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Tracks of the Week 19.03.22

Tracks of the Week
Eight years in the making, the found sound purveyor Janek Schaefer and frayed loop master William Basinski reshape a piano passage from their collective archive in a meditation on the mirrored facades and iridescent flickers of memory. Inspired by the memoir The Torch in My Ear by Elias Canetti, the percussionist Vasco Trilla explores improvisation as a form of...

Tracks of the Week 17.07.21

Tracks of the Week
From the sacred to the mundane, field recordings take centre stage this week. Against backdrops of rustling nature or sweet domesticity, Claire Rousay and More Eaze linger lightly over autotuned vocals and diaphanous guitar, while the Glasgow artist and Hot Gem honcho Clair uses found sounds, keys, and chimes to ring out an impish sort of minimalism. Like the lapping...

Tracks of the Week 13.02.21

Tracks of the Week
On the first track from the upcoming Fresia Magdalena, Sofia Kourtesis makes a mosaic out of field recordings from Lima and the undulating sounds of her own voice. Sandy Chamoun dwells inside what can still seem like fantasy, the 17 October protests in her home country of Lebanon, a night when the impossible flickered into view. Sufjan Stevens enlists...