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On Foreign Soil
06/08/2019
On Foreign Soil: Hans at SXSW 2019
Hans (actually hans.) is the stage name adopted by Auckland hip hop artist Hanju Kim, who first featured on NZMusician.co.nz back in 2017 with the release of his debut EP titled ‘1995’. Talking with Cassandra King then, ...
Interviews
15/04/2019
Dharmarat: Hip Hop Productivity
Mid-way through last year, South Auckland rapper Dharmarat, real name Adam Kitto, dropped a 10-track mixtape bemusingly titled ‘Jesus’ – describing it as a sampler of the sounds and flows he was working with for his ...
Interviews
11/02/2019
Rhian Sheehan: Nevermind The Great Divide
Leading an eight-piece band and locally string sections recruited from each city, in October musician/composer/all-round creative genius Rhian Sheehan played album release shows in Dunedin, Nelson, Wellington and Auckland. ...
NewTracks New Artist
23/01/2019
NewTracks New Artist: Tom Young
Aucklander Tom Young considers himself more as a songwriter or music maker than some crafty instrumentalist, but he manages to work well with the skills he does have – as showcased in his latest single Brother. December ...
Interviews
17/09/2018
The Chills: Climate Change (Part 2)
Promoting ‘Silver Bullets’, The Chills’ first full album in nearly two decades British indie label Fire Records described it as bursting with chiming Dunedin-pop anthems, the idiosyncratic underlying melancholy offset ...
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Deep Thinking
02/08/2019
Deep Thinking: Weather Report’s Birdland
For this issue, I have transcribed the opening bass part on the seminal Weather Report track Birdland from the band’s 1977 album ‘Heavy Weather‘. The transcription features the band’s bassist, the legendary Jaco Pastorius, ...
Deep Thinking
11/04/2019
Deep Thinking: Purple Haze
Hi Everyone, this issue’s challenge is to play some Jimi Hendrix. I have transcribed the introduction to Purple Haze as Hendrix played it on a Strat but added a bass trick that will probably annoy your guitarist! For ...
Deep Thinking
25/10/2018
Deep Thinking: Sidney Carton’s Steps
This Deep Thinking piece is a solo bass tune with a nod in the direction of Charles Dickens (a ‘nod’ being the important word…). I would like to say it is a ‘far, far’ harder piece than the last piece we looked ...
Deep Thinking
07/09/2018
Deep Thinking: Sidney Carton’s Steps
This Deep Thinking piece is a solo bass tune with a nod in the direction of Charles Dickens (a ‘nod’ being the important word…). I would like to say it is a ‘far, far’ harder piece than the last piece we looked ...
Deep Thinking
09/05/2018
Deep Thinking: Addicted To Chic
As mentioned in previous Deep Thinking columns, I have always admired the bass playing of the late Bernard Edwards (1952–1996), one of the co-founders founders of Chic, a seminal disco band of the late 1970s and the early ...