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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]