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... |
Adam Page, James Brown, John Psathas
The Harvest [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 16/Nov/2012 ] The Harvest is comprised of two suites, two continuous 30-minute compositions broken into 8 and 9 parts respectively. The Harvest Suite (composed by Adam Page and John Psathas) features Adam on solo tenor saxophone played through various looping... |
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
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... |
Amy Rempel
Chatter [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 12/Sep/2011 ] With Chatter, the Rattle Jazz Series introduces the extraordinary talent of Amy Rempel. With a background in contemporary new music and improvisational jazz, Amy's musical sensibility is broad and adventurous. Strongly supported by bassist Jeremy... |
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... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas Bella Hristova (violin), Michael Houstoun (piano) [ Rattle Records / 4 CD - released 26/Apr/2019 ] The complete Beethoven violin sonatas, 33 wonderful pieces of music, performed by two of the greatest Beethoven interpreters working today. Over 4 hours of beautifully produced, expertly performed Beethoven in a handsome 4-CD hard-cover... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Violin Sonatas Bella Hristova (violin), Michael Houstoun (piano) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 4/Sep/2023 ] The Brahms Violin Sonatas are at the core of the violin and piano duo repertoire. From the exquisitely flowing melodies of the G major sonata to the warm-heartedness of the A major sonata and finally to the vast and turbulent D minor sonata, the music... |
Brad Dutz Quartet
Peripheral Hearing [ Rattle Records / CD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] The Brad Dutz Quartet first performed at a New Music Festival at the REDCAT in 2005. The original impetus was to form an acoustic, jazz-tinged chamber ensemble capable of producing a wide range of textures and colours. Given the unusual combination... |
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... |
JOHN PSATHAS
Diálogos Chris Mason-Battley Group [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 9/Oct/2015 ] Interpretations of the music of John Psathas. "Diálogos is a revelation. I don't know what the language is that properly describes what the guys are doing, but they're somehow creating new works. This isn't 'arranging' or 'adapting' - I feel it's... |
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,... |
Dave Lisik
Donated by Cantor Fitzgerald - A Threnody [ Rattle Records / CD - released 1/Sep/2011 ] Donated by Cantor Fitzgerald: a threnody is a single movement, 60-minute work for a small, mixed chamber ensemble of improvising musicians and electronics. Originally conceived in 2001 as a work for mixed chamber orchestra, and eventually evolving in... |
Dave Lisik
Rail 16 [ Rattle Records / CD - released 11/May/2012 ] Inspired by the infamous Lindbergh baby kidnapping in the early 1930s, 'Rail 16' is a fascinating 49-minute work for mixed ensemble by jazz and new music composer, Dave Lisik. |
DAVE LISIK
Ancient Astronaut Theory Dave Lisik (Electronics) Richard Nunns (Taonga Puoro) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] Ancient Astronaut Theory is a new work by David Lisik, composed in seven movements for taonga pūoro, and featuring Richard Nunns. Combining loops and re-contextualised phrases with layered overdubs and electronic manipulation, Dave has concocted the... |
JOHN PSATHAS
Rhythm Spike David Arend, Neil Becker, David Downes, Dan Poynton, etc [ Rattle Records / CD - released 17/Jun/2000 ] A roller-coaster ride from this bright young New Zealand composer! |
DAVID FARQUHAR
Farquhar: Ring Round the Moon Jian Liu (piano) / Martin Riseley (violin) / Jenny Wollerman (soprano) / Jane Curry (guitar) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 13/Nov/2015 ] Ring Round the Moon is an album of chamber music by New Zealand composer, David Farquhar. The programme was curated by Jack Body for a concert in the Adam Concert Room on May 8 (2014) called Remembering David, which celebrated David's artistry and... |
David Harrow
In C [ Rattle Records / 2 CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] Performed, recorded and produced by David Harrow, this project was inspired by Terry Riley's groundbreaking 1964 minimalist masterwork. "One of the joys of In C is the interaction of the instruments in poly-rhythmic combinations that spontaneously... |
David Harrow & Al Fraser
Mixed Messages [ Rattle Records / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] The ancient sororities of taonga puoro combine with the contemporary textures and timbres of electronic technology and sequencing techniques to produce an evocative soundscape that is as compelling as it is mysterious. |
David Long
Ash And Bone [ Rattle Records / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] This new recording by David Long defies easy generic tags. Acoustic electronica, alt-folk, alt-chamber music or experimental instrumental are vaguely in the ballpark, but as David says, his music makes a constellation of these musical styles but... |
DAVID LONG
I'll hum the first few bars David Long, Hamish McKeich (conductor) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 31/Mar/2023 ] The title track for this album, I'll Hum the First Few Bars, is a piece for chamber orchestra, electric guitar and mechatronics. Commissioned by Orchestra Wellington, the work was recorded with Stroma under the ever-reliable baton of Hamish McKeich.... |
EVE DE CASTRO-ROBINSON
Eve de Castro-Robinson: I Stayed A Minute Dean Sky-Lucas [ Rattle Records / CD - released 30/Dec/2015 ] I stayed a minute was conceived by composer Eve de Castro-Robinson as a limited edition vinyl release in tandem with Auckland photographer, Harvey Benge. |
DYLAN LARDELLI
Two Bells Ensemble Klangrauschen featuring Peter Veale [ Rattle Records / CD - released 3/Nov/2023 ] Music for flutes, piccolo, viola, double bass, piano, oboe and English horn, composed by Dylan Lardelli and performed by Ensemble Klangrauschen and special guest Peter Veale. Elizabeth Farrell (flute, piccolo, alto and bass flute) Marie Yamanaka... |
Ferocious
Ferocious [ Rattle Records / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] A key figure on the New Zealand music scene since the early days of Flying Nun, Bill Direen's extraordinary output includes pop, rock, improvisation and poetry. On this recording he teams up with Mark Williams (guitar) and Johannes Contag (drums) to... |
FROM SCRATCH
Songs For Heroes [remastered anniversary edition] From Scratch [ Rattle Records / CD - released 23/Aug/2010 ] "The awareness and use of space in this music suggest a physical sense of the Pacific unlike anything else I've heard." (The Listener) |
TRISTAN CARTER / GARETH FARR / JACK HOOKER / ANTON KILLIN
NAGA - New Music For Gamelan Gamelan Padhang Moncar & Gamelan Taniwha Jaya [ Rattle Records / CD - released 11/Apr/2014 ] "Naga is a collection of outstandingly imaginative pieces, performed with impressive skill and panache by our two gamelan ensembles" says album producer Jack Body. For three-weeks of July 2013, the New Zealand School of Music's two gamelan... |
Gitbox
Curveball [ Rattle Records / CD - released 16/Apr/2021 ] 2021 is Rattle's 30th anniversary as an advocate for New Zealand art-music, and they are marking the occasion with a new album from Gitbox, the band that kicked things off for the label three decades ago with their much-loved and widely acclaimed... |