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May 19, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Cerys Matthews, Hidden Orchestra & 10 Poets: We Come From The Sun

Cerys Matthews, Hidden Orchestra & 10 Poets We Come From The Sun Decca Records Poetry is having a moment, if you haven’t noticed. It’s cool – again. Those of us invested and forever on board either always thought it was cool or never worried whether it was. But it’s fair to say that poetry has […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 10 Poets, Album Review, Cerys Matthews, Hidden Orchestra, Poem, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Poets, Spoken Word, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, We Come From The Sun, Words ·

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April 26, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Lara Solnicki: The One And The Other

Lara Solnicki The One And The Other Outside in Music Lara Solnicki is a Canadian poet and vocalist and this is her third set of recordings – she moves, rather quickly, from conventional ‘jazz’ singing to spoken-word and then to a range of vocalisations where her voice, wordless, is another instrument in a line-up of […]
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March 8, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Kristiana Roemer: House of Mirrors

Kristiana Roemer House of Mirrors Sunnyside Born in Germany, educated in both Europe and the United States and raised in a bilingual house, jazz vocalist Kristiana Roemer shows serious chops, great songwriting ideas and subtle envelope-pushing on a debut album that recalls mid-period Joni Mitchell one minute (the opening, title track) and takes me back […]
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March 3, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 248: Nadia Freeman (Miss Leading)

Welcome to Sweetman Podcast. It’s 2021. But I started this year with conversations recorded at the very end of 2020. Now we’re into fresh conversations recorded in 2021. And this is episode 248 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys Now – as you probably know, as […]
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February 11, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Torben Ulrich & Lori Goldston: Oakland moments – cello, voice, reuniting (rejoicing)

Torben Ulrich & Lori Goldston Oakland moments: cello, voice, reuniting (rejoicing) Obscure & Terrible Lori Goldston is a cellist and composer – she has performed solo and with orchestras and had her pop-cultural crossover moment when she appeared on the Nirvana episode of MTV Unplugged and toured with the band. Torben Ulrich is a former […]
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December 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Kae Tempest: On Connection

On Connection Kae Tempest Faber & Faber Social For some 20 years Tempest has been a writer and performer – plays, poems and a novel have been printed. Spoken-word shows incorporate music and poetry, there are book-length single poems and recorded albums that share titles with printed-word publications. To me it’s all exquisite. A quite […]
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December 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 4

Rod McKuen / Anita Kerr / The San Sebastian Strings, The Soft Sea (1970) I’m a sucker. I go into opp shops and salvation army stores and dig through the weary old cardboard box of the same old classical-lite shite. And I sometimes think I’ve found a gem. And sometimes I have. I don’t revisit […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1967, 1970, Anita Kerr, LP, Opp Shop, Poetry, Record, Rod McKuen, Second Hand Store, Spoken Word, The San Sebastian Strings, The Sea, The Soft Sea, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 4, Vinyl ·

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October 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 39

Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass (2020) Well, 2020 has thrown up some strange curveballs but I didn’t figure it would be the year I finally owned a Lana Del Rey record. I won’t go too much into it but I guess it all started late last year when I heard her […]
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October 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Imelda May: Slip Of The Tongue

Imelda May Slip Of The Tongue Decca (UMO) This is a spoken-word/poetry album (EP). I feel it’s worth putting that right there as a warning, since May made her name pumping out rockabilly and subtly reminding people of some of its Irish roots. Her music is a throwback to another era and it performs its […]
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September 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 36 – Jim Morrison, “An American Prayer”

Jim Morrison, An American Prayer, 1978 I’ll always maintain that in terms of poetry, Jim Morrison had a spectacular voice. Maybe not anything special as actual poetic voice – but his spoken-world delivery was superb. He was just mad enough and insecure enough to want to try to believe everything he said. But quite apart […]
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August 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Gil Scott-Heron: We’re New Again – A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven

Gil Scott-Heron We’re New Again – A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven XL Recordings Ten years ago Gil Scott-Heron released his final album with in a year it had been remixed by Jamie xx, essentially reworked, Scott-Heron’s poems and stories and hoarse song-whispers and croaks dancing now in and around the glorious sound waves that The […]
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August 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: August 2020

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into  it or so… In […]
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