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...
Tracks of the Week 12.03.22
Fresh from feral lands, this week Laura Cannell takes flight on an album which figures the antiphonal call and response of birdsong. Soaring out over the marshes, furrowed fields, and scattered treetops...
Tracks of the Week 26.02.22
As shelling roils the northeastern city of Kharkiv and tanks continue to close in on the Ukrainian capital, one of the clearest achievements of Vladimir Putin and his cronies to date has...
Tracks of the Week 05.02.22
With the crackle and hiss of an old blues record and a high-pitched caterwaul which lies somewhere between Grouper and Skip James, from the living room of her house in the seaside...
Tracks of the Week 29.01.22
Between 1894 and 1947 in Canada, the residential school system made attendance at Christian-administered boarding schools mandatory for all Indigenous children. Separated from their families and culture and subject to widespread physical...
Tracks of the Week 01.01.21
The violinist Laura Cannell and cellist Kate Ellis wind down These Feral Lands by stepping inside the Glasgow University Chapel, whose choir recite a thoroughly reworked version of the sixteenth-century Coventry Carol...
Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2021
Shut up but not shutdown or vice versa, the music business gained succour from the margins in 2021 with so many lip-smacking delights from far-flung fields and hitherto unexpected quarters. Labels like...
Tracks of the Week 18.12.21
This week Julia Holter joins the likes of Arca, Blood Orange, Joseph Shabason, and Kelsey Lu by reimagining the Keyboard Fantasies of Beverly Glenn-Copeland, drawing out the swirling builds and timely pastoral...