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Tracks of the Week 10.02.24

Tracks of the Week
From 'Old Shep' and 'Old King' to 'Cracker Jack' and Campfire Songs with its crackling ode to an aeriform doggy, the small corpus of music about losing a pet has tended to focus on old Caninae, yet the Heligoland vocalist and experimental musician Karen Vogt bears a more feline persuasion. For the second release on Penelope Trappes' new Nite...

Culturedarm’s from the Vault 2023

Albums of the Year
The vault might seem to connote a sense of authority, visions of round doors, time locks and bank currency or rows of booklets and stacks of boxes whose contents have been carefully packed away. Yet musically the prising open of a vault can prove a cacophonous and contentious affair. What should be scrapped or saved for posterity, who gets...

Tracks of the Week 03.06.23

Tracks of the Week
By the summer of 1961, the indomitable saxophonist John Coltrane had established his first quartet and opened new harmonic expanses for jazz through his sheets of sound. As a leader for Atlantic, the cascades of 'Countdown' and 'Giant Steps' with its loping bassline and spirited cycle of chromatic thirds helmed his first iconic album and introduced what would become...