Posts Tagged Blade Runner
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April 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Deantoni Parks: SILVER CHORD
Deantoni Parks SILVER CHORD humani machina When Deantoni Parks released his sublime one-man-band Technoself I’d had the lucky chance to see him (as part of a band) do what he does. He’s a wonderful drummer that has worked with a great range of artists – but as a solo act he is basically sat at […]Archive
July 24, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Rutger Hauer
Rutger Hauer has died. Sad news to wake up to – he was one of my heroes. Everyone talks about Blade Runner and fair enough – but the role that really blew me away was The Hitcher. I could watch that movie every day I think. The coldness, the surface-calm of a true maniac. I reckon that’s Hauer’s masterpiece. But […]Archive
March 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Vangelis: Nocturne – The Piano Album
Vangelis Nocturne: The Piano Album Decca The best textural work in music springs from – or works in support of – great melodies. Greek composer Vangelis has been at the forefront of great textural synth work with his incredible soundtracks (Blade Runner, Chariots of Fire, 1492: Conquest of Paradise) and non-soundtrack work too. But for every indelible melody – and we need […]Archive
November 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Five Films That Stay With Me: Andrew Paul Wood
Andrew Paul Wood is a Christchurch-based writer, cultural critic and freelance curator. He writes for The Press, the Listener, Urbis, Architecture New Zealand, and a host of others. Recent work includes a translation into English of the New Zealand poems of German-Jewish poet Karl Wolfskehl, Under New Stars: Poems from the New Zealand Exile (Holloway, 2012, edited by Friedrich Voit), and a […]Archive
September 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: #142 – Heritage Orchestra: Music from Blade Runner, Sydney, 2013
I think back now and perhaps I liked this show a bit more than I let on at the time. Well, no maybe that’s not quite it, maybe I explained myself and the show just fine at the time. But I catch myself thinking about this show – Vangelis’ music from the film Blade Runner […]Archive
June 18, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Christina Vantzou: No. 2
Christina Vantzou No. 2 kranky There was the lovely debut solo album, No.1 – now here’s the follow-up, No.2, before either of those records there was time spent working with Sparklehorse, with The Dead Texan and around those records there’s been installations and artworks, there’s been a lot of music and yet Vantzou’s real composing/arranging […]Archive
May 29, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Heritage Orchestra Performs Music From Blade Runner – Vivid Festival (May 26, Sydney)
Heritage Orchestra: Music From Blade Runner Vivid Festival: Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House Sunday, May 26 Originally commissioned for the UK Meltdown Festival (by Massive Attack, no less) the Heritage Orchestra of Great Britain combines a full orchestral score and the ambient/electronica sweeps via found percussion and analogue synths. This performance of Vangelis’ Blade Runner […]Archive
May 23, 2013 by Simon Sweetman