Articles by David Dacks

Eccodek

Singing in Tongues

PUBLISHED May 6, 2014

Guelph's Andrew Macpherson has been working away at Eccodek for more than ten years. The project has gone from a wild studio hybrid to a po...

In Praise of CDs

A Final Eulogy For An Unappreciated Pioneer

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2014

Nobody cares about CDs anymore. With vinyl and cassettes posting double digit sales increases over the last few years, we're back in love w...

Kassel Jaeger

Toxic Cosmopolitanism

PUBLISHED Mar 17, 2014

Kassel Jaeger has come up with an intriguing premise: the 25-minute long "Toxic Cosmopolitanism" is knit together from samples of instrumen...

Jaipur Kawa Brass Band

Dance of the Cobra

PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2013

India's brass band tradition goes back 250 years, though it's seldom represented in North America as part of the pantheon of sub-continenta...

Go: Organic Orchestra

Sonic Mandala

PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2013

If there's still a case to be made for world music as some sort of descriptive term, the evidence lies in the work of Adam Rudolph. The per...

Tremor

Proa

PUBLISHED Sep 3, 2013

Although Buenos Aires' ZZK Collective popularized the no-nonsense sounds of Argentine electronic Cumbia over the last decade, their artists...

Sarah Neufeld

Time and Space

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2013

"Solo violin record" barely hints at the amazing range of sounds and atmospheres presented in Arcade Fire violinist Sarah Neufeld's brillia...

Sarah Neufeld Talks Yoga's Influence on Debut 'Hero Brother'

PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2013

Arcade Fire violinist Sarah Neufeld's first solo album, the fast-approaching Hero Brother, is an engrossing whirlwind of minimalism, Appala...