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February 14, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Eagles Fly Alone

Bernard Herrmann didn’t want to be a composer. He wanted to be a conductor. He wrote the scores for so many great films but if he had only created the strings for Psycho that would have been enough. He also wrote music for many other Hitchcock films and worked with other directors. His score for […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Bernard Herrmann, Cape Fear, Citizen Kane, Eagles Fly Alone, Elmer Bernstein, Martin Scorsese, Poem, Poem: Eagles Fly Alone, Psycho, Robert Ne Niro, Taxi Driver, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo ·

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February 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: # 7 – Check Your Neck/s

In honour of tomorrow being the day a new album by The Necks gets released this installment of Five Songs For Friday celebrates the music of one of my all-time favourite groups. This year the Aussie trio celebrates 30 years in the game. Thirty years of taking jazz – and specifically the jazz-trio-format – as a […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 7, Aether, Ambient, Australia, Australian, Chris Abrahams, Daylights, Drive By, Five Songs For Friday, Five Songs For Friday # 7, Five Songs For Friday: # 7 – Check Your Neck/s, Instrumental, Jazz, Lloyd Swanton, Mindset, Minimalism, Mosquito, Mosquito/See Through, Open, Piano Bass Drums, Piano Drums Bass, Rum Jungle, See Through, Sex, The Boys, The Boys I, The Necks, Tony Buck, Trio, Vertigo ·

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March 17, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Philip Matthews

Philip Matthews is a senior reporter with Fairfax Media in Christchurch and is a former film reviewer with the NZ Listener. He blogs about films at Second Sight and is on Twitter as @secondzeit. Here are Five Films That Have Stayed With Him… 1 – Solaris: This is such an intensely sorrowful film. If I was […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged @secondzeit, 1956, 1972, 1973, 1976, 1992, A Man Escaped The Shawkshank Redemption, Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkosvky, Blue Velvet, Christchurch, David Lynch, Eraserhead, Fairfax Media, Film, Film Review, Film Reviewer, Five Films, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Philip Matthews, http://secondstogo.blogspot.co.nz/, Inland Empire, Lost Highway, Martin Scorcese, Mirror, Movie Review, Movie Reviewer, Movies, Mulholland Drive, NZ Listener, Paul Schrader, Philip Matthews, Remake, Robert Bresson, Second Sight, secondstogo.blogspot.com, Solaris, Special Guest, Stalker, Steven Soderbergh, Taxi Driver, The Amityville Horror, The Exorcist, The Shining, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Travis Bickle, Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Vertigo, William Friedkin ·

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October 28, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Necks: Vertigo

The Necks Vertigo Fish of Milk/Northern Spy Records The Necks, 18 albums deep now, and still there’s (always) something different – it’s now instantly familiar, you know the band you’re hearing, you know the sorts of sounds and textures and feels they conjure but every album remains its own thing, quite majestic when – essentially […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Ambient, Australia, Chris Abrahams, Jazz, Keith Jarrett, Lloyd Swanton, Mindset, Minimalist, Open, The Necks, Tony Buck, Trio, Vertigo ·

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