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 01.04.23
Singing through a ring modulator offset by the distortions and amplifications of the surrounding band, which drew upon an unconventional background in aspects of Dixieland jazz, Indian classical ragas, John Cage, and...
Tracks of the Week 04.03.23
A deep dive into the history of Greenwich Village spurred the author and lyricist David Hajdu to begin a song cycle in ode to a single building, an otherwise nondescript four-story brick...
Tracks of the Week 04.02.23
Following the steady exhalations and springtime exultations of Regrowth, animated by Immanuel Wilkins on the alto saxophone, Lee Meadvin on guitar, Paul Cornish on keys, Nick Dunston on bass, and Connor Parks...
Tracks of the Week 07.05.22
Hailing from a world of sea ice and endangered species at the easternmost tip of Hokkaido, now honing her craft between studios in Berlin and her home base of London, and drawing...
Tracks of the Week 16.04.22
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...
Tracks of the Week 19.03.22
Eight years in the making, the found sound purveyor Janek Schaefer and frayed loop master William Basinski reshape a piano passage from their collective archive in a meditation on the mirrored facades...