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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, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bill Frisell, Bill Orcutt, Bill Orcutt: Odds Against Tomorrow, Derek Bailey, Guitar, John Fahey, Marc Ribot, Muddy Waters, Odds Against Tomorrow, Ornette Coleman, Ralph Towner, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2008, Albert Ayler, Album Review, Aum Fidelity, Bass, David S. Ware, David S. Ware New Quartet, David S. Ware New Quartet: Théâtre Garonne 2008, Drums, Free Jazz, Guitar, Jazz, Joe Morris, John Coltrane, Marc Ribot, Pat Metheny, Saxophone, Sonny Sharrock, Théâtre Garonne, Théâtre Garonne 2008, Warren Smith, William Parker, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 10", Andres Segovia, Blow By Blow, Buckethead, Colma, Derek Bailey, Diary, Eric Clapton, Gat, Gat This, Gat This: My Top 10 ‘Guitar’ Albums, Grant Green, Guitar, Guitarist, Guitarists, Harmonic Crusader, Instrumental, James Blackshaw, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Satriani, Live At The Lighthouse, Lyle Workman, Marc Ribot, Music By Ry Cooder, My Top 10 ‘Guitar’ Albums, Passion and Warfare, Ralph Towner, Rootless Cosmopolitans, Ry Cooder, Santana, Steve Vai, Surfing With The Alien, Ten, Top 10, Van Halen, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Auckland, Guitar, Improvisation, John Zorn, Lounge Lizards, Marc Ribot, Marc Ribot: One NZ Show (Aug 2015), NZ Tour, One Show, Show, Tom Waits, Tour, Tuning Fork, Vector Arena ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bill Frisell, Ceramic Dog, Dream Dictionary, Guitar, Jim Campilongo, Jimi Hendrix, Les Paul, Marc Ribot, Norah Jones, Sonny Sharrock, The Little Willies ·

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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. […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bass, Chad Taylor, Drums, Guitar, Henry Grimes, Jazz, Live At The Village Vanguard, Marc Ribot, Marc Ribot Trio ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Ceramic Dog, Marc Ribot, Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, Your Turn ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Beth Orton, Brian Blade, Marc Ribot, Sugaring Season ·

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March 25, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1562

Tom Waits, Rain Dogs (1985) Always hard to pick a favourite with Tom Waits – I’m a bit all or nothing with him actually. I go through phases – I think he’s great. Then I think he’s an actor only. Does a good acting job – but an actor nonetheless. That in itself doesn’t put […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1985, Bad As Me, Clap Hands, Downtown Train, LP, Marc Ribot, Rain Dogs, Tom Waits, Vinyl ·

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