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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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”Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
October 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman