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Culturedarm’s Songs of the Year for 2023

Albums of the Year
In the year of 2023 artists from Tyla, Bad Bunny and NewJeans to Vagabon, Tems and Sofia Kourtesis continued to redefine the borders of contemporary pop, while Cassandra Miller covered Beethoven's 'Heiliger Dankgesang' and Arvo Pärt looked back a couple of centuries to a 'tiresome footling little Anglican parson' as the Estonian minimalist reworked his Littlemore Tractus. Familiar faces...

Tracks of the Week 14.10.23

Tracks of the Week
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 rapt climax, and from the percussive roils which shake up 'Inhaling and Exhaling' to accompany a reading from a book called Solo Gig by the avant-garde guitarist...

Tracks of the Week 23.09.23

Tracks of the Week
Described as 'a suite of sensual ambient jazz collages, designed to take the listener on a roadtrip through the subconscious', for her debut release on Awe the composer and producer Laurel Halo drew from the fourth-world missives, sinuous jazz piano and drone minimalism of her monthly NTS radio show, the slow cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul and a stint at...