moment, but factually came out in something of a time that land forgot, way back when in the spring of 2017 - the Indiana composer Jlin produced scores for new dances by the choreographers Wayne McGregor and Kyle Abraham, wrote Perspective for the Chicago-based...

Tracks of the Week 22.04.23

Tracks of the Week
The visionary percussionist and veteran bandleader Kahil El'Zabar guides his Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and special guests on a rhythmic tour de force in celebration of the legendary jazz trumpeter Don Cherry, figured here as an urban shaman and spirit gatherer whose music continues to serve as a healing balm through troubled times. With El'Zabar on balafon, kalimba and cajón,...

Tracks of the Week 23.07.22

Tracks of the Week
Translating the lilting rhythms of the essayist Marilynne Robinson before skirting the scattered fragments and billowing torrents of language like Nimrod tripping through his Tower of Babel headlong, this week Caroline Shaw and Attacca Quartet introduce their upcoming album Evergreen with the first movement from Three Essays. The suite is one of three pieces for string quartet which will...