Hard News: Music! That one album
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I’m not sure that’s going to happen. I just don’t think the national charts are going to be a place for local artists to manifest.
In the short term that is a fair assessment but just imagine we had as many people learning to be songwriters as we have playing rugby each weekend.
Next year some high schools will be teaching Songwriting in seventh form and it will take a while but increasing creative / making skills can only help germinate some fine musical culture in my view.
I wrote a bit more about that on my blog and I loved the idea that songwriting could be compared to a NZ sport and this is something practical we could do to uncover some new talent.
In other news – any album of the year list has to include Leonard Cohen – and maybe the last David Bowie album and whatever happened to the Prince archive.
I know that is probably too old school but it does seem like 2016 has had some not so good news but the music those three made lives on.
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bob daktari, in reply to
and this is something practical we could do to uncover some new talent
not sure about leaning music relating to finding new talent (not the greatest career choice)... but as a educational tool that benefits all other learning and skill in itself its awesome that music education is becoming a more formal part of the syilibus for so many
The music chart thing is embarrassing but isn't unique to here, the fact consumers have access to such huge music libraries will always benefit the biggest artists and those with the biggest marketing budgets in which most local acts simply can't compete, even with all the help they get - offshore you see articles like the recent guardian piece about the vinyl resurgence hurting new artists and indie labels... articles on UK artists not getting enough BBC radio play and the like
Cultural homogenisation is a real concern as our music and culture is really important to our sense of self
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Aaaah, Peaches. No. 1 on my personal 'probably shouldn't have absent-mindedly sung that catchy little number to myself in front of my 5-year-old daughter' list.
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andin, in reply to
just imagine we had as many people learning to be songwriters as we have playing rugby each weekend.
Oh! that just rolls off the tongue dont it. Is our culture ready for that or do we have to look at that thing called culture change. I hear they take a few years unless you get ya mitts on the levers of power.
Who’s grubby paws are on them now? I dread to think.
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Those are more or less my thoughts about Skeleton Tree, too.
I'm going to the Wellington show, it'll be the fifth time I've seen he and the Bad Seeds in the past 25 years (Yes, they are indeed my all-time favourite band...).
I'm really pleasantly surprised that he's touring at all - I thought he was going to lay low for a couple of years, given the circumstances. Plus, he hardly needs the acclaim or money these days.
It'll be great to see PJ Harvey the following week, too !
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Talk about emerging from the void . . . 1975 St James Theatre Wellington.
From my point of view (as the keyboard player seconded to the gig) this was all written in the moment, and if you want to say that it sounds that way , I’m comfortable.
Powerhouse were notorious for writing new things on stage mostly by accident , or something.
Not too much of this stuff around these days . . . not everyone's cup of tea , I guess. -
Alan Perrott, in reply to
so, just to be clear, you're saying you're playing keys on this album?
that would be well cool. it also kinda means keeping your user name might have become a bit pointless. still, cool.
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linger, in reply to
Looking at the relevant sentence in Wikipedia, anonymity probably isn’t entirely the point: FG has chosen an accurate function-based label.
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mark taslov, in reply to
Perhaps the monitor icon links at the top of posts need to be more conspicuous? FG you stealth you…epic
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linger, in reply to
Hey, credit where it’s due: you want under-the-radar stealth, try listening for the keyboards in that mix! (Admittedly, YouTube over computer speakers is probably doing me few favours in that search.)
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Farmer Green, in reply to
The amusing thing for me is seeing on the album sleeve that we played a number of different songs ; I thought it was just one , with different movements.
But my job was just to provide a sort of continuo for the soloist, and given the impromptu nature of it , I was never going to try anything flashy :-)
The Fender Rhodes piano (which made it to Wellington in the back of a Morrie thou . . . don't try that at home ) can be used like an organ because of the long sustain. -
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Sustainable transport!
The Fender Rhodes piano (which made it to Wellington in the back of a Morrie thou...)
Fender Roads...?
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Do you have a licence for that minke?
Thinking of Mammal, reminds me of these some underwater recordings...
I especially like the whalers early culture adaption of 'Star Wars' sounds.
this is wet, wet, wet at it its best!yrs the Punk Panther
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Thinking of Mammal, reminds me of these...
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
reminds me of these…
From my pod to iPod
ps: is that the long-lost Greek Gibb brother?
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Speaking of Greeks...
RIP Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou
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Farmer Green, in reply to
"Goneville" ?
Hey Nick! Come on now :-)
It was all high art. All of it!
http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/W/Weather_Report/weather_gone.html -
Farmer Green, in reply to
From the Stuff article that you linked to:-
" The same Jaguars he'd side-swiped while on . . ."
In the immediate aftermath of the "sideswipe", a rickety rickshaw , departing the scene somewhat the worse for wear , was identified by the driver of a passing Morris 1000, the same car that delivered the Fender to The Divine Light Concert featured above. He walked in my door together with the driver of the Morris. A surprise visit :-)
True story.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
You wouldn’t read about it.
The Kevin Bacon Effect is short circuited here - I've found NZ to be about two degrees of separation...
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linger, in reply to
... even less in Wellington
(not due to windchill, but because the central city area is so small) -
Joe Wylie, in reply to
It was all high art. All of it!
Who knows, that Billy T.K. album art might have provided inspiration for Yes's later Going For the One - or, as Rick Wakeman would have it, Going For the Bum.
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andin, in reply to
You wouldn’t read about it.
Funny but thats just the kind of thing, me for one, likes to read about.
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The Archdruid seems to be his usual cheerful self :-
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.co.nz/2016/12/a-leap-in-dark.html -
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
The Archdruid seems to be his usual cheerful self
Well, he did pick a year of rampantly erumpent Trumpism!
What’s to be happy about?
;- )a fun guy to be with?
Donnie Darkhorse is spreading like some ulcerated rust
if he looks like a fungi…
…and he does spread in small explosive bursts
and doesn’t embrace the ‘green world’ at all
acts like a fungi…
…thrives in darkness and rotted matter
Must be a ….Welcome to the fungUS…
I’m thinking we should Groundhog Day/Year 2016…
Do it over and aver again until we get it right!
– But not that far Right!
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