From dingy pubs to The Ritz, Lisa Crawley has played them all. After cutting her teeth in London she returned to show NZ what she had learnt, and has just released her second E.P, Hello Goodbye and Everything Inbetween.
http://www.myspace.com/lisacrawleymusic
Directed by Luke McPake
Back To You
With five entries in APRA New Zealand’s Top 100 Songs Of All Time. His career spans from the seminal post-pop-punk band Blam Blam Blam, to art experimentalists The Front Lawn, to platinum selling and internationally recognised popular band The Mutton Birds.
Don McGlashan and The Seven Sisters (Chris O’Connor, Maree Thom, John Segovia and Dominic Blaazer) have been on a real musical roll for the last couple of years, playing numerous shows to thousands at the Auckland Domain, WOMAD and various theatres, clubs and pubs up and down the country.
http://www.donmcglashan.com/
http://www.myspace.com/donmcglashan
http://www.archhill.co.nz/
Directed by Sally Tran
Bad Blood
Originally hailing from the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island, Mel Parsons is a singer-songwriter whose songs speak for themselves. Her sound is defined by mellow, intimate vocals and melodic hooks that have you humming along in no time.
Inspired by all the usual suspects – love, heartbreak & loss, Mel Parsons presents Over My Shoulder, a catchy wee gem for the optimist in us all. Together with her band The Rhythm Kings.
http://www.myspace.com/melparsons
http://melparsons.com/
First music video from Mel Parsons’ stunning debut album ‘Over My Shoulder’
Director: Murray Keane
Production Company: Crucialfilms
Starring: Arthur Meek & Mel Parsons
D.O.P: Dave Cameron
Editor: Johnny Barker
http://www.myspace.com/johnnybarkernz
http://www.spectrumcameras.co.nz/
Darlin’ Darlin’
Mustard are a Blues-Folk-Rock band who started their days as a Beatles tribute band for a 40th birthday and other old-timers events. They wrote and recorded songs for a well received demo and joined Jody Lloyds She’ll Be Right Records family where they have had radio play on national bnet stations.
http://www.myspace.com/mustardnz
http://www.shellberightrecords.co.nz/
Golden Beaches
Billy Earl and Betty Grey first met as youngsters, and since have surrounded kitchen tables with cheap wine, fine food, dirty children, acoustic guitars and endless cups of tea.
Busy as beavers, Rosy Tin Teacaddy are often found whoring out their live shows to all and sundry. These musical tartlets have shared the stage with the likes of the Raggamuffin Children, Achilles Botes, Ashes of August, Chris Knox, The Broken Heartbreakers, Tim Guy, Matt Langley and international artists Jose Gonzalez and Iron and Wine.
September 2008 saw the band getting into the studio to record a new full-length album with Lee Prebble, aiming to capture a sound indicative of their live shows without pretentious gimmickry. This was achieved somehow seamlessly during a five day orgy of feasting, beer-drinking, music making and the occasional single malt.
Part art folk, part campfire sing alongs, the verdict is out: The Homeward Stretch is a stunner, a corker, a real rip-snorter.
http://www.myspace.com/rosytinteacaddy
Chestnut
The quiet intensity of Lydia’s writing has already earmarked the 21 year-old North Shore native as a standout talent and she earned rave reviews for a number of recent summer festival appearances including Rhythm and Vines, Parachute and the Winery Tour. Check her new EP Love Will Find A Way.
http://www.myspace.com/lydiamusic
Video by Matt Ebenezer www.ebenezerfilms.com
Feels Like
Renee-Louise Carafice is a dark-folk-pop songstress born in New Zealand based in Chicago. With a bitingly honest and brutally fragile voice, she sings of her “messy rollercoaster ride” of a life, over rich and complex melodic structures.
Carafice sings with an alarming openness about desperation, love, loss, homelessness and longing, all the while maintaining a sense of glorious hope at the end of the road.
Sixteen year-old Colin Lepper from Canada created and directed this clay animation music video for Renee-Louise Carafice’s third single “To Run” during his school holidays. It took him 3100 still shots and two months to put together the beautiful end product. “To Run” is the third single from Renee-Louise Carafice’s debut album “Renee-Louise Carafice Tells You to Fight” released on Monkey Records.
http://www.monkeyrecords.com/monkey/artists/renee-louise-carafice/
http://www.reneelouisecarafice.org/
http://www.myspace.com/reneelouisecarafice
To Run
Plaintive, luminous, and complex, Jess Chambers voice rises from a depth of consciousness like a rare flower in today’s crowded music world.
Born to an American mother and Kiwi father, Jess Chambers spent equal time growing up in sunny California and the chilly South Island of New Zealand before settling in Wellington in 2002. In the close-knit and vibrant environment of New Zealand’s creative Capital, the singer/songwriter seamlessly bonded with like- minded musicians and established herself as a solo and collaborative artist.
In July 2008, the release of her debut solo album ‘Jess Chambers and the Firefly Orchestra’ garnered her critical acclaim and helped launch an enduring and formidable musical partnership with Justin ‘Firefly’ Clarke who had returned home to New Zealand after almost ten years of living and working in Berlin.
http://www.myspace.com/jesschambersproject
Video by Luc Benj and KtPai
Pieces of Love
Bond Street Bridge is the creation of Auckland-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Sam Prebble. Sam has been playing music for as long as he can remember, and ‘probably before that as well,’ as he puts it. Bond Street Bridge is currently a solo project, but Sam has always played in bands, orchestras and choirs.
http://www.myspace.com/thebondstreetbridgeband
http://www.monkeyrecords.com/monkey/
The video was shot in lush black and white by Briar March, and directed by Nigel Braddock. Sam Prebble, the one-man multi-instrumentaliser behind the Bond Street Bridge project, wrote the script and provided art direction.
The video was edited by Campbell Farquar and features Sam Prebble and Derek March
Silver
Born in California, raised in Christchurch and reared in Canada, Reb has spent much of her life journeying from place to place only to surface in Auckland with an outstanding record. “I’m a traveller”. It’s what she has discovered through her travels that she reveals in her music – and it sounds so hallowed it’s as if she sold her soul for her song.
When asked what type of music she plays, Reb says she makes, “Soul music, music that’s real and heartfelt and pure and connects with people because it sounds good and feels great.”
http://www.myspace.com/rebfountain
http://rebfountain.com/
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