Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2023
It’s an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never...
It’s an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never...
‘The cock crows / But no queen rises’ begins ‘Depression Before Spring’ by the elliptical modernist Wallace Stevens, a silvery wisp of a poem full of bird call and nonsense syllables from...
Partially inspired by dialogue from Edward O. Bland’s seminal 1959 documentary The Cry of Jazz, which intersperses performances by Sun Ra and a series of conversations on the nature of jazz by...
Inspired by her mentor Ran Blake upon her arrival from Mumbai at the end of the seventies, the vocalist Christine Correa with Sam Newsome on soprano saxophone, Andrew Boudreau on piano, Kim...
This was the year of sliding doors as live venues reopened from the coronavirus pandemic, when Béyonce and Drake almost single-handedly salvaged the safe spaces and sweaty traces of house music,...
With wry wit and a handful of orbiting factoids Ishmael Reed wonders what on earth we’d do without the moon, that star which spices up our sky, in the company of flautist...
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...