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Tracks of the Week 03.09.22

Tracks of the Week
In the blistering August heat past the scorched remains of field fires which set ablaze the Waveney Valley, easing down narrow lanes and edging her way betwixt dotted meadows of immutable dairy, with her overbow violin in tow Laura Cannell pushed open the oak and iron doors of St Andrew's Church in Raveningham to break the silence of the...

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...

Tracks of the Week 04.12.21

Tracks of the Week
This week the multi-instrumentalist JJJJJerome Ellis frames speech dysfluency through personal reflections and watery etymologies, river running from the works of the sixteenth-century French poet Guillaume Bouchet and eighteenth-century abolitionist Olaudah Equiano to contemporary thinkers like Toni Morrison and Derek Walcott. Bill Charlap and the rhythm section of Peter and Kenny Washington give a modern swing to a standard...