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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 17.09.22

Tracks of the Week
With oblique references to 'The Anchor Song' and 'Hyperballad' plus the Georges Bataille favourite Story of the Eye, this week through the fanfare of retreating horns and a subterranean bass squelch Björk steadies the glass submersible of a romantic relationship. Expanding the space for contemporary Black art through a blend of popular forms with cutting-edge music production, Kelela returns...

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...