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Tracks of the Week 16.03.24

Tracks of the Week
When the baritone saxophone specialist and former Downtown stalwart Dave Sewelson and the visceral guitar virtuoso Ava Mendoza first conceived the idea of a duo album, the expectation was that they'd veer in the tried and true direction of a free jazz squall, heading into the studio one afternoon in the flush of autumn and letting it all hang...

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...

Tracks of the Week 08.01.23

Tracks of the Week
After lending his lusty baritone to the works of Lou Reed and Dylan Thomas on the jazzily contemplative Free and adopting the role of rapporteur alongside the Belgian violinist Catherine Graindorge, this week Iggy Pop plummily embraces his iconic role as the guy with no shirt who rocks as Every Loser features strung-out ballads and odes to his adopted...