20/03/2014
It has a vaguely malevolent ring to it but the music of Carnivorous Plant Society is better labeled mellifluous. It’s jazz Jim, but not as we know it. Mariachi-like horn stabs are just one of the fun elements horns and ...
04/03/2014
In 2009 Grayson Gilmour was awarded a $12,000 APRA Professional Development Grant, which he used to further his compositional studies overseas. In the years since, he has largely put his career as a musician aside, in favour ...
21/01/2014
Barry Saunders has had a charmed and distinguished career that began when he formed his first band, Orange, to play the Christchurch club circuit in early 1970. Barry played in a number of other bands both here and overseas ...
28/08/2013
Over several years from the late 1990s, Charlotte Yates provided NZ Musician with a regular songwriting advice column. In the decade since has released a steady stream of albums under her own name, alongside three much admired ...
03/07/2013
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 have consistently ...