13/11/2015
A quarter century past now, the much talked-over ‘Dunedin sound’ left the city with a number of resident musical heroes, ...
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We’ve been dancing happily to them for a decade but now Batucada Sound Machine is no more, the band instead formally acronymed ...
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Auckland world music fusionists Beyondsemble were just one of the local musical outlets of multi-instrumentalist Craig Denham, ...
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The quirky, colourful and heavily detailed hand-drawn artwork adorning The Shifting Sands ’ new album brings to mind those ...
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Fane Flaws is a visual artist, painter and video director who has made short films and TV commercials and video clips for ...
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Three albums in, Napier three-piece Golden Curtain can sometimes seem to be taking the piss, such is the recognisably channelled ...
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Jamie McCaskill sometimes makes up the numbers in the Auckland-based Modern Maori Quartet, a foursome who take a crowd-pleasing, ...
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Analogue to digital convertor technology is now cost-effective enough to be integrated into any aspect of the audio chain. ...
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It’s a band, but there’s no escaping that Shunkan is the vehicle of Marina Sakimoto, a clear thinking 22-year old who ...
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