Tag: Wacław Zimpel
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The Other Tracks of the Week 22.06.24

The Other Tracks of the Week
Whatever makes for the wilderness you might well find in this week's alternative roundup, as the shimmering landscapes of Raphael Rogínski with the vocalist Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė in tow summon venerable grass snake spirits on the Lithuanian border, Waclaw Zimpel adds a wiry and scraping tenuousness to the bronzed arcs and thick furrows of his alto clarinet through a machine...

Tracks of the Week 02.12.23

Tracks of the Week
Drawn to the art of marginal living, between his first spurts on the conga and bongo drums as a backup musician for Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Anger and Tiny Tim and his more elaborate experiments of the late sixties, where he constructed kinetic light sculptures with Len Lye and devised performances with the dancer and choreographer Simone Forti, for seven...

Tracks of the Week 09.09.23

Tracks of the Week
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 chants and field recordings from around the world. The earliest versions of 'This Land Is Your Land' by Woody Guthrie and 'Goodnight Irene' by Lead Belly were...