Tucked away on a quiet side street in Auckland's Eden Terrace, Woodcut Productions specialises in recording, audio post-production and mastering, sound design, ringtones, jingles and so on. Woodcut is ...
There’s a business adage that if you want to get a job done promptly you should give it to someone who's already busy. Christian Nicolson is certainly a busy man, or more accurately a very busy artist, ...
Bruce Lynch is a musician, producer, composer and arranger whose musical career in NZ and the UK includes recording and performing with a formidable who's who – artists including Cat Stevens, Richard ...
Michael Barker's unique drum and percussion style has seen him record and tour with many prominent contemporary recording artists such as The John Butler Trio, Kasey Chambers, Missy Higgins, Alex Lloyd, ...
It has a vaguely malevolent ring to it but the music of Carnivorous Plant Society is better labeled mellifluous. It’s jazz Jim, but not as we know it. Mariachi-like horn stabs are just one of the fun ...
Country-folk supercrew Delaney Davidson and Marlon Williams have returned with a third installation of their ‘Sad But True’ album series. ‘Volume 3’ – sub-titled ‘Juke Box B Sides’ cos flippancy ...
In 2009 Grayson Gilmour was awarded a $12,000 APRA Professional Development Grant, which he used to further his compositional studies overseas. In the years since, he has largely put his career as a musician ...
North Shore five-piece Night Gaunts have already made it big. At least it seems that way when they tell me about their American tour that occupied them from June to August 2013. Three months, 31 states, ...
The Identity Slip began when two admitted maths geeks – Shawn Means and KT Sharp – met at Auckland University (the Mathematical Biology Department to be exact) and made a connection over music. Shawn ...
Tasmanian Tiger, the longest track on the EP ‘The Self Fulfilling Prophecies of the Flying Sorcerers' stands at a diminutive but palatable, one minute 45 seconds. In a world of soundbytes, seven second-long ...
Prior to moving north from Wellington to Auckland eight years ago, Ben Prestidge was searching out his calling, selling men's suits and watching the clock. A welcome epiphany brought him to where he ...
Although two members have studied jazz and another classical singing, the musical Wellington trio Pales produce is probably closer to art-folk than anything else. Mike Isaacs, who plays guitar and ...
Wellington community label Home Alone Music may only have a few artists on their roster but 2014 is already shaping up to be a big, perhaps breakthrough year. A debut album from French for Rabbits is overdue ...
Jimmy Mac is an Auckland drummer who in recent years has kept time for an impressive diversity of local acts including Popstrangers, DHDFDs and Ruby Frost. These days he plays keys for one of the world's ...
I have written (or arranged!) something extremely different from our recent rock and funk escapades for this first issue of the new year. It is actually a piano piece composed by the French composer, ...
Last issue, you and your bandmates read my column about deciding on band names. You pondered using a single word to name your band, like Nirvana, or putting 'The' in front of a noun, like The Datsuns. ...
The road to recovery from vocal damage – picking yourself up, dusting yourself off and singing all over again. NZM's wonderful Finding Your Voice columnist Caitlin Smith offers helpful remedy tips from ...
In this issue of NZ Musician magazine well be continuing the discussion started in the last Lawful Truth column regarding some of the important issues to be aware of in management agreements. The ...