Tracks of the Week 03.02.24
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...
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 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 10.06.23
Born in Oslo and splitting his childhood between there and Bali as he learned circular breathing through the resonances of the flute and didgeridoo, attending a music conservatory in Copenhagen before basing...
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 03.12.22
Overlooked at the time, following a handful of sessions on Blue Note which marked his debut as a leader, between 1952 and 1954 the pianist Thelonious Monk cut a series of records...
Tracks of the Week 21.05.22
Like the triumphal march of truth which comes in fits and starts and whose course is furious and vexed or at best only circumambulatory, this week through cascading drums, carefully plucked bass,...
Tracks of the Week 14.05.22
This week the Los Angeles-based new music collective Wild Up return with their second volume of works by the late composer Julius Eastman, combining the fiery minimalism of early pieces like ‘Stay...