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...
Culturedarm’s Songs of the Year for 2023
In the year of 2023 artists from Tyla, Bad Bunny and NewJeans to Vagabon, Tems and Sofia Kourtesis continued to redefine the borders of contemporary pop, while Cassandra Miller covered Beethoven’s ‘Heiliger...
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 06.05.23
With its lilting grooves and wry lyrics on a perennial hot-button issue, when Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded ‘Nuclear War’ in 1982 the bandleader took the cut straight to Columbia Records,...
Tracks of the Week 18.02.23
At the pith or heart of Mourning Due, the latest album by the Oakland-born and Brooklyn-based emcee Nappy Nina, the spoken word poet and jazz visionary Moor Mother delivers a bravura verse...
Tracks of the Week 08.10.22
“The men who placed themselves above the rest of society through guile, fortuitous outcome of circumstance and sheer brutality have developed two principal institutions to deal with any and all serious disobedience...