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September 7, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm: 2X1=4
F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm 2X1=4 LEITER Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, in cooperation with BMG Rights Management Across the last decade Nils Frahm and F.S. Blumm have got together on four separate occasions to make albums; remarkable enough but actually rather staggering when you consider that they each have busy solo careers and wear […]Archive
August 19, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Kevin Hays, Ben Street & Billy Hart: All Things Are
Kevin Hays, Ben Street & Billy Hart All Things Are Smoke Sessions Records A wonderful intergenerational trio here releases a wonderful record that is cut from a couple of live-streamed (audience-free) gigs made late last year. Drumming legend Billy Hart had just turned 80.Archive
August 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton: 4
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton 4 (Independent) Late last year – in fact it was December 30th, so, you know, pretty late last year – I reviewed The Heart’s Wash by Joshua Chuquimia Crampton. A beautiful album that spoke to the devastation of that year; a lost year, a stretched period of time. Crampton’s eerie, loping, looped […]Archive
July 27, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Erik Wøllo / Michael Stearns: Convergence
Erik Wøllo / Michael Stearns Convergence Projek Records I found this record recently in a beautiful fluke – well, a routine search for ambient/space records I guess. What a find. I knew Michael Stearns’ fine work – particularly his score for Baraka (and its ‘sister’ films). He made ambient electronic music in the late 1970s […]Archive
July 20, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Molly Lewis: The Forgotten Edge (ep)
Molly Lewis The Forgotten Edge (ep) Jagjaguwar Molly Lewis – born in Australia, living in L.A. and raised between Aussie and America – is a whistler. She watched a documentary about the fine, nearly lost art of musical whistling and wanting to try her hand at it. When that didn’t work, she put her lips […]Archive
July 15, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Brooke Blair & Will Blair: Night Stalker – The Hunt for a Serial Killer
Brooke Blair & Will Blair Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer Maisie Music Publishing, LLC I became a tiny bit obsessed with the Night Stalker story when I saw a framed, signed picture of Richard Ramirez in a Sydney record shop. It was $1,000 and I was super-keen to own it. A bargain […]Archive
July 2, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Kodama 木: Moonlight and Rain
Kodama 木 Moonlight and Rain dreaming of distant worlds Evocations of nature were all through the debut EP by Kodama 木 (which I loved!) In fact I referred to it as feeling like “the soundtrack to a sci-fi or nature documentary-short that hasn’t been made yet”. And the same applies to full-lengther, Moonlight and Rain. Because it’s […]Archive
June 30, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Hedvig Mollestad Trio: Ding Dong. You’re Dead.
Hedvig Mollestad Trio Ding Dong. You’re Dead. Rune Grammofon I might not have been there for every single album, and I’ve only reviewed half of them – but I am definitely a fan of Norway’s Hedvig Mollestad Trio. Formed in 2009 by guitarist Mollestad, with bassist Ellen Brekken and drummer Ivar Loe Bjørnstad, the trio […]Archive
June 22, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Nathan Fake: Sanxenxo (ep)
Nathan Fake Sanxenxo (ep) Cambria Instruments Nathank Fake’s new EP is a set of jams and leftovers and shelf-sitters recorded either side of his most recent full-lengther, the excellent Blizzards. The excellent Sanxenxo brims with ideas, its opening, title tune unfolding through various glitches over seven minutes, taking in the buzzing, pulsing writhe of ambient […]Archive
June 18, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Tom Vernon: Amber Fade (ep)
Tom Vernon Amber Fade Lost Palms / Shall Not Fade LTD Look, all I know is when it comes to music labelled House if I can also slap an ambient sign on it then I’m ready to move on in. This, to put it so very squarely, is my jam. Deep, ambient house at that. […]Archive
June 16, 2021 by Simon Sweetman