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Tracks of the Week 26.11.22

Tracks of the Week
With a ritual for every season, Laura Cannell armed with her signature overbow violin reunites with her fellow medievalist André Bosman, who conjures strains of American primitivism, Appalachian sprawl, coronach, and the Donegal tradition through his distorted brand of back porch fiddle. Here playing amplified fiddle with rebec bow and bass guitar, the longtime collaborators throw down their nightcaps...

Tracks of the Week 22.10.22

Tracks of the Week
Live music as the scabrous experimental titans Oxbow and Peter Brötzmann, by turns bastions of blues-tinged noise rock and European free jazz or the avant-garde, unleash a double album from their vaunted 2018 collaboration at Moers Festival. At another end of the same spectrum, Charles Lloyd blows into the bows of desolation alongside the guitarist Julian Lage and percussionist...

Tracks of the Week 08.10.22

Tracks of the Week
"The men who placed themselves above the rest of society through guile, fortuitous outcome of circumstance and sheer brutality have developed two principal institutions to deal with any and all serious disobedience – the prison and institutionalized racism." So wrote the activist and revolutionary theorist George Jackson from the confines of San Quentin Prison, in the manuscript to his second...