GILLIAN WHITEHEAD
Arapatiki Ben Hoadley (bassoon) Stephen de Pledge (piano) with Richard Nunns, Aroha Yates-Smith, Janet Roddick & others [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] Smaller-scale Whitehead, all pieces based on a single artistic theme - and featuring solo bassoonist Ben Hoadley. |
DAVE LISIK
Ancient Astronaut Theory Dave Lisik (Electronics) Richard Nunns (Taonga Puoro) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] Ancient Astronaut Theory is a new work by David Lisik, composed in seven movements for taonga pūoro, and featuring Richard Nunns. Combining loops and re-contextualised phrases with layered overdubs and electronic manipulation, Dave has concocted the... |
Hirini Melbourne and Richard Nunns
Te Ku Te Whe [ Rattle Records / CD - released 9/Apr/1994 ] This passionate and spiritual album is the definitive recording of pre-European Maori instrumental music. 'Te Ku Te Whe' has a rich and sensual musicality, which spans both its traditional ethnic source and the modern context of the performers. |
Hirini Melbourne and Richard Nunns / Remixed by Various New Zealand Artists
Te Whaiao - Te Ku Te Whe - Remixed [ Rattle Records / CD - released 3/Oct/2006 ] The 'Te Ku Te Whe' album was released in 1998 and is the definitive recording of pre-European Maori instrumental music. Now these NZ producers have taken the music a step further by remixing it for the 21st century! |
Marilyn Crispell / Jeff Henderson / Richard Nunns
This Appearing World [ Rattle Records / 2 CD/DVD - released 14/Nov/2011 ] Marilyn Crispell and Jeff Henderson weave a beautiful array of sonic textures and nuances around the evocative sounds of Richard Nunns. |
RICHARD NUNNS
Tuhonohono: The Weaving Richard Nunns / Judy Bailey / Steve Garden [ Rattle Records / CD - released 1/Nov/2004 ] Tühonohono, marries European (read ECM) form with Pacific texture. This is an unashamedly lush, ambient, spacious album, evoking a sense of mystery as it weaves together the strands of two apparently distant musical tonalities. |
Richard Nunns / Mark Lockett
Redaction [ Rattle Records / CD - released 26/Jun/2015 ] Redaction, featuring renowned taonga pūoro exponent Richard Nunns, one of our longest serving and most consistently adventurous artists, was conceived first and foremost as an art-project. |
Richard Nunns, Natalia Mann, David Long
Utterance [ Rattle Records / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Richard Nunns has been an inspiration to countless artists across a range of disciplines around the world, but his influence on the cultural landscape of Aotearoa is enormous. One simply can't quantify the value of Richard's contribution, not only... |
GILLIAN WHITEHEAD
Puhake ki te rangi Richard Nunns (taonga puoro) Alexa Still (flute) / New Zealand String Quartet [ Atoll / 2 CD/DVD - released 22/Dec/2007 ] "In 1989, I heard for the first time, in a presentation given by Richard Nunns, the sounds of the taonga puoro (singing treasures), which spoke to me very strongly of the spirituality of my Maori heritage. I began working with these instruments... |
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... |
Whirimako Black & Richard Nunns
Te More [ Rattle Records / CD - released 5/Dec/2011 ] A tribute to one of Maoridom's most famous early composers, Mahi-ki-te-kapua. Emotionally rich, texturally lush, this beautiful recording brings together two of our finest musical taonga. |
The Chris Mason-Battley Group with Richard Nunns
Two Tides [ Rattle Records / CD - released 1/Mar/2006 ] This album brings together two distinct musical sensibilities and explores their similarities and differences through improvisation: Maori instrumentation and European jazz forge new paths within the evolving musical landscape of New Zealand. |
Hirini Melbourne and Richard Nunns
Te Hekenga-a-rangi [ Rattle Records / CD - released 10/Jun/2003 ] Highly innovative use of traditional Maori instruments, female voice, etc. Includes exclusive, fascinating video footage on companion DVD |
Richard Nunns
Mahi [ Rattle Records / CD - released 18/Dec/2020 ] One of the largely unseen consequences of the European colonisation of Aotearoa was that the playing of, and knowledge about, the traditional musical instruments of Maori almost disappeared. In the 1970s a young Pakeha schoolteacher, Richard Nunns,... |
JOHN PSATHAS
White Lies [Soundtrack] Emma Sayers (piano) Richard Nunns (taonga puoro) Sasha Gachenko (bass) Matt Cave (bass) & others [ Rattle Records / CD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] White Lies is a single piece of music for piano, taonga puoro and strings composed by John Psathas. The music was written for the film White Lies, directed by Dana Rotberg and released by South Pacific Pictures. The story is based on the novella... |
MARTIN LODGE
Toru: chamber music James Tennant, Richard Nunns, Peter Scholes, William Dowdall, Edward King, Jeremy Mayall, etc [ Atoll Records / CD - released 1/Apr/2012 ] Brilliantly performed chamber works by Martin Lodge |
Paddy Free with Richard Nunns
Karekare: Te Reo O Te Whenua [ Dub Conspiracy Music New Zealand / CD - released 14/Jul/2008 ] Ranging from dreamy ambience to full-on pounding beats, this CD is a sonic journey that captures the many moods of Karekare and features guest vocals in Te Reo from Tiki Taane, Waimihi Hotere, Te Wharetatao & Corrina Hunziker. |
Richard Nunns / Paul Dyne / Dave Lisik
Hikoi / Journey [ Rattle Records / CD - released 27/Apr/2012 ] 'Journey' elaborates on the source material of 'Hikoi', which started life as a musical conversation between two life-long friends, Richard Nunns (taonga puoro) and Paul Dyne (bass). |