Off The Tracks

Off The Tracks
  • Blog
    • Interviews
    • Miscellany
    • Special Guests
    • Reviews
  • Podcasts
  • The Vinyl Countdown
  • Back Catalogue
  • About
    • About
    • About the banner image
    • On Song

Posts Tagged Germany

Archive

May 14, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 257: Florian Habicht

Hey there, this is episode 257 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 […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Acast, Ads, America, Apple, Auckland, Chat, Cinema, Conversation, Director, Doc, Doco, Documentary, Film, Filmmaker, Florian Habicht, Germany, Instant Kiwi, Interview, Isey, James, James & Isey, James and Isey, Jarvis Cocker, Kaikohe Demolition, Love Story, Movie, NZ, Off The Tracks, Photography, Pulp, Sheffield, Simon Sweetman, Soundcloud, Spotify, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast # 257, Sweetman Podcast # 257: Florian Habicht, T Leaf T, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, Wedding Photography, Yeastie Boys ·

Archive

April 19, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Archie Shepp & Jason Moran: Let My People Go

Archie Shepp & Jason Moran Let My People Go Archieball Archie Shepp is 83, a living legend of jazz, a musical polymath and star of one of the best hip-hop albums of last year too! Jason Moran, some 30+ years younger than Shepp is one of the great modern jazz pianists – steeped in tradition […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2017), 2018), 2021, Album Review, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp & Jason Moran, Archie Shepp & Jason Moran: Let My People Go, Duets, Duos, Germany, Jason Moran, Jazz, Let My People Go, Live, Paris, Piano, Saxophone, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

Archive

March 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Anja Lechner and François Couturier: Lontano

Anja Lechner and François Couturier Lontano ECM Records Anja Lechner is a German cellist, François Couturier is a French pianist. They both have full classical training behind them – and both learned to improvise. They combine these two distinctly different disciplines to make a type of “night” music that is so perfect for the ECM […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Anja Lechner, Anja Lechner and François Couturier, Anja Lechner and François Couturier: Lontano, Cello, Classical, ECM, France, François Couturier, Germany, Jazz, Lontano, Piano, Third Stream, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

Archive

March 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Michel Petrucciani Trio: One Night In Karlsruhe [Live]

The Michel Petrucciani Trio One Night In Karlsruhe [Live] SWR Jazzhaus The French jazz pianist Michel Petrucciani lived his life in pain. He was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, brittle bone disorder. He was one of the greats of jazz piano across the 1980s and early 1990s – despite being in enormous pain whenever he played. […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1988, Album Review, Archive, Bass, Drums, Gary Peacock, German, Germany, Jazz, Live, Michel Petrucciani, Michel Plays Petrucciani, One Night In Karlsruhe, One Night In Karlsruhe [Live], Piano, Reissue, Roy Haynes, SWR Jazzhaus, The Michel Petrucciani Trio, Trio, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

Archive

November 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 17 – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, “Seriously Orchestral…Hits of Phil Collins”

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Seriously Orchestral…Hits of Phil Collins, 1990 I’ve always been a fan of orchestral recreations of pop music – at least a fan until I’ve heard them. They often don’t work at all, but that’s not going to stop me from trying them out first. I’m a sucker for it… Light cheese. Orchestral […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged "But Seriously, “Seriously Orchestral...Hits of Phil Collins”, #17, 1990, A Groovy Kind Of Love, A Growing Awareness, Berlin, Crap Albums, Crap Albums I Love, Electric Light Orchestra, Germany, Groovy Kind of Love, Hits of Phil Collins, Instrumental, Louis Clark, Phil Collins, Pops, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, RPO, Serious Hits...Live!, Seriously Orchestral, Shit That's Good, Shit That's Good - Crap Albums I Love, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 17, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 17 – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Spotify, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

Archive

July 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Film Society: Preview – Young Torless (July 9)

The Wellington Film Society’s program will soon take a break for a couple of weeks to welcome The International Film Festival but there’s still a couple of weeks of films and then the program returns in mid-August for another few months. Following on from last week’s showing of Les Cowboys we travel back in time […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1966, 2018), 6.15pm, B&W, Cinema, Embassy Theatre, Film, Film Society, Films, German, Germany, July, July 9, Monday, Movie, Movies, Preview, Volker Schlondorff, Wellington, Wellington Film Society, Wellington Film Society: Preview, Wellington Film Society: Preview – Young Torless (July 9), Wgtn, Young Torless ·

Archive

March 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

NZ Festival Writers Week: The Kids Are Alright

The Kids Are Alright: Embassy Theatre Saturday, March 12 For this Writers Week event it was Sally Gardner (UK), Cornelia Funke (Germany) and Ted Dawe (NZ) in conversation with Mandy Hager, the subject: YA fiction. A thoughtful hour of panel discussion looked at how YA fiction is for everyone, not just “young adults” – and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2016), 2pm, Arts Festival, Author, Cornelia Funke, Embassy Theatre, Festival, Festival of the Arts, Germany, Into The River, Live, Maggot Moon, March 10, NZ, NZ Festival Writers Week: The Kids Are Alright, Q&A, Sally Gardner, Saturday, Talk, Ted Dawe, The Kids Are Alright, UK, Wellington, Writers Week, Writing, YA, YA Fiction ·

Archive

June 6, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Museum: Traces Of

Museum Traces Of Inakustik German pop group Museum traces around Suede on the opening track of their album Traces Of in a way that Interpol traced around Joy Division. Placebo would be another obvious reference point (particularly on For The Very First Time) but Museum almost takes the nu-metal approach to Britpop influences, which is […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Bauhaus, Britpop, Doves, Germany, Interpol, Museum, Placebo, Suede, Traces Of ·

Popular

  • The Sad Story of Bob Welch: Fleetwood Mac’s Most Undervalued Member
  • Janna Lapidus Leblanc: Four Years In Pictures
  • The Best Guitarist in The World: # 8 – Mark Knopfler
  • The Best Guitarist in The World: # 11 – Lindsey Buckingham
  • Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Dirt Does Dylan
  • The Way It Is With Prince
  • Sweetman Podcast: Episode 73 – Janna Lapidus Leblanc
  • Apparently The 30 Best Horror Films Of All Time
  • R.I.P. Vangelis
  • Time Casts Its Spell: When Silver Springs Became The Secret Weapon It Had Always Threatened To Be

Archives

Tags

Album Review Auckland Blog Book Book Review Chat Compilation DJ DVD DVD Review EP Film Film Review Gig Gig Review Guest Blog Guitar Interview Jazz Live Live Gig LP Movie Music NZ Podcast Poem Poetry Record Records Simon Sweetman Soundtrack Spines Spotify Stub Stubs Sweetman Podcast The Vinyl Countdown Vinyl Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron Wellington Wgtn Writing You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron [OST]

Categories

  • Back Catalogue
  • Blog
  • Interviews
  • Miscellany
  • Mixtapes
  • Playlists
  • Podcasts
  • Reviews
  • Scene Of The Day
  • Special Guests
  • The Vinyl Countdown

Off The Tracks is the home of Sweetman Podcast, a weekly interview/chat-based pod. It's also home to my reviews across film, TV, music and books and some creative writing as well.

Off The Tracks aims to provide quality reviews and essays, regular blog updates about the shows, albums, books and movies you should be experiencing.

It's a passion project. Your support will help to keep Off The Tracks online.

All content © 2022 by Off The Tracks. WordPress Themes by Graph Paper Press