Tag: Henry Birdsey
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Tracks of the Week 22.06.24

Tracks of the Week
Catharine Cary trained as an economic diplomat, in her own words 'selling German steam boilers to Asian sweatshops', working on urban development and infant dehydration projects in Africa and leading the restoration of the New Amsterdam Theatre for Walt Disney at the southern edge of Times Square, before relocating to Paris in 1997 at the age of 36 to...

Old Saw – Dissection Maps

Albums
Between his solo output where he has experimented with bagpipes and PVC construction pipes, the Rhodes piano, orchestral bells and sheet metal gongs - with last year's standout Two Harmonicas in the Jeweler's Court a reworking of the insides after he accidentally flipped the reed plate of a diatonic harmonica, leading to the discovery of a hitherto impossible stratification...

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...