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 09.12.23
On her latest album as Slowfoam the curator and researcher, composer and sound artist Madelyn Byrd not only imagines but seeks to cultivate an idealised post-Anthropocene environment, where nature, technology and human...
Tracks of the Week 23.09.23
Described as ‘a suite of sensual ambient jazz collages, designed to take the listener on a roadtrip through the subconscious’, for her debut release on Awe the composer and producer Laurel Halo...
Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2021
Shut up but not shutdown or vice versa, the music business gained succour from the margins in 2021 with so many lip-smacking delights from far-flung fields and hitherto unexpected quarters. Labels like...
Tracks of the Week 04.12.21
This week the multi-instrumentalist JJJJJerome Ellis frames speech dysfluency through personal reflections and watery etymologies, river running from the works of the sixteenth-century French poet Guillaume Bouchet and eighteenth-century abolitionist Olaudah Equiano...