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Ingrid Laubrock – Purposing The Air

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Whether the enforced solitude of the coronavirus pandemic compelled a desire for oral communication, encouraged artists sans collaborators to sit down with the written word or simply gave everybody plenty of time in which to try out new stuff, coming out of the back end there has been a profusion of vocal or spoken word jazz from William Parker...

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...

Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2023

Albums of the Year
It's an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...