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Tracks of the Week 10.02.24

Tracks of the Week
From 'Old Shep' and 'Old King' to 'Cracker Jack' and Campfire Songs with its crackling ode to an aeriform doggy, the small corpus of music about losing a pet has tended to focus on old Caninae, yet the Heligoland vocalist and experimental musician Karen Vogt bears a more feline persuasion. For the second release on Penelope Trappes' new Nite...

Tracks of the Week 09.09.23

Tracks of the Week
In 1948 the audio engineer and music publisher Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a mission to put on wax not only traditional, secular and children's music but poetry, language instruction, liturgical chants and field recordings from around the world. The earliest versions of 'This Land Is Your Land' by Woody Guthrie and 'Goodnight Irene' by Lead Belly were...

Tracks of the Week 26.08.23

Tracks of the Week
Between 1949 and 1989, the Soviet Union conducted 456 nuclear tests on the steppe of northeast Kazakhstan, south of the valley of the Irtysh River. Exposing an estimated 1.5 million people to fallout while reshaping their surrounds, by 1989 the author Olzhas Suleimenov had helped to establish Nevada Semipalatinsk, one of the first anti-nuclear movements in the Soviet Union....