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August 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Thurston Moore: Spirit Counsel

Thurston Moore Spirit Counsel Daydream Library For some 40 years now Thurston Moore’s guitar has been making noise in public. Sometimes it’s in the shape of a song, other times it couldn’t seem more removed. With a band or solo, as a guest or with guests of his own – it’s a dizzying discography and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 3-Disc, Album Review, box-set, Daydream Library, Glenn Branca, Guitar, Improvisation, Instrumental, Noise, Sonic Youth, Spirit Counsel, Thurston Moore, Thurston Moore: Spirit Counsel ·

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July 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit: April is The Cruellest Month 

Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit April is The Cruellest Month Blank Forms Editions Japanese guitarist Masayuki “Jojo” Takayanagi (1932-1991) was a jazzer – playing cool jazz in the late 50s, a disciple of Lennie Tristano. He turned his back on the movement after hearing the late-60s classic, Free Form Guitar by Chicago Transit Authority. After that all Takayangi wanted to do was make noise. He formed […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, April is The Cruellest Month, Blank Forms, Blank Forms Edition, Free Jazz, Free-Noise, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Japan, Japanese, Kenji Mori, LP, Masayuki “Jojo” Takayangi, Masayuki Takayanagi, Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit, Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit: April is The Cruellest Month, New Direction Unit, Nobuyoshi Ino, Noise, Reissue, Vinyl, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 16, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Heinali: A Wave Crashes

Heinali A Wave Crashes Fluttery Records We know – on some level, now – what to expect from Fluttery Records. Certainly quality – that’s for sure. But also leftfield sound/art/music amalgams, traces of electronica or artists who have dabbled and them moved on through versions of audio-collage and sound-design. So it is with A Wave […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Cloud Withdrew From A Sky, A Wave Crashes, A Wave Crashes I, A Wave Crashes II, A Wave Crashes III, Album Review, Ambient, Collage, Electronica, Fluttery Records, Heinali, Improvisations, Installation, Instrumental, Instrumentals, Noise, Oleg Shpudeiko, Sound, Uneasy Listening ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged After Hours, Album Review, Classical, Compilation, Electronica, Flight of the Bumblebee, Four Tet, Influences, Late Night, Late Night Tales, Miles Davis, Mix-Tape, Nils Frahm, Nina Simone, Noise, Piano, Sound, V/A, Various Artists ·

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August 31, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Winter: Exit Points

The Winter Exit Points fiffdimension Here is the new album by The Winter (available for free download from Bandcamp). The Winter is an improvising trio that I play in – so this isn’t really a review…it can’t be. Joining me (percussion, drums) in The Winter is Dave Edwards (guitar, bass, banjo, harmonica, ukulele, sanshin, electronics) […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bandcamp, Dave Edwards, Exit Points, Fiffdimension, Fredd Marshall, Free Download, Free-Improv, Free-Noise, https://fiffdimension.bandcamp.com/album/the-winter-exit-points, Improvised, Kilbirnie, Mike Kingston, Noise, Outsider, Preview, Pyramid Club, The Winter, Trio ·

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September 8, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Boris: Noise

Boris Noise Sargent House Noise is the ethos as the heart of Boris’ sound – noise is the focus, finding melodies within that noise, making new and old noises; Noise is Boris’ latest album, the band’s 19th! I haven’t listened to all of Boris’ albums, but I’ve heard a few. This is one of their […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Boris, Japan, Japanese, Noise, Noise-Rock, Post-Rock, Trio ·

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January 26, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Glacial: On Jones Beach

Glacial On Jones Beach Three Lobed Recordings Funny, the tricks the mind plays – or where you allow the mind to go – when listening to free and improvised music; the melodies that find themselves and then find you in and around the noise, that dissonant wash, and then you attach your own memories, your […]
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