Bic Runga, Eddie Numbers, Alastair Riddell + more!
Bic Runga, Eddie Numbers, Alastair Riddell + more!
Kia ora ,
It's getting to be about time for us all to
go off on holiday... Well, not quite yet, but I'm certainly
craving it. My desk fan is only just keeping the humidity at
bay, Amplifier Towers are finalising plans for our Christmas
function already... and, of course, more and more summer
events are being announced now, including Tuborg Sounds On and the Catlins River Festival. Ah yes, the
summer couldn't come any sooner for us music fans.
In the
meantime, have a great weekend!
Mr Editor
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Album of the Week
Bic Runga - Anthology
Bic
Runga's unique pop songs and hauntingly beautiful melodies
have earned her a very special place in the pantheon of New
Zealand song.
Anthology features every hit from Bic's
multi platinum, award winning studio albums plus a selection
of rarities and fan favorites.
Since the release of her
debut single in 1996, Bic has been fittingly awarded
virtually every musical honour in New Zealand, including the
APRA Silver Scroll Songwriting Award, a brace of Tui's and
multi-platinum discs.
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Single
of the Week
Eddie Numbers - Numbers Game
Eddie
Numbers releases Numbers Game from the forthcoming EP
Numbers Game.
The track was mixed by the band's
multi-instrumentalist turned audio engineer Ben Healey and
mastered by Auralux Mastering engineer Angus McNaughton,
better known for his work with Che Fu and 3 The Hard
Way.
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Album
Tayla Alexander - Songbird
Classical
crossover has experienced huge growth globally with leading
kiwi artists like Hayley Westenra paving the way for other
emerging local talent. It is rare to find an undiscovered
treasure like Tayla Alexander, a young soprano singer on the
cusp of making her mark.
Tayla's voice, as evidenced on
Songbird, is mature beyond her eleven years and will only
advance further with time and dedication, both of which she
has in spades.
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EP
Two Cartoons - Tiny Terrors
Tiny Terrors is Two
Cartoons' second EP, named after their first
single.
Fresh from a slew of jocular high-energy gigs
across New Zealand, and having been announced on the line-up
for the 10 year anniversary of globally renowned New Years'
festival Rhythm & Vines in Gisborne, the tight-knit duo
consisting of Brad Craig and Isaac McFarlane, both
fantastically enthusiastic, self-described obsessive musical
fanboys from Otago University, hit the recording studio
running to lay down their refreshingly explorative new
material.
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Single
Alastair Riddell - Last Of The Golden Weather
This single is Alastair Riddell's first track from
his forthcoming record Trick Of The Light, the first album
release since his 1982 offering Positive Action.
Last Of
The Golden Weather was recorded at Riddell's home studio in
the leafy enclave of Titirangi. It's a vibrantly seductive
guitar driven pop track that at once celebrates and pines
for the freedom of youth.
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Free
Download
Farah Loux - Dark Dog Dances Delightfully Dead
Alt-folk band Farah Loux (formally known as Alaska)
visited the studio at 95bFM during weekly New Zealand music
show Freak The Sheep, hosted by Silke Hartung, following the
release of their album Flaws. They treated the listeners to
a live performance of Dark Dog Dances Delightfully Dead -
and it's now available to you here as a free
download.
Using a range of unconventional instruments
(including harp and peruvian clarinet), Farah Loux write and
execute unique arrangements that add honesty to their songs
and emotional clarity to their lyrics.
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Album
Craig Terris - Bleat Your Heart Out
Bleat Your
Heart Out is the debut solo release from Craig Terris.
It
was produced and performed by Craig with contributions from
a host of local players (Julia Deans, Bachelorette, Will
Ricketts, Toby Laing, Tom Watson), the album was mostly
recorded at the Car Club and Craig's home between 2007-2010.
Mixed by Brett Stanton and mastered by Dale Cotton.
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Single
PlasticGroove - Strange Lands Fall
Following the
inane funk-driven debut Right Now, Wellington's
PlasticGroove, 80s retro-kings extraordinaire, show their
deeper side with the dark, Ultravox-inspired Strange Lands
Fall.
This powerful track is a homage to the darker side
of the decade of decadence.
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Vinyl
Bilders - High Thirties Piano
High Thirties
Piano is an assemblage of songs and fragments from a bunch
of wild live-in-the-studio sessions, rising from the
creative pressure spring of Christchurch at the time of
early Flying Nun.
Bilders' original 7" was released as a
private pressing in 1982 (100 copies). This was restructured
from a recently discovered alternative mix including
unreleased songs and outtakes from a private session.
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Single
Zionhill - Foot Soldier
This is the re-recorded
brand spanking new version of Foot Soldier by Zionhill,
taken from the 2011 album Inside Of You.
In the Rastafari
movement, "Zion" stands for a utopian place of unity, peace
and freedom; a safe, spiritual homeland, like in Heaven, or
a kind of peace of mind in one's present life. It's fitting
then, that a band hailing from Raglan on the majestic west
coast of New Zealand's North Island, should adopt such
sensibilities.
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Album
Greg Johnson - Exits
Exits is Greg Johnson's
10th studio album and the second on his own JMA label. The
album is self-produced and was recorded over the last 12
months at Greg's Birdhouse Studios in Santa Monica, The Lab
in Auckland and St Croix in the Caribbean.
Johnson, who
will celebrate his 20th year on the road with a tour of New
Zealand in November, wrote all the songs with exception of
'Made To Be Mine', which was co-written with Richard
Rudolph, the Los Angeles based songwriter who has written
many hits including Minnie Ripperton's 'Lovin You'. Exits is
an upbeat record that sees Johnson is fine form. Guests on
the record include fellow kiwi singer Flip Grater, singer
Mathe De la Torres, ex-Goldenhorse mainstay Geoff Maddock,
Los Angeles Philharmonic double bass player John Kibler and
many more.
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EP
Strahan - Water & Fire
Water & Fire is not songs
of a preacher. They're not ballads to lilting love. They are
just alms to that old, worn faith. Skin for the skeleton.
The sound of someone looking for a resurrection.
From the
opening throes of Hallelujah to the closing refrain of
Resurrection Song, Water & Fire is the sound of someone who
travels with dust on his feet, connected to the earth, but
eyeing heaven.
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Album
Esther Melody Band - Edge Of Time
Edge Of Time,
EMB's new release is their first full album as a band. This
self produced project features; classy vocal and
instrumental musicianship, strong melodic focus, inventive
harmonies, sophisticated rhythm, thought provoking lyrics
and a 3rd millennium creative spin on life and
relationships.
Having written much of the material on her
solo album Secret Message while still a teenager and with a
couple of subsequent EP projects under their belt as a joint
production team, Esther and Caleb see this as a definitive
statement of what they are now about as musical artists.
Their excitement about this project is added to by having
outstanding illustrative designer Jeremy Kyle come on board
as part of the team.
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Single
Luke Casey & Tinpot Guru - Holiday Hair
Holiday
Hair is the new single from Luke Casey & Tinpot
Guru.
Luke Casey has an impressive musical pedigree. Born
in London in 1972, he was exposed to music at a very early
age. His uncle, Andy Parker, was drummer for legendary
English rock group U.F.O.
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