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...
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...
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)'....
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...
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...
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...
A new, jungle themed colouring book by the multi-million-copy-selling worldwide phenomenon, Johanna Basford, creator of the global bestsellers, Lost Ocean, Enchanted Forest and Secret Garden. From the international bestselling illustrator and Queen of Colouring Johanna Basford comes a beautiful new...
The Times They Are a-Changin' is Bob Dylan's third studio album, released in January 1964. It was the first Bob Dylan record to contain only original compositions. Songs like the title track, "Ballad Of Hollis Brown" and "North Country Blues" are staples in the Dylan canon. The album made a big...
• "Simon And Garfunkel's Greatest Hits" is the first compilation album from Simon & Garfunkel, released on June 14, 1972, two years after the duo had split. • In a 1975 BBC Radio 1 interview, Roy Halee identified this version of "The 59th Street Bridge Song" as being from Simon & Garfunkel's 1970...
Sufjan and Asthmatic Kitty instead released Avalanche as a follow-up companion album on CD and digital. To celebrate the album's release to vinyl, Asthmatic Kitty Records is releasing a special colored edition, with the first of the 2LP in "Hatchback Orange", and the second LP in "Avalanche White"....
Déjà Vu Live' is the music accompaniment to the film of the same name by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. CSNY provided much of the soundtrack for the antiwar movement of the Vietnam era, and four decades later, they're doing it again. In 2006, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reunited for the 'Freedom of...
There's only one voice that sounds like this! The 31 year old singer, known for his charm, dedication to his craft and tremendous work ethic has sold over 12 million albums and is now a global superstar. ‘Call Me Irresponsible' has sold over 2 million outside of the US. - Call Me Irresponsible:...
Hailing from Auckland, New Zealand, Avalanche City is the musical moniker of Dave Baxter, whose debut single Love, Love, Love was propelled into radio mainstay back in 2011. While he spent two years travelling the world off the back of the breakout single, Love, Love, Love was awarded Silver Scroll...
The Queen of Hearts is the debut album from Offa Rex, an adventurous new project featuring English singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Olivia Chaney and The Decemberists. Produced and recorded by Tucker Martine (Modest Mouse, My Morning Jacket, Neko Case) and Colin Meloy at Martine's studio in...
A 40th Anniversary 180g vinyl edition of Songs From The Wood, one of Jethro Tull's finest and most accessible albums and the first in the band's acclaimed late 1970s ‘Folk Rock Trilogy'. SFTW highlights the band at its most playful and due to its lush production and more noticeable use of keyboards...
Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers' Grammy Award-winning 1992 album, At the Ryman, was recorded live over three nights at the historic Nashville venue. It features the legendary singer and her acoustic backing band performing songs by Bill Monroe, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, Stephen Foster,...
Out Of All This Blue is The Waterboys most exploratory recording yet, comprising 23 songs with Mike Scott's trademark sharp lyrics set to pop music with echoes of classic R&B, country, soul and funk and underpinned by modern hiphop production values and rhythms. String & brass sections were...
Twenty years on from the release of their all-conquering second album ‘Talk On Corners', and two years after their acclaimed Gold album ‘White Light', The Corrs return with an album that is ambitious, earthy and outspoken: an album guaranteed to earn them renewed respect as musicians, songwriters...