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Nick Bollinger presents picks from his book '100 Essential New Zealand Albums'
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Essential NZ Albums: The Front Lawn - Songs From The Front Lawn
At a time when few New Zealanders seemed to be singing about themselves, The Front Lawn turned the Hutt Valley and Takapuna Beach into musical landmarks. A forerunner of Flight of the Conchords, they… Read more Audio
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Essential NZ Albums: The Feelstyle - Break It To Pieces
Using his stage name Tha Feelstyle, Samoan-born rapper Kas Futialo made his groundbreaking album, Break It To Pieces, mixing Pasifika beats with hip-hop, funk and no shortage of catchy hooks. Some of… Read more Audio
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Essential NZ Albums: Ardijah - Ardijah
The 80s club scene gave birth to the sound that Ardijah's founder Ryan Monga calls Polyfonk. After a long incubation in the South Auckland club scene, the group burst forth with that sound on their… Read more Audio
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Essential NZ Albums: Renee Louis Carafice - Tells You Can Fight
Auckland-raised singer-songwriter Renee-Louise Carafice wrote and recorded her debut album after a spell of clinical depression, and yet it remains an uplifting, even beautiful piece of work. In this… Read more Audio
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Essential NZ Albums: Tamburlaine - Say No More
'The new rock - bittersweet and low' proclaimed a Time magazine cover in 1971, heralding the arrival of a new wave of acoustic-based music centred on the likes of Crosby, Stills and Nash and James… Read more Audio
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Essential NZ Albums: Fat Freddy’s Drop - Based On a True Story
The 2005 studio debut of the Wellington-based soul-reggae collective Fat Freddy's Drop became the year's second-biggest selling album in their homeland and established their worldwide reputation In… Read more Audio
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Essential NZ Albums: Sharon O'Neill - Sharon O'Neill
In the late-70s landscape of mainstream New Zealand pop, Sharon O'Neill stood out not only for her pure powerful voice and piano skills but also for a swag of sophisticated self-penned songs. All of… Read more Audio
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Essential NZ Albums: Avantdale Bowling Club - Avantdale Bowling Club
On his 2018 album Avantdale Bowling Cup, Auckland rapper Tom Scott blends powerful, polyrhythmic rhymes with fine jazz and a strong sense of place. Read more Video, Audio
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Essential NZ Albums: True - Trinity Roots
27 Apr 2013Few albums convey a sense of place like True, the debut of Trinity Roots. In the final programme of this series, Nick Bollinger discusses how this recording became inseparable from its location. Read more Audio
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Essential NZ Albums: The Mutton Birds
20 Apr 2013Nick Bollinger investigates the self-titled debut of The Mutton Birds, and talks to the group's found and songwriter Don McGlashan. Read more Audio
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Essential NZ Albums - Fourmyula - Turn Your Back On The Wind
13 Apr 2013For almost forty years one of the essential New Zealand albums remained unreleased and locked in a London vault. In this programme Nick Bollinger tells the story of the Fourmyula's great 'lost'… Read more Audio
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Essential NZ Albums: Sneaky Feelings - Send You
6 Apr 2013In the Flying Nun scene of the early 80s, Dunedin's Sneaky Feelings stood out for their aspirations. In this programme of Essential New Zealand Albums Nick Bollinger discusses their first album, Send… Read more Audio