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July 31, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Roger Eno: Dust of Stars
Roger Eno Dust of Stars Painted World Music Roger Eno – the Mike McGear of Ambient Music? The Pat McEnroe of line calls? It’s a churlish chap that mocks this master pianist, I reckon. He’s not only been involved in some of his brother’s great recordings, he has made plenty of his own. Laugh if […]Archive
June 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Venetian Snares/Daniel Lanois: Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois
Venetian Snares/Daniel Lanois Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois Timesig/Planet Mu This surprise collaboration features two Canadian wunderkind musicians that push and pull in very different directions. It might be a head-scratch (or indeed a head-fuck) for many, particularly if you are arriving at this as a Lanois fan unaware of Venetian Snares. But there’s gold […]Archive
June 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Convalescence
Brian Eno listening to a harp album convalescing. He can barely lift a finger. the taxi-cab banged him up pretty good – or pretty bad – depends how you look at it. the album of harp music on in the background. the rain takes over – or it provides further soundtrack – depends how you […]Archive
June 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 401
Moby, Play (1999) Look, I’m not sure when this album by Moby drove me mad, exactly – or as close as I got to it – but tripping balls, wearing a sarong, stirring a pot full of different leftover spirits and liqueurs with South Side blasting out as if a new religion…yeah, that was a […]Archive
April 28, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 55: Tangerine Dream – “Phaedra”
I had never really listened to Tangerine Dream and I don’t know why. I mean, beyond the fact that there’s nearly 200 albums across 50 years or whatever; hard to know where to start. Well, get this, I started, just recently, with a movie soundtrack from the 1980s – a completely random thing, just some […]Archive
March 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Alan Brown: Composure
Alan Brown Composure (Independent/alanbrown.co.nz) Auckland-based composer and musician Alan Brown has been part of various scenes including some jazz/fusion/funk and now solo/ambient. In 2014 he recorded a three-hour session of solo piano – just him and a Steinway in the Concert Chamber of the Auckland Town Hall. He added some synths, some very subtle treatments, […]Archive
March 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Dan Caine: Solace
Dan Caine Solace Fluttery Records Music as meditation. Many of us seek it – I know I’m always looking out and listening out for it, for the latest. Well, recently I’ve connected with this album by British-born, American-based guitarist Dan Caine. He makes a tempered version of post-rock (his guitar tone and some of the […]Archive
February 19, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Hammock: Mysterium
Hammock Mysterium Hammock Music Instantly soothing, immediately calming, beautiful, almost overwhelming in its conveyance of a profoundly deep connection between the truly joyous and hugely sorrowful, yes it’s another album by Hammock. The ambient guitar duo from Nashville – Andrew Thompson and Marc Byrd – has done it again. And in my experience with their […]Archive
October 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 487
MOTTE, Strange Dreams (2017) MOTTE is the project-name for a set of beguiling musical works created by South Islander, Anita Clark – using violin, guitar, loops and atmospherics she makes textural brilliance from floating, wafting melodies and nocturnal scrapes, strings and skitterings…it’s lovely, hypnotic, bewitching, intoxicating stuff. She sent me the LP – and I’ve […]Archive
October 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Jóhann Jóhannsson: Orphée
Jóhann Jóhannsson Orphée Deutsche Grammophon Billed as Jóhannsson’s return to the studio for a solo album, his first in a half-dozen years, Orphée (loosely based on Ovid’s version of the myth of Orpheus) arrives on the back of extensive studio work, Jóhannsson now one of the go-to names for Hollywood movie soundtracks. Prior to his […]Archive
August 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman