Tracks of the Week 02.12.23
Drawn to the art of marginal living, between his first spurts on the conga and bongo drums as a backup musician for Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Anger and Tiny Tim and his more...
Tracks of the Week 02.09.23
After graduating with a degree in musicology in 2014 and self-releasing the acclaimed albums Njoum and Arb’een (40), dialogues between vocals and oud which explored loops in time and modes of narrative...
Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2022
This was the year of sliding doors as live venues reopened from the coronavirus pandemic, when Béyonce and Drake almost single-handedly salvaged the safe spaces and sweaty traces of house music,...
Tracks of the Week 05.03.22
Built in the eighties by the Kyiv-based Antonov Design Bureau, and named after the Ukrainian word for ‘dream’ or ‘inspiration’, the Antonov An-22 Mriya was the heaviest aircraft of all time and...
Tracks of the Week 05.02.22
With the crackle and hiss of an old blues record and a high-pitched caterwaul which lies somewhere between Grouper and Skip James, from the living room of her house in the seaside...
Tracks of the Week 15.01.22
‘Lush with a gentle, brackish breeze’ is how Jeremiah Chiu recalls the Åland Islands, an archipelago of around 6,500 skerries and islands which lie between Sweden and Finland at the entrance to...