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May 12, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Mike Post About My Favourite TV Composer

In primary school, way back a hundred years ago or so, I learned about Mike Post. He was the guy that wrote the theme tune for Hill Street Blues. I loved that show. I didn’t really understand it so well, at first. But it was one of the shows I was allowed to stay up […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blog, Composer, Composition, Film, Hill Street Blues, Jingle, LA Law, Law & Order, Magnum P.I., Mike Post, Mike Post About My Favourite TV Composer, Television, The A-Team, Theme, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, TV ·

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April 25, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Danny Elfman at Coachella (2022)

Every year I try to get excited about Coachella – and the ability to watch it live from all the way down here in little old New Zealand, and in the comfort of my own home. But then I find there’s not much I want to actually see. This year I was a bit more […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], 2022, Alice In Wonderland, April, Batman, Blog, Coachella, Composer, Danny Elfman, Danny Elfman at Coachella, Danny Elfman at Coachella (2022), Edward Scissorhands, Elfman, Film, Gig, Live Gig, Live Set, Oingo Boingo, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Score, Spiderman, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Simpsons, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here ·

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March 31, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Bernard Herrmann’s Subtle Rage

Bernard Herrmann didn’t want to be a composer. He wanted to be a conductor. He wrote the scores for so many great films but if he had only created the strings for Psycho that would have been enough. He also wrote music for many other Hitchcock films and worked with other directors. His score for […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], Bernard Herrmann, Bernard Herrmann’s Subtle Rage, Blog, Composer, Film, Movie, Music, Short Story, Soundtrack, Subtle Rage, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here ·

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March 11, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Scott J. Mason: Horizon EP

Scott J. Mason Horizon EP Songbroker / Bandcamp Scott Mason is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Dunedin. Across the 90s and early 00s he was a drummer (primarily) in many bands and supporting artists. You probably saw him, or heard him – given he worked in, or with bands and artists like Slim, Mulholland […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Album Review, Bandcamp, Composer, EP, Horizon, Horizon EP, Scott J. Mason, Scott J. Mason: Horizon EP, Scott Mason, Songbroker, Soundtrack, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here ·

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March 8, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Guest Post: Mission to London – Kapralova’s “Military Sinfonietta” by George Henderson

George Henderson, musician, researcher and writer, has previously written guest posts for Off The Tracks about Five Albums He Was Loving Back Then and Five Films That Have Stayed With Him. As well as contributing an important piece about Women Composers in the 20th Century. He returns to offer Mission to London – Kapralova’s “Military Sinfonietta”
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blog, Classical, Composer, Guest Post, Mission to London - Kapralova's "Military Sinfonietta" George Henderson, Vítězslava Kaprálová, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 9, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 261: Father Christopher Orczy

Hi and welcome to episode 261 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys  and thanks to you readers and listeners. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it […]
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March 22, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Amanda Sewell: Wendy Carlos – A Biography

Wendy Carlos: A Biography Amanda Sewell Oxford University Press Wendy Carlos is one of the great pioneers of electronic music, champion of the Moog, creator of mesmerising soundtracks (A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, TRON) and as well as recontextualising classical music to make one of the genre’s all-time best sellers, it is likely she also […]
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February 7, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

John Powell: Film Suites, Vol. 1

John Powell Film Suites, Vol. 1 John Powell / 5 Cat Studios John Powell is a British composer who has been based in America for most of the last quarter century. There he has quality amassed some 50 individual film score credits as sole composer and has collaborated with many other big names – including […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], 5 Cat Studios, Cinema, Composer, Film Score, Film Suites, Film Suites Vol. 1, John Powell, John Powell: Film Suites, José Serebrier, Movies, O.S.T., Philharmonia Orchestra, SoundtrackS, The Philharmonia Voices, Vol. 1, Volume 1, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 25, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: A Better Score

The music is almost always the first thing I notice about a film – it wasn’t always this way, and I can’t quite remember when it changed – obviously there are so many iconic themes we instantly think of from Star Wars and Jaws to ET and anything by Ennio Morricone, everything Quentin Tarantino chooses […]
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November 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Michael Silverman (w/ Jeff Lorber): Human Spirit

Michael Silverman (w/ Jeff Lorber) Human Spirit Autumn Hill Records Michael Silverman has been a jobbing composer and player of TV themes (Two And A Half Men, The Good Wife) and he and composing partner Jeff Lorber have dabbled in smooth jazz and light pop orchestrations as well as making music separately. Here they combine […]
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November 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Mat Maneri Quartet: Dust

Mat Maneri Quartet Dust Sunnyside Mat Maneri, son of saxophonist Joe, is a composer and violin/viola player. Under his own name he’s released some 30 albums in around about as many years and he’s been a sideman for a great range of avant-garde jazzers including several records with his old man and, I guess most […]
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October 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

George Fenton / Simon Chamberlain: The Piano Framed

George Fenton / Simon Chamberlain The Piano Framed Shogun Music Ltd British composer George Fenton has worked across all mediums – radio dramas and TV, documentary and feature narrative film, theatre, absolutely the works. And within that there are some longstanding collaborations and connections, with the BBC, for the films of Ken Loach and then […]
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