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September 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 19 – Album-Length ‘Songs’

It’s been a while – and since the big news for a lot of people this week was the announcement that Sleep will be playing NZ shows next year (for the first time ever) I thought, in honour of the album Dopesmoker we could look at four single-track albums; album-length songs. So here goes…

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July 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 524

Roy Haynes, We Three (1959) I’ve looked at this album for years – years – always wanted it. Pure and simple Roy Haynes is a mutha! 92 years old and still hitting – still so good, but one of the greatest and most recorded drummers in jazz. A hero. And so much more. And here […]

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January 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Brian Eno: Reflection

Brian Eno Reflection Warp It’s tempting to suggest that Eno is being very prolific – once again, but isn’t he always? Isn’t Eno – as much a concept as he is a man – always at work, hasn’t ENO spread off into various distilled channels, surging through the work of others? At any rate, one […]

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January 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 92 Over The Gully

12/9/1962 The house my dad built was on the edge of town – it literally backed on to farmland in 1962. He bought a section in Hamilton near Hillcrest Normal School and by the time I was five it was finished and we had moved in. There was a big gully down the back of […]

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July 7, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Radio Nowhere by Michael Ross: # 1 – We All Start Somewhere, Icehouse’s Man of Colours

This blog isn’t going to be a chronology of my music fandom, nor is it meant to be particularly autobiographical, but it still makes sense to kick things off at the beginning. Not the first album I was aware of, or even the first album I owned, but certainly the album that really got the […]