This book is an introduction to the star group Matariki. Known in other cultures by names including the Pleiades and the Seven Sisters, Matariki featured strongly in pre-European New Zealand. It marked the beginning of the Maori calendar, and its rising before the sun in late May or early June was...
Blonde On Blonde' is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. ‘Blonde On Blonde' completed the trilogy of rock albums that Dylan recorded in 1965 and 1966, starting with ‘Bringing It All Back Home' and ‘Highway 61 Revisited. ' Combining the expertise of Nashville session...
The debut album from Sun Kil Moon, originally released in 2003 and long since out of print is reissued on double vinyl. Includes original bonus track ‘Gentle Moon (Acoustic)'. - Ghosts Of The Great Highway (2LP) by Sun Kil Moon (Vinyl)
Included on this magical record are Aldous Harding, Nadia Reid, Let's Eat Grandma, Bombay Bicycle Club, Emeli Sande, and Ben Harper. The Endless Coloured Ways is a collection of songs by legendary singer / songwriter, Nick Drake, performed and recorded by over 30 incredible artists from a range of...
Nonesuch Records releases the first recording of Steve Reich's ‘Reich/Richter', performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain and conducted by George Jackson. The composition was originally written to be performed with German visual artist Gerhard Richter and Corinna Belz's film ‘Moving Picture (946-3)'....
A collaboration with award winning Ōtautahi singer-songwriter and producer Delaney Davidson - who also plays a variety of instruments on the record, Black Sea Golden Ladder was written and recorded as part of Troy Kingi's Matairangi Mahi Toi Artist Residency in Wellington. The residency was created...
‘Bridge Over Troubled Water,' released in 1970, was Simon & Garfunkel's final studio album and their greatest success. The title track won an unprecedented five Grammy Awards, while the complete record won Album of the Year. The album stayed at #1 for 10 weeks, remained on the chart for a total of...
Cold Fact is the debut album from singer-songwriter Rodriguez. It was released in the United States on the Sussex label in March 1970. In 1971 the album was released in South Africa by A&M Records. In 1976, several thousand copies of Cold Fact were found in a New York warehouse and sold out in...
2023 will see Billy Bragg and Cooking Vinyl celebrating forty years of music from the singer, songwriter, activist and author, with a selection of releases to appeal to casual admirers and die hard fans alike. Each format has been compiled by Billy beginning with a 1LP 13-song ‘primer' on LTD...
Out of My Province showcases Nadia's sharpest songwriting to date, atmospheric arrangements replete with strings and Rhodes, and of course that immense voice, alternately soothing and riveting. No one ever got anywhere by standing still. As an artist, you must move to grow. It's a sentiment Reid...
‘Here We Go 1, 2, 3' is Heidi Talbot's fifth solo album. Produced by musical partner and husband, John McCusker, (himself recently the recent recipient of the Good Tradition honour at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards) Heidi's new album crosses the ages, jumps into the unknown, traverses oceans and...
10th anniversary re-issue of Bellowhead frontman's debut solo album merging pop, rock, electronica and folk. Features new bonus tracks, including Whitney Houston's ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody' ‘…bitter/sweet perfection that defines most great music' - The Living Tradition ‘…a work of remarkable...
Eagerly-awaited second album from highly-acclaimed Welsh chanteuse, recently heard on Manic Street Preacher's ‘Futurology' album. Georgia's debut album, ‘Week of Pines' won the 2013 Welsh Music Prize and she was a nominee in the 2014 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards (for ‘Best Traditional Track' and the...
2CD and DVD book feature documentary 'Sno Angel Winging It. Clocking up a decade since its initial release Sno Angel Like You will be reissued this September celebrating its ten year anniversary. Collaborating with Canadian Gospel Choir, Voice of Praises following a performance at 2003's Ottawa...
On his exquisite third solo album, Nathan Bowles (Steve Gunn, Pelt, Black Twig Pickers) again augments his mesmeric clawhammer banjo pieces with piano, percussion, and vocals. Instead of the programmatic place-based narratives of its predecessor Nansemond (PoB-16), Whole & Cloven offers a stoic...
Candice Milner is a young folk musician the port town of Lyttelton, Christchurch. Inspired by the country & folk music forming around her at Lyttelton Records and by international musicians like Courtney Barnett, bringing their own versions to folk music, Candice's album ‘Evergreen' is an eclectic...
The followup to Light In The Attic's game-changing I Am The Center box set is finally here. Three years in the making, The Microcosm: Visionary Music Of Continental Europe, 1970-1986 is the first major overview of key works from cosmically-taped in artists needing little introduction - Vangelis,...