Neil Young with Crazy Horse in all their “Ragged Glory”. Neil & The Horse have played together for over 50 years and the performances of these songs is a true highlight of that long relationship. 9 songs with the original titles replaced with selected lyrics. (“Farmer John”, being a cover, retains...
A collaboration with award winning Ōtautahi singer-songwriter and producer Delaney Davidson – who also plays a variety of instruments on the record, Black Sea Golden Ladder was written and recorded as part of Troy Kingi’s Matairangi Mahi Toi Artist Residency in Wellington. The residency was created...
The debut album from Sun Kil Moon, originally released in 2003 and long since out of print is reissued on double vinyl. Includes original bonus track ‘Gentle Moon (Acoustic)’.
This book is an introduction to the star group Matariki. Known in other cultures by names including the Pleiades and the Seven Sisters, Matariki featured strongly in pre-European New Zealand. It marked the beginning of the Maori calendar, and its rising before the sun in late May or early June was...
Nonesuch Records releases the first recording of Steve Reich's ‘Reich/Richter’, performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain and conducted by George Jackson. The composition was originally written to be performed with German visual artist Gerhard Richter and Corinna Belz's film ‘Moving Picture (946–3)’.
Cold Fact is the debut album from singer-songwriter Rodriguez. It was released in the United States on the Sussex label in March 1970. In 1971 the album was released in South Africa by A&M Records. In 1976, several thousand copies of Cold Fact were found in a New York warehouse and sold out in...
‘Bridge Over Troubled Water,’ released in 1970, was Simon & Garfunkel's final studio album and their greatest success. The title track won an unprecedented five Grammy Awards, while the complete record won Album of the Year. The album stayed at #1 for 10 weeks, remained on the chart for a total of...
Blonde On Blonde' is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. ‘Blonde On Blonde’ completed the trilogy of rock albums that Dylan recorded in 1965 and 1966, starting with ‘Bringing It All Back Home’ and ‘Highway 61 Revisited.’ Combining the expertise of Nashville session...
Included on this magical record are Aldous Harding, Nadia Reid, Let's Eat Grandma, Bombay Bicycle Club, Emeli Sande, and Ben Harper. The Endless Coloured Ways is a collection of songs by legendary singer / songwriter, Nick Drake, performed and recorded by over 30 incredible artists from a range of...
Joan reaffirmed her unique ability to identify and interpret successive generations of songwriters whose music had the ability to speak to her: Mary Chapin Carpenter (“Stones In the Road”), John Stewart (“Strange Rivers”), John Hiatt (“Through Your Hands”), the duo of Janis Ian and Buddy Mondlock...
Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu's words are a good introduction to the third album in a trilogy of musical travel documents that began with The Visit. Recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World studios in England, The Book Of Secrets was written and researched all over the world, and, following its release...
Wooden Wand is one moniker of singer-songwriter James Jackson Toth, who has recorded under his given name as well as the name WAND. Having over 100 releases from proper albums to handmade CDRs to limited-edition vinyl, Toth is by all accounts an astoundingly prolific artist. Briarwood is the result...
20 20 is a studio album by English folk musician Kate Rusby, released on October 22, 2012 on Pure Records. Produced by Rusby and her husband Damien O'Kane, the album celebrates Rusby's twentieth year as a recording artist, and features re-recordings of previously released tracks each of which...
In 2001, the Fourmyula’s 1969 New Zealand hit Nature was voted the country’s best pop song of all time by the Australasian Performing Right Association. The poppsychedelic band beat Crowded House, Split Enz and indie legends The Chills. Inside The Hutt: New Zealand’s Pop-Psych Kingpins 1968–1969...
After a long hiatus following the success of her first album, Knapp's second album, Hidden Seam comes highly anticipated and is expected to be full of many more musical revelations that will only build on her already esteemed musical foundation.
Hints of African high life, British folk, free-improvisation, Brazilian spirituals and blue eyed soul gracefully come together in Doug Tielli's second release, Keresley. The record is a wide spray of textures, dynamics and styles and feels unified by Doug’s fluid voice and musicianship. Voice,...
Acclaimed songwriter David Rotheray (Beautiful South) returns with his beautifully crafted new solo album ‘Answer Ballads’, a collection of songs in which Rotheray, and his collaborators, take twelve classic pop songs and attempt to formulate an ‘Answer Ballad’ for each one. Taking existing...
This spring, ‘The Oaks They Will Bow’ has emerged from The Sitting Room’s cedar frame. The debut full length album from Christchurch duo The Tiny Lies; a work of altfolk- country-noir.! The Tiny Lies will be hitting the road in November 2013 and bringing their work to the stage in a National tour....
I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight signals the arrival of a very singular musical talent in singer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Franc Cinelli. On this warm, strong album, Franc's insightful, reflective songs are delivered in a deep, gravelly, ‘well-travelled’ vocal style and his...
Ground of Its Own is the striking debut release by Sam Lee, a young musician who is busy forging a unique path in the future of folk song. Ground of Its Own is an 8-track release (produced by Gerry Diver and with mixes by John Wood, of Nick Drake fame) comprising traditional material, largely...