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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 – […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Ambient, Instrumental, Kevin Keller, Kevin Keller Prod, Kevin Keller: The Front Porch of Heaven, The Front Porch of Heaven, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], 1976 - 2020, Album Review, Ambient, Brian Eno, CompilationS, Film, Film Music, Film Music 1976 - 2020, Instrumental, Movies, Passengers, Score, Soundtrack, UMC (Universal Music Catalogue), You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], Ambience, Ambient, Brian Eno, Eno, Eulogy, Harold Budd, Minimalist, Piano, R.I.P., R.I.P. Harold Budd, Robin Guthrie, Score, Soft Pedal, Soundtrack ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album, Album Review, Ambient, dreaming of distant worlds, EP, Instrumental, Kiwi, Kodama 木, Kodama 木: Yamabiko [EP], NZ, Wellington, Yamabiko, Yamabiko [EP], You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Ambient, Healing Is A Miracle, Julianna Barwick, Julianna Barwick: Healing Is A Miracle, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Roger and Brian Eno: Mixing Colours

Roger and Brian Eno Mixing Colours Deutsche Grammophon The brothers have worked together over the years but this is their first full album as a duo. Both have worked extensively in ambient, even easy listening spaces – older brother Brian is better known of course but Roger has been prolific in recent years particularly; the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Ambient, Brian Eno, Brothers, Collaboration, Deutsche Grammophon, Duo, Instrumental, Mixing Colours, Roger and Brian Eno, Roger and Brian Eno: Mixing Colours, Roger Eno, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Jack Woodbury: inst. 19-20

Jack Woodbury inst. 19-20 Rattle Jack Woodbury is a Wellington-based composer and audio engineer. And this set of numbered, untitled instrumental pieces comes from two audiovisual installations made across 2019 and 2020 (CORROSE and A Tree Falls).
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Tree Falls, Album Review, Ambient, Audiovisual, CORROSE, Design, Electroacoustic, Glitch, inst. 19-20, Installation, Jack Woodbury, Jack Woodbury: inst. 19-20, Rattle, Rattle Records, Sound, Sound Design, Sound Engineer, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Dalai Lama: Inner World

Dalai Lama Inner World HITCO Five years ago Patti Smith charged the Glastonbury crowd to sing happy birthday to Mr Dalai Lama, then celebrating his 80th circling of the sun. Now, aged 85, he drops his debut album. And it storms some charts and gathers some column inches for the quirk of it all. Add […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged #85, Abraham Kunin, Album Review, Ambient, Anoushka Shankar, Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama: Inner World, Inner World, Junelle Kunin, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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July 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 34 – Yanni, “Live At The Acropolis”

Yanni, Live At The Acropolis, 1994 I’m not sure this is a crap album. I’m not sure it ever was. But I do know it was a guilty pleasure of sorts. And I do know a lot of people thought Yanni was crap. Probably without ever listening to him. And this was him at his […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged “Live At The Acropolis”, 1994, Ambient, CD, Charlie Adams, Crap, Crap Albums, Crap Albums I Love, Greece, Greek, Guilty Pleasure, Instrumental, Linda Evans, Neo-Classical, New Age, Orchestral, Shit That's Good, Shit That's Good - Crap Albums I Love, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 34, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 34– Yanni, Yanni ·

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July 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Hiroshi Yoshimura: GREEN [Reissue]

Hiroshi Yoshimura GREEN [Reissue] Light In The Attic Hiroshi Yoshimura died of cancer in 2003. He was a Japanese musician, historian, designer and artist; a philosopher of and for the soul in fact – for this polymath so often worked at the intersection of these various trades, playing them equally to create installation pieces and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Ambient, Atmospheric, Environmental, Green, GREEN [Reissue], Hiroshi Yoshimura, Hiroshi Yoshimura: GREEN [Reissue], Instrumental, Japanese, Light In The Attic, Minimalist, Reissue, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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July 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Luke Schneider: Altar of Harmony

Luke Schneider Altar of Harmony Third Man Records Ambient music was essentially invented by Brian Eno – he consciously created his version of it at least; slapped the label on it. And though he’s moved in and out and through it, and seems always to return to it, he has done a great many other […]
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April 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

DJ Python: Mas Amable

DJ Python Mas Amable Incienso Miami-based DJ Python (aka Brian Piñeyro) – who has also worked under the names DJ Wey, Luis and Deejay Xanax – here releases his new album which is structured as a mixtape but very purposefully, consciously flows like a slow-build album – its opening track and a half all but […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Ambient, Brian Piñeyro, Deejay Xanax, Deep House, DJ, DJ Python, DJ Python: Mas Amable, DJ Wey, Incienso, Luis, Mas Amable, Miami, Mix, Reggaeton, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·
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