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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).Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
November 15, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Hammock: Silencia
Hammock Silencia Hammock Music I like that the label is called Hammock Music – there could be nothing more representative. Hammock makes Hammock music. The post-rock duo has fully transitioned to a modern-classical, deep ambient fix and it’s happened, well, over every album actually – you go back through a catalogue 10 albums deep and […]Archive
September 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
M. Geddes Gengras: I Am The Last of That Green and Warm-Hued World
M. Geddes Gengras I Am The Last of That Green and Warm-Hued World Hausu Mountain As has so often been the case across, particularly, the last half decade I turn to ambient music as conciliatory device; a balm. The tonic. Its often distinct ‘uneasy listening’ aspects helping to calm, to galvanise, and if not to […]Archive
July 28, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Floating Points: Late Night Tales
Various Artists Late Night Tales: Floating Points Late Night Tales / Night Time Stories Ltd Sam Shepherd, aka Floating Points, is a British DJ, collector and reissue label owner – he trades in rare grooves across soul, jazz, psych-rock, folk and ambient. There’s minimalist techno and low-key glitchy noise stuff in his selections and DJ […]Archive
May 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Moby: Long Ambients Two
Moby Long Ambients Two Little Idiot Moby returns with a second volume of his long ambient pieces. Designed specifically to put you to sleep (hey! No jokes!) this nearly four-hour playlist/mixtape-of-an-album is, as with its earlier volume, in line with Max Richter’s Sleep. In fact there’s not a lot to say about this – and this is recommendation rather than review. The stretched, flattened, gospel-waft of […]Archive
May 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman