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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
Tom Ludvigson / Trevor Reekie: ROTO
Tom Ludvigson / Trevor Reekie ROTO Jazzscore / Southbound Ludvigson and Reekie have worked to together for years, the core of the group A Trip To The Moon, and here in improvised/spontaneous composition-mode as the duo behind ROTO. The six pieces that sprawl across a half hour or so here feature Reekie on guitar, ebow […]Archive
August 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Ezra Collective: You Can’t Steal My Joy
Ezra Collective You Can’t Steal My Joy Enter The Jungle Records Oh thank fuck for ears! Because, good lord, almost everything is wrong with this record…right up until you listen to it. The band’s name, that album cover, a record called You Can’t Steal My Joy – it’s just as well we don’t judge books (or albums) by their cover (even though a […]Archive
August 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Jennifer Stumm & Te Koki Trio (August 8, Wgtn)
Jennifer Stumm & Te Koki Trio: Secrets & Hidden Messages MFC Thursday, August 8 This Chamber Music NZ concert featured touring American violist Jennifer Stumm with local musicians Inbal Megiddo (cello), Jian Liu (piano) and Martin Riseley (violin): Te Koki Trio. The opening piece was just for the trio, a Chamber Music-commission by local composer Michael Williams. Over a see-sawing frenzy of violin the piano provided […]Archive
August 9, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 267
Beastie Boys, The In Sound From Way Out! (1996) I’m never not loving the Beastie Boys – but right now I’m right back into them, the 30th Anniversary of Paul’s Boutique had me sharing some memories – just how important this band has been in my life. And this instrumental compilation – which sorta deeply legitimised them, as producers and players and tastemakers, was a big part […]Archive
July 23, 2019 by Simon Sweetman