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...
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 05.08.23
Following up on the limpid rhythms, percussive riffs and shifting tectonics of Diatom Ribbons, which saw Kris Davis explore the hidden world of unicellular microalgae in the company of such luminaries as...
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 22.01.23
Following the choppy tumult of High and Low, which saw the classically trained cellist duet with the drummer Dan Sasaki while paying tribute to her erstwhile friend, the illustrator and musician Geneviève...
Tracks of the Week 03.12.22
Overlooked at the time, following a handful of sessions on Blue Note which marked his debut as a leader, between 1952 and 1954 the pianist Thelonious Monk cut a series of records...
Tracks of the Week 08.10.22
“The men who placed themselves above the rest of society through guile, fortuitous outcome of circumstance and sheer brutality have developed two principal institutions to deal with any and all serious disobedience...
Tracks of the Week 24.09.22
Ancestors loom large over the playlist this week, signalling the way before finding themselves subsumed by the throb and hum, as Björk tallies with familiar collaborators James Merry and Andrew Thomas Huang,...