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Bruce Springsteen
Magic [ Columbia Records / CD - released 29/Jan/2008 ] 'Magic' is Springsteen's new studio recording in 2007 and his first with the E Street Band in 5 years. Produced and mixed by Brendan O'Brien, the album features 12 songs, including a bonus track. |
Leonard Cohen
Old Ideas (Gold Series) [ Columbia Records / CD - released 30/Jan/2012 ] Lauded poet Leonard Cohen's first studio album in eight years is the latest in an esteemed career spanning six decades. The ten songs on 'Old Ideas' poetically address some of the most profound quandaries of human existence - the relationship to a... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Christmas a Cappella II Musica Sacra conducted by Indra Hughes [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 20/Nov/2007 ] This is the second programme of unaccompanied Christmas choral music performed by one of New Zealand's most successful choirs and includes a wide variety of pieces: the well known and the unfamiliar. |
The Phoenix Foundation
Happy Ending [ Flying Nun Records New Zealand / CD - released 8/Oct/2007 ] Following their acclaimed, gold-selling second album 'Pegasus', Wellington 6-piece indie rockers Phoenix Foundation are very pleased to present their third studio album 'Happy Ending'. |
Ali Farka Touré
Savane [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 20/Jul/2006 ] Touré's swansong is a remarkable magum opus. In many ways 'Savane' is the most traditional, and most different recording he ever made, with wonderfully contrasting sounds and textures. |
Alison Krauss & Union Station
Paper Airplane [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 14/Apr/2011 ] A truly breathtaking collection of 11 exquisite songs, 'Paper Airplane' is Krauss' first release since her 2007 multi-Grammy winning, internationally acclaimed collaboration with Robert Plant, 'Raising Sand'. |
Buddy Miller & Julie Miller
Written In Chalk [ New West Records / CD - released 27/Feb/2009 ] Written in Chalk' is a true collaboration, with a thoughtful country-soul vibe, emotional lyrics, outstanding musicianship and Buddy's extraordinary guitar playing. Guests include Robert Plant, Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Regina McCrary and Larry... |
Carla Bruni
Quelqu'un M'a Dit [ Universal / CD - released 7/Jul/2003 ] This is the debut album from French model/singer, Carla Bruni. Her breathy vocals are reminiscent of the early folkie days of Francoise Hardy - refreshingly different for today. |
Dave Rawlings Machine
A Friend of a Friend [ Acony Records / CD - released 30/Nov/2009 ] David Todd Rawlings, professional guitarist and harmony singer, is best known as the longtime musical partner of bluegrass singer / songwriter Gillian Welch. |
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
Old Yellow Moon [ Nonesuch / CD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] The first official collaboration from the duo since Crowell joined Harris' Hot Band as guitarist and harmony singer in 1975. |
Gillian Welch
Time (The Revelator) [ Acony Records / CD - released 4/Sep/2015 ] The critically acclaimed album with partner David Rawlings. Her gorgeously solitary voice transcends an era. |
The Guess Who
Live at the Paramount [ Sony & BMG Entertainment / CD - released 29/Apr/2008 ] This is a specially priced re-issue edition of the classic concert recording from The Guess Who - now digitally re-mastered with six bonus previously unreleased tracks. |
J.J. Cale & Eric Clapton
The Road to Escondido [ Reprise Records / CD - released 14/Nov/2006 ] After years of admiring each other's musical masterworks, guitar great J.J. Cale and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer / Grammy-winner Eric Clapton have teamed up to create an original album together. |
Leonard Cohen
The Essential (2CD) [ Sony Music CD / 2 CD - released 3/Jun/2003 ] This digitally re-mastered compilation features 31 tracks - over two hours of music spanning Leonard Cohen's remarkable career over two CDs. An outstanding document of a true legend and perfect primer for new fans. |
Lucinda Williams
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road [ Mercury Records / CD - released 14/Jul/1998 ] The classic, beautifully captivating fifth album from the woman who is widely considered to be one of the best singer / songwriters working today. |
Neil Young
Greatest Hits [ Reprise Records / CD - released 15/Nov/2004 ] This first ever CD greatest-hits collection is a long-awaited retrospective from one of rock's most influential and enduring singer-songwriters. 16 classic cuts from "Down By The River" to "Harvest Moon". |
Paul Simon
So Beautiful or So What [ Hear Music / Concord Music Group / CD - released 14/Apr/2011 ] On Paul Simon's eagerly anticipated 12th solo studio record, he crafts his songs around harmony and song structure... |
Sarah McLachlan
Laws of Illusion (Deluxe Edition) [ Arista Records / CD/DVD - released 14/Jun/2010 ] This limited edition of 'Laws of Illusion' includes a bonus DVD, featuring five acoustic performances from Sarah McLachlan, along with an interview and other commentary. |
T Bone Burnett
Tooth of Crime [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 5/May/2008 ] This album is a vibrant outgrowth of a long-running collaboration with playwright Sam Shepard that began with the 1996 musical staging in New York of his noted play of the same name. |
Over The Rhine
Snow Angels [ Great Speckled Dog Records / CD - released 2/Oct/2007 ] Here are 11 original Christmas-inspired compositions that show Karin and Linford at the height of their powers as songwriters. This soulful recording is sure to become an Over The Rhine classic! |
The Black Keys
El Camino [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 5/Dec/2011 ] Produced by Danger Mouse and The Black Keys, the 11-track album 'El Camino' is more straight ahead rock and roll from Black Keys - raw, driving, and back to basics. |
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes [ Sub Pop Records / CD - released 2/Jun/2008 ] Drawing on everything from folk and west coast pop to choral and traditional Irish music, FF's self-titled full length debut is rich with pastoral harmonies, both familiar and simultaneously original. |
Leonard Cohen
Live in London [ Columbia Records / 2 CD - released 26/Mar/2009 ] For over four decades, Leonard Cohen has been one of the most important and influential songwriters of our time, a figure whose body of work achieves greater depths of mystery and meaning as time goes on. His songs have set a virtually unmatched... |
Over The Rhine
The Trumpet Child [ Great Speckled Dog Records / CD - released 21/Aug/2007 ] Over the Rhine return with their tenth studio album and career-best 'The Trumpet Child'. A collaboration with ultra-talented Nashville producer / arranger Brad Jonesthe recording celebrates American music in the most richly imaginative ways. |
Alison Krauss & Union Station
Lonely Runs Both Ways [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 26/Mar/2009 ] Her voice has never sounded more pristine or commanding; while on fiddle and viola she colours each song. A recording with aching beauty and depth - Recommended! |
Ann Wilson
Hope & Glory [ Zoe Records / CD - released 11/Sep/2007 ] Featuring guest appearances from Elton John, Gretchen Wilson, Alison Krauss, Rufus Wainwright, Ann's sister Nancy Wilson and others on unique renditions of songs made famous by Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Neil Young and more. |
Anne Murray
Duets: Friends & Legends [ EMI Music / CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] Featuring duets with Shania Twain, Martina McBride, Nelly Furtado, Sarah Brightman, k.d. lang, Celine Dion, Emmylou Harris, Isabelle Boulay, Celtic Woman, Carole King, Dusty Springfield, Jann Arden, Amy Grant, Olivia Newton-John, Shelby Lynne, Indigo... |
Emmylou Harris
All I Intended To Be [ Nonesuch Records / CD - released 16/Jun/2008 ] Mining the seam of indie and world-influenced folk she first began to explore in the 1990s, Harris continues to make some of the most proficient and bewitching music of her career. |
Rosanne Cash
The List [ EMI Music / CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] 'The List' includes duets with Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Rufus Wainwright and Jeff Tweedy. Rosanne was given a list by her father, Johnny Cash when she was 18 years old... |
The Traveling Wilburys
The Traveling Wilburys Collection [ Wilbury Record Co. / Rhino Records / 3 CD/DVD - released 12/Jun/2007 ] This digitally re-mastered, special package of the long awaited re-issue of both 'Traveling Wilburys' albums comes with a DVD, bonus tracks, plus a 16-page booklet with photos and detailed liner notes. |
Deadwood - The Complete Third Season
[ Paramount Home Entertainment / 4 DVD Box Set - released 21/Jun/2007 ] 1877. A new day is dawning in the Black Hills outlaw camp of Deadwood. For better or worse, times are changing, and the transformation from camp to town is imminent... |
Beirut
The Flying Club Cup [ 4AD Records / CD - released 8/Oct/2007 ] Caught between the soaring spectacle of the instrumentation and the beautiful intimacy of the songs on 'The Flying Club Cup', there is a love letter - a heady missive to the joie de vivre that lights up our existence. |
Bic Runga
Birds [ Columbia Records / CD - released 29/Nov/2005 ] This is the third album from highly acclaimed NZ singer / songwriter, with guests Neil Finn, Anika Moa, Shayne Carter, Anna Coddington and more. 'Birds' is her finest musical statement yet! |
Coldplay
X&Y [ EMI Music / CD - released 6/Jun/2005 ] Coldplay's hugely anticipated new album, 'X&Y', is the follow-up to 2002's 16-million selling 'A Rush of Blood To The Head' and includes the fantastic single "Speed of Sound". |
Dido
Safe Trip Home [ RCA Records / CD - released 17/Nov/2008 ] 'Safe Trip Home' is the warm, moving and wonderfully musical third album from Dido, the London-born singer / songwriter with the cracked-crystal voice. |
Dragon
Sunshine to Rain [ Liberation Blue Acoustic / CD - released 17/Aug/2006 ] A trove of criminally rare nuggets sifted from certified radio gold; 16 indelible strokes of pop genius, handled with exceptional care and affection by a new acoustic line-up, fronted by the superb voice of NZ rock veteran, Mark Williams. |
Patty Griffin
Children Running Through [ ATO Records / CD - released 27/Feb/2007 ] Patty's fifth studio album features twelve new gems for all to enjoy! Emmylou Harris adds one of her most aching harmony lines to the track "Trapeze". |
Pink Floyd
Pulse (DVD) (2006 Release) [ Columbia Music Video / Columbia Records / 2 DVD - released 10/Jul/2006 ] 'Pulse' is a recording from the band's run of 14 shows at London's Earl's Court, their final full concerts performed (to date). A... |
Robert Plant
Band of Joy [ Rounder Records / CD - released 16/Sep/2010 ] On 'Band of Joy' Robert Plant immerses himself in the heart of the Nashville scene, enlisting the help of some of the best players in the genre, including Buddy Miller and Patty Griffin. |
SJD
Songs From a Dictaphone [ Round Trip Mars CD / CD - released 18/Jul/2007 ] Where SJD's previous long player, 'Southern Lights', was all micro-tones and dark shades, there is a more colourful side to SJD's oeuvre on display here, with danceable delicacies and generous synthesizer washes, complementing the much loved moody... |