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Tracks of the Week 19.01.25

Tracks of the Week
Benjamin Lackner plays the piano with a plangent grace at the head of a new ensemble on his latest album Spindrift for ECM Records. Only the trumpeter Mathias Eick remains from his debut ECM offering Last Decade, while the pianist also reconnects with Matthieu Chazarenc on drums who was a member of his earlier trio. Eick with the tenor...

Tracks of the Week 10.08.24

Tracks of the Week
David Lynch, the transcendental meditator and itinerant Eagle Scout who believes that a daily routine allows the mind to travel unfettered, has at pivotal moments of his artistic career been inspired by the limpid light or electric spark of visions, whether the manicured lawns and picket fences which sprung up one day as he listened to the Bobby Vinton...

Tracks of the Week 06.04.24

Tracks of the Week
When a caterpillar has stored up enough energy and is ready to make the transition from larva to pupa, it begins to draw silk from the spinneret on the lower lip of its mouth and forms a small pad which it hooks into with its cremaster, attaching its hind end to the pad as a sort of anchor. Through...