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Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick – Tragic Magic

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Longtime friends and sometime collaborators, on Tragic Magic their debut album as a duo Mary Lattimore and Julianna Barwick combine baroque harp, with its pretensions to a certain delicacy and restraint, with droning or buttressing synths and soaring vocals redolent of Cocteau Twins or This Mortal Coil or Julee Cruise in the company of David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti....

Moor Mother – The Great Bailout

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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 back the drapes, revealing the names and circumstances of the 46,000 slave owners who received compensation when the Slavery Abolition Act was finally passed after decades of...

Tracks of the Week 20.01.24

Tracks of the Week
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 a set of melodic formulas which guide musical improvisation and often take the form of sprawling epic suites. Combining song, dance and instrumental sections, characterised by rhythmic...