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Culturedarm’s from the Vault 2024

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Alice Coltrane - The Carnegie Hall Concert At the threshold of the sacred and the secular, in February of 1971 the pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane released Journey in Satchidananda before embarking on a live performance at Carnegie Hall as part of a benefit for her favourite swami's Integral Yoga Institute. The singer-songwriter Laura Nyro and The Rascals were also on...

Tracks of the Week 20.04.24

Tracks of the Week
Where other artists who have embraced the windy strains and shifting timbres of the pipe organ tend to go in for liturgical refrains, celebrations of the mundane or juxtapositions of the two - like Charlemagne Palestine whose swirling harmonies and rippling overtones for carillon and pipe organ from Strumming Music and Schlingen-Blängen through Godbear and his recent outing on...

Culturedarm’s from the Vault 2023

Albums of the Year
The vault might seem to connote a sense of authority, visions of round doors, time locks and bank currency or rows of booklets and stacks of boxes whose contents have been carefully packed away. Yet musically the prising open of a vault can prove a cacophonous and contentious affair. What should be scrapped or saved for posterity, who gets...