Tracks of the Week 03.02.24
The creative life of the composer Cergio Prudencio – a Guggenheim fellow and Platino Award winner for his score for the Bolivian drama Utama, an intergenerational meditation on life in the Altiplano...
Tracks of the Week 09.12.23
On her latest album as Slowfoam the curator and researcher, composer and sound artist Madelyn Byrd not only imagines but seeks to cultivate an idealised post-Anthropocene environment, where nature, technology and human...
Tracks of the Week 14.10.23
From the first Ayleresque thrum and steeped ritual of ‘Miserere’ to the wailing blues, doleful horns and overlayed piano on ‘Wonderful Words Of Life’ whose wispy middle section soon scrambles to a...
Tracks of the Week 05.08.23
Following up on the limpid rhythms, percussive riffs and shifting tectonics of Diatom Ribbons, which saw Kris Davis explore the hidden world of unicellular microalgae in the company of such luminaries as...
Tracks of the Week 01.07.23
From its birth in the eighties the Brazilian genre of funk carioca cast a wide net, pulling from samba soul, Miami bass and Latin freestyle, the chanted vocals and hybrid rhythms of...
Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2022
This was the year of sliding doors as live venues reopened from the coronavirus pandemic, when Béyonce and Drake almost single-handedly salvaged the safe spaces and sweaty traces of house music,...
Tracks of the Week 05.11.22
Following the delicate harmonies and swinging melodies of Mesmerism, the album of standards which Tyshawn Sorey released in the summer alongside the bassist Matt Brewer and pianist Aaron Diehl, the drummer returns...
Tracks of the Week 01.10.22
Following sessions with Francisco Mela and William Parker for the Brooklyn-based jazz bastion 577 Records, the Tennessee transplant Zoh Amba turns closer to home on her searing and searching solo album Bhakti....