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October 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: The Blackbird Ensemble Performs Björk: All Is Full Of Love (October 17, Wellington)

The Blackbird Ensemble Performs Björk: All Is Full Of Love Shed 6, Wellington Thursday, October 17 Musical director Claire Cowan has been creating shows with her Blackbird Ensemble across the last decade – the music of Radiohead, Arvo Part and Bjork, other things too. Finally Wellington was allowed to see the ensemble’s best loved show […]

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March 29, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Coastella (Paraparaumu, March 26)

Coastella International Music Festival Southward Car Museum, Otaihanga Rd, Otaihanga, Paraparaumu Saturday, March 26 It was, in the end, a nice surprise. An audacious project – really. A bold attempt to start something worthwhile, but low-key/ish, still with some aim of being about bringing things to the coast (Paraparam), to making a destination-event worthwhile with […]

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December 30, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Julien Dyne: December

Julien Dyne December BBE For Julien Dyne’s third album it’s more of the same – in terms of quality, in terms of the overall waft; the placement of after-hours soul music, broken-beat restored, wonky, woozy, wobbly no more. But each album is a progression for this talented musician and beat maker, each album has its […]

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October 30, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1785

Julien Dyne, Pins & Digits (2009) I knew Julien Dyne was a great drummer, having heard a bunch of his work away from his solo material where he extends the role out to beat-maker, producer, songwriter, DJ. There’s a lot of twisted-disco and broken-beat soul-music and the like that I am a huge fan of […]