Tracks of the Week 23.03.24
Since her last solo album Black Origami – which musically still feels of the present moment, but factually came out in something of a time that land forgot, way back when in...
Tracks of the Week 27.01.24
Back in 2008 as Jon Irabagon prepared for his first album as a leader, his plans were as simple as they were ambitious: to take his main three horns in the alto,...
Laura Cannell – SEALORE
12,000 years ago around the end of the last major ice age, the North Sea which now lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France was an area...
Tracks of the Week 20.01.24
For the Uyghurs of the Tarim Basin who continue to raise a voice against the twin spectres of internment and cultural assimilation, muqam remains a key mode of expression, the name for...
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 02.12.23
Drawn to the art of marginal living, between his first spurts on the conga and bongo drums as a backup musician for Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Anger and Tiny Tim and his more...
Tracks of the Week 18.11.23
Seventeen years removed from his last studio album, the former OutKast frontman André 3000 says that ‘sometimes it feels inauthentic for me to rap because I don’t have anything to talk about...
Tracks of the Week 24.06.23
At the confluence of the downtown scene inaugurated in the loft of a Chambers Street apartment by Yoko Ono and La Monte Young, which from its roots in sustained tones and minimalist...
Tracks of the Week 17.06.23
Now well into its second decade, the Coin Coin project by the saxophonist and mixed-media artist Matana Roberts continues to explore African-American history through a recuperative focus on memory and ancestry, summoning...