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Tracks of the Week 30.03.24

Tracks of the Week
This week the composer Alex Weiser follows up his Pulitzer Prize-nominated debut album and all the days were purple - which set poetry to music from the lider of Anna Margolin and her fellow Yiddish poets Edward Hirsch, Rachel Korn and Abraham Sutzkever to William Carlos Williams and Emily Dickinson who spoke on the transience of love and life,...

Tracks of the Week 16.03.24

Tracks of the Week
When the baritone saxophone specialist and former Downtown stalwart Dave Sewelson and the visceral guitar virtuoso Ava Mendoza first conceived the idea of a duo album, the expectation was that they'd veer in the tried and true direction of a free jazz squall, heading into the studio one afternoon in the flush of autumn and letting it all hang...

Tracks of the Week 14.05.22

Tracks of the Week
This week the Los Angeles-based new music collective Wild Up return with their second volume of works by the late composer Julius Eastman, combining the fiery minimalism of early pieces like 'Stay On It' and 'Touch Him When' with stately and shimmering renditions of the previously unrecorded 'Joy Boy' and 'Buddha'. Francesca Heart anchors her limpid ambient projections in...