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May 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog: What I Did On My Long Vacation (ep)
Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog What I Did On My Long Vacation Knockwurst Music / Preposterous Bee Music / Wazir & Malika Music A get back to the studio project, a just shut up and play project, a lockdown mini album – this EP by Marc and his Ceramic Dog is really the starting point for […]Archive
April 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Bill Orcutt: Odds Against Tomorrow
Bill Orcutt Odds Against Tomorrow Palilalia If you’ve ever imagined what the common ground between John Fahey and Derek Bailey might sound like – then Bill Orcutt is your guy. He’s an Ornette Coleman-like guitarist. He’s equal parts punk, blues and jazz – as he cuts astonishing new shapes through old traditions. Primarily a soloist, […]Archive
April 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
David S. Ware New Quartet: Théâtre Garonne, 2008
David S. Ware New Quartet Théâtre Garonne, 2008 Aum Fidelity David S. Ware lost his battle with kidney failure in 2012 – it was a blood infection that got him following on from his 2009 transplant. He played in pain and without many people knowing for the last two decades of his career. Including here […]Archive
February 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gat This: My Top 10 ‘Guitar’ Albums
A while ago I described something/someone as “guitar music” and was chortled at from all directions; there’s no such thing as guitar music. This is not a genre. This is no way to explain or define music. Andres Segovia and Derek Bailey and Jimi Hendrix and Django Reinhardt and Eddie Van Halen have all made amazing music by approaching the same instrument (or versions of […]Archive
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