Upcoming Local Vinyl Releases
Shogun Orchestra & Fabulous/Arabia
Two local album releases are due to be released on vinyl in the next few months, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz
Fabulous/Arabia - Unlimited Buffet LP (JAKARTA)
Mike Fabulous (The Black Seeds/Lord Echo) and Lawrence Arabia are two of New Zealand's young musical titans. The pair have been quietly collaborating since 2009 - their first and only physical correspondence being two CDs of instrumental soul/funk/lounge/pop that Mike sent from Dunedin to Lawrence's mum's place in Christchurch. Lawrence then went into his childhood bedroom and composed lyrics and melodies over four of the instrumentals within about two hours of receiving the package. The following day in Dunedin, Mike Fabulous received an email containing these early efforts. Over the following two years, interrupted by all manner of world tours, Fabulous and Arabia exchanged further ideas down the wires, and even met up once to record together. Unlimited Buffet is the fruits of their labours and contains flawless harmonies, interjections of brass and smatterings of searing guitar, all underpinned by an elastic and funky rhythm section. It's a buzz-funk extravaganza with playful vocals of the ilk that James Milne is known for, featuring many falsetto refrains and awkward lyrical come-ons. Think of a wild unique mixture of Shuggie Otis meets the Beatles with a NZ twist. The band is a true NZ allstar band featuring Toby Laing and Joe Lindsay of Fat Freddy’s Drop, Lucien Johnson of The Black Seeds and Julien Dyne (BBE) on drums.
The gatefold vinyl will be limited to 300 numbered copies.Track List & Sound Clips:
| 01 | The Ballad Of State Highway 1 | clip | ||||
| 02 | Give Me Love Tonight | clip | ||||
| 03 | Perm | clip | ||||
| 04 | Eugenics | clip | ||||
| 05 | Up To My Neck In Shit | clip | ||||
| 06 | It (Will Kill You) | clip | ||||
| 07 | Tony’s Chord | clip | ||||
| 08 | Southern Gentleman | clip | ||||
| 09 | The Croynes | clip | ||||
| 10 | You Won't Remember This Feeling At All | clip |
Shogun Orchestra - Shogun Orchestra LP (JAKARTA)
"Shogun Orchestra" is the latest from talented composer, multi-instrumentalist and Black Seeds member Lucien Johnson. In this album he draws upon his impressions of Port Au Prince, Haiti, where - in later 2010 - he spent some months working in a theatre production, and where he had the misfortune to contract malarial fever. Recuperating in Wellington, Johnson commandeered a NZ super group featuring members of Fat Freddy’s Drop and The Black Seeds. "Shogun Orchestra" is a vehicle for Johnson's own compositions as well as for the melodies and rhythms he has absorbed in his travels to far-flung lands of East Africa, The Caribbean and the Indian Subcontinent. Far from being some weighty academic musical synthesis, ‘Shogun Orchestra’ is an explosive celebration of an album. From the opening salvo of shimmering high-life guitars, afro beat rythmns and ethiopian horns the listener is propelled on a wild ride into the steaming equatorial night. The band is entranced, possessed, playing on frantically aboard a carnival caboose festooned with ribbons, lanterns and baskets of strange fruit.
The vinyl of edition of the album is limited to 300 hand numbered copies.Track List & Sound Clips:
| 01 | Lovana | clip | ||||
| 02 | Sato San | clip | ||||
| 03 | Bamako | clip | ||||
| 04 | Maman | clip | ||||
| 05 | Legba | clip | ||||
| 06 | Cigars Of The Pharoah | clip | ||||
| 07 | Jacmel | clip | ||||
| 08 | Falko | clip | ||||
| 09 | Leogame | clip |
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