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Tracks of the Week 29.07.23

Tracks of the Week
Still navigating the quixotic charms and cavernous obsessions of Charles Baudelaire, whose insatiable lusts, death whorls and sometimes rhapsodic depictions of the lives of rag-pickers and blind men, prostitutes and gamblers scandalized the tree-lined boulevards of nineteenth-century Paris, this week the Danish chanteuse Susanna scales up her distinctive settings of the French bohemian poet's classic texts with lavish accompaniment...

Tracks of the Week 12.02.22

Tracks of the Week
Drawing from her Haitian heritage and adopted home of New Orleans, on her upcoming album Breaking The Thermometer the multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla adapts a theatrical performance based on the legacy of Radio Haiti-Inter, which was noted for its pioneering use of Haitian Creole and the indomitable activism of its owner Jean Dominique. Between the Rocky Mountains and Upstate New York,...