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NZ dancers showcase music internationally
NZ dancers showcase music internationally
We have some interesting events to tell you about this week. One of our dance troupes is taking New Zealand music, fashion and choreography overseas in a unique showcase which is visiting Europe and the UK; and you can catch a brand new show of theirs when they return.
And if you're in Auckland and you have children who are music fans, you might like to take them to the Raukatauri Centre's concert on June 25 - which features the Wonky Donkey man himself, Craig Smith.
The Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre is once again holding its free annual concert for children.
This year there's some exciting additions to the line-up, including APRA 2008 'NZ Children's song of the year winner' - the Wonky Donkey man Craig Smith, ukulele band Marmaduke, and Dylan Wade & Band, as well as the Raukatauri Music Therapists themselves. There are lots of songs for children, so bring percussion or other instrument so they can join in.
date: 25 June 2011Time: 2.00 - 3.00pm Where: The Auckland Baptist Tabernacle429 Queen Street (near K'Rd)
Tickets can be purchased via our
website below, or from the Centre (phone 360 0889 or email
Free parking at Church carpark, including disabled access.
All proceeds to go to the children of the Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre, so enjoy a great winter's afternoon entertainment with the kids for a good cause.
International and Industry Action
NZ On Air has provided funding for a new 22-part radio documentary series called Extended Play, charting the story of the legendary record label, Flying Nun, through 22 of the label's seminal EP releases in the 1980s. The series is being made by Auckland radio station 95bFM, and will play on the student radio network and online via podcast.
It's
a postcard from New Zealand that dances, sings, shouts and
swings - to the world, with love from Aotearoa, full of fun
and fabulousness. Footnote Dance have announced a voyage to
the other side of the world, performing in special seasons
in Antwerp (Sunday 3 July) and London, (Friday 15, 16 and 17
July). Along for the ride is music from
Starting
with an appearance at Festival 316 in the Netherlands, the
Parachute boys will be traversing Europe, playing in the UK,
Germany, Slovenia, Italy and Slovakia. In the UK, the band
will be supported by British outfit Empire Nation. Over the
next few months Rapture Ruckus will be hitting the summer
festival circuit out in the States, with performances at
Alive Festival (Ohio), Creation East (Pennsylvania), Life
Fest (Wisconsin), Sonshine (Minnesota), and Creation West
(Washington). Juliagrace's Beautiful Survivor cover art won
the "Specialty Finishing Products" category in the
Ruby Frost has signed a publishing deal with Universal and Stirling Music which will see her music taken around the globe! The electro-pop songstress is the first signing in a joint venture between local boutique publishing group Stirling and the Universal publishing group. The venture aims at taking promising Kiwi artists and exposing them to worldwide attention. Frost will be joining a star-studded roster of Universal artists, including Jet, Powderfinger, Shihad, Wolfmother and The Living End.
New release fanfare
This June 20th, Monkey Records, Border Music and Banished from the Universe present Spring Summer Awesome Winter, the second album from Bond Street Bridge and the follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2008 debut The Mapmaker's Art. Bond Street Bridge is the solo project of Auckland-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Sam Prebble. As well as his solo work as Bond Street Bridge, Prebble plays violin, mandolin and guitar for Reb Fountain and the Bandits and the Hannah Curwood Band, and is a long-standing member of Auckland folk-pop group The Broken Heartbreakers. In 2010, he hit the road in Europe, touring first with Tim Guy and then as stand-in violinist for Berlin-based NZ psychedelic post-rock ensemble An Emerald City. Along the way he has played shows alongside North American psychedelic heavyweights Black Mountain and the Black Angels, New York art-pop duo The Books, and Californian alt-folksters The Mountain Goats. Despite his involvement in this range of other projects, Prebble kept Spring Summer Awesome Winter a resolutely solo affair. Using a sonic palette consisting of fingerpicked acoustic guitars, lush strings, chiming mandolins and glockenspiels, warm vocal harmonies and analogue synthesisers, antique organs and pianos, and found-sound beats from staple-guns and key-rings washed out with rich reverbs and tape delays, he created intricate soundscapes to surround his trademark wry observational lyrics. As the title suggests, most of the songs on the album deal with the passing of time and the changing of seasons in various ways. The album is brought to life by superb hand-painted cover art by Emily Cater. Bond Street Bridge (the guy not the bridge) will be touring "Spring Summer Awesome Winter" in June/July round New Zealand with Rosy Tin Teacaddy on the Slow Burn Winter Tour, and in Europe in September/October with psychedelic hipsters An Emerald City. The album will be available from Monkey Records, amplifier.co.nz, iTunes and good record stores around New Zealand from the 20th June.
Rarities and Remixes - the latest album from
Auckland's Pitch Black - is a package of rare tracks and
lovingly crafted remixes of other artists' music, chosen by
Paddy Free and Mike Hodgson to represent their fifteen year
reign as one of Aotearoa's favourite electronica acts.
Known globally for their stomping live sets, Rarities and
Remixes showcases Pitch Black's mellower side. Beginning
with a dancefloor friendly, but respectful reworking of the
Richard Nunns and Hirini Melbourne original, 'Te Po' and
ending with an equally haunting version of Tiki's 'Past
Present Future', Rarities and Remixes is an album that
represents the past, present and future of the Pitch Black
partnership. Included in the remixes are tracks by fellow
Aotearoa/NZ dub trailblazers International Observer and
Salmonella Dub, who appear alongside independent music
producer Tom Cosm and reggae legends Katchafire. Also fed
through the PB warping machine are tracks from further
afield: 'Mirror Beach' by Mirror System (the ambient project
of Britain's System 7); and 'A New Day', a remix of a Sri
Lankan track that Pitch Black remixed for the Laya Project,
a collaboration of regional folk musicians affected by the
2004 tsunami. Included on the album are three Pitch Black
rarities, one of which is a recording of 1996's 'I'm a
Wanderer', the first track the pair worked on together. Also
included is 'Kaikoura Dub' from the film Whalerider.
On the live front
MUZAI records,
along with Undertheradar and Cheese On Toast, have announced
an imortant addition to their second birthday festivities at
Wine Cellar and Whammy Bar on June 24. As well as Full Moon
Fiasco (Wellington), Sherpa, Idiot Prayer (Dunedin), Cool
Cult, Cat Venom, Kitsunegari, god bows to math, Hussies,
Sidewalk Meese, Diana Rozz (DJ set), there will be cake (no
seriously, there will actually be cake) and there will also
be merchandise, and most importantly, it's a chance for all
of the MUZAI folk to get together, and for everyone else to
come and enjoy.
Carolina Moon is amongst the artists
appearing at The Nelson Winter Music Festival, which opens
on July 9 with a programme of 17 concerts all staged in the
auditorium of the Nelson School of Music. HigPerformances
include a solo recital from German pianist Michael Endres,
the Made in NSOM concert - a showcase of local Nelson School
of Music students, a performance from the Nelson Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Kenneth Young, and appearances from
John Chen with the Saguaro Trio, Dave Dobbyn, Carolina Moon
and more. The festival runs through to July 24. See
A
who's who of NZ hip hop has been selected to support Big Boi
(one half of Outkast) at Auckland's Logan Campbell Centre on
August 25. Homebrew, Savage and the Deceptikonz, PNC, and
DJ Sirvere with Deach have all been selected to take the
stage. Home Brew has garnered a loyal following with their
light-hearted, witty and distinctively Kiwi attitude.
Nominated for the 2010 NZ Music Awards Critics Choice Award,
the band are moving up the ranks, and have even garnered the
respect of long-time legend on the scene DJ Sirvere who said
of their EP that there was "serious talent here". PNC's
third studio album, Man On Wire, is an album of balance,
innovation and cameos - with fellow-support act Home Brew
also featuring on the album. DJ Sirvere will be joined by
Deach, best known as one third of the chart-topping, record
breaking group SmashProof, while Savage and his Horseman
family will also move the crowd with their huge back
catalogue of hits.
Tui-award finalist
After a six year break from the studio, The
Feelers are back - armed with a new album and boasting a new
line-up, the boys are ready to hit the road again, playing
live favourite Right Here Right Now, the classic Venus and
new hit single Didn't Want To Fall In Love. For nearly
twenty years James Reid and Hamish Gee's musical partnership
has resulted in The Feelers amassing some remarkable
statistics - a quarter of a million album sales; five multi
platinum albums; three number one albums and seven number
one singles. And more recently a lot has happened in the
lives of James and Hamish since their last multi platinum
offering 'One World'. Hamish got married, James welcomed
his first child and two new arrivals have been added to
complete the band line-up - guitarist Andy Lynch (formerly
of Zed) and bass player Matt Short. Their latest album Hope
Nature Forgives, to be released on 1st August, is testament
to the rejuvenated new look of The Feelers. With Andy and
Matt on board, James and Hamish decided it was time to stop
playing all instruments themselves and go back to playing as
a 'real band' according to James. The nationwide album tour
kicks off in Auckland on 14th July at the Howick Club, with
special guest Annah Mac and her band. Two weeks later the
tour continues on in earnest from 29th July through to the
20th August. That's eighteen shows around the country
taking in everywhere from Invercargill to Queenstown to
Reporoa, from vineyards to woolsheds and everything in
between. Tickets are on sale Friday 17th June from
Around the world
The UK's independent labels last week achieved the unprecedented feat of securing four albums in the Top 10 for the fourth week in a row, in what is fast becoming the Year of the Indie. The albums chart is headed by Domino act Arctic Monkeys' fourth album Suck It And See, which sold 82,424 copies last week, followed by 21 and 19 by XL act Adele at number two and five respectively and You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks by Play It Again Sam's Seasick Steve at number seven. Both of Adele's albums have also graced the Top 10 for the past three weeks, where they were joined by Seasick Steve and Status Quo last week, Caro Emerald and Prodigy in week 21 and Caro Emerald and Friendly Fires in week 20.
It is the first time such a run has been accomplished in the UK and the indies' run of success comes as Changed The Way You Kissed Me, by Ministry of Sound's Example, leads the singles chart. In total there were nine indie acts in the Top 40 last week, ranging from Xtra Mile's Frank Turner at number 12 to Status Quo, whose new Quid Pro Quo album is released by the band's own Fourth Chord label.
Alison Wenham, CEO of independent label body AIM praised the indies' skill in patiently nurturing acts - "allowing them to develop in their own time and take their own decisions", complimenting their "complete faith in their artists and long-term vision." Much of last week's success, of course, is down to timing: many indie acts want to get albums into the stores before the festival seasons kicks off in earnest. But Adele's phenomenal indie-released global smash-hit 21 album sweeping all rivals aside topping a series of successes, there is clearly more to this than an accident of the calendar.
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