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January 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Blanck Mass: Calm With Horses (Original Score)

Blanck Mass Calm With Horses (Original Score) INVADA Records When not one half of the group Fuck Buttons, Benjamin John Power has been making music as Blanck Mass. I never gelled with group work but love his solo electronica pursuits. So I was pleased to hear it was him behind the score to the movie […]
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January 7, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Kevin Keller: The Front Porch of Heaven

Kevin Keller The Front Porch of Heaven Kevin Keller Prod Kevin Keller’s “ambient chamber music” is the sort of balm I am always there for – and glad it’s there for me. For most of the last decade it’s been one of my absolute go-to genres. The figureheads for me – and for many – […]
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December 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Brian Eno: Film Music 1976 – 2020

Brian Eno Film Music 1976 – 2020 UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) Brian Eno: dreamer, schemer, enabler, conceptualist, visual artist – he’d be important if he wasn’t in any way connected to music. And though he doth almost protest too much as blatant “Non-Musician” his influence is towering. I always say that his fingerprints are all […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], 1976 - 2020, Album Review, Ambient, Brian Eno, CompilationS, Film, Film Music, Film Music 1976 - 2020, Instrumental, Movies, Passengers, Score, Soundtrack, UMC (Universal Music Catalogue), You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 6

Little Stevie Wonder, The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie (1962) Stevie Wonder hated being called “Little Stevie” (and then “Little Stevie Wonder”) but he was 11 and 12 and 13 years old. He was little, and new on the scene – little literally and figuratively. And though he was a wonder – a genius – […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1962, Bam, Berry Gordy, Billie Holiday, Bongo, Drums, Fingertips, Instrumental, Little Stevie, Little Stevie Wonder, Motown, Piano, Stevie Wonder, The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 6 ·

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November 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Kodama 木: Yamabiko [EP]

Kodama 木 Yamabiko [EP] dreaming of distant worlds Yamabiko is an album of layered synth-sounds, all at once introspective and otherworldly, this is music to keep close to your chest but it also expands the mind; music that combines the ambient blueprint laid out by Brian Eno with the glitch/dissonance/disintegration ideals and ethereal soundscape patterns […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album, Album Review, Ambient, dreaming of distant worlds, EP, Instrumental, Kiwi, Kodama 木, Kodama 木: Yamabiko [EP], NZ, Wellington, Yamabiko, Yamabiko [EP], You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 24, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Ben Harper: Winter Is For Lovers

Ben Harper Winter Is For Lovers Anti / Epitaph If this lockdown hasn’t already recalibrated how we feel and what we know is real then I’m painfully aware of that now as I throw almost my full support behind a brand new Ben Harper album.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Ben Harper, Ben Harper: Winter Is For Lovers, Instrumental, Winter Is For Lovers, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Dave Brubeck: Lullabies

Dave Brubeck Lullabies Verve This is Dave Brubeck’s final album – released just now, but recorded a decade ago. It’s a set of charming-enough lullabies, the real weight of them can be measured by the wait I guess – and the timing now of release; early next month it is the jazz legend’s centenary so […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 100, Album Review, Centenary, Covers, Dave Brubeck, Dave Brubeck: Lullabies, Instrumental, Jazz, Lullabies, Lullaby, Originals, Piano, posthumous, Solo, Standards, Verve, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Fred Hersch: Songs From Home

Fred Hersch Songs From Home Palmetto Records Covid records. There’ll be many more to come. What to do when you can’t play a show – when you can’t get together with the full band, when you can’t do your job but need to try to make some money; more than that need to connect – […]
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November 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 40 – Frank Zappa, “Jazz From Hell”

Frank Zappa, Jazz From Hell, 1986 Almost a trick question really – looking for the crap Frank Zappa albums that are good. His music lives in the vacuum of its cult endorsements. Ask the wives and girlfriends. Ask the bemused best friends of certain music nerds. Ask yourself. Is there an enjoyably Frank Zappa album? […]
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November 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Michael Silverman (w/ Jeff Lorber): Human Spirit

Michael Silverman (w/ Jeff Lorber) Human Spirit Autumn Hill Records Michael Silverman has been a jobbing composer and player of TV themes (Two And A Half Men, The Good Wife) and he and composing partner Jeff Lorber have dabbled in smooth jazz and light pop orchestrations as well as making music separately. Here they combine […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Autumn Hill Records, Bob James, Composer, David Benoit, Human Spirit, Instrumental, Jeff Lorber, Michael Silverman, Michael Silverman (w/ Jeff Lorber), Michael Silverman (w/ Jeff Lorber): Human Spirit, Piano, Smooth Jazz, The Good Wife, TV, Two And A Half Men, Vinnie Colaiuta, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Alec Bathgate: Phantom Dots

Alec Bathgate Phantom Dots Alec Bathgate / Bandcamp The return of Alec Bathgate to the world of recorded music has been a lovely surprise. Chris Knox’s silencing – via that damned stroke – has, on some level, been Bathgate’s silencing too. Or at least that’s how it has seemed to me. Bathgate made a great […]
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September 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Paul Haslinger: Austerlitz

Paul Haslinger Austerlitz Artificial Instinct Paul Haslinger is an Austrian musician and composer based in LA. He was a member of Tangerine Dream through the last 1980s and has contributed to both the programming of and scoring for video games as well as making film and TV soundtracks and working with a range of musicians […]
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