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December 29, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Diane Arkenstone: The Healing Heart

Diane Arkenstone The Healing Heart Neo Pacifica New Age music gets a lot of shit – and never seems to get reviewed in the mainstream, for it’s seen as Not Music I guess. Well, I’ve always had an ear on some new age – and particularly in the ambient space, not just Eno and Enya, […]
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June 15, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Alan Howarth: Indigo RA

Alan Howarth Indigo RA Spheric Gold Alan Howarth is a film composer and sound-designer. He’s created the soundtracks for many science-fiction and horror films and TV shows and might be best known, at least in some circles, for a long-running set of collaborations with John Carpenter, sometimes assisting Carpenter in creating scores and sometimes (as […]
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August 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 224: Rachel McAlpine

Welcome to episode 224 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify […]
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March 4, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Adam Page: Promise

Adam Page Promise Wizard Tone Records Australian multi-instrumentalist Adam Page here offers a very personal record, a very different sort of album from him – a set of solo pieces performed by Page using a variety of Native American Flutes – all expertly crafted by Todd Chaplin of Southern Cross Flutes in NZ.
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October 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Jóhann Jóhannsson: Orphée

Jóhann Jóhannsson Orphée Deutsche Grammophon Billed as Jóhannsson’s return to the studio for a solo album, his first in a half-dozen years, Orphée (loosely based on Ovid’s version of the myth of Orpheus) arrives on the back of extensive studio work, Jóhannsson now one of the go-to names for Hollywood movie soundtracks. Prior to his […]
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September 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Lotta Dann: Mrs D Is Going Within

Mrs D Is Going Within Lotta Dann Allen & Unwin A couple of years ago, three years in fact, I read Lotta Dann’s first book, Mrs D Is Going Without. The cover screamed chick-lit, inside she told her ‘struggle’ with drinking a nice bottle of wine most nights. It felt white and false and privileged […]
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