JANET JENNINGS / ROB THORNE / SALINA FISHER / ALEXANDER ALFORD / MIRIAMA YOUNG et al
Force Of Nature: Te Aumangea o te Ao Turoa NZ Trio, Peter Scholes, Kathryn Moorhead, Rob Thorne, Yoshi Tsuruta [ Atoll Records / CD - released 17/Mar/2023 ] Eight composers pay homage to New Zealand nature, celebrating 100 years of Forest & Bird. |
Phil Dadson | Rob Thorne
Aurongo ~ Inner Listening [ Rattle / 2 CD - released 30/Oct/2023 ] Two albums cut from the same cloth. The first presents the original, improvised recordings of Phil Dadson (playing a multi-voiced bespoke instrument called the "gloop") and Rob Thorne (playing his big brown sack of evocative taonga pūoro) mixed with... |
Rob Sinclair, Bevan Revell
Pansousiance [ Rattle Records / CD - released 26/Nov/2021 ] Recorded during the first Covid-19 lockdown in New Zealand, the introspective tone of Rob Sinclair and Bevan Revell's Rattle debut evokes the familiar imagery of our post-pandemic world, and it touches on some of the many challenges artists face as... |
Rob Thomas
Chip Tooth Smile [ Atlantic / CD - released 31/May/2019 ] Three-time GRAMMY® award winner Rob Thomas progresses by recognising his roots. In fact, the singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and Matchbox Twenty co-founder picks up a thread from his formative years and weaves a bold and bright new chapter... |
Rob Thorne, Karl Sölve Steven
Black Coast Vanishings [ Rattle Records / CD - released 7/Jun/2024 ] Music adapted from the television series "Black Coast Vanishings", composed and performed by Karl Sölve Steven and Rob Thorne. |
ROB THORNE
Whāia te Māramatanga Rob Thorne (taonga puoro & composition) Richard Nunns (purerehua on Waharoa & Gateway) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] Whāia Te Māramatanga is a musical passage of identity and connection. A journey of knowledge through action and practice, reclaiming the past for a stronger future, while joining the two in a place that is here, and a time that is now. A... |
Tania Giannouli, Rob Thorne, Steve Garden
Rewa [ Rattle Records / CD - released 15/Jun/2018 ] The ancient cultures of Greece and Aotearoa inform this expressive set of textural tapestries from pianist Tania Giannouli and one of the leading taonga pūoro exponents, Rob Thorne. REWA was recorded over a two-day period in May 2017, less than a... |
Wayne Gillespie & Famous Blue Raincoat (With Rob Grosser)
FRAZZ [ Independent / CD - released 9/Dec/2022 ] Early Tom Waits meets late Joe Henry while waiting for Leonard Cohen to show. Kiwi born Sydney resident Wayne Gillespie releases his 6th album with band Famous Blue Raincoat & Rob Grosser. Gillespie cut his teeth playing London Folk Clubs and... |
Elina Duni with Rob Luft & Fred Thomas
Lost Ships [ ECM / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] Elina Duni and Rob Luft's programme of songs of love and exile has been gathering momentum since 2017, when the Albanian-Swiss singer and the British guitarist began their collaboration. Along the way the duo has been augmented by distinguished... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Renee Fleming: Broadway Renee Fleming (soprano) / BBC Concert Orchestra, Rob Fisher [ Decca / CD - released 10/Feb/2019 ] "All in all, then, a valuable disc with quite a lot of songs off the beaten track, which admirers of Renée Fleming, or of Broadway musicals in general, or both, should derive hours and hours of pleasure from." MusicWeb |