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Tracks of the Week 22.10.22

Tracks of the Week
Live music as the scabrous experimental titans Oxbow and Peter Brötzmann, by turns bastions of blues-tinged noise rock and European free jazz or the avant-garde, unleash a double album from their vaunted 2018 collaboration at Moers Festival. At another end of the same spectrum, Charles Lloyd blows into the bows of desolation alongside the guitarist Julian Lage and percussionist...

Tracks of the Week 08.01.22

Tracks of the Week
This week the shrouded South London producer Burial unspools a midwinter marvel in the form of the Antidawn extended play, where film samples and organ vamps sound out like the passing spectres of a church choir amid the vaporous slug of his washed-out cityscape. The trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith realises an Ankhrasmation score alongside the guitarists Alex Varty and Henry...

Tracks of the Week 01.05.21

Tracks of the Week
The frames of reference and sly subversions arrive preloaded on the screen: Marilyn Monroe with some of the accoutrements of glitching cyberspace, old Hollywood musicals buoyed by driving percussion, the blue lodge atmosphere of The Bang Bang Bar swaddled in neon lights. But on her debut album, straight out of the City of Angels, the Los Angeles native Glüme...