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Tracks of the Week 19.01.25

Tracks of the Week
Benjamin Lackner plays the piano with a plangent grace at the head of a new ensemble on his latest album Spindrift for ECM Records. Only the trumpeter Mathias Eick remains from his debut ECM offering Last Decade, while the pianist also reconnects with Matthieu Chazarenc on drums who was a member of his earlier trio. Eick with the tenor...

Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2022

Albums of the Year
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, and where Latin figures from Bad Bunny and Rosalía to Lucrecia Dalt and Mabe Fratti stretched out at the experimental borders of pop. This was the year of...

Tracks of the Week 21.05.22

Tracks of the Week
Like the triumphal march of truth which comes in fits and starts and whose course is furious and vexed or at best only circumambulatory, this week through cascading drums, carefully plucked bass, and the squibs and squeals of her tenor sax Zoh Amba alongside William Parker and Francisco Mela recites a mother's hymnal. The drone musician Jon Porras suspends...