Al Fraser, Sam Leamy, Neil Johnstone
Panthalassa [ Rattle Records / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Panthalassa was the super ocean that surrounded the super continent Pangaea during the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic era. Panthalassa, the album, is an abstract and impressionist work in which conceptual ideas are explored through the luminous ngā taonga... |
Neil Johnstone, Sam Leamy, Steve Garden
Chalk Dogs [ Rattle Records / CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] CHALK DOGS is a series of multi-layered works created during (and in response to) New Zealand's Covid-19 lockdown between April and June 2020. The project was developed and completed entirely in isolation and explores the blurred lines between inner... |
Sam Ford & Trudi Green with the Soulahula Band
OOOEE! [ CD - released 5/May/2023 ] OOOEE! was recorded during the last Auckland lockdown, with each member of the band recording their own parts at home and sending them in to Soulahula Central, where they were compiled and edited by Sam, Trudi and Chris over the course of... |
Sam Most
Four Classic Albums (I'm Nuts About The Most...Sam That Is! / Musically Yours / Plays Bird, Bud, Monk & Miles / The Amazing Mr Sam Most) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/May/2017 ] Possibly a new name to some jazz fans, but our next hero, Sam Most was considered by no less an authority than Leonard Feather to be "the first great jazz flutist". Sam Most had been primarily a tenor sax man before taking up the clarinet and then... |
Sam Ryder
There's Nothing But Space, Man! (Limited LP) [ PLGUK / Warner / LP - released 9/Dec/2022 ] Though Sam Ryder has been on the scene for over a decade now, it's been just the last year that he became something of a household name for many. Coming to prominence earlier this year by performing 'Space Man' as the UK's Eurovision Song Contest... |
Sam Smith
In The Lonely Hour [ Capitol Records / CD - released 23/May/2014 ] 'In The Lonely Hour' is BRIT and BBC Sound Poll winner Sam Smith's debut album. 'In The Lonely Hour' is a 10-track labour of love for Sam 'I said to myself, I don't want to have a genre. 'I wanted to take a risk'. In the course of putting it... |
Sam Smith
The Thrill Of It All [ Capitol Records / CD - released 3/Nov/2017 ] It's been over three years since Sam Smith's debut album was released, and in the meantime he has become one of the biggest acts on the planet with millions of album sales and an array of awards including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, three Brit... |
Stephen Clothier, Ross Harris, Neil Johnstone, Sam Leamy, Steve Burridge, Steve Garden
Collapsed Clouds [ Rattle Records / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] How many columns of clouds Had risen and crumbled, I wonder Among other things, these two lines of Japanese poetry by Sora (an Edo period Japanese poet) evoke the natural balance between order and chaos. They inspired and inform the core ideas of... |
Ben E. King, Drifters, Solomon Burke, Crystals, Sam Cooke, The Angels, The Shirelles, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, etc
Stand by Me: 30 Soul & Chiffon HITS [ Alto / CD - released 7/Jul/2024 ] "in mid-1950's USA the Teenager was born of the post-war boom. A new retail demographic was determined to impose their tastes away from sheet-music to newly invented 45's, LP's and Charts: a major worldwide industry was born" (MusicalMerit) |
JAMES MACMILLAN
One Equal Music: Psalms, Poems & Folksongs The Elysian Singers, Alexandra Caldon (violin), Sam Laughton (director) [ Signum / CD - released 7/Jun/2019 ] The Elysian Singers of London celebrate the enormous and varied contribution of Sir James MacMillan (b. 1959) to the choral repertoire over the last 20 years. Beginning with MacMillan's blazing 2016 'choral fanfare' Blow the trumpet in the new moon,... |