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Moments Like These
16/12/2015
Moments Like These: Chris Priestley
Chris Priestley is a musician who has been pivotal in the Auckland folk music scene for over three decades. He is equally a business entrepreneur and culture creator. One of the founders of Real Groovy Records, he moved ...
Interviews
09/06/2006
dDub: The Dawn of dDub
'Awake At Dawn' is the name Auckland six-piece dDub have given their long awaited first album. It is a milestone for the members of the hardworking group who have spent the past six years defining their sound; moulding elements ...
Industry
31/07/2015
Industry: Musexpo & Canadian Music Week 2015
'A Kiwi amongst the Kangaroos' was how currently Melbourne-based songwriter Lisa Crawley introduced this account of her recent time spent attending a pair of major early summer North American music industry extravanganzas, ...
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MUSIC (3)
LESSONS (38)
Finding Your Voice
26/06/2023
Finding Your Voice: Losing, Finding, And Having A Voice
Something profoundly shifted when I underwent tongue surgery – in the aftermath, I found my voice. The surgeon had told me on the table that the procedure (to remove a benign saliva gland stone) was unnecessary. However, ...
Finding Your Voice
13/03/2023
Finding Your Voice: Do What Moves You
Do what moves you. Tension is a singer's greatest enemy. It disables the very areas of the body we need open to resonate sound in. Tension is generated mentally; anticipating threat or danger, or unconsciously, manifesting ...
Finding Your Voice
29/06/2022
Finding Your Voice: The Effect Menopause Has On The Voice
Singing Through ’The Change’: The Effect Menopause Has On The Voice - After the 21st gig of a 22-date tour, I stayed with friends for a much-needed breather. As documented in a previous Finding Your Voice NZM column, ...
Finding Your Voice
28/07/2021
Finding Your Voice: The Whole Body
As a singer our body is our instrument. We must be entirely sovereign over how we take care of our inner landscape. If the cathedral that we are is filled with concrete, we cannot sing. Tension is that concrete. Opening and ...
Finding Your Voice
08/03/2021
Finding Your Voice: Ways To Rebuild The Voice From Nodules
Dog whimpers and raspberry sirens: Ways to rebuild the voice from nodules. Late in 2019, Cailtin Smith was diagnosed with nodules on her vocal cords. ‘Singer’s nodules’ are calluses in the same place on both cords ...