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August 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Gil Scott-Heron: We’re New Again – A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven

Gil Scott-Heron We’re New Again – A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven XL Recordings Ten years ago Gil Scott-Heron released his final album with in a year it had been remixed by Jamie xx, essentially reworked, Scott-Heron’s poems and stories and hoarse song-whispers and croaks dancing now in and around the glorious sound waves that The […]

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March 7, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 157

Gil Scott-Heron, Makaya McCraven, We’re New Again (A Reimagining By Makaya McCraven) (2020) I’ll write more about this in a formal review – but this is the first brand new 2020 LP that I’ve bought in 2020. As soon as I heard it I was sold – helps that I liked the original source material […]

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April 27, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

His Evolution Was Never Televised: The Anger and Poetry of Gil Scott-Heron

The first I was really aware of Gil Scott-Heron – and I mean really aware– was hearing Paul Ubana Jones perform an a cappella take on Home Is Where the Hatred Is. (Here’s the Gil Scott-Heron original.) I had heard of Gil Scott-Heron; I knew this famous piece. But hearing Jones speak and sing the words…well, that really made me take notice. The compilation […]

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July 2, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Dan Wilcox aka Sweep

When Dan Wilcox isn’t writing country, blues and folk music on his guitar whilst crooning beneath the Raglan moon, he’s performing, producing, recording and DJ’ing as dub / reggae / rap / rock / electro / dance alter-ego Sweep. Here are five albums he’s loving right now… A little backstory on me first: I used to […]

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May 29, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Royksopp & Robyn: Do It Again

Royksopp & Robyn Do It Again Wall of Sound/Dog Triumph/Cooking Vinyl These sorts of things are always stopgaps – the collaborative mini-album/EP – here we have Do It Again by Royksopp and Robyn, they’ve worked together before – it’s a marriage made in heaven and it’s mutually beneficial. The last Robyn album really nailed it, […]

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September 24, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Laneway 2014: Lineup Announcement

  Auckland’s annual Laneway festival continues to be the highlight of the local efforts to coordinate and curate a decent music festival. A small handful of stages, easy to get between them and a range of quality acts – okay, so every year there’s cries of “hipster” and silly whinings about having not heard of […]