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Culturedarm’s Contemporary Classical Records of 2024

Alex Weiser - in a dark blue night A plangent, plunging bass line and the traipsing and frolicking of Spiegelberg's clarinet introduce the titular 'Coney Island', which in rhapsodic terms describes a day at the beach without adults or limits, whose highlights include such quintessential fare as a hot dog at Nathan's and a frozen custard, which in the recollection...

Tracks of the Week 29.06.24

His home from the founding of the label in 1997 and the release of his Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra opus Sunrise in the Tone World, the great free jazz bassist William Parker raises two new albums this week on the Brooklyn bastion AUM Fidelity, which retains its commitment to transcendent jazz and elemental soul. On the babbling 'Five Angels...

Scott Wollschleger – Between Breath

The self-styled brontal composer Scott Wollschleger whose music the pianist and critic Ethan Iverson has described as 'Morton Feldman meets Thelonious Monk meets H. P. Lovecraft' emphasises glitchy repetitions on his latest chamber suite, which comprises three duos and one solo. Suggestive of a faltering ambiance, whose dolorous transgressions and violences are charged with a characteristically animated sense of...