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July 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Album Preview: New Music Coming by Brisa Roché + Single ‘Can’t Stand’ Out Now!
At the start of this year the Brisa Roché album Father consumed me. The first best album I heard in 2019 – my first rave review for the year. And it’s been in my ears, and I’ve been carrying it in my heart, ever since. When you fall so heavily for something the very best news is that new music […]Archive
March 1, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: January 2019
Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into it or so… For […]Archive
January 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Brisa Roché: Father
Brisa Roché Father Black Ash/Wagram Brisa Roché is an American artist – she’s lived much of her life in France and though she has five (mostly excellent) albums behind her it’s this, her sixth, Father, that will truly resonate. Poetry, art, songwriting – her chief influence is the work of PJ Harvey – it all […]Archive
January 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 99 – Adam Page
Welcome to episode 99 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one is a conversation with Adam Page, he’s an Australian musician – based in Adelaide. He runs Wizard Tone Studios and the label Wizard Tone Records is home to not only his own recordings but a great range […]Archive
July 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: A Handed-Down Truth
“He’s just so bright”, they say and you say, ‘thanks, I guess’ or ‘cheers’ and you pretend to make no big deal of it. It means nothing (it means everything!) See, the light went out, for you, a long time ago – it stopped shining, after failure upon failure, and too long taken to do […]Archive
July 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: Arginase
He and his father had only had one argument. It started five years ago…Archive
May 31, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
In My Father’s House: Film
In My Father’s House Directors: Ricki Stern/Anne Sundberg Break Thru Films Here’s a very thoughtful mediation on reconciliation; the heartbreak and lasting impacts of addiction, the frustration of needing to acknowledge, of not being able to escape ones genes. Che “Rhymefest” Smith has songwriting credits on Kanye West’s Jesus Walks and the recent Academy and […]Archive
August 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman