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Features
22/07/2016
Aaradhna: A Girl That Likes To Sing
At the 2013 Pacific Music Awards Aaradhna staged the awards’ first ever clean sweep, setting a record with six awards including Best Album for ‘Treble & Reverb’ and best song for the fantastic Wake Up. No surprise ...
NewTracks New Artist
18/11/2025
NewTracks New Artist: Goodspace
Shape-shifting Tāmaki Makaurau artist Goodspace has always been a project of multiple collaborations and forms, Jefferson Chen performing as a soloist or indie band, composing for immersive theatre and short films, and ...
Interviews
05/09/2025
Pearly*: Finding Dunedin’s Sweet Spot
Pearly* are fast becoming one of the new faces of Ōtepoti Dunedin music. The alt-rock guitar band of Joel Field, Phaedra Love, Josh Nicholls and Ryan Hill formed in 2023, very quickly establishing themselves as the ones-to-watch ...
Ex-Pat Files
10/06/2025
Ex-Pat Files: Lucie Watson
The website banner describes Inward Bound as a ‘London-based community supporting Kiwis in music’. The inwardbound.uk site includes pages of online resources covering things like visas, grants, venues and industry contacts, ...
Industry
04/03/2025
Industry: Dave Rhodes Productions
After two decades working in Auckland’s music scene as a sound engineer and producer Dave Rhodes returned to his hometown of Whitianga, established his own professional recording studio and went freelance. NZM talked with ...
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Deep Thinking
26/06/2016
Deep Thinking: Bass In Your Face
In the last NZM issue, we looked at some iconic Afro-American funk bass lines that used a 'less is more' approach. We'll continue the theme here by looking at two significant bass tracks (one from the 1960s and one from the ...
Deep Thinking
26/06/2016
Deep Thinking: Funk Meets Jazz – James Jamerson (1936-’83)
As promised in the last issue, we are going to look at some of the aspects of James Jamerson's bass playing that made him an individualist who has influenced bass players since the early days of the Tamla Motown record ...
Deep Thinking
26/06/2016
Deep Thinking: Jack Bruce (1943 – 2014)
Many readers of the Deep Thinking column will be familiar with British trio Cream, one of the bands of the late 1960s that moved from blues-based improvisation to experimental progressive rock, and influenced later bands ...
Deep Thinking
26/06/2016
Deep Thinking: Arpeggios on Bass
Welcome to NZ Musician's new bass column we've badged Deep Thinking! Over the next few issues, we are going to look at aspects of bass playing at various skill levels. The idea behind this column is to make you able to create ...
Deep Thinking
26/06/2016
Deep Thinking: Mr. Faun’s Afternoon
A very happy and successful New Year to you. Following on from the last issues cross-handed tapping piece, I have written another piece combining some harmonics with fretted root notes and some cross-handed technique. As ...