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Waiata Maori Music expo announced
Charts to August 21: Waiata Maori Music expo
announced
There's been a swap at the top of the Album chart between the two who have been vying with each other for the last couple of weeks now. The Waiata Maori Music Expo has been announced, and there are some great new live shows to look forward to. And, as expected from pretty much any IMNZ release week, there is a nice diversity of new music to investigate.
The National Waiata Maori
Music Expo will be held in Hawkes Bay next month in
conjunction with the Waiata Maori Music Awards. The expo
will run from 9am to 3pm over two days (September 7 - 8)
with workshops focusing on traditional Maori music
instruments and panel discussions on traditional and
contemporary Maori music with special guest speakers.
Confirmed speakers on the panel include 2011 Maori Music Industry Award recipient Frankie Stevens and 2011 Lifetime Contribution to Maori Music Award recipient Mahora Peters alongside Waiata Maori Music finalists and leaders of kapa haka and arts groups throughout the country.
On the second day of the expo a workshop on ukulele will be held, from which the organisers hope to build momentum towards an attempt at breaking the world record for the most ukulele played at one time.
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International
and Industry Action The New Zealand showcase happening at
Big Sound in Brisbane looks like it will be a mighty fine
time... And in more news of New Zealand musicians
abroad, after a killer show last week in a bizarre snowy
week in Wellington, Leila Adu swings into the LA artrocker
heat doing a solo show at Chinatown art gallery
New release fanfare O’Lovely emerged in late 2008,
working up some attention with track “A Different Day”
(which is featured on this debut album). Christchurch-based
up till a few months ago, they are finally releasing their
long promised debut album Constellations from the 3-piece's
new home of Auckland. The album sounds dreamy, spacey, some
songs are flowing and floaty soaked in fuzzy reverb and 80s
synth and others are loud distorted guitar driven drone pop
songs with clusters of sounds blending together all with
slightlydark, very NZ sounding vocals. Constellations is a
collection of beautiful, eery and heartfelt songs - New
Romantic for the 21st Century. O'Lovely are on tour from
this Friday August 26, playing Wellington, Christchurch and
Auckland. Punches follow the dreamy folk-psychedelia of
their self-titled 2006 EP with Etheria, a moody, brooding,
etherial long player recorded long-distance by the power of
Skype and a whole lot of back’n’forthing (Kelly is now
based in Nashville). The duo features singer/bassist Kelly
Sherrod (formerly of Dimmer) and guitarist/singer James
Duncan (a solo artist under his own name and Dimmer, SJD)..
Punches' music is a mix of melancholia, electronica, pop,
guitars and folk. The music is supported by a simple drum
machine beat and the odd atmospheric interlude, giving the
songs space for Kelly’s beautiful and unique voice to
move. Best known for her albums sung in Te Reo
Maori, Whirimako Black explores new territory on The Late
Night Plays with full English renditions of some her
favourite songs from the twentieth century. The track
selection will be familiar to most with songs made famous by
U2, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu, Billie
Holliday, Etta James and Leonard Cohen. The Late Night Plays
will be released through Ode Records on October 3. Whirimako
Black will be playing shows in the coming months to showcase
The Late Night Plays. An announcement will be made in the
coming weeks of dates and venues. www.w On the live front It has just
been announced that Tiki Taane will be joining Mt Eden for
the final show of their first national tour, which is
running now. He'll be performing in his MC capacity with Mt
Eden this Friday at Backstage in Auckland. Available
from Celebrate
the long weekend at Coromandel’s Coroglen Tavern with a
special one-off show, featuring Tahuna Breaks and David
Dallas on Saturday 22 October, Labour Weekend. Synonymous
with summer, Coroglen Tavern is well known for its massive
gigs and beachy vibes, so kick off the sunny months the
right way with a couple of fine acts. Recently signed to US
Label Duck Down Records, David Dallas is one of New Zealand
hip-hop's men of the moment. His new album ‘The Rose
Tint’ was released for free online recently, receiving
overwhelming critical acclaim. He will hit the Coroglen off
the back of his recent sold out NZ shows. Tahuna Breaks'
last Kiwi gig was also a sell out. With a live stage sound
that encompasses funk, disco, soul, live electronics and
roots, their addictive rhythms are always guaranteed to get
crowds moving. Tickets are available now from: Tigi Ness and
his son Che Fu are part of Father and Sons, a brand new show
presented by the Christchurch Arts Festival and performing
arts collective Pacific Underground which debuts on Friday
23 September in the Telstra Club. Preceded by Pacific
Underground (PU)’s offering of their popular show Island
Summer (on Sunday 11 September) in the Telstra Club, Father
and Sons marks significant change for PU since February’s
earthquake. PU joins the many arts groups and people left
homeless since February’s earthquake. Being based in
the Dux de Lux building since 1997, their lease was
terminated by the Arts Centre Trust - a contributing factor
for show creators Pos Mavaega and Tanya Muagututi’a to
move to Auckland with their three children. Father and Sons
also stars Feleti Strickson-Pua, and his poet and Reverend
father Mua Strickson-Pua, and PU’s very own Drummer Chris
Searle features alongside his Dad - well-known jazz and
classical pianist Laurie Searle. IMNZ
chart-toppers
In a move that is sure to excite fans young and old, The
Chills and Dunedinmusic.com are proud to announce The
Chills' first home show in 2011. Martin Phillipps and his
band of musical elite will be bringing their show to Urban
Factory on Saturday 10 September. The Chills will be joined
by none other than Flying Nun veteran, Robert Scott (The
Clean and The Bats), who will be joining forces with John
White on the night. The Chills have also extended a helping
hand to upcoming band, Two Cartoons, in an initiation that
many young artists would give an arm for. Having
recorded and released two singles on iTunes, as well as
shooting a video, Two Cartoons are currently on a national
tour. They could be described as Indie surf rock similar to
bands such as Best Coast, Waaves and MGMT. On the back of
a highly successful and packed show at the Kings Arms,
Auckland in late July, Martin Phillips and co will be
pulling out gems from a treasure chest spanning the 31 years
of Chills history. Recently, The Chills have been making
waves within a new generation of Indie musicians. High
profile bands such as Holy Shit, Brilliant Colours and Fear
of Men have been seen covering the likes of Pink Frost,
while indie luminaries MGMT included the same track on their
The Patea Maori Club (whose reissued single Poi E has
been in the IMNZ singles chart for 70 weeks now) will be
part of a six-hour festival and concert to be held in the
Auckland Domain on Labour Day (October 24) following the
Rugby World Cup final. The free family event will be split
into two parts; from midday to 3.30pm 'The Real New Zealand
Thank You' community festival will feature an international
village showcasing the foods and cultures of the 20
countries taking part in the cup. The second part of the
show - The Fonterra Shout - will run from 3.30pm to 6pm with
performances from Dave Dobbyn, Evermore, Stan Walker, the
Patea Maori Club and an array of young Kiwi talent under the
direction of Mike Chunn of the Play it Strange Trust.
A huge local line-up will appear
at the Kaikoura Roots Festival, which will return to the
southern coastal town over January 14-15 next year. The
line-up includes IMNZers Kora, Cornerstone Roots, Stinky
Jim, Whirimako Black and Left Or Right plus Salmonella Dub,
Motocade, Dub FX, AHoriBuzz, Soulsystem, Soulja, Ecophonix,
Tui Soundsystem, Wicked Draw, DJs Darcy & Phil, DLT, Rio
Hemopo, Soulware, DJ Illfigz, Dreadford, DJ Digital, Amiria
Grenell and Peasants Of Eden. Tickets will be available
from September 5. Visit Around the World...2 stories this week... Google
Launches 'Magnifier,' a Music Blog... From Digital Music
News: We could pontificate all day about what this means for
Google's broader music strategy. But that assumes that
Google knows what this means for its broader music strategy.
And with that, the search behemoth quietly introduced
'Magnifier' on Wednesday, a blog that features lots of new
music. And that means free downloads, videos, images,
interviews, songs of the day, exclusive live sets and
recommendations, with content updated on a daily basis.
"Sometimes it will be new artists we think deserve more
attention," described Google head of Music Programming Tim
Quirk. "And sometimes there will be video interviews and
live performances." There's more to it than that. Magnifier
is tightly tied into Music Beta, both from a branding and
functional standpoint. So, the site offers an easy way to
upload featured content into your locker. "You can add any
or all of the songs to your Music Beta library instantly,"
Quirk continued. Which suddenly introduces a content layer
into the Music Beta mix, and goes beyond user-uploaded
collections. Currently, Google remains without major
label licenses on its cloud, which prevents quick,
iCloud-style scan-n-matching of user collections. Instead,
Music Beta users are forced to go through a laborious, often
multi-day uploading process. On Magnifier, that is not an
issue. Lots more detail and discussion at... AIM
Independent Music Awards Announce Bjork and Domino as
Recipients Of Pioneer & Outstanding Contribution To Music
Awards The inaugural AIM Independent Music Awards will
recognise and celebrate the artists, labels, companies and
individuals at the heart of this thriving music sector.
Today AIM unveils two of the recipients of the fourteen
awards who will be honoured at the ceremony hosted by
6Music’s Steve Lamacq and Radio 1’s Huw Stephens at
Floridita in London on Thursday 10th November. Signed to
One Little Indian, Bjork's eclectic musical style,
distinctive voice and pioneering approach to performance has
earnt her popularlity and respect from music fans and
critics alike. With seven solo albums under her belt, this
year Bjork is pushing the envelope with new album project
'Biophilia', with a series of apps, an education project
and a documentary exploring nature, music and technology.
Bjork's contribution to independent music has spanned over
20 years, inspiring many with her innovation and talent,
making her the very deserved winner of AIM's first
Outstanding Contribution to Music Award. The Outstanding
Contribution to Music award is sponsored by The Pioneer Award
recognises a visionary independent label founder and in 2011
the judging panel has awarded this accolade to Domino
Recording Company founder Laurence Bell. Launched in 1993 on
the back of a £40 a week enterprise allowance scheme and
shaped by an unwavering set of independent principles,
Domino has achieved great critical and commercial success
based on Bell’s tireless nurturing of artists whose music
he loves and believes in. Bell’s risk taking, hard work
and unyielding passion has seen him involved with numerous
classic albums by artists such as Franz Ferdinand, Arctic
Monkeys, Pavement, Elliott Smith and The Kills. http://www.musicindie.com/news/1134
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