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The Renderers
In The Sodium Light [ Ba Da Bing / CD - released 26/Feb/2016 ] The seismic rumbling of The Renderers goes beyond the fiendish pastoralia of their music. Long-time Christchurch residents, Brian and Maryrose Crook witnessed the earthquakes crumble the city. That, and Maryrose's developing career as a painter (she... |
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Rodger Fox Big Band
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The Rodger Fox Big Band
A Rare Connection [ T-Bone Records / CD - released 7/Sep/2004 ] New Zealand's foremost jazz trombonist, big-band leader, jazz educator, arranger and producer. This album showcases all the talent in the band, plus features two international artists: Pianist / Composer, Bill Cunliffe, and Trumpeter, Jon Papenbrook |
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The Rodger Fox Wellington Jazz Orchestra
The Capitol Sessions [ Rattle Jazz / CD - released 3/May/2013 ] Under the artistic and musical direction of Rodger Fox, the Wellington Jazz Orchestra is arguably the tightest, brightest, most musically literate exponent of big band jazz this country has seen. |
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The Ruby Suns
Fight Softly [ Lil' Chief Records New Zealand / CD - released 15/Feb/2010 ] 'Fight Softly' is the kind of head-spinning combo of big-picture vision & sumptuous detail that only comes from an artist with a need to express all he's seen. And you can dance to it! |
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The Ruby Suns
Lichen Ears [ Lil' Chief Records New Zealand / CD - released 3/Dec/2007 ] The new look Ruby Suns are back with this six track EP out through Lil' Chief, recorded at Sackville St in Grey Lynn, Auckland. |
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The Ruby Suns
Sea Lion [ Lil' Chief Records New Zealand / CD - released 21/Jan/2008 ] 'Sea Lion' bursts with summery pop tunes and exotic sounds, with a dizzying breadth of musical styles from African and Polynesia folk music to 80s synth pop. |
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Shapeshifter
Soulstice [ True Tone / CD - released 11/Apr/2013 ] 'Soulstice' is the astounding third album from local dancefloor kings, Shapeshifter. It features the single "Bring Change", as well as appearances from KP, Kye + a scorching track from Ladi 6. |
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Sheep, Dog & Wolf
Egospect [ Lil' Chief / CD - released 23/Aug/2013 ] While still in high-school he began drumming for fiery New Zealand noisepunk group Bandicoot, and while still sixteen , Daniel McBride began performing infront of small audiences at house parties and dive bars as well as large audiences at music... |
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The Shifting Sands
Cosmic Radio Station (LP) [ Fishrider / LP - released 9/Oct/2015 ] The Shifting Sands are Mike McLeod (guitar, vocals), Tom Bell (bass) and Jake Langley (drums). Despite also running the busy Chick's Hotel live music venue at Port Chalmers the band also undertook a 2014 US West Coast tour supporting David Kilgour &... |
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The Shifting Sands
Feel [ Fishrider Records NZ / CD - released 25/May/2012 ] The debut album by The Shifting Sands is psychedelic pop, alternating between the dreamy and the urgent. Featuring Michael McLeod, David Kilgour, Robert Scott, Robbie Yeats, Lesley Paris, Jay Clarkson and more. |
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Shihad
The General Electric [ Wildside Records / CD - released 24/Sep/1999 ] The songs on Shihad's fourth album are a shining combination of the band's live energy put to tape, and the sheer sense of size they always deserved. |
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Silicon
Personal Computer [ CD - released 28/Aug/2015 ] Silicon - the new project ex-Mint Chicks Frontman, multi-instrumentalist Kody Nielson - releases its debut album Personal Computer. This is a seductive electronica record that pits Nielson's brilliant soul, funk and disco influenced songwriting... |
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Six60
Six60 (Standard) [ Massive Entertainment / CD - released 27/Feb/2015 ] Six60's second album comes after an extended period of songwriting and touring, where the band accumulated hundreds of songs and boiled them down to the twelve best tracks for the album. Written and produced by Matiu Walters, Marlon Gerbes, and... |
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SJD
Dayglo Spectres [ Round Trip Mars CD / CD - released 9/Oct/2008 ] Flipping the script Sean Donnelly linked up with long time guitarist (and so much more) James Duncan, to create this unabashedly mirror-ball lit, synth straddling mercurial monster of a fifth album. After this darkadelic adventure into the upper... |
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SJD
Elastic Wasteland [ Round Trip Mars CD / CD - released 22/Nov/2012 ] Though Elastic Wasteland may be Sean Donnelly's sixth album under the SJD umbrella, it is in many ways a record of firsts. For example it is the first time Sean has written, sung, played and produced very single note himself, even following through... |
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SJD
Songs From a Dictaphone [ Round Trip Mars CD / CD - released 18/Jul/2007 ] Where SJD's previous long player, 'Southern Lights', was all micro-tones and dark shades, there is a more colourful side to SJD's oeuvre on display here, with danceable delicacies and generous synthesizer washes, complementing the much loved moody... |
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Sola Rosa
Moves On [ Way Up Recordings New Zealand / CD - released 2/Aug/2005 ] The third SR album is unquestionably the best one yet! Featuring Deva Mahal, Spikey Tee and Paul St Hilaire, Nathan Haines, Manuel Bundy, Ned Ngatae, Will Scott, John Highsted & Matt Short. |
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Sons of Zion
Sons of Zion [ Sony / CD - released 24/Sep/2009 ] Auckland six piece Sons of Zion have captivated audiences all over the country with their infectious sound - a mixture of reggae groove with melodic vocals, phat dub bass lines and heavily distorted guitar riffs. |
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Split Enz
True Colours (40th Anniversary Edition) [ Warner Australia / CD - released 31/Jul/2020 ] Working with freshly digitised audio taken from the original album tapes, Split Enz's Eddie Rayner has produced a stunning new mix of True Colours for the acclaimed album's 40th birthday. Rather than just another remaster from the existing final... |