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 14.10.23
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...
Tracks of the Week 09.09.23
In 1948 the audio engineer and music publisher Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a mission to put on wax not only traditional, secular and children’s music but poetry, language instruction, liturgical...
Tracks of the Week 19.08.23
In the fall of 2015 the drummer and composer Mike Reed read a harrowing story in The New York Times about ‘The Lonely Death of George Bell’, a 72-year-old New Yorker who...
Tracks of the Week 15.07.23
‘The cock crows / But no queen rises’ begins ‘Depression Before Spring’ by the elliptical modernist Wallace Stevens, a silvery wisp of a poem full of bird call and nonsense syllables from...
Tracks of the Week 14.01.23
Capping a long association with Peter Rehberg and Editions Mego, which stretches all the way back to the release of her melodic breakthrough Shojo Toshi in 2001, this week Tujiko Noriko labours...
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 15.10.22
Sexually deceptive, curiously receptive, and twisting through 180 degrees as they unfold their flowers to the sun, this week Jófríður Ákadóttir wields the orchid as a symbol of rebirth as the Icelandic...