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Posts Tagged Rattle

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February 14, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Tania Giannouli Trio: In Fading Light

Tania Giannouli Trio In Fading Light Rattle Greek pianist, composer and improviser Tania Giannouli has been part of the Rattle family for a decade now – this is her fourth release with the imprint, beginning with 2012’s Forest Stories and moving through 2015’s Transcendence on to a set of musical dialogues with Rob Thorne. Her […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Andreas Pplyzogopoulos, Greece, Greek, In Fading Light, Jazz, Kyriakos Tapakis, Oud, Piano, Rattle, Tania Giannouli, Tania Giannouli Trio, Tania Giannouli Trio: In Fading Light, Trio, Trumpet, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Selection of Trouble Spots, Album Review, Ivan Zagni, Ivan Zagni / Steve Garden, Ivan Zagni / Steve Garden: Trouble Spots, Ode, Rattle, Rattle Echo, Rattle Records, Reissue, Remix, Steve Garden, Trouble Spots, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Auckland, GRG67, GRG67: Happy Place, Happy Place, Jazz, MIchael Howell, Mostyn Cole, Quartet, Rattle, Roger Manins, Tristan Deck, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Albim Review, Besser, Besser String Quartets, Besser Sttring Quartets, Classical, Edih Salzmann, Jade String Quartet, Jonathan Besser, Jonathan Besser – Jade String Quartet, Jonathan Besser – Jade String Quartet: Besser String Quartets, Miranda Adams, NZ, Quartet, Rattle, Rattle Records, Robert Ashworth, String Quartets, William Hanfling, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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).
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Tree Falls, Album Review, Ambient, Audiovisual, CORROSE, Design, Electroacoustic, Glitch, inst. 19-20, Installation, Jack Woodbury, Jack Woodbury: inst. 19-20, Rattle, Rattle Records, Sound, Sound Design, Sound Engineer, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Classical, Duet, Elements, Improvisations, Jazz, Judy Bailey, Piano, Rattle, Rattle Records, Steve Barry, Steve Barry / Judy Bailey, Steve Barry / Judy Bailey: Elements, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1993, 1995, Album Review, Archive, Classical, Guitar, Instrumental, Kiwi, Matthew Marshall, Matthew Marshall: Fragments, NZ, Rattle, Rattle Records, RNZ, Spanish, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Andy Keegan, Dixon Nacey, Dixon Nacey: The Edge of Chaos, Guitar, Guitarist, Jazz, John Scofield, Kevin Field, Kiwi, NZ, Olivier Holland, Rattle, Rattle Records, Roger Manins, The Edge of Chaos, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Al Fraser, Al Fraser: Toitu Te Puoro, Album Review, Maori, Rattle, Rattle Records, Taonga Puoro, Toitu Te Puoro, Traditional, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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.  
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Anita Schwabe, Anita Schwabe: Eat Your Greens, Bass, Cameron McArthur, Drums, Eat Your Greens, Jazz, Kiwi, NZ, Piano, Rattle, Roger Manins, Ron Samsom, Saxophone, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Aidan Lowe, Album Review, Antipodes, Antipodes: Good Winter, Australia, Callum Allardice, Good Winter, Jake Baxendale, Jazz, Ken Allars, Luke Sweeting, Max Alduca, NZ, Rattle, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

UNWIND Chisholm/Meehan/Dyne: Orange

UNWIND: Chisholm/Meehan/Dyne  Orange  Rattle  I first heard Hayden Chisholm (saxophones) – well at least first really took notice on the glorious collaborative album Small Holes In The Silence featuring Hannah Griffin’s voice and Norman Meehan’s piano. The music was sparse, the lyrics drawn from famous New Zealand poems. Griffin and Meehan have an ongoing project in collaboration with Bill Manhire. Chisholm was the silent star of […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bass, Chisholm/Meehan/Dyne: Orange, Hayden Chisholm, Instrumental, Jazz, Kiwi, Norman Meehan, NZ, Orange, Paul Dyne, Piano, Rattle, Saxophone, UNWIND Chishom/Meehan/Dyne: Orange, UNWIND: Chisholm/Meehan/Dyne, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·
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