Tracks of the Week 08.01.23
After lending his lusty baritone to the works of Lou Reed and Dylan Thomas on the jazzily contemplative Free and adopting the role of rapporteur alongside the Belgian violinist Catherine Graindorge, this...
Tracks of the Week 17.12.22
In the summer of 2019, as the venerable jazz and new music venue LOFT in Cologne prepared to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary, the absence of the Steinway D-274 concert grand piano which...
Tracks of the Week 10.09.22
Venturing out under his own name for Voices of Bishara, the Sons of Kemet and Smile drummer Tom Skinner drew inspiration from Abdul Wadud’s percussive approach to the cello and a jazz...
Tracks of the Week 11.09.21
This week the drummer and bandleader Johnathan Blake lingers lightly over the life of Ana Grace Márquez-Greene, the daughter of the saxophonist Jimmy Greene and flautist Nelba Márquez-Greene, who died in the...
Tracks of the Week 01.05.21
The frames of reference and sly subversions arrive preloaded on the screen: Marilyn Monroe with some of the accoutrements of glitching cyberspace, old Hollywood musicals buoyed by driving percussion, the blue lodge...
Tracks of the Week 27.03.21
On Breathe the jazz organist Dr. Lonnie Smith keeps the blue note alive, stretching out enough space for some of Iggy Pop’s indelible soul stylings. On Haram, Armand Hammer cut through the...
Tracks of the Week 06.03.21
Selena Gomez and DJ Snake dabble in jealousy, Devon Welsh takes a bite out of the Big Apple and departs with an upset stomach, while Chance the Rapper strives to separate heart...
Tracks of the Week 26.12.20
Mulatto spearheads a community drive while Coi Leray keeps it in the family this Christmas. SZA holds on to the good days and hopes for a sunny state of mind, while Iggy...
Tracks of the Week 25.04.20
On a brand new song released as part of the FEET OF CLAY vinyl edition, Earl Sweatshirt scrabbles loose even as the earth around him crumbles. Charli XCX gets tenacious as how...