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Culturedarm’s Songs of the Year for 2023

Albums of the Year
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 Dankgesang' and Arvo Pärt looked back a couple of centuries to a 'tiresome footling little Anglican parson' as the Estonian minimalist reworked his Littlemore Tractus. Familiar faces...

Tracks of the Week 25.03.23

Tracks of the Week
Partially inspired by dialogue from Edward O. Bland's seminal 1959 documentary The Cry of Jazz, which intersperses performances by Sun Ra and a series of conversations on the nature of jazz by a group of intellectuals in a club with scenes of life from black neighbourhoods in Chicago, this week the composer and clarinetist Angel Bat Dawid orchestrates a...

Tracks of the Week 04.03.23

Tracks of the Week
A deep dive into the history of Greenwich Village spurred the author and lyricist David Hajdu to begin a song cycle in ode to a single building, an otherwise nondescript four-story brick townhouse at 64th East 7th Street in bustling New York. Built in 1889 as the parsonage for St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church, home to the Reverend George...