Tracks of the Week 10.12.22
This week the drummer, pianist, and vibraphonist Joe Chambers returns to Blue Note to unravel some of the rhythmic affinities shared by jazz, Latin, Brazilian, Argentinian, and African music, between interpretations of...
Culturedarm’s Songs of the Year for 2021
Blurring the boundaries between genres and traditional concepts of high and low art, turning the construct of world music inside out as popular forms suffuse only to be reanimated by life on...
Tracks of the Week 23.10.21
On raven wings, the violinist Laura Cannell and cellist Kate Ellis are joined by the award-winning sound recordist Chris Watson as they swoop into autumn. Liz Harris is back as Grouper, spanning...
Tracks of the Week 11.09.21
This week the drummer and bandleader Johnathan Blake lingers lightly over the life of Ana Grace Márquez-Greene, the daughter of the saxophonist Jimmy Greene and flautist Nelba Márquez-Greene, who died in the...
Tracks of the Week 20.03.21
On ‘peak chroma’ the experimental composer claire rousay uses snippets of conversation, faintly melodious autotune, ambient droning and the sinking cello of Lia Kohl to linger on the cusp of the end...
Tracks of the Week 16.01.21
Selena Gomez sings of strength and healing in her first Spanish-language single in more than ten years. Juice WRLD and Young Thug play bad boys in the Chicago rapper’s final music video,...
Tracks of the Week 17.10.20
Chemtrails over the country club make for an especially languid afternoon. Taking the long road home leaves little time for babies or fools. This week’s collection of tracks features comebacks from Annie...
Cultureteca 05.01.20
Australia’s bushfire season continued to burn with unusual intensity, wreaking devastation to land and homes especially in the south-eastern states of Victoria and New South Wales. Amid record-breaking high temperatures, which have...
Tracks of the Week 21.12.19
As we tiptoe towards Christmas, there are new tracks and teasers from Vince Staples, Moses Sumney, Saintseneca, Raspberry Bulbs, Sarah Bates, and Young Thug. Chromatics and Caroline Polachek continue the long flowing...