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December 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Harold Budd
Harold Budd has died. The composer and pianist was 84. It’s said he died due to complications from coronavirus. Budd was a poet, an avant-garde composer, a musician for hire and someone who released solo albums and collaborated – including John Foxx of Ultravox and a long-running partnership with Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins. He […]Archive
January 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 187
Daniel Lanois, Flesh and Machine (2014) This is the first Daniel Lanois solo album that I’ve owned on vinyl – but of course his name is all through my record collection. Peter Gabriel, U2, Eno, Emmylou Harris and many others – Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Neville Brothers, Willie Nelson – the list could go […]Archive
August 19, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Tom Rogerson with Brian Eno: Finding Shore
Tom Rogerson with Brian Eno Finding Shore Dead Oceans Tom Rogerson is from the British experimental rock trio Three Trapped Tigers. Where, in that context he was vocalist and keyboardist here he submits his piano offerings – with some synths and electronic ideas – to ambient-music’s overlord Brian Eno. It’s collaboration in that Mercurical Eno […]Archive
June 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Convalescence
Brian Eno listening to a harp album convalescing. He can barely lift a finger. the taxi-cab banged him up pretty good – or pretty bad – depends how you look at it. the album of harp music on in the background. the rain takes over – or it provides further soundtrack – depends how you […]Archive
March 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
David Byrne: American Utopia
David Byrne American Utopia Nonesuch It’s almost incredible to think it’s been some 14 years between David Byrne solo albums. That’s because he’s busy writing operas, staging shows, sending out e-newsletters, publishing books, collaborating with old pals (Brian Eno) and new friends (St. Vincent) and scoring soundtracks. He’s doing anything he can to not agree […]Archive
July 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Chuck Johnson: Balsams
Chuck Johnson Balsams Vdsq Californian-based guitarist and soundtrack composer Chuck Johnson has used the pedal steel (and other guitars) across a couple of very fine albums, but where, then, they were one component of the sound here they’re centre-stage; so much so that it’s almost as if he took the idea of Daniel Lanois’ treated […]Archive
March 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
David Bowie’s Most Underrated Album: 1. Outside
People talk about David Bowie’s phenomenal run of albums across the 1970s – and it really is (almost all) great. So much of it is wonderful, sublime, so near to perfect. And depending where you stop on the scale you have the absolute cut-off of Scary Monsters or tolerance/appreciation for Let’s Dance. From there it’s […]Archive
January 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Brian Eno: Reflection
Brian Eno Reflection Warp It’s tempting to suggest that Eno is being very prolific – once again, but isn’t he always? Isn’t Eno – as much a concept as he is a man – always at work, hasn’t ENO spread off into various distilled channels, surging through the work of others? At any rate, one […]Archive
September 11, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Brian Eno: The Ship
Brian Eno The Ship Warp Records Across the last decade there’s been a slow, almost casual return to making records under his own name from one of the greatest sonic architects of the 20th Century. If he never put his fingerprints on any future recordings he’s already done enough as sideman, collaborator, conceptualist, solo artist, […]Archive
September 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Moby: Long Ambients 1 – Calm. Sleep.
Moby Long Ambients 1: Calm. Sleep. (Independent) Moby’s latest “album” is a four-hour playlist available as a free download (or on all the streaming platforms) that aims to encourage you toward sleep, or at least to enjoy calm and peaceful activities. Created as part of the soundtrack for Moby’s own yoga and relax-time, Long Ambients […]Archive
July 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman