Tracks of the Week 16.03.24
When the baritone saxophone specialist and former Downtown stalwart Dave Sewelson and the visceral guitar virtuoso Ava Mendoza first conceived the idea of a duo album, the expectation was that they’d veer...
Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2022
This was the year of sliding doors as live venues reopened from the coronavirus pandemic, when Béyonce and Drake almost single-handedly salvaged the safe spaces and sweaty traces of house music,...
Tracks of the Week 19.11.22
This week the tap dancer Janne Eraker, fiddle player Vegar Vårdal, and bassist Roger Arntzen land with the click of a heel on the Lisbon-based jazz label Clean Feed Records, as from...
Tracks of the Week 22.10.22
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...
Tracks of the Week 24.09.22
Ancestors loom large over the playlist this week, signalling the way before finding themselves subsumed by the throb and hum, as Björk tallies with familiar collaborators James Merry and Andrew Thomas Huang,...
Tracks of the Week 04.06.22
This week the pianist Lisa Moore pays tribute to her longtime mentor Frederic Rzewski, tackling five of his most lyrical pieces of work beginning with a setting of Andrew Marvell’s carpe diem...