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April 8, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Tenderlonious: Tek-88 (ep)
Tenderlonious Tek-88 (ep) DAM Records Prolific producer and mult-instrumentalist Tenderlonious returns with an EP as love-letter to the Roland TR-808. Its cover is enough to get hip-hop heads, vinyl purists and studio boffins salivating – and is probably reason alone for the limited edition 12” vinyl to already be gone, long gone. Sold out just […]Archive
March 30, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Vinnie Colaiuta and Mark Isham: Hard Candy
Vinnie Colaiuta and Mark Isham Hard Candy A-Tone Recordings, an imprint of Extreme Music Vinnie Colaiuta is a master session drummer – from Sting to Herbie Hancock via Frank Zappa and Joni Mitchell – there’s almost no chance you’ve never heard his work. He’s playing those sizzling hi-hats on the them tune to the TV […]Archive
March 12, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Moby: Live Ambient Improvised Recordings, Vol. 1
Moby Live Ambient Improvised Recordings, Vol. 1 mobyambient Maybe Moby is the musician I’ve had the longest love/hate affair with – when Play was released I loved it. It was then ubiquitous, I still loved it for a while then decided it was not for me – but I really loved Play: The B-Sides. And […]Archive
February 8, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Cool Summer: The Musical Rediscoveries of 2020/2021
Every year it’s music. All day it’s music. All the time. And if it’s not then there’s a film on – and I’m usually noticing the music. Or it’s a podcast. Which has music. Or is an interview about music. When I’m reading it’s a music biography or it’s poetry – which has its own […]Archive
January 24, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Robin Guthrie / Harold Budd: Another Flower
Robin Guthrie / Harold Budd Another Flower Darla Records Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd made music together on and off from the mid-1980s through until a few years ago. This is their final album – it was recorded back in 2013 and left unreleased until November, 2020. A week or so after it was released […]Archive
January 7, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Kevin Keller: The Front Porch of Heaven
Kevin Keller The Front Porch of Heaven Kevin Keller Prod Kevin Keller’s “ambient chamber music” is the sort of balm I am always there for – and glad it’s there for me. For most of the last decade it’s been one of my absolute go-to genres. The figureheads for me – and for many – […]Archive
December 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Brian Eno: Film Music 1976 – 2020
Brian Eno Film Music 1976 – 2020 UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) Brian Eno: dreamer, schemer, enabler, conceptualist, visual artist – he’d be important if he wasn’t in any way connected to music. And though he doth almost protest too much as blatant “Non-Musician” his influence is towering. I always say that his fingerprints are all […]Archive
December 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Harold Budd
Harold Budd has died. The composer and pianist was 84. It’s said he died due to complications from coronavirus. Budd was a poet, an avant-garde composer, a musician for hire and someone who released solo albums and collaborated – including John Foxx of Ultravox and a long-running partnership with Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins. He […]Archive
November 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Kodama 木: Yamabiko [EP]
Kodama 木 Yamabiko [EP] dreaming of distant worlds Yamabiko is an album of layered synth-sounds, all at once introspective and otherworldly, this is music to keep close to your chest but it also expands the mind; music that combines the ambient blueprint laid out by Brian Eno with the glitch/dissonance/disintegration ideals and ethereal soundscape patterns […]Archive
October 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Julianna Barwick: Healing Is A Miracle
Julianna Barwick Healing Is A Miracle Ninja Tune This is the fourth album by Julianna Barwick. The American musician has also made a handful of EPs and been involved in various collaborations. She is sometimes thought of as “the new Enya” and though any comparison like that is no doubt rankling to a creative entity […]Archive
September 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman