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Farmer Pimp: Sweet Hot Pepper Pop (Family Farm)
In a recent interview New Zealand singer/songwriter Claire Holmes from Farmer Pimp noted, "Other people worry more about what our genre might be than we do. That's actually why we called the album Sweet Hot Pepper Pop. We decided to make up our own genre".
Very smart -- and certainly the odd band name gives no real clue to what...
> music/3068/farmer-pimp-sweet-hot-pepper-pop-family-farm/
Salmonella Dub with the NZSO: Feel the Seasons Change (Virgin)
To be honest, I have always been vaguely suspicious of the rock-meets-orchestra thing. For a kick-off I wonder who such events/albums are made for.
But then again I had Deep Purple's terrible Concerto for Group and Orchestra as a formative experience and have since listened to various orchestras attack rock songs, and have found very little...
> music/1855/salmonella-dub-with-the-nzso-feel-the-seasons-change-virgin/
Paddy Free: Karekare: Te reo o te whenua (Dub Conspiracy)
Despite being one of the founding fathers of New Zealand electronica -- in the ambitious multi-media outfit Pitch Black with Mike Hodgson -- Paddy Free is perhaps largely unknown to a new generation of musicians.I believe he makes much of his living off-shore these days and has always struck me as preferring to be out of the spotlight if he...
> music/1750/paddy-free-karekare-te-reo-o-te-whenua-dub-conspiracy/
Pitch Black: Rude Mechanicals (Remote)
The electronica duo of Mike Hodgson and Paddy Free who are Pitch Black were in the vanguard of New Zealand sound and vision performances in the 90s, so much so that you'd love to see them release a CD/DVD, which would make a good deal of sense.
But it is also testament to their sensibilities that their internationalist music has an innate...
> music/1304/pitch-black-rude-mechanicals-remote/
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