Tracks of the Week 25.06.22
Drawing inspiration from the desert retreats of Georgia O’Keeffe and Agnes Martin, the life and death of Sylvia Plath, and the reflexive cinema of Jean-Luc Godard while working from La Becque on...
Tracks of the Week 18.06.22
Through thickets and plumes of fog using a plangent yet plummy blend of saxophone, clarinet, voice, prepared guitar, and percussion, this week the multi-instrumentalist Ashley Paul renders haunting smiles, fading thoughts, and...
Tracks of the Week 11.06.22
Tributes, reminiscences, and paid dues head up the playlist this week, as Elucid follows his stellar work with Billy Woods as one half of Armand Hammer with I Told Bessie in loving...
Tracks of the Week 28.05.22
From Cafe OTO and the Takuroku imprint which served to salvage the experimental shoots and salty minutiae of life under lockdown, now released on vinyl for the first time via bié Records...
Tracks of the Week 12.03.22
Fresh from feral lands, this week Laura Cannell takes flight on an album which figures the antiphonal call and response of birdsong. Soaring out over the marshes, furrowed fields, and scattered treetops...
Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2021
Shut up but not shutdown or vice versa, the music business gained succour from the margins in 2021 with so many lip-smacking delights from far-flung fields and hitherto unexpected quarters. Labels like...
Tracks of the Week 04.12.21
This week the multi-instrumentalist JJJJJerome Ellis frames speech dysfluency through personal reflections and watery etymologies, river running from the works of the sixteenth-century French poet Guillaume Bouchet and eighteenth-century abolitionist Olaudah Equiano...
Tracks of the Week 23.10.21
On raven wings, the violinist Laura Cannell and cellist Kate Ellis are joined by the award-winning sound recordist Chris Watson as they swoop into autumn. Liz Harris is back as Grouper, spanning...
Tracks of the Week 18.09.21
On the album Sediments We Move, set for release next month on New Amsterdam Records, the singer and saxophonist Charlotte Greve and her art-pop quartet Wood River join forces with Cantus Domus,...