Tracks of the Week 20.04.24
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...
Tracks of the Week 20.01.24
For the Uyghurs of the Tarim Basin who continue to raise a voice against the twin spectres of internment and cultural assimilation, muqam remains a key mode of expression, the name for...
Tracks of the Week 04.11.23
Four years in the making, for her first full-length on New Amsterdam Records the composer and vocalist Mingjia Chen presents a collection of through-composed songs which still carry the discursiveness and formal...
Tracks of the Week 09.09.23
In 1948 the audio engineer and music publisher Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a mission to put on wax not only traditional, secular and children’s music but poetry, language instruction, liturgical...
Tracks of the Week 22.07.23
What’s an expanding universe? An ineluctable outpouring of general relativity, a spatial property, a shift of light observed through the telescope as distant galaxies stretch farther away? Is it Moon landings and...
Tracks of the Week 15.10.22
Sexually deceptive, curiously receptive, and twisting through 180 degrees as they unfold their flowers to the sun, this week Jófríður Ákadóttir wields the orchid as a symbol of rebirth as the Icelandic...
Tracks of the Week 16.01.21
Selena Gomez sings of strength and healing in her first Spanish-language single in more than ten years. Juice WRLD and Young Thug play bad boys in the Chicago rapper’s final music video,...