Tracks of the Week 10.06.23
Born in Oslo and splitting his childhood between there and Bali as he learned circular breathing through the resonances of the flute and didgeridoo, attending a music conservatory in Copenhagen before basing...
Tracks of the Week 20.05.23
In the spring of 1971 the release of What’s Going On saw Marvin Gaye switch things up with a song cycle written from the perspective of a Vietnam War veteran, who returns...
Tracks of the Week 22.04.23
The visionary percussionist and veteran bandleader Kahil El’Zabar guides his Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and special guests on a rhythmic tour de force in celebration of the legendary jazz trumpeter Don Cherry, figured...
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 25.03.23
Partially inspired by dialogue from Edward O. Bland’s seminal 1959 documentary The Cry of Jazz, which intersperses performances by Sun Ra and a series of conversations on the nature of jazz by...
Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2022
This was the year of sliding doors as live venues reopened from the coronavirus pandemic, when Béyonce and Drake almost single-handedly salvaged the safe spaces and sweaty traces of house music,...
Tracks of the Week 26.11.22
With a ritual for every season, Laura Cannell armed with her signature overbow violin reunites with her fellow medievalist André Bosman, who conjures strains of American primitivism, Appalachian sprawl, coronach, and the...
Tracks of the Week 03.09.22
In the blistering August heat past the scorched remains of field fires which set ablaze the Waveney Valley, easing down narrow lanes and edging her way betwixt dotted meadows of immutable dairy,...
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...