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May 17, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Music for Sleep: The Healing Power of the Moog
Music for Sleep The Healing Power of the Moog Rohs! Records Music for Sleep is one of the monikers used by Sardinian composer, record label owner and photographer, Andrea Porcu. He is a prolific creator of minimalist music and The Healing Power of the Moog is a single, album-length track of improvised music inspired by […]Archive
May 7, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Photos from Photospace: Dirty Spoons w/ BOX OF HAMMERS and Bachelor of Architecture
Last night, Saturday, May 7, we hosted a gig up at Photospace Gallery in Courtenay Place. The excellent The Show Must Go On exhibition featuring some extraordinary rock’n’roll images captured by Murray Cammick is on until the end of May. And we thought it a nice idea to stage some sort of gig there. So my band, […]Archive
May 5, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Francis Harris: Thresholds
Francis Harris Thresholds Scissor And Thread We’re barely hanging on, and so is this music. Must be why ambient feels – more and more – the perfect fit in this day and age. Francis Harris is an artist, DJ and producer and Thresholds is his latest set of ambient excursions. Where previously, there might be […]Archive
December 29, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Diane Arkenstone: The Healing Heart
Diane Arkenstone The Healing Heart Neo Pacifica New Age music gets a lot of shit – and never seems to get reviewed in the mainstream, for it’s seen as Not Music I guess. Well, I’ve always had an ear on some new age – and particularly in the ambient space, not just Eno and Enya, […]Archive
November 19, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Tomu DJ: FEMINISTA
Tomu DJ FEMINISTA Side Chick Records FEMINISTA is the debut album by Tomu DJ but there were EPs and singles ahead of this even a shelved first attempt at a debut long-player (I’m sure that’s often the case, perhaps particularly within the dance genre). Finally, though, a business card for all of the styles and […]Archive
August 27, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
In Praise of Lockdown Listening Selections
Here are some albums I have been listening to regularly across the last two weeks. They are soundtracks and they are ambient and they are classical and most of them are albums I know well but haven’t listen to for a long time. They have been surprisingly affirming but also carry some heavy-heart doom about […]Archive
August 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton: 4
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton 4 (Independent) Late last year – in fact it was December 30th, so, you know, pretty late last year – I reviewed The Heart’s Wash by Joshua Chuquimia Crampton. A beautiful album that spoke to the devastation of that year; a lost year, a stretched period of time. Crampton’s eerie, loping, looped […]Archive
July 27, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Erik Wøllo / Michael Stearns: Convergence
Erik Wøllo / Michael Stearns Convergence Projek Records I found this record recently in a beautiful fluke – well, a routine search for ambient/space records I guess. What a find. I knew Michael Stearns’ fine work – particularly his score for Baraka (and its ‘sister’ films). He made ambient electronic music in the late 1970s […]Archive
July 2, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Kodama 木: Moonlight and Rain
Kodama 木 Moonlight and Rain dreaming of distant worlds Evocations of nature were all through the debut EP by Kodama 木 (which I loved!) In fact I referred to it as feeling like “the soundtrack to a sci-fi or nature documentary-short that hasn’t been made yet”. And the same applies to full-lengther, Moonlight and Rain. Because it’s […]Archive
June 22, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Nathan Fake: Sanxenxo (ep)
Nathan Fake Sanxenxo (ep) Cambria Instruments Nathank Fake’s new EP is a set of jams and leftovers and shelf-sitters recorded either side of his most recent full-lengther, the excellent Blizzards. The excellent Sanxenxo brims with ideas, its opening, title tune unfolding through various glitches over seven minutes, taking in the buzzing, pulsing writhe of ambient […]Archive
June 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman