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March 23, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Galya Bisengalieva: Aralkum

Galya Bisengalieva Aralkum One Little Independent Sadness. It’s there in every note and texture and tone and feel throughout this, the first album by violinist Galya Bisengalieva. To be clear she is no new act – this is just her first record under her own name. Her day job is leader of the London Contemporary […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Aralkum, Galya Bisengalieva, Galya Bisengalieva: Aralkum, Instrumental, One Little Independent, Violin, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 23, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

J. Pavone String Ensemble: Lost and Found

J. Pavone String Ensemble Lost and Found Astral Spirits It’s a leap forward for Jessica Pavone and her string ensemble with second album – Lost and Found. The idea of the ensemble seems fully cemented, the viola and violins to the fore, the drones are rich, there is a polish that never gets in the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Abby Swidler, Album Review, Angela Morris, Erica Dicker, J. Pavone String Ensemble, J. Pavone String Ensemble: Lost and Found, Jessica Pavone, Lost and Found, Viola, Violin, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Mat Maneri Quartet: Dust

Mat Maneri Quartet Dust Sunnyside Mat Maneri, son of saxophonist Joe, is a composer and violin/viola player. Under his own name he’s released some 30 albums in around about as many years and he’s been a sideman for a great range of avant-garde jazzers including several records with his old man and, I guess most […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Cloud Of Black Birds, Album Review, Avant-Garde, Cecil Taylor, Composer, Craig Taborn, David S. Ware, Dust, Free Jazz, Jazz, Joe Maneri, Joe Morris, John Hébert, Lucian Ban, Marilyn Crispell, Mat Maneri, Mat Maneri Quartet, Mat Maneri Quartet: Dust, Matthew Shipp, Quartet, Randy Peterson, Sunnyside, Viola, Violin, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 31, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman: Sounds Like Titanic

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman W. W. Norton & Company; 1st Edition One of many new treatises on the deep fake, artistic fraudulence and imposter syndrome, Jessica Hindman’s memoir masquerading as a novel tells the true story of her four years spent pretending to play the violin in a touring orchestra while […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged "The Composer", A Memoir, Book, Book Review, BookR eview, Classical, Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman, Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman: Sounds Like Titanic, Music, Novel, Sounds Like Titanic, Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir, Tim Janis, Violin, W. W. Norton & Company, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 174

Sir Yehudi Menuhin & Stephane Grappelli,  Top Hat (1981) I often talk about – and think about – the Stephane Grappelli concert I was lucky to see back in the late 1990s. One of the very best gigs of my lifetime. And it all started when my mum introduced me to Stephane Grappelli and Yehudin […]
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July 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 177: Miles Golding 

Welcome to episode 177 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat.  Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library. Miles Golding is a classically trained violinist based in […]
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May 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Brodsky Quartet (May 20, Wgtn)

Brodsky Quartet MFC Monday, May 20 Britain’s long-running Brodsky Quartet (formed in 1972 and still with two original members) are known for their regular touring (including at least four visits to New Zealand) and their crossover pop collaborations (Elvis Costello, Bjork, Paul McCartney) as well as their refined chamber work – including a fondness for the string-quartet […]
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October 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 487

MOTTE, Strange Dreams (2017) MOTTE is the project-name for a set of beguiling musical works created by South Islander, Anita Clark – using violin, guitar, loops and atmospherics she makes textural brilliance from floating, wafting melodies and nocturnal scrapes, strings and skitterings…it’s lovely, hypnotic, bewitching, intoxicating stuff. She sent me the LP – and I’ve […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Ambient, Anita Clark, Guitar, Instrumental, LOOP, Loops, LP, MOTTE, Record, Strange Dreams, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 487, Thin Air, Vinyl, Violin ·

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September 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 80 – Hannah Fraser & Jon McLeary (Spines)

Welcome to episode 80 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one is a little different – it’s a chat with Hannah and Jon from the Spines, specifically, a track-by-track walk-through of their new album, Epidural. It’s the first album released by the Spines for 30 years, Hannah is […]
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October 18, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Secret Behind Mr Dompling’s Secret: My First Music Book

Mr Dompling’s Secret was one of my favourite books when I was young. It told the story of a classical cellist, keen on Mozart. It had themes of overcoming fears, of being comfortable in your own skin – and of course there was music. Lots of music. It was my introduction to classical music – […]
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May 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 700

Yehudi Menuhin & Hephzibah Menuhin, Beethoven: ‘Spring’ and ‘Kreutzer’ Sonatas  (1978) Rescued from The Dump Shop – I found this on a recent trip, wasn’t looking for it. I’m never looking for records at the Recycle Centre store; we only ever go there because Oscar got a couple of books there one time and he […]
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October 20, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Andrew Bird: Echolocations – Canyon

Andrew Bird Echolocations: Canyon Wegwam Music Co. There was always something very painterly to me about Andrew Bird, I thought this the first time I heard him – I felt it very much when I saw him perform. Firstly, most obviously, the way he worked as one-man-band/accompanist, using the loop pedal to set up guitar […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Andrew Bird, Andrew Bird: Echolocations - Canyon, Artist, Canyon, Echolocations, Echolocations: Canyon, Instrumental, Nature, Sound Recording, Violin, Water, Whistling ·
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