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Tracks of the Week 14.10.23

Tracks of the Week
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 rapt climax, and from the percussive roils which shake up 'Inhaling and Exhaling' to accompany a reading from a book called Solo Gig by the avant-garde guitarist...

Tracks of the Week 26.08.23

Tracks of the Week
Between 1949 and 1989, the Soviet Union conducted 456 nuclear tests on the steppe of northeast Kazakhstan, south of the valley of the Irtysh River. Exposing an estimated 1.5 million people to fallout while reshaping their surrounds, by 1989 the author Olzhas Suleimenov had helped to establish Nevada Semipalatinsk, one of the first anti-nuclear movements in the Soviet Union....

Tracks of the Week 01.07.23

Tracks of the Week
From its birth in the eighties the Brazilian genre of funk carioca cast a wide net, pulling from samba soul, Miami bass and Latin freestyle, the chanted vocals and hybrid rhythms of Afrobeat, the first boasts of gangster rap and seminal tracks like 'Planet Rock' and 'Nunk' which created the short-lived template for boogified electro. Where Afrika Bambaataa and...