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January 12, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Khatia Buniatishvili: Labyrinth

Khatia Buniatishvili Labyrinth Sony Classical By my count this is Khatia Buniastishvili’s eighth album for Sony Classical, her fifth solo piano recital – its title hinting at the twists and turns offered within, where previous records were often straight tributes to heroes (and strictly classical composers – Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Beethoven, Chopin) here she switches […]

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January 11, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. David Bowie

David Bowie (b. David Jones, January 8, 1947) was a singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, painter and actor. He was an icon. He remains that. We throw about words like ‘Legend’ and ‘Icon’ too easily these days. It’s hard to think of just one word to encapsulate Bowie. But we could use the word ‘Artist’ – […]

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November 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Andrew Paul Wood

Andrew Paul Wood is a Christchurch-based writer, cultural critic and freelance curator. He writes for The Press, the Listener, Urbis, Architecture New Zealand, and a host of others. Recent work includes a translation into English of the New Zealand poems of German-Jewish poet Karl Wolfskehl, Under New Stars: Poems from the New Zealand Exile (Holloway, 2012, edited by Friedrich Voit), and a […]

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September 10, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Sarah McMullan

Sarah McMullan is a freelance publicist and film reviewer. She had a six-year stint reviewing films at Radio New Zealand, has worked for the New Zealand International Film Festival and currently writes for The 13th Floor and her own The Call Her Square Eye. Here are five films that have stayed with her… I worked […]