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The Other Tracks of the Week 22.06.24

The Other Tracks of the Week
Whatever makes for the wilderness you might well find in this week's alternative roundup, as the shimmering landscapes of Raphael Rogínski with the vocalist Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė in tow summon venerable grass snake spirits on the Lithuanian border, Waclaw Zimpel adds a wiry and scraping tenuousness to the bronzed arcs and thick furrows of his alto clarinet through a machine...

Tracks of the Week 03.02.24

Tracks of the Week
The creative life of the composer Cergio Prudencio - a Guggenheim fellow and Platino Award winner for his score for the Bolivian drama Utama, an intergenerational meditation on life in the Altiplano amid drought and the fraying of old ways, and a vice minister for interculturality within the Bolivian ministry of cultures, decolonization and depatriachalization - remains inextricably linked...

Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2023

Albums of the Year
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 before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...