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Culturedarm’s Songs of the Year for 2023

Albums of the Year
In the year of 2023 artists from Tyla, Bad Bunny and NewJeans to Vagabon, Tems and Sofia Kourtesis continued to redefine the borders of contemporary pop, while Cassandra Miller covered Beethoven's 'Heiliger Dankgesang' and Arvo Pärt looked back a couple of centuries to a 'tiresome footling little Anglican parson' as the Estonian minimalist reworked his Littlemore Tractus. Familiar faces...

Tracks of the Week 22.07.23

Tracks of the Week
What's an expanding universe? An ineluctable outpouring of general relativity, a spatial property, a shift of light observed through the telescope as distant galaxies stretch farther away? Is it Moon landings and Mars living and Voyager probes destined to wander eternally the Milky Way? Or can the outward manifestations of an expanding universe be more mundane? Eggs boiling in...

Tracks of the Week 20.08.22

Tracks of the Week
From the flotsam and jetsam on the surface of the water to sunken satellites, grimacing groupers, and the somnolent blues and glistening radiance of the ocean deep, this week the sound artist Alexandra Spence uses submerged tape recordings, clarinet, woodblock, and queña, pontoon and other ephemera dredged up from the Pacific for an underwater adventure on Mappa Editions. Born in...