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April 16, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Ghost-Note: Swagism
Ghost-Note Swagism ROPEADOPE If Kamasi Washington is exploring the Albert Ayler/Coltrane connections in a modern landscape then Ghost-Note is doing something similar with templates created by Quincy Jones and Herbie Hancock…which is to say on Swagism they hint at the late-80s/early-90s hip-hop influenced and inflected funk and R’n’B jams of those masters whilst also adhering to the types of grooves Hancock and Jones […]Archive
March 31, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 140: Red Snapper – “Our Aim Is To Satisfy”
I really don’t think I knew anything about this – not only this album but even the band Red Snapper. Now this is weird to me for one reason: Anything even vaguely Acid-Jazz related in and around the years 1997-2003 was entirely my bag. My bag clearly wasn’t big enough to keep this in it… So it’s time and place […]Archive
November 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
St. Germain: St. Germain
St. Germain St. Germain Nonesuch Ludovic Navarre’s albums under the name St. Germain (2000’s Tourist was the big one,1995’s Boulevard was of course better) were sublime. Until you heard them too many times – and the whole industry built up around them, and compilations from Café Del Mar, Buddha Bar and other vacuous entities hoping only […]Archive
September 1, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Orb: Moonbuilding 2703 AD
The Orb Moonbuilding 2703 AD Kompakt Germany When I first heard The Orb my mind was blown, the ambient-house served as breath of fresh air was hip and wafting, psychedelic and engaging – it was easy to float along inside it, beside it, within it. But it was never only esoteric – and when it […]Archive
May 3, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: Gilles Peterson presents No Deal Remixed
Melanie De Biasio + Various Artists: Gilles Peterson presents: No Deal Remixed Play It Again Sam Melanie De Biasio’s No Deal album was something lovely – and special. And so in that truly bogus way, and showing that Gilles Peterson is stuck in his ways, presenting some future-chic remix chicanery that now sounds (ironically) so […]Archive
March 19, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 67 – The James Hardway Quartet, Wellington, 1998
I guess it must have been a University Orientation gig – judging by the date. I wasn’t a big James Hardway fan ever – but I was aware of him. Perhaps the peak of my James Hardway fandom was going to this gig. I had one of the albums – if you don’t remember what […]Archive
May 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman