Tracks of the Week 17.12.22
In the summer of 2019, as the venerable jazz and new music venue LOFT in Cologne prepared to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary, the absence of the Steinway D-274 concert grand piano which...
In the summer of 2019, as the venerable jazz and new music venue LOFT in Cologne prepared to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary, the absence of the Steinway D-274 concert grand piano which...
Blurring the boundaries between genres and traditional concepts of high and low art, turning the construct of world music inside out as popular forms suffuse only to be reanimated by life on...
Shut up but not shutdown or vice versa, the music business gained succour from the margins in 2021 with so many lip-smacking delights from far-flung fields and hitherto unexpected quarters. Labels like...
As the founder of the fabled Japanese bands After Dinner and Hoahio, the composer and vocalist Haco drew from an array of traditional instrumentation while pushing the boundaries of post-rock and avant-pop....
On Breathe the jazz organist Dr. Lonnie Smith keeps the blue note alive, stretching out enough space for some of Iggy Pop’s indelible soul stylings. On Haram, Armand Hammer cut through the...