Moor Mother – The Great Bailout
Great Britain likes to think of itself as the country which ended slavery, what with Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce and all that. Yet a few years ago a BBC documentary pulled...
Tracks of the Week 20.01.24
For the Uyghurs of the Tarim Basin who continue to raise a voice against the twin spectres of internment and cultural assimilation, muqam remains a key mode of expression, the name for...
Tracks of the Week 07.10.23
Around the turn of the seventies, the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad was the place to be as a hub of industrial development meant to furnish the needs of a thriving...
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 26.03.22
Cleaving her way through a bout of writer’s block with the aid of the percussionist Matt Chamberlain and producer Randall Dunn, this week Zola Jesus unveils her sixth studio album amid the...
Tracks of the Week 05.03.22
Built in the eighties by the Kyiv-based Antonov Design Bureau, and named after the Ukrainian word for ‘dream’ or ‘inspiration’, the Antonov An-22 Mriya was the heaviest aircraft of all time and...
Tracks of the Week 28.08.21
Alongside a virtual appearance at Pop-Kultur Berlin, Marie Davidson and L’Œil Nu are back this week with ‘Persona’, a single in three shades and three faces as the trio add Jesse Osborne-Lanthier...
Tracks of the Week 10.10.20
From the cured meats and pasta salads of HAIM stuck behind the deli counter, to the new drip of Medhane and lazy days of John Cale, this week’s selection of tracks caters...
Tracks of the Week 22.08.20
From Matmos and the consuming flame of electronic assemblage, to Nubya Garcia generating deep grooves on the sax, to Maya Hawke and a gently crazed sweet-loving disposition, this selection of tracks of...