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...
Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2023
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...
Tracks of the Week 14.10.23
From the first Ayleresque thrum and steeped ritual of ‘Miserere’ to the wailing blues, doleful horns and overlayed piano on ‘Wonderful Words Of Life’ whose wispy middle section soon scrambles to a...
Tracks of the Week 04.02.23
Following the steady exhalations and springtime exultations of Regrowth, animated by Immanuel Wilkins on the alto saxophone, Lee Meadvin on guitar, Paul Cornish on keys, Nick Dunston on bass, and Connor Parks...
Tracks of the Week 16.07.22
Inspired by a diverse array of influences, from the trippy beats and lush strings of Bonobo, Ólafur Arnalds, and Moses Sumney to the apocalyptic explorations and post-bop meditations of Shabaka and the...