CD release: Greatest Hit’s! Who's MAD?

Press Release:

The SENDAM RAWKUSTRA will release its first CD, "Greatest Hit’s! Who's MAD?" on Friday, 3 May from 7pm at the Newtown Community Centre, Wellington. Free entry.

Recognised as "one of the best things to come out of Wellington for a very long time", the improv orchestra will perform pieces with an incredible "likeness" to those on the CD to a celebratory crowd of fans and friends. Everyone with an interest in exploratory music is welcome.

To arrive at this point, those involved went on an epic voyage: For over five years SENDAM has been rehearsing at The Clubhouse, a day service run by Aspire Inc, a service for people with past or current experience of mental illness. The weekly rehearsals are always inspired, fluid and in eternal development.

Following some recordings made of their expressive percussion/voice/strings/brass music in mid-winter 2012, the bands founders, Kieran Monaghan and Andreas Lepper turned to the online crowd sourcing forum 'Pozible' as a means to raise funds to share the recordings more widely.
Regular updates and videos were posted onto social network forums to alert interested folk about new developments and by February 2013 the project raised $3000 to produce the audio into a stunning CD, recorded by Benni Krueger and released with support by Tasman Records.

SENDAM RAWKUSTRA is recognised regularly performing at the Newtown Fair and at various other performances around town, from bishop’s inauguration to experimental music festivals and the Newtown Fair.

CD will be NZ$20

http://www.youtube.com/user/SENDAMRawkustra
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sendam-Rawkustra/465989283442613?ref=hl
http://www.pozible.com/project/11200

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