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Tracks of the Week 05.11.22

Tracks of the Week
Following the delicate harmonies and swinging melodies of Mesmerism, the album of standards which Tyshawn Sorey released in the summer alongside the bassist Matt Brewer and pianist Aaron Diehl, the drummer returns to the repertoire for something more freewheeling in the form of a three-and-a-half hour live recording from a performance at The Jazz Gallery in New York. Enlisting...

Tracks of the Week 06.11.21

Tracks of the Week
From the foothills of Melbourne by way of London's windswept alleys and terraced streets, Laila Sakini stretches out on the endless highway with a borrowed guitar, smeared samples, whinnying saxophone and bare-bones bass clarinet. Charli XCX enlists Christine and the Queens and Caroline Polachek for a downbeat paean to new wave. And conceiving her record as a public manifestation...

Tracks of the Week 26.06.21

Tracks of the Week
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 Kelly, find tranquility among the pack at the Apex Protection Project in Los Angeles. And Angel Bat Dawid speaks to the spirituality of Sunday mornings in her...