Money For Nothing
15.10.09
For those who had their heart set on some New Year's music happenings on the Coromandel but missed out on tickets for the Coromandel Gold Festival can now consider attending The Coro Music Festival which was announced yesterday.
Staying with tour news, the Samoa Benefit National concerts dates, venues and line-ups are now out, you can find the closest one to you here.
In student radioland, Auckland's 95bFM have released their Top 95 Songs of All Time as voted by their listeners which is part of their fortieth anniversary celebrations. As you'd expect from a b.net station there is a healthy dose of local fare in the results.
Another station celebrating their birthday is Hamilton's Contact FM who is hosting a show on the 24th of October to usher in their next 30 years.
Speaking of birthday's Amplifier turns ten soon... which in this digital age makes us positively ancient.
We'll probably celebrate by listening to the entire Dire Straits catalogue whilst sipping cups of tea and as I type this Mr Business manager is rummaging through his desk trying to locate his headband - yes we're that rock n roll! But enough about us, we're about the music so here it is:
Release Of The Day
Maisey Rika - Tohu
Tohu is Maisey Rika's debut album, a collection of twelve songs written over the past decade.
These originals include tracks such as Ladeda Day, Omaio and Untouchable, some of these are the very first songs written by Maisey, chosen to illustrate her evolving songwriting style.
Tohu is filled with these touching tales and the universal emotions of hardship, happiness, love, justice and sorrow we can all relate to.
Produced by Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper, this collection explores many different arrangement styles. The ancestral sounds of traditional Maori instruments have been used along side energetic guitars, drums, animated horn sections and pure string sections.
All together, Tohu musically has an organic feel, diverse range with Maisey's lyrics beautifully fusing this together into a musical journey.
Have a good music day
Ed
