Tracks of the Week 04.11.23
Four years in the making, for her first full-length on New Amsterdam Records the composer and vocalist Mingjia Chen presents a collection of through-composed songs which still carry the discursiveness and formal...
Tracks of the Week 21.10.23
Eschewing the dilated forms and performative lyrics of their debut album Menneskekollektivet, on their follow-up Selvutsletter the Norwegian duo of Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden dive headlong into the shared memories and...
Tracks of the Week 14.10.23
From the first Ayleresque thrum and steeped ritual of ‘Miserere’ to the wailing blues, doleful horns and overlayed piano on ‘Wonderful Words Of Life’ whose wispy middle section soon scrambles to a...
Tracks of the Week 19.08.23
In the fall of 2015 the drummer and composer Mike Reed read a harrowing story in The New York Times about ‘The Lonely Death of George Bell’, a 72-year-old New Yorker who...
Tracks of the Week 18.03.23
Sometimes a wind blows and nothing rises. No plastic bags which remain wantonly discarded on the sidewalk filled with rainwater and city sediment, no helium mysteries or daydream fantasies or premonitions of...
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 27.08.22
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...
Tracks of the Week 26.06.21
This week on Icons the percussionist and composer Eli Keszler makes abstract expressionism out of the cultural detritus of New York. Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, the Superwolves together with Emmett...