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Mel Parsons
Drylands [ Cape Road Records / CD - released 10/Apr/2015 ] Equal parts lush and dark, 'Drylands' is Mel Parsons' stunning 3rd full length album, and was recorded at Lee Prebble's Surgery studio (The Phoenix Foundation, The Black Seeds), Wellington, in late 2014. Co-produced by Parsons and Irish-Kiwi Gerry... |
Mel Parsons
Glass Heart [ Cape Road Records / CD - released 30/Nov/2018 ] Mel Parsons' fourth album Glass Heart is a bold and beautifully crafted body of work, which sees her revealing a darker and fuller sound, while still retaining her trademark poignant storytelling. The album was recorded in Los Angeles with... |
Nadia Reid
Preservation [ Slowtime / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] An ode to self-reflection and self-betterment, Nadia Reid's 'Preservation' is the sound of Nadia showing her true colours, taking back a bit of power, and learning more about herself. Deeply intellectual but felt by all, it punches harder than... |
Neil & Liam Finn
Lightsleeper [ CD - released 24/Aug/2018 ] Neil Finn - he of Crowded House fame and the newest member of Fleetwood Mac - needs no introduction. After Liam Finn moved to London with his band Betchadupa, they split and he began a solo career, attracting worldwide acclaim with the I'll Be... |
Norah Jones
Begin Again [ Blue Note / CD - released 12/Apr/2019 ] Begin Again is a collection of singles that gathers seven eclectic songs that Norah Jones recorded over the past year with collaborators including Jeff Tweedy and Thomas Bartlett. |
Norah Jones
Day Breaks (Deluxe) (Includes 4 live bonus tracks) [ Blue Note / CD - released 7/Oct/2016 ] This is Norah Jones' stunning sixth solo album which is a kindred spirit to the singer's breakout debut Come Away With Me and finds the 9-time Grammy winner returning to the piano and her roots. The album features jazz luminaries including her Blue... |
Paul Kelly
Life Is Fine [ Universal Music CD / CD - released 11/Aug/2017 ] To everything there is a season. For Paul Kelly, it's time to get the electric guitar out of the case again. And make one of the most powerful albums of his career. That's Life Is Fine, where Kelly fires up with a band of long-time musical... |
Paul Simon
Stranger To Stranger [ Concord / CD - released 3/Jun/2016 ] Full of thrilling, imaginative textures, Stranger to Stranger conjures a vivid and vital new context to Simon's well-established virtuosity as a singer and songwriter. The record - his first since 2011's acclaimed So Beautiful or So What - ushers the... |
St Germain
St Germain [ Parlophone / CD - released 9/Oct/2015 ] He's back. And he's still the same, only more unpredictable than before. Twenty years after BOULEVARD, 15 years after the multi-platinum album TOURIST (over 3 million copies sold worldwide) and a world tour spanning several continents, Ludovic... |
Susanne Sundfor
Music For People In Trouble [ Bella Union / CD - released 6/Oct/2017 ] It would have been easy for Susanne Sundfør to follow up her breathtaking album "Ten Love Songs" with "Ten More Love Songs," if only it hadn't been impossible. "Ten Love Songs," after all, had been her third No 1 album at home in Norway, and her... |
Tami Neilson
Kingmaker [ Neilson Records / CD - released 15/Jul/2022 ] From being cradled as a baby in the arms of Roy Orbison, to performing a duet with Willie Nelson, you would think that Tami Neilson lived a country music fantasy life. However, in between these monumental occurrences, The Neilson Family Band, with... |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
The Other Side [ ECM / CD - released 31/Aug/2018 ] "This is the chill-out as a state of grace, and it can go as deep as you like. Sublime," wrote the Independent on Sunday of the Gustavsen's trio's Being There, released in 2007. Over the last decade Tord has explored other ensemble forms and formats,... |
Trio-Da Kali and Kronos Quartet
Ladilikan [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 15/Sep/2017 ] You take a trio of the finest traditional griot musicians from Mali and put them in the studio with a renowned and revolutionary Western string quartet - and the resulting album is one of the most richly rewarding musical collaborations you are... |
Van Morrison
Roll With The Punches [ Caroline / CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] Roll With The Punches - Van Morrison's 37th studio album - sees him simultaneously hand-picking a selection of rhythm and blues classics (by the likes of Bo Diddley, Mose Allison, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Lightnin' Hopkins among others) and... |
The Warratahs
Drivin' Wheel (30th Anniversary Collection) [ Southbound / 2 CD - released 7/Sep/2018 ] For over 30 years The Warratahs have carved a niche into the New Zealand landscape - literally from North Cape to Bluff, becoming legendary for extensively touring both small towns and cities alike. This year New Zealand's greatest country music... |