Tracks of the Week 13.04.24
From their prophetic debut New Jazz Imagination which was released on Umlaut Records back in 2017, the quartet of the pianist Pat Thomas, the double bassist Joel Grip and the drummer Antonin...
Tracks of the Week 23.03.24
Since her last solo album Black Origami – which musically still feels of the present moment, but factually came out in something of a time that land forgot, way back when in...
Julia Holter – Something in the Room She Moves
Since releasing her last studio album Aviary back in 2018, the balmy troubadour, memory wanderer and stranded silhouette Julia Holter courted the world of film by composing the score for Eliza Hittman’s...
Tracks of the Week 20.01.24
For the Uyghurs of the Tarim Basin who continue to raise a voice against the twin spectres of internment and cultural assimilation, muqam remains a key mode of expression, the name for...
Tracks of the Week 25.11.23
Everything on this side of death was the purview of the Vita Duvan, which opened in the northern coastal city of Luleå in 1856 as Sweden’s only true panopticon prison. The concept...
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 13.11.21
This week Ethel Cain issues avowals of love in the form of a thirteen-minute drone swarm, citing as references the Whore of Babylon and an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror...
Tracks of the Week 14.08.21
An album rollout can sometimes seem like a yellow brick road, thoroughfare to some magical land, beacon of hope and conveyor belt of dreams, full of pitfalls and detours and broken-down sidemen....