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FMAmp3 on 04/18/2012 at 01:00PM
MP3 of the Day: Quint Baker, "Hand"
Quint Baker is an experimental home-fi / collage pop artist from Auckland New Zealand. He releases Creative Commons visual art on flickr, and today's MP3 can be found on his Kill Mommy Records netlabel release, Psychic Cat'z Golden Fleece.
"Hand" recalls the retro-futurist pop stylings of Broadcast or Pram, through the home-taped aesthetic of Ariel Pink.
The track was originally ntroduced to the FMA by Breitband, a radio show from Deutschlandradio Kultur.
jason on 04/02/2012 at 01:00PM
NZ's Kraus & Duckling Monster are The Maltese Falcons
Originally released in a 20 edition lathe cut by Root Don Lonie For Cash, the self-titled debut LP by The Maltese Falcons is now available for free download from the Free Music Archive.
The Maltese Falcons is a duo featuring Duckling Monster (of Dunedin's retro-futurists The Futurians) on keyboards/vox. The multi-instrumentalist Kraus rounds out the duo on bass, drums, guitar and synth.
Kraus hails from Auckland NZ and has been churning out top-notch experimental sounds since 2001. After founding The Futurians, he has gone on to form Olympus (with Stefan Neville of Pumice), Pouffe with vocalist Matt Plunkett, and many other projects while recording solo under the name Kraus. Much of his output is available at kraus.co.nz and here on the FMA.
Two selections from Kraus' acclaimed Faster Than the Speed of Time are below. The 2011 LP can be found stateside via Soft Abuse and in Europe via France's Bimbo Tower and Metamkine.
Kraus was previously featured by LizB: "Overmodulated in New Zealand" [Sept 2009]
jason on 08/24/2010 at 12:50PM
The Tudor Consort: Revitalizing Early Choral Music
The Tudor Consort is a Wellington, New Zealand-based choral group that brings the music of the late Medieval and Renaissance eras to life. Active since 1986, the group has expanded their repertoire far beyond their initial focus of 16th-century Britain, to now encompass choral music from every century that followed.
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Along with commercial releases on "The World's Leading Classical Music Label" the likes of Naxos Records, The Tudor Consort make their recordings available on their website under a Creative Commons Attribution license. The Tudor Consort approached us after their free hosting expressed bandwidth concerns over hosting free music, and we were delighted to hear from them! One of the Tudor Consort's FMA offerings -- Renaissance influences - Pizzetti: Messa di Requiem / Palestrina: Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas -- is a sort of 'old-meets-new' in Italian choral music, contrasting Ildebrando Pizzetti's Messa di Requiem (1922) with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas (1590). They also share a 20th-anniversary live collection with performances from the Parroquial Church in Ordizia, Spain and the Madonna dei Monti in Rome, which is available at left. Be sure to check out The Tudor Consort's FMA profile for more, including works by JS Bach, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Thomas Tallis and more key figures in the history of western choral music. |
Countrymike on 12/16/2009 at 09:16PM
tank&PUMP live on Waiheke Radio
When I first moved to Waiheke Island the nickname The Rock might have applied to the geography but it didn't strike me as a moniker that applied to the music scene at all. Singer-songwriters and aged jazz singers, with the odd badly-formed reggae band dominated the small scene.
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Countrymike on 12/16/2009 at 09:16PM
tank&PUMP live on Waiheke Radio
When I first moved to Waiheke Island the nickname The Rock might have applied to the geography but it didn't strike me as a moniker that applied to the music scene at all. Singer-songwriters and aged jazz singers, with the odd badly-formed reggae band dominated the small scene.
READ MORE