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February 7, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: February 2018
Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so a couple of years into […]Archive
January 30, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Nils Frahm: All Melody
Nils Frahm All Melody Erased Tapes A new studio and some hand-built instruments appear to be the main catalysts behind the subtle shifts on this, the tenth Nils Frahm solo album. Where most recently it was about pure solo piano works here we open with wordless vocals and move on to a pulse created from […]Archive
April 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Nils Frahm
It starts as silence, turns – slowly, surely – into music, then in on itself, then folds away… a waft within the drift, a wash to take it all the way away back toward (a new) silence, then the next note appears… steady your heart, for he’s about ready to break it again.Archive
May 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool XL Recordings It’s nearly been to the detriment of the music that every Radiohead album for the last decade has been discussed as much for how it came to be – and how you found out about it – as much as there’s been any discussion of the music. Amazing, […]Archive
April 16, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Sasha: Late Night Tales presents Sasha: Scene Delete
Sasha Late Night Tales presents Sascha: Scene Delete Late Night Tales This is an interesting release – and a really great one too – it’s Sasha’s first studio/production album in over a decade and it’s simultaneously still (something of) a mixtape, and something befitting the Late Night Tales Late Night concept. I like, too, that […]Archive
March 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Olafur Arnalds & Alice Sara Ott: The Chopin Project
Olafur Arnalds & Alice Sara Ott [Frederic Chopin] The Chopin Project Mercury Classics If you’re a fan of Max Richter’s work – particularly his entry into the “Recomposed” series (reworking Vivaldi’s Four Seasons) then The Chopin Project will interest you. Here, soundtrack composer and electronic musician/pianist teams with German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott to recontextualise […]Archive
October 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Jon Hopkins: Late Night Tales
Various Artists Late Night Tales: Jon Hopkins Late Night Tales Late Night Tales – the formula is great, well the idea, as it’s never (quite) a formula. Essentially an artist makes a mixtape, but the clue is in that series-title, Late Night, so these tales are the type told at 1am or 3am or 5am, […]Archive
September 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Nils Frahm: Late Night Tales
Various Artists Late Night Tales: Nils Frahm Late Night Tales The Late Night Tales series, when it works properly (and it usually does) gives some insight into the artist’s influences, more than that though it’s a mixtape of hopes and dreams. And also it’s designed – the very concept of it is – to suggest […]Archive
July 29, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Nils Frahm: Music for the Motion Picture Victoria
Nils Frahm Music For The Motion Picture Victoria Erased Tapes I haven’t seen the (German) film Victoria but it sounds (at least) interesting – a 12-page script with mostly improvised dialogue created in a single take, one long shot. I’d see it anyway for Nils Frahm’s score which – for anyone interested in his work […]Archive
May 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Nils Frahm: Solo
Nils Frahm Solo Erased Tapes Nils Frahm – composer, pianist, some sort of wizard actually – released Spaces a couple of years ago, one of my favourite records of recent times. It put his piano in a variety of contexts, subtle electronics bending and flitting beneath and around the exquisite moods and melodies he creates, […]Archive
February 5, 2014 by Simon Sweetman