October/November 2014
COVER STORY
Industry
NZ On Air Turns 25
25 Years is a real milestone in any organisation (we should know, right?) and NZ Musician is pleased to take this chance to acknowledge the importance and value of NZ On Air to so many aspects of our music ...
FEATURES
Industry
Industry: Yule @ Bigsound 2014
Yule Guttenbeil (Yule) is currently living in Australia and took the opportunity to get along to this year's Aussie music expo, Bigsound 2014, as a delegate. A lawyer and business consultant by trade, ...
Ex-Pat Files
Ex-pat Files: Darryl Coppins
When Darryl Coppins first got in touch with NZM from Canada, where he has been living since 2007, he was playing rhythm guitar in a punk / '70s hard rock band called Sound and Fury. Coppins' biography ...
Interviews
The Prophet Motive: Density In Motion
What’s not to like about The Prophet Motive? As band names go it’s artful and as songs go, downright down-to-earth. The newly released debut album from Mitch Cookson and James Fox-O’Connell includes ...
Interviews
Brendan Smyth: 25 years behind the desk
Brendan Smyth may typically wear a black T-shirt and jeans, but he is a civil servant and master of government bureaucracy, with responsibility for the small packet distribution of $4.7M of taxpayer’s ...
Interviews
Sola Rosa: Sola Flare
If you’ve ever gone to a festival in New Zealand, chances are you might’ve seen Sola Rosa in one incarnation or the other over the years, after all the name has been around for over 15 years. With ...
Interviews
Terror Of The Deep: Deep Space That Is…
You can’t blame the rest of the country for not being familiar with Wellington three-piece Terror Of The Deep as they haven’t played their self-proclaimed ‘electronic folk’ outside the capital ...
Postcards From Berlin
Postcards From Berlin: Freddy Fudd Pucker
Mixing equal parts of tequila, vodka, gin, galliano and lemon juice with four measures of orange juice will get you pretty much Freddy Fudd Puckered. More healthily you could search out the former Dunedinite ...
Industry
Industry: Fishrider Records
Dunedin’s underground pop scene is flourishing, in large part thanks to part-time label Fishrider Records. Founded in 2006 primarily to release material by Dunedin legends The Puddle, Fishrider became ...
Interviews
Hallelujah Picassos: Picasso To The Core
This September saw the release of the first new Hallelujah Picassos recordings for nigh on 20 years, the topically-titled EP ‘Bullet That Breaks The Key’. Listening to the EP – three songs written ...
Moments Like These
Moments Like These: Moana Maniapoto
There would be few NZ bands that have taken their music and our indigenous culture to the world as extensively as Moana & The Tribe, so it's little wonder that in 2004 Moana Maniapoto was made Member ...
Interviews
Von Voin Strum: No Problemo
After years of hard slogging in and around Christchurch Von Voin Strum are no longer strangers to big stages, their CV including supports for international greats Slash and INXS. The band were one of the ...
Interviews
Miho Wada: The Whole Mystery Fruit Bowl
Among the many crazily creative and quirky musicians that this magazine is proud to be able to support, Miho Wada rates highly on all counts, prolificacy included. Her ‘last’ album, ‘Mystery Banana’, ...
Interviews
Eb & Sparrow: Wearing All Those Clothes
The name hints at an artful simplicity, of humility and humanity, and of an earthy folkiness – and Eb & Sparrow, the vehicle for assured 30-something Wellington singer/songwriter Ebony Lamb, live ...
Interviews
Majic Paora: Waiata Magic
In a genre dominated by male artists, 18-year-old reggae-roots artist Majic Paora has been logging one success after the other, both here and overseas. Not only has she been able to work in NZ as an independent ...
On Foreign Soil
On Foreign Soil: Jesse Sheehan
Jesse Sheehan was lucky enough to perform at Bigsound 2014 held in Brisbane, September 10-12. He filed this report of his adventures in Queensland for NZM. For those who don't know, BigSound is an ...
Interviews
French For Rabbits: Dreaming of Folk
When their debut album is released here in October, French For Rabbits will be in the midst of their third European tour. Brooke Singer provided NZM with a tour diary from their 33-date previous tour, ...
Interviews
Little Bark: Trending Connectivity
Hard to believe that it has been nearly four years already since we were introduced to both Sophie Burberry and Little Bark, through the bravely two-faced anagrammatic double album ‘Hope Is Rubbery’. ...
Fresh Talent
Fresh Talent: RakaTrent
I head along to Auckland's MAINZ campus to meet with Trent Anderson, aka RakaTrent, with lyrics from his song Get It repeating in my mind: ‘We trying to make our music from scratch, and boy we're ...
Fresh Talent
Fresh Talent: Miloux
It's been an interesting path that's led Rebecca Melrose to her current project, Miloux. Learning to sing in choirs, training in jazz, providing vocals for electronic producers and singing in Sal ...
Fresh Talent
Fresh Talent: His Master’s Voice
Like a smouldering volcano, His Master's Voice have heaved into Auckland's live music scene – and with just a two-week turnaround from stepping into the studio to the release of their debut EP, it ...
Interviews
Broods: Building Bridges
Fame comes slowly, if ever, for most, but a special few are lucky enough to cut through to the quick, even before they realise it. Such is the story of Broods, the sister and brother duo from Nelson who ...
LESSONS
Deep Thinking
Deep Thinking: Funk Meets Jazz – James Jamerson (1936-’83)
As promised in the last issue, we are going to look at some of the aspects of James Jamerson's bass playing that made him an individualist who has influenced bass players since the early days of the ...
Tutors' Tutorial
Tutors’ Tutorial: Modulation – Bringing About Change
For guitarists, stomp-box effects are the sum of both aural and tactile experiences. You turn a knob with one hand while plucking a string with the other and perk your ears to the wonders produced. However, ...
Finding Your Voice
Finding Your Voice: Engaging Autopilot
I learned a lot from being a Bond Girl. There I stood, in drop-dead gorgeous sequins, in front of a magnificent orchestra, belting out power ballads to an adoring audience… and yet, everything inside ...
Building Blocks
Building Blocks: Peak Performance Part 4 – Set Order
So far in this Building Blocks Peak Performance series we've covered every step of the mechanical, hands-on process of playing at a venue; getting to the gig with your gear, setting up and soundchecking, ...
Legal Advice
The Lawful Truth: Publishing Agreements – Part 2
In the last issue's The Lawful Truth column we looked at the basics of what a Publishing Agreement is and how, despite being not as widely known or understood as some other agreements in the music industry ...
Guitar Cool
Guitar Cool: Getting Better Results From Your Practising
Many prospective students say that they have a lot of trouble with making practising fun while getting good results at the same time. I'd suggest that if practising is not fun and you are not seeing positive ...