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Various Artists
Unleashed 2005 [ Sonny BMG Music Entertainment (New Zealand) Ltd / CD - released 14/Apr/2005 ] |
Various Artists
The Woolshed Sessions [ Woolshed Music New Zealand / CD - released 13/Oct/2008 ] Distinguished by lashings of lap-steel guitar, lush vocal harmony sing-a-longs, taonga puoro and banjo, 'The Woolshed Sessions' is a fresh approach to New Zealand songwriting. |
KENNETH YOUNG
Shadows and Light Vesa-Matti Leppanen (violin) / The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Young [ Atoll / CD - released 16/Nov/2015 ] Contemporary works for orchestra that are modern but approachable. These dramatic performances are conducted by the composer himself. The program includes the hauntingly beautiful "Remembering" with violin soloist Vesa-Matti Leppänen. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rachmaninov: Songs Viktoriya Dodoka (soprano) / Iola Shelley (piano) [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 20/Apr/2006 ] NZ-based Russian soprano Viktoriya Dodoka has established a remarkable reputation in New Zealand and Australia with dynamic performances for Canterbury Opera and at the Sydney Opera House. Here she is superbly accompanied by Iola Shelley in a... |
ROSS HARRIS
Harris: Face / Symphony No. 6 'Last Letter' Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Giordano Bellincampi, Antony Hermus [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] In Symphony No. 6 'Last Letter', Ross Harris explores settings of four poems by Vincent O'Sullivan, interlinking them with three musical interludes. The darkness of the subject matter draws from the composer music of powerful and at times despairing... |
The Whipping Cats
Last Ditch Dance [ Mole Music New Zealand / CD - released 14/Aug/2007 ] When the Whipping Cats play, it's a party -- with their own brand of New Zealand blue-punk rock and roll that is so infectious it's impossible not to throw all your cares to the wind and dance like a crazy person. |
JACK BODY
Songs of Death and Desire Xiao Ma (male soprano), Mere Boynton (mezzo), Anna Pierard (mezzo) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Young [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 12/May/2015 ] Dramatic and passionate songs in three languages; includes symphonic arrangements of six arias from Bizet's Carmen, and settings in Spanish and Maori of texts by women about love and life. |
Patea Maori Club
Poi E [ Jayrem Records New Zealand / CD - released 5/Sep/2001 ] This is an outstanding compilation of Patea Maori Club's best recordings. |
Alpharhythm
Sentient Beings [ Frisbee Dog Records New Zealand / CD - released 3/Oct/2006 ] Alpharhythm's debut album is the culmination of a decade of experience in creating electronic music. In 1995, young music enthusiast, Sam Cumming became ensconced by the relatively new phenomenon of dance music... |
Ashes of August
Truth You Know [ Ashes of August Music New Zealand / CD - released 17/Nov/2008 ] Tim & Holly Beals present this four-track CD, which features delicate vocal harmonies over intricate guitar playing, and special guest appearances by Wellington blues maestro Thomas Oliver on Weissenborn (slide guitar). |
BSM
Live at the Bowl of Brooklands [ BSM Music New Zealand / CD - released 10/Oct/2006 ] BSM are forging new paths in global music. This bunch of 15 mad musicians boasts members from Chile, Brazil, the UK and NZ - and as the numbers suggest, the sound they create is truly massive. |
BSM
Rhythm & Rhyme [ BSM Music New Zealand / CD - released 8/Oct/2007 ] This 13-piece group has evolved to become one of NZ's most sought-after acts. Their tasty concoction of styles is given a hip-hop front - solid rhymes over the massive samba/reggae percussion, while the talented band adds rich Pacific soul, reggae &... |
The Beths
Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 [ Carpark / CD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] In March 2020, everything seemed on track for another huge year for The Beths. Home after an 18-month northern hemisphere tour, they had just finished recording sophomore album Jump Rope Gazers and were primed for more extensive touring. But within... |
Billy Connolly & John McCusker
Billy Connolly's Musical Tour of New Zealand [ Pure Records / CD - released 27/Feb/2006 ] With music by John McCusker and featuring the lovely Kate Rusby, this is the soundtrack of the BBC series, containing traditional and newly-composed folk tunes. |
Carnivorous Plant Society
The New King [ CD - released 16/Mar/2018 ] It was in a dystopian world (with a working title of Dismal Imaginary Place deemed too depressing) that Carnivorous Plant Society's sophomore album The New King was born, simultaneously aspirational and pragmatically nihilistic. With fables penned by... |
Charlotte Yates
Dead Fish Beach [ Jayrem Records New Zealand / CD - released 1/Jun/2001 ] A delectable voice plus lyrics with spunk and intrigue |
Charlotte Yates
Plainsong [ Jayrem Records New Zealand / CD - released 2/May/2003 ] Fourth solo album from one of New Zealand's leading singer / songwriters |
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Crash-Test for Favourite Things
We All Just Want To Be Just Like You [ Local Music New Zealand / CD - released 11/Aug/2008 ] Auckland based, Crash-Test for Favourite Things are a 3-piece psychedelic, alternative rock band with elements of progression, folk, grunge, ballad and soundscape. |
Dear Time's Waste
Room for Rent [ Isaac Promotions New Zealand / CD - released 27/Apr/2009 ] Born from sleepy disillusionment with life in Auckland's leafy suburbs, Dear Time's Waste paints an aural picture of soft water colour with a grey wash of light... |
Death & The Maiden
Death & The Maiden [ Fishrider Records NZ / LP - released 20/Mar/2015 ] Named after an Edvard Munch painting (and not after that famous song by a famous Dunedin band that you shouldn't ask them about) Death and the Maiden are a Dunedin-based three piece who write slacker electronica: ethereal pop with a garage shtick. -... |
