Tracks of the Week 13.04.24
From their prophetic debut New Jazz Imagination which was released on Umlaut Records back in 2017, the quartet of the pianist Pat Thomas, the double bassist Joel Grip and the drummer Antonin...
Culturedarm’s Songs of the Year for 2023
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...
Tracks of the Week 09.09.23
In 1948 the audio engineer and music publisher Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a mission to put on wax not only traditional, secular and children’s music but poetry, language instruction, liturgical...
Tracks of the Week 19.08.23
In the fall of 2015 the drummer and composer Mike Reed read a harrowing story in The New York Times about ‘The Lonely Death of George Bell’, a 72-year-old New Yorker who...
Tracks of the Week 22.07.23
What’s an expanding universe? An ineluctable outpouring of general relativity, a spatial property, a shift of light observed through the telescope as distant galaxies stretch farther away? Is it Moon landings and...
Tracks of the Week 04.03.23
A deep dive into the history of Greenwich Village spurred the author and lyricist David Hajdu to begin a song cycle in ode to a single building, an otherwise nondescript four-story brick...
Tracks of the Week 19.02.22
This week the improvisational pianist Tigran Hamasyan turns from the Armenian folk tradition to embrace jazz standards by the likes of Richard Rodgers, Charlie Parker, and Jerome Kern. Heavee returns to Hyperdub...
Tracks of the Week 22.01.22
Illuminating a story from their national history, this week the composer Pepa Päivinen and the percussionist Jussi Miettola recount the Finnish Civil War, as layers of woodwind and flute, the Seagull Merlin...
Culturedarm’s Songs of the Year for 2021
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...