19/07/2023
A bitter orange-flavoured soft drink combined with mellow electronica create the sound of your new favourite Maltese-Kiwi Carla Camilleri, who artistically goes by CC(TV). NZ On Air Music featured the Tāmaki Makaurau-based ...
31/05/2023
Following in the footsteps of, say, Troy Kingi, who also successfully passed from drama to the roaring crowds cheering sort-of-stages of Aotearoa, Te Whanganui-a-Tara reggae artist Tom Knowles presents 'Atarangi: Morning ...
08/05/2023
Matthew Paul aka Leon is known mostly for danceable indie pop live shows and airplay on student radio with his now-defunct band Ghost Wave while Mukuka Musowa floats around contemporary soul, RnB and hip hop projects. Together ...
11/04/2023
Abby Christodoulou got her start in X-Factor 2015 as one half of country pop duo Mae Valley. She's now five years into a solo project under a shortened version of her name, Abby Christo. Abby speaks with Nur Lajunen-Tal about ...
16/02/2023
The Beths may need to take a glance over their shoulder - Coast Arcade's new stadium-ready indie rock bop Highest Heights is ready to take over. The single features on NZ On Air Music's NewTracks compilation this February. What's ...
15/09/2020
Hi everyone! Many movies have a prequel delivered after the main feature has been released, but this article is the other (right) way around, a warmer up that will hopefully prepare you for the next Deep Thinking article ...
17/01/2020
In this Deep Thinking session, we are going to look at a couple of tracks recorded by legendary US session bassist, Carol Kaye. Carol was a member of the Wrecking Crew, a team of recording musicians used by the great and ...
02/08/2019
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, ...
11/04/2019
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 ...
25/10/2018
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 ...
