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Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2023

Albums of the Year
It's an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...

Tracks of the Week 02.09.23

Tracks of the Week
After graduating with a degree in musicology in 2014 and self-releasing the acclaimed albums Njoum and Arb'een (40), dialogues between vocals and oud which explored loops in time and modes of narrative storytelling, the Lebanese composer Youmna Saba left Beirut and settled in Paris, where her research project Taïma' led to a slew of collaborations and the first sound...

Tracks of the Week 15.05.21

Tracks of the Week
Fresh from her work on the groundbreaking supernatural film drama Atlantics, Fatima Al Qadiri returns to Hyperdub with Medieval Femme, a darkly romantic song cycle inspired by the classical poems of Arab women. Under lilac skies, Arushi Jain makes circles in the soil on the first track from her upcoming album of ambient synth ragas. Meanwhile on 'Motorbike' Leon...