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Tracks of the Week 02.09.23

Tracks of the Week
After graduating with a degree in musicology in 2014 and self-releasing the acclaimed albums Njoum and Arb'een (40), dialogues between vocals and oud which explored loops in time and modes of narrative storytelling, the Lebanese composer Youmna Saba left Beirut and settled in Paris, where her research project Taïma' led to a slew of collaborations and the first sound...

Tracks of the Week 19.08.23

Tracks of the Week
In the fall of 2015 the drummer and composer Mike Reed read a harrowing story in The New York Times about 'The Lonely Death of George Bell', a 72-year-old New Yorker who passed away sequestered inside of his Jackson Heights apartment, his body 'crumpled up on the mottled carpet' after going undiscovered for almost one week. A hoarder, when...

Tracks of the Week 15.07.23

Tracks of the Week
'The cock crows / But no queen rises' begins 'Depression Before Spring' by the elliptical modernist Wallace Stevens, a silvery wisp of a poem full of bird call and nonsense syllables from his debut collection Harmonium which was remaindered after selling just a hundred copies upon its publication by Knopf in 1923. An amber inversion, the track 'Moon Showed...