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 07.10.23
Around the turn of the seventies, the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad was the place to be as a hub of industrial development meant to furnish the needs of a thriving...
Tracks of the Week 08.07.23
Between the portrait of the gay rights activist Marsha P. Johnson which adorns the cover of the record and the sliver of ice ecstatically recalled in memory of her friend and mentor...
Tracks of the Week 22.04.23
The visionary percussionist and veteran bandleader Kahil El’Zabar guides his Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and special guests on a rhythmic tour de force in celebration of the legendary jazz trumpeter Don Cherry, figured...
Tracks of the Week 02.07.22
Summoning spectres to light the present, on the crackling centrepiece to her new album Jazz Codes the songwriter and spoken word poet Moor Mother reaches back beyond the birth of the form...
Tracks of the Week 25.06.22
Drawing inspiration from the desert retreats of Georgia O’Keeffe and Agnes Martin, the life and death of Sylvia Plath, and the reflexive cinema of Jean-Luc Godard while working from La Becque on...
Tracks of the Week 11.06.22
Tributes, reminiscences, and paid dues head up the playlist this week, as Elucid follows his stellar work with Billy Woods as one half of Armand Hammer with I Told Bessie in loving...
Tracks of the Week 22.01.22
Illuminating a story from their national history, this week the composer Pepa Päivinen and the percussionist Jussi Miettola recount the Finnish Civil War, as layers of woodwind and flute, the Seagull Merlin...