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Tracks of the Week 12.11.22

Tracks of the Week
The Chicago native and veteran bandleader Kahil El'Zabar guides his Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and special guests on a rhythmic tour de force in celebration of the legendary jazz trumpeter Don Cherry. Locating the middle ground between his British roots and the Occitan part of his family in the southern French department of Aveyron, the percussionist and sound artist Sébastien...

Tracks of the Week 24.09.22

Tracks of the Week
Ancestors loom large over the playlist this week, signalling the way before finding themselves subsumed by the throb and hum, as Björk tallies with familiar collaborators James Merry and Andrew Thomas Huang, her son Sindri, and the Siggi String Quartet for a ritual trek across an Icelandic valley by way of tribute to the foibles and idiosyncrasies, the inspirations...

Tracks of the Week 20.03.21

Tracks of the Week
On 'peak chroma' the experimental composer claire rousay uses snippets of conversation, faintly melodious autotune, ambient droning and the sinking cello of Lia Kohl to linger on the cusp of the end of a relationship. On 'White Dress', Lana Del Rey dwells in the sun-dappled time before fame. From Senegal, Wau Wau Collectif weave sunshine dubs out of saxophone...