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Where the strands of culture entwine, Culturedarm brings together fresh finds, old classics and ephemera in the fields of music, literature, television and film.
There is a radiance to Walter Zanetti’s guitar on Cantos Yoruba de Cuba, which he captured after spending a month outside of Havana learning alongside the composer José Angel Navarro, trying to recreate the sound of sacred batá drum songs using only his six-string.
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July 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
There is a radiance to Walter Zanetti’s guitar on Cantos Yoruba de Cuba, which he captured after spending a month outside of Havana learning alongside the composer José Angel Navarro, trying to recreate the sound of sacred batá drum songs using only his six-string.
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The composer Laura Steenberge enlists Rebecca Lane, Yannick Guédon, Evelyn Saylor, Catherine Lamb and Julia Holter for Piriforms, whose four pieces for voice and bass flute from lapping drones to impassioned sighs elaborate the character of medieval polyphony.
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June 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The composer Laura Steenberge enlists Rebecca Lane, Yannick Guédon, Evelyn Saylor, Catherine Lamb and Julia Holter for Piriforms, whose four pieces for voice and bass flute from lapping drones to impassioned sighs elaborate the character of medieval polyphony.
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From conventional squawks to the sounds of rubber chickens and wrung necks, on percussion, electronics and a modified alto saxophone Tatsuya Yoshida and Martín Escalante deliver one of the rowdiest records of the year with The Sound of Raspberry.
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June 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
From conventional squawks to the sounds of rubber chickens and wrung necks, on percussion, electronics and a modified alto saxophone Tatsuya Yoshida and Martín Escalante deliver one of the rowdiest records of the year with The Sound of Raspberry.
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On TRACES a new Swedish ensemble starring Mats Gustafsson, Goran Kajfeš, Christer Bothén, Juan Romero and Kansan Zetterberg as Cosmic Ear draws inspiration from the music of Don Cherry, showing their chemistry across a set of deep grooves and swampy licks.
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June 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
On TRACES a new Swedish ensemble starring Mats Gustafsson, Goran Kajfeš, Christer Bothén, Juan Romero and Kansan Zetterberg as Cosmic Ear draws inspiration from the music of Don Cherry, showing their chemistry across a set of deep grooves and swampy licks.
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On her new album Purposing The Air the composer @ingridlaubrock.bsky.social sets all sixty of the fragments from Erica Hunt's text 'Mood Librarian - a poem in koan' to music, calling upon four stellar duos for something which proves both elliptical and intimate.
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May 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
On her new album Purposing The Air the composer @ingridlaubrock.bsky.social sets all sixty of the fragments from Erica Hunt's text 'Mood Librarian - a poem in koan' to music, calling upon four stellar duos for something which proves both elliptical and intimate.
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Pag-ibig Ko, Vol. 1 by Matthew Muñeses and Riza Printup offers a set of graceful and beguiling airs which at times call to mind traditional Spanish music or Hawaiian slack-key guitar as Printup’s harp resembles that fingerstyle and its alternating bass patterns.
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May 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Pag-ibig Ko, Vol. 1 by Matthew Muñeses and Riza Printup offers a set of graceful and beguiling airs which at times call to mind traditional Spanish music or Hawaiian slack-key guitar as Printup’s harp resembles that fingerstyle and its alternating bass patterns.
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Trained in the Gwalior gharana by his grandfather Ustad Ghulam Hassan Shaggan, over the seven yearning and heartfelt tracks of Asar the vocalist Muslim Shaggan sings khayal, ghazal, thumri and kafi in three different locales accompanied by the drone of his harmonium.
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May 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Trained in the Gwalior gharana by his grandfather Ustad Ghulam Hassan Shaggan, over the seven yearning and heartfelt tracks of Asar the vocalist Muslim Shaggan sings khayal, ghazal, thumri and kafi in three different locales accompanied by the drone of his harmonium.
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There are loads of new music reviews up at Culturedarm, featuring albums by Ingrid Laubrock, Fred Moten and Brandon López, Infinity Knives and Brian Ennals, The Hemphill Stringtet, Kingdom Molongi, Angel Bat Dawid and Naima Nefertari, aya, perila, Walter Zanetti and more . . .
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May 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
There are loads of new music reviews up at Culturedarm, featuring albums by Ingrid Laubrock, Fred Moten and Brandon López, Infinity Knives and Brian Ennals, The Hemphill Stringtet, Kingdom Molongi, Angel Bat Dawid and Naima Nefertari, aya, perila, Walter Zanetti and more . . .
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A couple of 577 Records mainstays in Matthew Putman and Federico Ughi with Michael Sarian and the newcomer Ledian Mola pay heartfelt tribute to Sun Ra, blending Cuban folklore and cosmic trips on the Rock-Si-Chord with bluesy romps and other fusion textures.
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January 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
A couple of 577 Records mainstays in Matthew Putman and Federico Ughi with Michael Sarian and the newcomer Ledian Mola pay heartfelt tribute to Sun Ra, blending Cuban folklore and cosmic trips on the Rock-Si-Chord with bluesy romps and other fusion textures.
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The underground legend Booker T. Williams with his fellow Seattleite and tenor saxophonist Gary Hammon punctuates fine grooves and ecstatic sighs with three odes, all squalls on a stirring ensemble record put together by Chris Parker and the best of Mahakala Music.
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January 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The underground legend Booker T. Williams with his fellow Seattleite and tenor saxophonist Gary Hammon punctuates fine grooves and ecstatic sighs with three odes, all squalls on a stirring ensemble record put together by Chris Parker and the best of Mahakala Music.
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Travis Laplante, Andrew Smiley and Jason Nazary team up with Nathaniel Morgan for a wild ode to the natural world as Sun & Rain, whose limpid reeds, flitting harmonics and kindling drums segue into rollercoaster rides with water features.
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January 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Travis Laplante, Andrew Smiley and Jason Nazary team up with Nathaniel Morgan for a wild ode to the natural world as Sun & Rain, whose limpid reeds, flitting harmonics and kindling drums segue into rollercoaster rides with water features.
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Described as 'microtonal chamber jazz' inspired by La Monte Young’s solo improvisatory epic The Well-Tuned Piano, the new album Hemlocks, Peacocks by the @willmasonmusic.com Quintet proves slinkily and at times queasily seductive.
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January 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Described as 'microtonal chamber jazz' inspired by La Monte Young’s solo improvisatory epic The Well-Tuned Piano, the new album Hemlocks, Peacocks by the @willmasonmusic.com Quintet proves slinkily and at times queasily seductive.
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PRE-ORDER - A Compendium of Beasts - Volume 1.
A modern day Medieval Bestiary in sound by internationally acclaimed musician and composer Laura Cannell. Releases January 31, 2025. The ‘Beasts’ series is searching for meaning amidst chaos. brawlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-comp...
A modern day Medieval Bestiary in sound by internationally acclaimed musician and composer Laura Cannell. Releases January 31, 2025. The ‘Beasts’ series is searching for meaning amidst chaos. brawlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-comp...
A Compendium of Beasts - Volume 1, by Laura Cannell
4 track album
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January 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
PRE-ORDER - A Compendium of Beasts - Volume 1.
A modern day Medieval Bestiary in sound by internationally acclaimed musician and composer Laura Cannell. Releases January 31, 2025. The ‘Beasts’ series is searching for meaning amidst chaos. brawlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-comp...
A modern day Medieval Bestiary in sound by internationally acclaimed musician and composer Laura Cannell. Releases January 31, 2025. The ‘Beasts’ series is searching for meaning amidst chaos. brawlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-comp...
Setting aside his trumpet, Nate Wooley weaves a 'strange funeral mass for a fictional everyman' out of phrases culled from John Berryman, Joseph Mitchell, Wendell Berry and a Kafka biography by Reiner Stach, with Mat Maneri and Megan Schubert serving as narrators.
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January 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Setting aside his trumpet, Nate Wooley weaves a 'strange funeral mass for a fictional everyman' out of phrases culled from John Berryman, Joseph Mitchell, Wendell Berry and a Kafka biography by Reiner Stach, with Mat Maneri and Megan Schubert serving as narrators.
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'No one wants to think about dentistry as being a practice of touch' laments Marianna Maruyama as the production of Hessel Veldman inhales like a suction device, on 'Viktorija' from Salt which gestures towards sensuousness without gleeking.
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January 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
'No one wants to think about dentistry as being a practice of touch' laments Marianna Maruyama as the production of Hessel Veldman inhales like a suction device, on 'Viktorija' from Salt which gestures towards sensuousness without gleeking.
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My latest roundup of best new music features a jazz stomp by James Brandon Lewis while Yama Warashi sits at her mother's piano and Eiko Ishibashi blends city pop with chanson. Plus Sun & Rain, doseone with Steel Tipped Dove, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, M.I.A. and more.
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January 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
My latest roundup of best new music features a jazz stomp by James Brandon Lewis while Yama Warashi sits at her mother's piano and Eiko Ishibashi blends city pop with chanson. Plus Sun & Rain, doseone with Steel Tipped Dove, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, M.I.A. and more.
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Coming up next on Disciples...
2xLP compilation of essential underground sounds championed by @reversediorama.bsky.social & @wishimage.bsky.social at their iconic record shop, released to coincide with book of David's music writing @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
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2xLP compilation of essential underground sounds championed by @reversediorama.bsky.social & @wishimage.bsky.social at their iconic record shop, released to coincide with book of David's music writing @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
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January 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Coming up next on Disciples...
2xLP compilation of essential underground sounds championed by @reversediorama.bsky.social & @wishimage.bsky.social at their iconic record shop, released to coincide with book of David's music writing @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
disciples.ffm.to/volcanictongue
2xLP compilation of essential underground sounds championed by @reversediorama.bsky.social & @wishimage.bsky.social at their iconic record shop, released to coincide with book of David's music writing @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
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At once a riposte to machine learning and a herald of the times, with Roboquarians, Vol. 2 in the first days of January the trio of Ayumi Ishito, Kevin Shea and George Draguns have surely released one of the most bracing and magnetising records of 2025.
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January 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
At once a riposte to machine learning and a herald of the times, with Roboquarians, Vol. 2 in the first days of January the trio of Ayumi Ishito, Kevin Shea and George Draguns have surely released one of the most bracing and magnetising records of 2025.
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On Elucid's staggering 41-minute mix Interference Pattern the rapper continues to expand his sonic palette while recapping some of his best features from across 2024.
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January 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
On Elucid's staggering 41-minute mix Interference Pattern the rapper continues to expand his sonic palette while recapping some of his best features from across 2024.
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Culturedarm's first roundup of 2025 features new music by such artists as Daniel Carter, Ayumi Ishito, Kevin Shea, George Draguns, Patrick Shiroishi, Piotr Kurek, MoMA Ready, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Pennikurvers, Klein and Laura Cannell.
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January 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Culturedarm's first roundup of 2025 features new music by such artists as Daniel Carter, Ayumi Ishito, Kevin Shea, George Draguns, Patrick Shiroishi, Piotr Kurek, MoMA Ready, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Pennikurvers, Klein and Laura Cannell.
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For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has a name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social. Online now & on newsstands next week
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December 18, 2024 at 7:58 PM
For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has a name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social. Online now & on newsstands next week
harpers.org/archive/2025...
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He's got an amazing album of Anthony Braxton pieces (plus 2 of his own and 1 by Thelonious Monk) with fellow saxophonist Mark Turner, bassist Matt Brewer, and drummer Damion Reid out 2/28; if nothing else, pre-order that.
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January 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
He's got an amazing album of Anthony Braxton pieces (plus 2 of his own and 1 by Thelonious Monk) with fellow saxophonist Mark Turner, bassist Matt Brewer, and drummer Damion Reid out 2/28; if nothing else, pre-order that.
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In 2023, Armia Khalil, a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, saw a visitor wandering through a gallery, clearly looking for something specific.
The encounter was brief — five minutes, maybe less — but it changed Khalil’s life…
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The encounter was brief — five minutes, maybe less — but it changed Khalil’s life…
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A Security Guard, a Chance Encounter and a Sculpture Called ‘Hope’ (Gift Article)
How the dream of a lifetime became reality for a sculptor from Egypt.
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January 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
In 2023, Armia Khalil, a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, saw a visitor wandering through a gallery, clearly looking for something specific.
The encounter was brief — five minutes, maybe less — but it changed Khalil’s life…
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The encounter was brief — five minutes, maybe less — but it changed Khalil’s life…
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Culturedarm dips into contemporary classical music, picking out some of the year's best albums from the lustrous poetry and Coney Island rhapsodies of Alex Weiser to the stygian drones of Sarah Davachi and Chris Cerrone's ode to the beauty of the Beaufort scale.
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January 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Culturedarm dips into contemporary classical music, picking out some of the year's best albums from the lustrous poetry and Coney Island rhapsodies of Alex Weiser to the stygian drones of Sarah Davachi and Chris Cerrone's ode to the beauty of the Beaufort scale.
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The best archival records of 2024 include live jazz from McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Alice Coltrane and Milford Graves, a Mayan brass band and Mexican electronics, souvenirs from Emahoy and Lips by Daniel Lentz.
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January 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The best archival records of 2024 include live jazz from McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Alice Coltrane and Milford Graves, a Mayan brass band and Mexican electronics, souvenirs from Emahoy and Lips by Daniel Lentz.
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