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Tracks of the Week 24.09.22

Tracks of the Week
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, her son Sindri, and the Siggi String Quartet for a ritual trek across an Icelandic valley by way of tribute to the foibles and idiosyncrasies, the inspirations...

Tracks of the Week 27.08.22

Tracks of the Week
The culmination of nineteen days of rigorous rehearsal in southern Vermont plus a decade's worth of compositional study under the Harmonic Experience author W. A. Mathieu, this week America's self-styled favourite tenor saxophone quartet return to complete their trilogy on New Amsterdam Records. Following their work on Palace of Wind and Blade of Love, as Battle Trance the foursome...

Tracks of the Week 23.07.22

Tracks of the Week
Translating the lilting rhythms of the essayist Marilynne Robinson before skirting the scattered fragments and billowing torrents of language like Nimrod tripping through his Tower of Babel headlong, this week Caroline Shaw and Attacca Quartet introduce their upcoming album Evergreen with the first movement from Three Essays. The suite is one of three pieces for string quartet which will...