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Aakneson
Bifröst [ Rattle Records / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] "The whole world is a very narrow bridge. The important thing is not to be afraid." - Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Bifröst is an album of songs featuring the poetry of Bill Manhire, with music by Norman Meehan, Hannah Griffin, Andrew Laking, Blair... |
Al Campbell / John Rae / Paul Dyne
Storm in a Teacup [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 14/Nov/2011 ] 'Storm in a Teacup' exudes one of the fundamental qualities of good jazz - joy. The playing is superb, the recording is excellent, and the music is honest and infectious. |
Al Fraser
Toitu Te Puoro [ Rattle Records / CD - released 14/Nov/2018 ] Toitu Te Puoro is an original recorded work from Aotearoa/New Zealand, which was conceived, written, composed, produced, and performed by Al Fraser using ngā taonga puoro (musical instruments of the New Zealand Māori) and voice. All performances... |
Al Fraser & Phil Boniface
Ponguru [ Rattle Records / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] Phil and Al began performing together in 1998 while studying jazz performance at Massey University Conservatorium of Music, now the New Zealand School of Music. Al's journey with ngā taonga pūoro began in 1999 and he is now one of the leading... |
Al Fraser, Sam Leamy, Neil Johnstone
Panthalassa [ Rattle Records / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Panthalassa was the super ocean that surrounded the super continent Pangaea during the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic era. Panthalassa, the album, is an abstract and impressionist work in which conceptual ideas are explored through the luminous ngā taonga... |
Al Fraser, Steve Burridge, Neil Johnstone
Shearwater Drift [ Rattle Records / CD - released 15/Jun/2018 ] Seemingly familiar but tantalisingly mysterious, these beautifully composed sonic landscapes offer a unique experience of the world through sound - the known and the unknown. Shearwater Drift is a vast sonic collage that explores real and imagined... |
Alan Brown
Encircle [ Rattle Records / CD - released 19/Sep/2025 ] These contemplations and improvisations were partly inspired by an instrument called an Ondomo - a recreation by Naoyuki Omo of the Ondes Martenot, one of the earliest electronic instruments developed in 1928 by Maurice Martenot (Ondes Martenot... |
Alan Brown
Murmur [ Rattle Records / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Alan Brown is a musician with a long and revered history in the New Zealand jazz scene. MURMUR presents ten wonderfully textural environments, a contemplative album rich in open ambiences and colours. This is a restrained and mature work from one of... |
Alan Brown
Ondulation [ Rattle Records / CD - released 11/Aug/2023 ] These contemplations and improvisations were partly inspired by an instrument called an Ondomo - a recreation by Naoyuki Omo of the Ondes Martenot, one of the earliest electronic instruments developed in 1928 by Maurice Martenot (Ondes Martenot... |
DAVE LISIK
Machaut Man and A Superman Hat Alex Sipiagin / Donny McCaslin / Dave Kikoski / Boris Kozlov / Donald Edwards [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 6/Mar/2015 ] Recorded with some of New York's greatest jazz musicians, Dave Lisik's Machaut Man and a Superman Hat is contemporary jazz at its most assured. This masterful album is exceptional on every level, a strong, fully focused statement from one of Rattle's... |
Alexis French
The Cut [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 13/Jun/2014 ] Trumpeter Alexis French celebrates his debut with the stellar album THE CUT. Recorded at McGill University's MMR and Studio A in Montreal, Canada, the album features rising stars of the Montreal jazz scene, David Bellemare (tenor sax), Nicolas Ferron... |
HOLMES / WHITEHEAD / GAO PING / CARR / RITCHIE etc
11 Frames Andrew Beer (violin), Sarah Watkins (piano) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 25/Oct/2019 ] Contemporary works for violin and piano by New Zealand composers. |
Antipodes
Good Winter [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 7/Sep/2018 ] Antipodes is a collective of New Zealand, Australian, and European jazz musicians co-led by pianist Luke Sweeting and saxophonist Jake Baxendale. Their compositions are drawn from diverse influences - modern New York jazz meets Swedish indie pop and... |
Arcades
Who's Most Lost [ Rattle Records / CD - released 5/Dec/2011 ] Arcades have created their own moving and quietly unsettling sonic world. Trained as composers and having played in bands, David and Dugal are inquisitive, sonically omnivorous musical artists... |
Ariana Tikao & Al Fraser
Nau Mai E Kā Hua [ Rattle Records / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] An evocative sonic journey through the pristine waters of Te Wai Pounamu, Nau Mai e Kā Hua, is the first duo album by Ariana Tikao and Al Fraser, two leading players of ngā taonga puoro. The album features improvisations and spoken word, with waiata... |
Brett Adams
Black Clouds In Stereo [ Rattle Records / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] An album of instrumentals featuring electric guitar, composed, performed and recorded by Brett Adams. Guitarist Brett Adams started his musical journey with 80s pop-rock icons, The Mockers, who regularly featured on the NZ music charts at the... |
CHRIS GENDALL
Tones Gillian Ansell (viola), Ashley Brown (cello), Rolf Gjelsten (cello), Amalia Hall (violin), Monique Lapins (violin), Luca Manghi (flute) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 31/May/2019 ] These works span 10 years of compositional output, and explore wide expressive terrain: from epic to compact, aggressive to introspective, earthy to mechanical. Their elastic rhythm, harmonic fluidity, and formal spontaneity make for dynamic - and... |
ANTHONY RITCHIE
Ritchie: Symphony No. 5 'Childhood' Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Young [ Rattle Records / CD - released 23/Apr/2021 ] Performed by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra in the newly restored Christchurch Town Hall under the very sure baton of conductor and album producer, Kenneth Young, Symphony No. 5 "Childhood" is an optimistic work that uses childhood as a metaphor... |
Christopher de Groot
Sailing Ships & Tarot Cards [ Rattle Records / CD - released 12/May/2017 ] An acid-soaked moonlit cruise through a landscape of 60s exotica, Delia Derbyshire inspired sci-fi soundscapes, classic Bernard Herrmann, a pinch of John Zorn, and a twist of David Lynch. Welcome to the wonderful world of Melbourne-based composer,... |
Colin Hemmingsen & Dave Lisik
Fate and the Processor [ Rattle Records / CD - released 1/Apr/2011 ] Fate and the Processor is an epic electroacoustic musical journey performed by New Zealand School of Music jazz instructor and multi-woodwind instrumentalist, Colin Hemmingsen. The movements, composed by NZSM jazz composition professor, Dave Lisik,... |
