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December 12, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Ivan Zagni / Steve Garden: Trouble Spots
Ivan Zagni / Steve Garden Trouble Spots Rattle Echo Not content with already being a home to the weird and wonderful – equal vestiges considered always. Steve Garden has expanded his Rattle Records label of quality New Zealand art music to include now the imprint, Rattle Echo. It is the role of this side-shoot to […]Archive
December 7, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
GRG67: Happy Place
GRG67 Happy Place Rattle It can be very hard to keep up with Auckland-based label, Rattle. And I try! But there are albums that slip through the cracks, one such is this, the second (to my ears at least) from Auckland quartet GRG67. Get Happy is a vast improvement on the debut too. That was […]Archive
November 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Jonathan Besser – Jade String Quartet: Besser String Quartets
Jonathan Besser – Jade String Quartet Besser String Quartets Rattle I’ve been listening to Jonathan Besser’s music across the last two decades – he’s been active in music for at least as long ago, moving fluidly through jazz, klezmer, gamelan, composing for small and large combos, making soundtracks and soundscapes. There’s an emotional resonance, always, […]Archive
September 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Jack Woodbury: inst. 19-20
Jack Woodbury inst. 19-20 Rattle Jack Woodbury is a Wellington-based composer and audio engineer. And this set of numbered, untitled instrumental pieces comes from two audiovisual installations made across 2019 and 2020 (CORROSE and A Tree Falls).Archive
September 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Steve Barry / Judy Bailey: Elements
Steve Barry / Judy Bailey Elements Rattle Kiwi-born, Australian-based pianist Steve Barry studied under the Australian-based, Kiwi-born Judy Bailey and they quickly discovered kinship so Elements was recorded as a set of spontaneous pieces, duelling pianos working in tandem to create improvisatory works that hint at twilight moods and surprising shadows.Archive
August 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Matthew Marshall: Fragments
Matthew Marshall Fragments Rattle I’m part of a small gang singing the praises of Rattle Records. I’m sure they label wants that group to group to grow. I sure did which is why if they keep putting out great product I’ll keep singing their praises.Archive
December 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Dixon Nacey: The Edge of Chaos
Dixon Nacey The Edge of Chaos Rattle Auckland-based guitarist and teacher Dixon Nacey has recorded for Rattle previously as part of the trio Samson Nacey Haines – here with a record under his own name he pulls together a few of the usual suspects (Kevin Field on piano, Roger Manins manning the saxes, Andy Keegan […]Archive
July 30, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Al Fraser: Toitu Te Puoro
Al Fraser Toitu Te Puoro Rattle Alistair Fraser has been a prolific composer and collaborator across the last decade – working as part of projects or with bands including The Whoolshed Sessions, STROMA, NZ String Quartet, Trinity Roots and the NZSO. Raised in Dunedin – and surrounding himself with conventional band instruments – Fraser then moved to Wellington to […]Archive
March 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Anita Schwabe: Eat Your Greens
Anita Schwabe Eat Your Greens Rattle I wanted to say something like this is a bunch of old-school jazz-heads playing old school jazz ‘heads’ for old schooled jazzheads – and leave it at that. The assignment ticked off. This is good! And jazz fans should check it. Job done. By all the players. And a rewarding listen.Archive
February 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Antipodes: Good Winter
Antipodes Good Winter Rattle Trust Rattle to find the gems. Well, I do. Utterly. For a quarter-century or so now a small team has been creating CD-artworks (yes, the format is dying, dead – but they breathe life through commitment to liner notes, design, the idea of creating the artefact) and yet this could only […]Archive
February 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman