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...
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 25.03.23
Partially inspired by dialogue from Edward O. Bland’s seminal 1959 documentary The Cry of Jazz, which intersperses performances by Sun Ra and a series of conversations on the nature of jazz by...
Tracks of the Week 11.02.23
Tree-lined with pristine views over the Hudson towards Greenwich Village and the gleaming skyline of New York, the scenic waterfront boulevard of Sinatra Drive is in need of an upgrade according to...
Tracks of the Week 09.07.22
Following the death of the laptop pioneer and Editions Mego founder Peter Rehberg last July, the fabled Parisian electroacoustic institute GRM announced that three of its labels would move over to the...
Tracks of the Week 18.06.22
Through thickets and plumes of fog using a plangent yet plummy blend of saxophone, clarinet, voice, prepared guitar, and percussion, this week the multi-instrumentalist Ashley Paul renders haunting smiles, fading thoughts, and...
Tracks of the Week 10.04.21
On Mycelial Echo the vocalist Eliza Bagg and percussionist Booker Stardrum root their modular experiments in a language of glitching cyberspace, rising oceans, and willowing trees. On Late Spring the Japanese composer...