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Tracks of the Week 27.08.22

Tracks of the Week
The culmination of nineteen days of rigorous rehearsal in southern Vermont plus a decade's worth of compositional study under the Harmonic Experience author W. A. Mathieu, this week America's self-styled favourite tenor saxophone quartet return to complete their trilogy on New Amsterdam Records. Following their work on Palace of Wind and Blade of Love, as Battle Trance the foursome...

Tracks of the Week 18.06.22

Tracks of the Week
Through thickets and plumes of fog using a plangent yet plummy blend of saxophone, clarinet, voice, prepared guitar, and percussion, this week the multi-instrumentalist Ashley Paul renders haunting smiles, fading thoughts, and tingling spines in the company of the double bassist Otto Willberg and bass clarinetist Yoni Silver. The experimental hip hop duo Prison Religion bid to buck convention...

Tracks of the Week 16.04.22

Tracks of the Week
Described as an experiment in immediacy, back in 2020 the Portland-based label Sahel Sounds doubled down on its commitment to the music of the Southern Sahara with its searing blend of psychedelic jams, crackling choral textures, roiling dub rhythms, and boisterous desert blues. Familiar faces like Etran de L'Aïr and the Nigerien techno pioneer Hama plus newcomers from Bounaly...