IMNZ Independent Album Chart September 2009

IMNZ Independent Album Chart September 2009
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Rank Artist Title Label / Distributor
1 Fly My Pretties A Story / Border Music
2 Fat Freddy's Drop Dr Boondigga And The Big BW / Rhythmethod
3 Opensouls Standing In The Rain FTC / Rhythmethod
4 Minuit Find Me Before I Die A Lonely Death Dot Com Tardus
5 Tiki Taane Flux DirtyDub / Rhythmethod
6 Sola Rosa Get It Together / Rhythmethod
7 House Of Shem Keep Rising Local Music
8 Kora Kora Kora / Border Music
9 Tiki Taane Past, Present, Future DirtyDub / Rhythmethod
10 Various Every Day Dubs Vol. 1 / Rhythmethod
11 Pie Warmer The Fearsome Feeling Lil' Chief / Rhythmethod
12 Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra The Heartache EP / Rhythmethod
13 James Duncan Hello-Fi Round Trip Mars
14 Sweet And Irie Localize It Dawn Raid
15 The Woolshed Sessions The Woolshed Sessions / Rhythmethod
16 Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra A Little Bit Wonderful EP / Rhythmethod
17 The Checks Alice By The Moon / Rhythmethod
18 Lawrence Arabia Chant Darling / Rhythmethod
19 Don McGlashan And The Seven Sisters Marvellous Year Arch Hill / Rhythmethod
20 HLAH The Devil Makes Work For Idle Hands / Rhythmethod

(Shows sales from 1 – 31 August 2009. Compiled from outbound sales registered at selected music retailers by Media Sauce Ltd. for IMNZ. Eligibility requires IMNZ membership or by registration fee. For further information on IMNZ releases, labels or membership contact Damian at IMNZ.)

International and Industry action

Congratulations to the APRA Silver Scroll award winners - James Milne & Luke Buda for the Lawrence Arabia song ‘Apple Pie Bed’. “Beautiful Pop music with an edge, song writing genius, Apple Pie Bed is a classic’’ says NZ Director of Operations Ant Healy. The Award is decided by APRA Members themselves, New Zealand’s songwriters and composers. Congratulations also to the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame Induction: Rattle label artists Hirini Melbourne - Maori composer, music educator/author and Richard Nunns - one of New Zealand’s most remarkable musicians. Through a collaboration lasting over 20 years these two friends went about the gentle re-awakening of the traditional Maori instruments that had been lying silent in museums for generations. Without their commitment, patience and hard work which combined artistic ability and dedicated research, these instruments would still be silent, and we would not be accustomed to hearing these instruments in kapa haka, in the background of radio or television programmes, nor in contemporary music.

The other winners on the night were: The SOUNZ Contemporary Award winner: recognising creative excellence by a classical composer: Ross Harris with ‘Symphony III'. The APRA Maioha Award: celebrating contemporary Maori music: Rewi Spraggon & Riki Bennett (Te Aratoi)with ‘Tapapakanga'. The Most Performed Work in New Zealand: Jeremy Redmore, Simon Oscroft, Matthew Warman, Aidan Bartlett & Nick Campbell (Midnight Youth) with ‘The Letter' and the Most Performed Work Overseas: Neil Finn with ‘Don't Dream It's Over'.
APRA/AMCOS are also pleased to report on a strong 2008-2009 financial year. Both APRA and AMCOS made royalty distributions to members and affiliated societies which were approximately 10% higher than for the preceding year. In APRA’s case, royalty payments exceeded $144 million, while for AMCOS, they were just short of $46 million. As a percentage of gross revenue for the year, APRA’s distributions exceeded 90% of collections, while AMCOS’s exceeded 92%. These increases reflected growth in total licence fees collected – both domestically and internationally – as well as faster distributions and faster processing of foreign receipts. Total licence fees collected by APRA grew by almost 6% to $156m. This figure is comprised of $135.9 million in licence fees collected in Australia/NZ (an increase of 4.6% on the preceding year) and $20.5 million received from affiliated collecting societies around the world (an increase of 14%). Virtually all of AMCOS’s revenue was derived from licensees in Australia and NZ.

In relation to APRA, almost every revenue pool increased during the year – most significantly in the areas of public performance of recorded music and subscription television. The principal exception was radio broadcasting, where licensees suffered a downturn in advertising revenue during the year. In the case of AMCOS, growth was largely driven by the increased revenue from digital downloads, which more than offset the decline in royalties from physical product ie, CDs, DVDs and other physical carriers.

The 2009 Telecom Mobile Music Awards were announced on the 23rd of September at a function at the Long Room in Auckland. Congratulations to Tiki Taane who took home the award for Highest Selling Ringtone and Caller Tune (NZ) with his chart-topping track Always On My Mind and the Most Popular Artist Ringtone & Caller Tune (NZ). The award for Highest Selling NZ Digital Single went to Smashproof featuring Gin Wigmore for their legendary track Brother and Smashproof picked up the Most Popular Digital Single Artist (NZ) as well.
Creative New Zealand is currently running a public consultation process prior to developing a new strategic plan. Creative New Zealand publishes a strategic plan every three years so it is clear how their activities will support artists, practitioners and arts organisations in the coming years. The new Strategic Plan 2010-2013 will take effect from 1 July 2010. A draft plan has been developed for 2010-2013 and Information on how you can provide feedback is available at www.creativenz.govt.nz . The due date for all feedback is 5pm on 16 October 2009.

Monkey Records label boss Nigel Braddock has received funding from Creative New Zealand and will be attending world music fair WOMEX in Copenhagen at the end of October representing The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band, The Hot Grits, An Emerald City and The Mamaku Project. The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band have been living in Berlin over the European summer and have played 20 gigs round the city including famous venues such as White Trash, Kaffee Burger, Supamolli and Lovelite. They will be returning to NZ for summer to undertake another of their legendary Gypsy Fever tours with DJ Balkanetic before relocating to Europe once again next year to tour and play festivals. Monkey has recently released digitally worldwide an album of traditional South Indian Carnatic music called Hey Ganesha! recorded in the Monkey studio at Karekare in 2005.

Cheese on Toast in association with Juice TV and Round Trip Mars Records is giving one lucky person the opportunity to make a music video for James Duncan's current single ‘The Cupboards Bare’. James says: "Shoot on any medium you can, from a camera phone to 16mm, laptop camera to the latest 'Red' camera and everything in between. I'm more interested in a good idea or a feel in the video than overblown production and ten thousand chocolate chip cookies for a crew of 35. You can star in it yourself or use an egg timer with a face on it to perform an epic head turn. Any unconventional interpretation of the song is totally valid and encouraged. The songs meaning is ambiguous at best but I guess it involves... ahem... a fleeting admiration and the sadness and madness that inevitably occurs the next day." Entries must be delivered on DVD to Universal Music – Site 3, Stables Building, 30 St Benedict’s Street, Newton or PO Box 617, Shortland St, Auckland 1140 no later than 5pm Thu 1 Oct. The Judging of the entries will be filmed on Friday 25th to be screened on NZOwn on Juice TV and the winning entry will become the Official Music Video for this amazing song - and will be played on hi-rotate all the following week on Juice TV. The winner will also receive the entire Round Trip Mars back catalogue, including James' album and a very limited gold cover cupboards Bare 7".

Pitch Black have been extremely productive of late and have recently knocked out remixes for Tiki ("Sleep Whisperer" on the new "Flux" album), The Laya Project ("A New Day" on the forthcoming remix album) and International Observer ("House of the Rising Dub" on the digital EP of the same name). Paddy has been busy producing Salmonella Dub's new album (out in November) and Mike has been working on the forthcoming World of Wearable Arts and New Zealand Music Awards shows. Remixes of their track "Harmonia" will finally come out as two digital EP's in November and they have also started writing tracks for a new album, as well as remixing their European label mates Warp Technique.

Labretta Suede and the Motel 6 have just hit Chicago after their Kansas take over. The band and the music were received extremely well and were treated so well by the friendly locals and fans. They have completed 6 fabulous weeks of touring with another 8 weeks to go... with UK dates now being added to the USA tour...Their recordings for the second album are coming along nicely having just completed the bulk of the recordings for their second album.... listen out for new material!

New release fanfare

To celebrate the induction of Ray Columbus and the Invaders into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame as well as being this year’s (2009) winners of The New Zealand Herald Legacy award, Ode Records are releasing ‘The Definitive Collection’ on Stebbing Recording Centre’s original ‘Zodiac’ label. ‘The Definitive Collection’ is a double CD set which includes all the original material ever recorded by the group plus some new live versions of their hit singles. All tracks with the exception of the live recordings have been previously released on vinyl as Singles, EPs and Albums and latterly there have been various CD releases but none have included all their recorded material in a single release. The Definitive Collection features 45 digitally remastered tracks including 4 live tracks.

Breakin Wreckwordz are pleased to announce that Tyson Tyler will release his much anticipated debut album ‘Reality Cheque’ on September 28. The album was mixed by Karl Steven of Supergroove and mastered by Angus McNaughton featuring collaborations with Smashproof’sYoung Sid, Ethical, Flows. Pieter T, Red Eye Society, Monsta Ganjah and Temple Jones.

The new Delgirl album Porchlight will be released on Oct 16 in Dunedin with several nationwide shows to follow in celebration of the release. Following on from their Tui Award winning Two, Maybe, Three Days Ride, Delgirl headed down to the Catlins in South Otago to record their second album. Working through the depths of winter, complete with the magic of snowfall, Delgirl were ably assisted by Nic “the Vicar” Bollinger ( producer), Ross Mc Nab of Sweetway Studios ( engineer ), and Dale Cotton ( Master-er ). The band recorded 15 new songs over two weeks in June this year.

Auckland band Bear Cat has been working hard at being the best panda pop band in the universe. At the moment this has been pretty easy because they are the only panda pop band in the universe. Formed by Chopper Dan and Jocee Tuck in 2006, now in some sort of a silly play on the idea of a self-titled first album, they’ve released an album called Xiong Mao, which means 'Bear Cat' in Chinese. It features eight pop songs about pandas self-produced and recorded with friend Dave Parker in their bedrooms.

Paul Winders and the Goodness new album You can have it all will be released on September 26. Winders has been a part of the highly acclaimed Dunedin band The Verlaines since 1991 and has featured on the albums Way Out Where (1993), Over The Moon (1997), Potboiler (2007) and Corporate Moronic (2009). He toured the US with them in the early 90s playing alongside Pavement, Yo La Tengo and Buffalo Tom. He has also released E Minor (2001) through the boutique label Arclife with Dunedin three-piece Valve.

Sunley launched his new album Apologies around the country in early September playing gigs from Auckland to Oamaru. The new album is now available from www.dunedinmusic.com They’re weird, compelling, contradictory songs penned by Evan Sunley James, a musician long-schooled in the Dunedin tradition of dark, gently forceful music.

Sex with Bowie released their new album Absolute Beginners in Sept.

Miriam Clancy’s album ‘Magnetic’ will be released Monday 5th October. Magnetic has drawn together the stellar talents of members of Supergroove, SJD, Opensouls, Trinity Roots and more. All gravitating around one of the best songwriters this planet has seen in light years.

Surf Friends are releasing their new EP ‘Surf Friends’ via Powertool records Friday the 25th September. Surf Friends are a new indie band from Auckland Drawing from the influences of Flying Nun bands such as The Clean. This Auckland 3 piece utilise looped tracks, background synth and harmonica along with guitar bass and drums create a very large 3 piece sound

‘Down Falls an Empire’ is the long-awaited debut album from Auckland rock band These Four Walls. Featuring the tracks Fly Home, Walk Away, Under the Shadows and the new single Sweet December, it's a bold, artistic statement from a band that have forged their own unique sound and style. It’s musically diverse, yet thematically consistent, taking the listener on a journey and presenting itself as a single piece of art as opposed to just a collection of songs.

The Upbeats release their new album ‘Big Skeleton’ this week. Be it the haunted click n’ bass soul of ‘Bones’, or the sub-grinding stream-of-consciousness narrative driven breakbeat insanity of ‘Carousel’, or their speaker-rupturing foray into dubstep on ‘Macabre’, or the drum n’ folk atmospherics of ‘Through The Night’, Big Skeleton lives in equal balance between the headphone headspace & the mindset of the club, which is a rare & terrifyingly beautiful combination in d&b.

Electric Wire Hustle have also released their new album ‘Electric Wire Hustle’. Developing their own twist on modern hip hop & psychedelic soul, Electric Wire Hustle introduces a new combination of prodigiously talented NZ musicians – David “Taay Ninh” Wright (Solaa), Mara TK (Pacific Heights, Julien Dyne) & Myele Manzanza (Recloose Live Band) & their fresh new sound.

Tommy Benefield, singer-songwriter behind the folk-rock reggae band Tommy, is back with a new band: The Fallen Horses & their brand new album, ‘Isolation Is the New Party’. The Fallen Horses are John Savage (drums), Clifford Leatherbarrow (bass) & Finn Johansson (lead guitar). They integrate seamlessly into Tommy’s songs, supporting his stunning voice & captivating lyrics. With a unique alt-country, indie-pop sound, they cast a melodic spell like no other.

Check out new videos from Bang Bang Eche – ‘You And Me As Thick As Thieves’ directed by Mr Simon Ward, and new one from Savage – ‘I Love The Islands!’ directed by Chris Graham and filmed in Samoa earlier this year capturing Savage amongst the real beauty of Samoa and the Islands.

On the live front

On October 23, Little Bushman will be in Wellington to share the stage with the NZSO. Already known for its expertise in performing symphonic repertoire, Peter Walls (CEO, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra) says “This concert reinforces the Orchestra’s versatility and commitment to New Zealand music of all genres. We’re delighted to be part of this special collaboration with Little Bushman and John Psathas.” Warren Maxwell says the band is excited about collaborating with the “most accomplished orchestral ensemble in Aotearoa.” Having performed with another NZ orchestra in July 2008, Warren, bassist Tom Callwood, drummer Rick Cranson, and guitarist Joe Callwood have some knowledge of what’s in store: “That was such a mind-blowing experience, that we thought it would be crazy to pass up the opportunity to do it again,” says Warren.

Hollie Smith is to perform with her full band at the Singapore Sun Festival on October 8th.

Tyson Tyler will hold his album launch party at Khuja Lounge on September 30th. This will kick off at 9pm with guest appearances from Pieter-T, Ethical (Kidz in Space), and Cyphanetik.

Ladyhawke, Midnight Youth, Smashproof feat Gin Wigmore, Sola Rosa, The Mint Chicks, Ladi 6 and Fat Freddy’s Drop have all been announced to play at the 2009 Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards on the 8th of October.“It’s rare to get a line up as strong as this – and music fans are in for a great night. Moving to Vector last year enabled us to throw open the doors to everyone, and I encourage anyone who loves great Kiwi music to come down, check out the red carpet and join the 6,000 people set to watch the live show.” RIANZ CEO Campbell Smith.

KORA are back in Auckland for the first time in ages performing at the Powerstation on October the 30th. ‘Combining the invincible elements KORA will unleash a live musical odyssey that will create a sonic boom’

Surf Friends are holding their EP release gig at the Masonic, Devonport. Friday 25th September 2009. Special guests include The Roulettes, Panacea and Howden. The new EP will be given away free with entry. They are also touring in December throughout the country with American Indie rockers The Black Watch.

Jim Beam Homegrown will be back in 2010 on February 20th with an even stronger line-up than this year’s sell out festival including the likes of the Black Seeds, Katchafire, Opensouls, Ladi 6, Minuit and Antiform,. The beautiful Wellington Waterfront will again be home to all 5 stages featuring 32 of New Zealand’s best bands and DJ’s. Tickets are expected to sell quickly as the festival has sold out well in advance in both 2008 and 2009.

Coromandel Gold: Dec 31 2009 featuring Shapeshifter, Kora, Tiki Live, Katchafire, Sunshine Soundsystem, Recloose, JStar (UK), Electric Wire Hustle has officially sold out!!

Christchurch will once again stage the South Island's biggest Multi-stage festival when Southern Amp 09 kicks into life on Thursday 12th November from 4.30pm till midnight at Westpac Arena in Addington. Amp-fans will not have to freak out about work or Uni the next day either with Friday 13th November being a holiday and the start of the Canterbury long weekend...

Tours

Miriam Clancy's album release tour kicks off tonight Thursday 24th of September with a special show and a magic seven piece band and special guest Jol Mulholland [The Mots] at Toto's Montecristo Room in Auckland, followed by further tour dates at Mighty Mighty, Wellington 15/10/09, Goodbye Blue Monday, Christchurch 16/10/09 & Dunedin 17/10/09. For industry invites please email lisa@thelabel.co.nz, tickets via Eventfinder

Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra. Friday 2 October - Regent Theatre, Dunedin, Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 October - Harbour Light, Lyttelton, Tuesday 6 & Wednesday 7 October - The Boathouse, Nelson, Thursday 15 October - Martinborough Town Hall, Wairarapa, Saturday 17 October - Hawkes Bay Opera House, Hastings, Thursday 22 & Friday 23 October - Montecristo Room, Auckland, Saturday 24 October - Leigh Sawmill, Leigh

Tahuna Breaks ‘Black, Brown and White’ album release tour continues into October: 2nd at The Bedford, Christchurch, 3rd at Sammy’s, Dunedin, 10th at the Powerstation, Auckland, 16th at the Wanaka Festival, Wanaka and on the 17th at Revolver, Queenstown

The Parachute Roadshow also continues in October and features Parachute Band, Rapture Ruckus and Juliagrace. Dates in October are: 1st Tauranga Holy Trinity Church, 2nd Hamilton Gateway Christian Centre and the 3rd in Auckland at the Greenlane Christian Centre

Pitch Black tour dates over the next few months:
USA - 16/10 Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO with Ott, 17/10 Yosh's Palace, Kansas City, MO with Ott 20/10 Zanzibar, Santa Monica, CA with DJs Maggie and Treavor Moontribe
Europe - 22/10 The Rhythm Factory, London, UK with Subgiant, DJs Johnny Clash and Earwaker 23/10 Winston Kingdom, Amsterdam, NL with Tapes and DJ Crazy Baldhead 24/10 RAW Tempel, Berlin, DE with Warp Technique, Braintheft, Irieland Soundsystem and DJ Giotto 25/10 Aquarius, Zagreb, HR 26/10 Camera, Vienna, AT with Zion Train and DJ Gue-mix 28/10 The Twisted Pepper, Dublin, IE with DJ Mikki Dee
Canada - 30/10 Nelson, BC, 31/10 Courtenay, BC, 01/11 Whistler, BC
Australia - 10/12 Sydney, 11/12 Melbourne, 12/12 Brisbane, 13/12 Byron Bay
New Zealand - 18/12 Auckland, 19/12 Wellington

A Christmas Romance with Brendan Horan, Yulia (New Zealand’s own Pop-Classical Crossover) and Entertainment legend John Rowles is a series of romantic evenings of concert performances and fine dining. The following dates and venues have been announced throughout the country. The Hamilton Theatres annual ‘Christmas at Clarence Street’, at Clarence Street Theatre, November 28th. Auckland’s 'Rendezvous Hotel' November 29th, Wellington’s 'InterContinental' December 6th and Christchurch’s 'Hotel Grand Chancellor' December 4th.

Human are playing October 29th @ Al’s Bar – Christchurch, October 30th @ The Transmission Room – Auckland, October 31st @ Hole In The Wall - Wellington

Optimus Gryme is playing 31st October @ Flow – Hamilton, 7th November @ Double Happy – Christchurch, 5th December @ Matakana Festival - Matakana

Batacuda Sound Machine are playing 16th & 17th October @ The Nelson Arts Festival - Nelson

Harbour City Electric are playing October 16th @ San Francisco Bath House – Wellington

Dear Times Waste are playing 3rd October @ ReFuel – Dunedin, 16th October @ Harstons – Napier, 17th October @ The Royal – Palmerston North

Bang Bang Eche w/ The Checks at Bodega Wellington 25/09/09, Flow Bar Hamilton 02/10/09, The Montecristo Room Auckland 03/10/09, Al’s Bar Christchurch 08/10/09 and 10 Bar Dunedin 09/10/09

Fat Freddy’s Drop Dr Boondigga & The Big Bw Album Shakedown is at the Front Room, Wellington Saturday 31st October 2009 and at The Powerstation, Auckland Saturday 7th November 2009

Jess Chambers is in Christchurch – Friday 2nd October, Harbour Light / Oamaru - Saturday 3rd October, The Penguin Club, Dunedin – Sunday 4th October, Fortune Theatre / Hokitika – Friday 9th October, Crooked Mile, Nelson – Saturday 10th October, The Mussel Inn / Nelson and Sunday 11th October, Nelson School Of Music Auditorium

Dimmer take their new album Degrees of Existence back to the streets in October. The band takes on their first southern dates of the season as well as Dimmer’s first foray over the Harbour Bridge in many years. First up at the Masonic in Devonport on 10 October, Dimmer are joined by The Naked and Famous. Sammy’s in Dunedin on Friday 16 October, supports are the ferocious Mountaineater and youngsters Brains. Al’s Bar in Christchurch the following night it’s a rare treat as the Dead C join Dimmer at Al’s Bar. And on their return to Auckland at Bacco on Saturday 24 October, James Duncan will be showcasing his brand new band and tunes from his outstanding Hello-fi album.

Thursday October 1st is the Pick it Up Youth Concert 2! Featuring Nesian Mystik, Scribe, J Williams, Savage, DJ Sir-Vere, Sweet & Sour, DZIAH, Anonymouz, Devolo, Sweet & Irie and Che Fu. This is truly a line up of the 'who's who' in New Zealand urban music and will be the ONLY time you can see all these artists for a mere $10.00.

David Dallas is at the Khuja Lounge, Auckland Saturday September 26, 2009
State of Mind are at the Flow bar, Hamilton Saturday 3rd October 2009, Subculture, Queenstown Thursday October 8, 2009, Rhythm n Vines, Gisborne Wednesday December 30, 2009, PHAT10, Nelson Friday January 1, 2010

P-Money is at the Showgrounds, Havelock North Saturday December 19, 2009, Rhythm n Vines, Gisborne Tuesday December 29, 2009

PNC is at Khuja Lounge, Auckland Saturday September 26, 2009 and Rhythm and Vines, Gisborne Tuesday December 29, 2009

Concord Dawn is at the Showgrounds, Havelock North Saturday December 19, 2009, BW Campgrounds, Gisborne Wednesday December 30, 2009 and PHAT10, Nelson Friday January 1, 2010

Opensouls are at Sammy's, Dunedin Friday September 25, 2009, Al's Bar, Christchurch Saturday September 26, 2009, The Royal Hotel, Palmerston North Saturday October 3, 2009, Bar Bodega, Wellington Friday October 9, 2009, Cabana, Napier Saturday October 10, 2009, Kings Arms, Auckland Friday October 16, 2009, Coroglen Tavern, Coroglen Saturday October 24, 2009, Highlife, Matakana Thursday December 31, 2009
Sola Rosa are at Rhythm and Vines, Gisborne Tuesday December 29, 2009 and Highlife, Matakana Thursday December 31, 2009.

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