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November 28, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Joe Satriani: Altered States (Live 1988)
Joe Satriani Altered States (Live 1988) Shockwaves In 1988 – and for me it was through until about 1994 – Joe Satriani was the man. His Lazarus days. A king shredder that invested some melody and mood into the trick-bag. Rock instrumentals for fairweather-bogans, guitar music that wasn’t just for guitar-nerds…okay, it mostly was, but […]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 […]Archive
November 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Kenny Pore: A Place Across Town
Kenny Pore A Place Across Town Kenny Pore Sessions Smooth Jazz, Light Jazz, Dinner Jazz…it goes by many names and it’s usually awful to all but hi-fi nuts and sessions musicians (usually just the cats that played on that actual session).Archive
November 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 15 – Murry Wilson, “The Many Moods of Murry Wilson”
Murry Wilson, The Many Moods of Murry Wilson, 1967 Murry Wilson. Not a nice guy. Bitter hack – who was sure he was “a genius too”. Murry Wilson. Pretty sure he was the manager of The Beach Boys for a lot longer than he ever was – and written up as a bad guy who […]Archive
November 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
T-Bone Burnett & Jay Bellerose & Keefus Ciancia: The Invisible Light – Acoustic Space (Instrumentals)
T-Bone Burnett & Jay Bellerose & Keefus Ciancia The Invisible Light: Acoustic Space (Instrumentals) Verve Label Group Earlier this year T-Bone Burnett, along with master drummer Jay Bellerose and keyboard-wizard Keefus Ciancia released one of my favourite records – a favourite for this year and maybe for all time; an apocalyptic tone-poem of spoken-word over beautiful, […]Archive
November 15, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Hammock: Silencia
Hammock Silencia Hammock Music I like that the label is called Hammock Music – there could be nothing more representative. Hammock makes Hammock music. The post-rock duo has fully transitioned to a modern-classical, deep ambient fix and it’s happened, well, over every album actually – you go back through a catalogue 10 albums deep and […]Archive
October 23, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Joel Paterson: Let It Be Guitar! Joel Paterson Plays The Beatles
Joel Paterson Let It Be Guitar! Joel Paterson Plays The Beatles Bloodshot Records I’m a sucker for an album of Beatles covers – I’ve collected up loads of the Chet Atkins-styled and other lounge/easy-listening ones over the years. And this might be the very best of them – a brand new but so-so-retro mid-century modern-af […]Archive
October 19, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 232
Sir Eugene Goossens, Sir Eugene Goossens Presents A Royal Philharmonic Concert (1961) The music is by Ravel, Debussy and Paul Dukas – so no complaints there. But this is my first time hearing this record, Sir Eugene Goosens was an English composer/conductor/arranger and he must have died very shortly after this album was released, chronology-wise; […]Archive
September 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Into Orbit: Kinesis
Into Orbit Kinesis Ironclad Productions The intensity has increased across Into Orbit albums – and with the duo involved in other projects, most notably the melodic death metal group Dark Divinity, it makes sense that the ‘ambient’-setting has some real oomph behind it. I think back to that brilliant debut album, it was a cautious […]Archive
September 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
M. Geddes Gengras: I Am The Last of That Green and Warm-Hued World
M. Geddes Gengras I Am The Last of That Green and Warm-Hued World Hausu Mountain As has so often been the case across, particularly, the last half decade I turn to ambient music as conciliatory device; a balm. The tonic. Its often distinct ‘uneasy listening’ aspects helping to calm, to galvanise, and if not to […]Archive
August 30, 2019 by Simon Sweetman