CD Reviews: June 29
CD Reviews: June 29
Reviewed this week are albums by Mick Harvey, Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood, and City and Colour.
Music Review
CD Reviews: May 18
CD Reviews: May 18
> Major Lazer. Free the Universe. Secretly Canadian
Music review: March 16
Music review: March 16
This second Soul Jazz Records sampler of German electronic music from 1971-83 takes in more from heavyweights Can, Neu! and Faust but includes a host of other acts that extend themselves beyond krautrock's locked-in, mesmeric jams.
CD Reviews: February 23
CD Reviews: February 23
The classically trained voice of Brisbane-born Kate Miller-Heidke is a beautiful thing, lifting her dark pop music to soaring heights in the more dramatic sections of this, her third studio album.
Music review: February 16
Music review: February 16
The debut album from Danish artist Soren Lokke Juul, performing as Indians, transports Bon Iver's man-alone electro-folk to a wintry Scandinavian setting that is slowly beginning the thaw.
Music review: February 9
Music review: February 9
For close to 30 years, Hoboken band Yo La Tengo has tested many approaches to making absorbing rock music, from neat-as-a-pin pop numbers to sprawling sonic diversions, and, while not all of it...
Music review: February 2
Music review: February 2
Given their varying careers - Anika Moa, the singer-songwriter with acoustic guitar; Hollie Smith, the soulstress who dabbles in electronica; and Boh Runga, the frontwoman of rock-pop act Stellar* - it's little surprise that their collaborative album should cover so much ground.
CD reviews: January 19
CD reviews: January 19
Crystal Castles. III.Shock.
CD Reviews: November 17
CD Reviews: November 17
> The Rubens. The Rubens. Ivy League Records. Australian quartet the Rubens have drawn comparisons to the Kings of Leon for their crushed-soul sound but the more glaring influences are...
CD Reviews: November 10
CD Reviews: November 10
> Beachwood Sparks. The Tarnished Gold. Sub Pop. Sounding like it's been around forever, the third album from Californian collective Beachwood Sparks is in thrall to the sound of droopy...
Works by NZ composers to the fore
Works by NZ composers to the fore
New Zealand Music Month was marked at Wednesday's lunch-time concert in Marama Hall, with music by New Zealand composers, including some premiere performances.
Ebbing and flowing at original recital
Ebbing and flowing at original recital
University of Otago Music Department's Showcase concerts on Wednesday lunchtimes in Marama Hall cover many different genres and performers.
Exciting, innovative NZSO offering
Exciting, innovative NZSO offering
An excellent programme delivered with concentrated and cohesive playing by an ensemble from the NZSO led with an admirable intelligence and lack of pretension was applauded with enthusiasm by the audience at the Regent Theatre last night.
Three of the best from 2011
Three of the best from 2011
It has been an interesting music year for the Otago Daily Times reviewers. Today, Paul Mooney shares his top albums for 2011 and one to watch.
Impassioned and fiery Rolling Stones record
Impassioned and fiery Rolling Stones record
If Some Girls isn't the best Rolling Stones album - and it's not - it's surely the most fascinating in terms of the band's history and development.
Christmas flavour for final concert
Christmas flavour for final concert
Royal Dunedin Male Choir Lion Foundation Arena Monday, December 5
Leading composer's life revealed in music
Leading composer's life revealed in music
Marama Hall's Wednesday lunchtime concert yesterday was a celebration of Otago University alumni John Ritchie's 90th birthday.
Ritchie's life has been one of music performance, conducting and teaching for which he received a Composers Association of New Zealand citation in 1992.
Improvisations beautifully done, and with integrity
Improvisations beautifully done, and with integrity
Improvisations on Classics Music performed yesterday at the Marama Hall lunch time concert was something new to most of the audience, as Trevor Coleman (piano, trumpet) and Nick Cornish (alto and soprano saxophones, cor anglais, flute) performed improvisations on popular works from classical repertoire.
A virtuoso performance par excellence
A virtuoso performance par excellence
An exciting programme of Hungarian music was presented at Marama Hall on Tuesday by the New Zealand String Quartet - Helene Pohl and Douglas Beilman (violins), Gillian Ansell (viola) and Rolf Gjelsten (cello), and international Hungarian piano virtuoso Peter Nagy.
Informative sounds
Informative sounds
Marama Hall was filled with the sound of the Puspawarna Gamelan Ensemble during yesterday's lunchtime concert.