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April 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Laurel Halo: Raw Silk Uncut Wood

Laurel Halo  Raw Silk Uncut Wood  Latency Recordings  Berlin-based, American-born sound-artist and composer Laurel Halo loves skitterish percussion, tinkering pianos and strident textures. She loves jazz settings – and then totally fucking with them, and she creates the best movie soundtracks for non-existent movies. All of that is on display here on Raw Silk Uncut Wood – but overall this is her most […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Ambient, Aphex Twin, Collage, Come To Daddy, Instrumental, Latency Recordings, Laurel Halo, Laurel Halo: Raw Silk Uncut Wood, Raw Silk Uncut Wood, Sculpture, Sound, Soundtrack, The Necks, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 33 – Jon McLeary

Welcome to episode 33 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. This is a conversation with Jon McLeary, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of the band Spines. Regular readers of this site – and/or Jon’s Facebook pages will know him for his weekly contributions here as the writer of The Ghost of Electricity: […]
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December 7, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Shaun Tan: The Singing Bones

The Singing Bones: Inspired by Grimms’ Fairy Tales Shaun Tan Allen & Unwin Australian artist and writer Shaun Tan creates worlds you fall into; places and spaces you must revisit. Whether working wordlessly (The Arrival) or telling a story through words and images (The Red Tree) his work is memorable, brilliantly evocative and he is […]
Posted in Blog · Tagged Allen & Unwin, Artist, Book, Book Review, Children, Drawing, Fairy Tales, Grimm, Horror, Illustrator, Kids, Philip Pullman, Sculpture, Shaun Tan, Shaun Tan: The Singing Bones, The Arrival, The Red Tree, The Singing Bones, The Singing Bones: Inspired by Grimms’ Fairy Tales ·

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September 28, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 27 The Strange Angels

Around the time I turned forty something changed – I wanted some answers and I went looking. I always had scalpels lying around and one day just started whittling a 4×4 block of Totara. I got really into it and wound up carving a little head – I was hooked. It was like the opposite […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Art, Guest Blog, Jon Mcleary, Music, Peter McLeavey, Ron Barber, Sculpture, Spines, The Big Lucys, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 26 The Strange Angels, The Strange Angels, War Stories, War Stories # 27, War Stories by Jon McLeary, Writing ·

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