As we round the corner towards our 8th anniversary & head into autumn, we've decided to take it back to the original threesome after our various guests over the start of 2010...
The Turnaround with Cian, Submariner & Manuel Bundy Friday 30th of April Bacco Room, 53 Nelson St, Auckland City $15 Doorsales, from 10pmView full People in Your Neighbourhood schedule here and get tickets here
As part of the British Council New Zealand's Creative Cities programme we have our flagship event called PIYN - People In Your Neighbourhood which launched March 2009. Planning for the 2010 event is currently underway. PIYN 2010 will involve live shows in Auckland, Taupo and Wellington May 2010, as well as UK visitors USO and acclaimed street poet and urban creative guru Charlie Dark (Attica Blues, Blacktronica). The event in 2010 will focus on participatory media, livestream internet technology and online income generation toolkits for diverse aspiring creatives - stay tuned for more details.
The PIYN project involves aspiring artists and performers from Auckland’s ethnic communities, working with the best of contemporary UK talent, to create an album or other portable multimedia, and perform a live street-style urban show. We aim to explore and celebrate the unreconised artistic and urban talent in all of our neighbourhoods.
The British Council has an established global network of emerging leaders in the Arts, and a reputation for high quality delivery of cutting-edge projects. For this project in 2009, and again in 2010, BCNZ is involving the acclaimed UK string collective Urban Soul Orchestra.
Working with some of the emerging artists amongst Auckland’s Asian, Polynesian, Hispanic and European communities, an album has been recorded that includes ethnic musicians and songwriters, alongside modern Kiwi urban producers and artists, collaborating to create a work that has modern production values, whilst still retaining distinct elements of culture.
The bulk of the tracks will include both English and another language.
The album will act like long strands of a net, reaching out into ethnic communities in NZ and drawing the music back to a central creative hub. The idea is to create “stars†in each community. You can download the full album for free here.
In conjunction with the album release and promotion we will also be producing a live show to showcase the intercultural aspects of the project. The show will be performed at the Transmission Room in Auckland March 12th 2009, and at Womad Taranaki March 14th 2009.
The PIYN project is being supported by the Office of Ethnic Affairs, the Human Rights Commission and The Asia New Zealand Foundation.
The album project is creative commons, so anyone can take album files from our CCMixter site, and remix the tracks.
Redbull NZ are also on board with USO performing at a Redbull Studio Live session.
The UK Element:
USO was formed in the mid 90's by violinist and string arranger Stephen Hussey in response to a demand for a new generation of progressive and forward thinking string musicians, who embraced and encompassed the cosmopolitan and diverse music scene in London.
Made up of a multi-cultural blend of London's finest instrumentalists, the USO have spent 15 years collaborating with many of the industry's most celebrated and successful artists including Soul to Soul, Gabrielle, Nitin Sawhney, Groove Armada, Keane, M-People, Sly and Robbie, Omar and Shola Ama.
USO are in a league of their own when it comes to adding the lushness of strings to recorded and live music, from community and ethnic based projects to some of the most well regarded modern artists of our time.
After several years of extensive work and painstaking research the latest in our explorations into regional US funk obscurities is finally here. Has the wait for California Funk been worth it? Well, let's see what we have: 21 of the finest, rarest and most desirable funk recordings from the Sunshine state, put together for the first time with the personal blessing of each and every artist represented herein - shoddy bootleg this is not! Both the LP and CD contain in-depth sleeve notes detailing the history of funk and R&B in California and the social conditions which led to the funk explosion of the late '60s. In addition there are thoroughly researched notes for every individual track, revealing for the first time the hidden stories behind such revered and enigmatic artists as Leon Gardner, Arthur Monday and Delores Ealy,
The double LP is presented on two pieces of 180g virgin vinyl, lavishly housed in a double gatefold sleeve with full colour inners, label scans and extensive liner notes featuring many previously unseen photos of the bands and musicians involved. The CD houses the same in a 24 page colour booklet.
Whereas the musical profiles of cities such as Detroit and New Orleans are well established and much celebrated, the vast cities of Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area have been mostly skimmed over and not given nearly enough attention. The black music from California of the '60s and '70s is especially under-appreciated, seemingly unable to stamp its own musical identity on the world.
Yet during this time, many artists were busily plying their trade at a grass roots level in LA and the Bay, releasing 45s literally by hand or through small independents. Today many of those very 45s fetch hundreds and sometimes thousands of pounds at online auction with lovers of real soul and funk desperate to get hold of them. Following on from our previous funk collections of Texas, Florida, the Midwest and the Carolinas, we applied ourselves to what proved to be our most ambitious and far-reaching project yet - to source and compile the best vintage funk that California had to offer. From the rugged street funk of Arthur Monday to the Latino flavours of Enrique Olivarez, from the soulful jazz grooves of blues legend Johnny Heartsman to the aggressive politicising of King Solomon, there is real diversity on offer - these aren't mere JB sound-a-likes but talented individuals who brought their own voice to the funk sound.
Putting together an album like this is no easy task. It has certainly taken a while to come to light, but we are confident that California Funk, with its divergent sounds and intriguing avenues, will not disappoint, and indeed we hope that it will help raise the standing of California in R&B, soul and funk circles from here on.
Track-listing:| 01 | Water Color | All Bundled Into One | mp3 | |||
| 02 | Arthur Monday | What Goes Around Comes Around | mp3 | |||
| 03 | Leon Gardner | Farm Song | mp3 | |||
| 04 | Chucky Thompson | Turn It Over | mp3 | |||
| 05 | Delores Ealy | Honeydripper | mp3 | |||
| 06 | Ray Frazier | I Who Have Nothing | mp3 | |||
| 07 | Enrique Olivarez | Arriba Tipo | mp3 | |||
| 08 | 4th Coming | Cruising Down Sunset | mp3 | |||
| 09 | King Solomon | Political Rag | mp3 | |||
| 10 | JGD & The New Breed | North Richmond Breakaway | mp3 | |||
| 11 | LA Bare Faxx | Supercool Brother | mp3 | |||
| 12 | Apple & Three Oranges | Curse Upon The World | mp3 | |||
| 13 | Lil' Lavair | Cold Heat | mp3 | |||
| 14 | Rhon Silva | Get It Right | mp3 | |||
| 15 | Billy Larkin | Funky Fire | mp3 | |||
| 16 | California Gold Notes | WB302 | mp3 | |||
| 17 | John Heartsman & Circles | Talking About My Baby | mp3 | |||
| 18 | Enrique Olivarez | Al's Place | mp3 | |||
| 19 | Mr Clean | What's Going On | mp3 | |||
| 20 | Edwards Generation | Smokin' Tidbits | mp3 | |||
| 21 | Winter | Bones | mp3 |
| 01 | Blen | clip | ||||
| 02 | Blen Rmx | clip | ||||
| 03 | The Sound Of Tomorrow | clip |
Lewis McCallum - Syntheology CD We are very pleased to announce we will be having a live performance by Lewis McCallum this Saturday 17th of April to celebrate Independent Record Store Day Lewis will be playing from around 2pm as well as other djs playing throughout the day. We will also be going on sale so be sure to pop in to take advantage of the specials.
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