Tracks of the Week 04.02.23
Following the steady exhalations and springtime exultations of Regrowth, animated by Immanuel Wilkins on the alto saxophone, Lee Meadvin on guitar, Paul Cornish on keys, Nick Dunston on bass, and Connor Parks...
Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2022
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,...
Tracks of the Week 05.11.22
Following the delicate harmonies and swinging melodies of Mesmerism, the album of standards which Tyshawn Sorey released in the summer alongside the bassist Matt Brewer and pianist Aaron Diehl, the drummer returns...
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 17.09.22
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...
Tracks of the Week 03.09.22
In the blistering August heat past the scorched remains of field fires which set ablaze the Waveney Valley, easing down narrow lanes and edging her way betwixt dotted meadows of immutable dairy,...
Tracks of the Week 13.08.22
Setting excerpts from the epic poem ‘On Earth’ by Carolyn Forché, which transcribes one woman’s journey between life and death modeled on ancient Gnostic hymns in the form of an abecedary, this...
Tracks of the Week 05.03.22
Built in the eighties by the Kyiv-based Antonov Design Bureau, and named after the Ukrainian word for ‘dream’ or ‘inspiration’, the Antonov An-22 Mriya was the heaviest aircraft of all time and...
Tracks of the Week 26.02.22
As shelling roils the northeastern city of Kharkiv and tanks continue to close in on the Ukrainian capital, one of the clearest achievements of Vladimir Putin and his cronies to date has...