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July 17, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Marc Ribot: One NZ Show (Aug 2015)
Marc Ribot is a guitar hero – if you love mangled sounds and inventive colours, from squeals and squalls to acoustic improvisation. He can do the Hendrix rock-out thing (in more of a Sonny Sharrock kind of way actually) or play jazz. He can do it all, sideman or out front on his own. He’s […]Archive
August 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Jim Campilongo: Dream Dictionary
Jim Campilongo Dream Dictionary Blue Hen Records Jim Campilongo has been showing off his angular jazz lines and non-flashy but sonically startling guitar work across ten solo albums and a career as sideman and cameo artist – including his work with Norah Jones in the side-project, The Little Willies. His latest album, Dream Dictionary, is […]Archive
June 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Marc Ribot Trio: Live at The Village Vanguard
Marc Ribot Trio Live At The Village Vanguard Pi. Recordings Recently celebrating his 60th birthday, Marc Ribot continues to play with the vim and vigour of a man half his age; or half that – he continues to find in his guitar new sounds, and in himself new ways to coax and conjure those sounds. […]Archive
February 9, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog: Your Turn
Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog Your Turn Northern Spy Marc Ribot’s subversion of the power-trio shakes off any novelty-factor with this second album; feeling now like a solidified unit, even if it still serves up the odd piece of folly (Masters of the Internet). But then Ribot knows how to do odd – and so his […]Archive
November 19, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
Beth Orton: Sugaring Season
Beth Orton Sugaring Season Warners After six years in hiding (motherhood, recapturing the muse, shaking off the last vestiges of the post-rave folktronica/quiet-is-the-new-loud late 90s tags) Beth Orton returns with another album of Beth Orton songs. It’s not as boring and under-delivering as 2006’s Comfort of Strangers (given that featured Jim O’Rourke) but it’s also not going […]Archive
March 25, 2012 by Simon Sweetman