June/July 2013
COVER STORY
Interviews
Fat Freddy’s Drop: A Drop In Concentration
Admired by fans worldwide for their ability to jam single tracks for as long as many a punk album, live as well as on record, Fat Freddy’s Drop have specialised not just in milking the groove but in ...
FEATURES
Interviews
Shapeshifter: Bassed On A Feeling
Without doubt New Zealand’s most successful live drum’n’bass act, Shapeshifter have come to be one of our most enduringly popular and successful bands of any genre. For more than a decade Shapeshifter ...
Interviews
Jan Hellriegel: Lost & Found Again
Discovering a mixture of her old recordings on cassette and DAT tape in the garage, out of curiosity Jan Hellriegel decided to have them digitally transferred. Pleased and surprised by the quality of songs, ...
Interviews
Soljah: Stomping The Yard
The rise to wider public prominence of Soljah has been testament to a long history of five musicians honing their craft, both in the studio and by playing kinetic live shows around the country. With the ...
On Foreign Soil
On Foreign Soil: Mel Parsons
On the back of the chance to perform at south Englands annual Great Escape Festival, West Coast-born folk artist Mel Parsons has gone for broke this NZ autumn. As this issue of NZM is being prepared ...
Legal Advice
The Lawful Truth: Copyright Basics
Copyright is probably the most important single legal concept when it comes to the music industry. If you understand how copyright law works you will know how you can protect your work and also get the ...
Interviews
Jesse Sheehan: Growing Under Lights
Having shown almost precocious musical talent as a schoolboy, Jesse Sheehan is now aged 21 and is coming into his own. More than competent on any stage, he has his own live band and now a second EP, ‘How ...
Interviews
Awa: A Man For All Media
The face and voice of Nesian Mystik, Te Awanui Reeder was also the band’s main songwriter – along with co-producer David Atai. Awa has been writing songs since he was 15 and sees his solo career as ...
Fresh Talent
Fresh Talent: Chatchy
It is a lofty goal to want to be "one of the best live bands in the country", but hard working Hamilton band, Chatchy, can reasonably feel they are halfway there. On the back of multiple big ...
Fresh Talent
Fresh Talent: Eb & Sparrow
A labour of love. Wellington-based five-piece Eb & Sparrow, was born – like most good country bands – out of heartbreak. Lead singer-songwriter and acoustic guitarist, Ebony Lamb, started playing ...
Fresh Talent
Fresh Talent: 1 Drop Nation
1 Drop Nation is a band of many flavours. Drops of reggae, Bollywood, funk, pop, jazz, rock and RnB. You wouldn't think it was possible, but that's what 1 Drop Nation has crafted: ...
Fresh Talent
Fresh Talent: Carb On Carb
It's hard to feel anything other than enthusiasm for a band with a name like Carb On Carb. Sure, there're Atkins devotees out there, and people who strive for ketosis in their diets. But honestly, ...
Interviews
P-Money: A New York Mandate
P-Money has delivered big time on the promise that saw him gracing the cover of NZ Musician a dozen years ago, back in early 2001. Even so, the various successes Pete Wadams has achieved in his own career ...
Industry
Industry: Heavenly Pop Art
The Chills have a long history full of stories: leather jackets, line-up changes and curses, (to name a few). The band is still well-loved and respected, a major part of the lauded Dunedin Sound genre. They ...
Features
Group Review: Four Portable PA Systems On Stage
Having done a similar review of portable PA systems for NZM four or five years ago, I was keen to see how advancing technology had changed the world of small-scale public address. As I was about to find ...
Interviews
Eden Mulholland: Dancing With The Beast
Multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer/songwriter Eden Mulholland was enjoying the late autumn sunshine at his in-law’s house in Brisbane when Amanda Mills talked with him about his latest recording. ...
Interviews
Jed & Hera: Let It Be Easy
Writing and recording comes easy for some. Iceland-born Hera Hjartardottir, for instance, already has half a dozen albums to her name at just 30. A decade younger, Jed Parsons hasn’t yet had time to ...
Interviews
The Upbeats: From Noisia Land
For the last decade, working together as The Upbeats, Dylan Jones and Jeremy Glenn have made an international career for themselves as studio producers and live DJ purveyors of, what is considered some ...
Features
Moments Like These: Murray McNabb
Keyboard virtuoso Murray McNabb was a widely-respected musician who devoted a musical lifetime to the broadening of NZ jazz circles, playing for a number of bands that he was instrumental in forming and ...
Postcards From Berlin
Postcards From Berlin: Charity Children
Alongside Elliott McKee, Chloë Lewer is one half of Charity Children. Dreamers and trained actors, the pair are an almost accidental pop act who discovered their musical appeal the first day they tried ...
Remembering...
Dave McArtney: A Farewell Salute
Dave McArtney died peacefully at his home on April 16, 2013, aged a youthful 62. Way too early in a life that had been well-lived, yet still offered plenty more. As a musican, songwriter, educator, friend ...
Industry
Industry: RIANZ and PPNZ make way for Recorded Music NZ
The last time NZ Musician had cause for a formal meeting in the boardroom that PPNZ Music Licensing and RIANZ (Recording Industry Association of NZ) share, was back in 2009. That was ...
LESSONS
Jazz Guitar Shed
Jazz Guitar Shed: 4 x4 – Chord Tones
After a couple of detours in recent NZM issues, it's time to think about notes again. Our focus is on how to bring out the sound of the harmony when we solo over standard chord progressions (clue, the ...
Guitar Cool
Guitar Cool: Combining Chords and Scales
Many guitarists think there is a division between rhythm and lead guitar styles, but in reality experienced players don’t think like that. No matter what the genre, I like to think that I am either comping ...
X-Factory
X-Factory: L.A. Mitchell – Lose The Game
L.A. Mitchell has been an in-demand writer and performer for quite some time. She has released two self-produced albums showcasing her love of new soul, jazz and RnB and collaborated on EPs with Isaac ...
Finding Your Voice
Finding Your Voice: The Breathaholic and the Pusher
We might as well face it, we’re addicted to air. Not ‘air that keeps us alive’, rather, a desperate unquenchable full-blown addiction to having full lungs at all times! We subconsciously think we ...
Deep Thinking
Deep Thinking: Chord/Melody Technique
In this issue, we are going to try a piece that, in a way, utilises what guitarists call the chord/melody technique. It's another solo bass piece but the method of playing you will need to develop ...