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Tracks of the Week 11.03.23

Tracks of the Week
Best known for her collaborative work, through live performances and site-specific sound installations with the multidisciplinary artist Anelena Toku as one half of Fronte Violeta, and with fellow Rakta member Mauricio Takara on two albums of limpid abstractions which lap at the borders between free jazz, drone, and kosmische, the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and an accommodating Nel...

Tracks of the Week 26.02.22

Tracks of the Week
As shelling roils the northeastern city of Kharkiv and tanks continue to close in on the Ukrainian capital, one of the clearest achievements of Vladimir Putin and his cronies to date has been to cut Russia off from diplomatic channels, financial markets, and so many other aspects of contemporary metropolitan life as to have stoked fears over the falling...

Tracks of the Week 29.01.22

Tracks of the Week
Between 1894 and 1947 in Canada, the residential school system made attendance at Christian-administered boarding schools mandatory for all Indigenous children. Separated from their families and culture and subject to widespread physical and sexual abuse, around 150,000 children were placed in the system over a hundred-year period until the last residential school closed in 1997. In 2015 a national...