Gig Information
Space Place presents a handpicked selection of good music and dreamy visuals over four Sundays for NZ Music Month.
Wellington music legend Riki Gooch is joined by taonga puoro practitioners Alistair Fraser and Ruby Solly under the planetarium for a magical music experience.
Drummer, composer and founding member of Trinity Roots, Riki Gooch boasts an impressive music career. Riki and Alistair collaborated on ‘Rangatira,’ an experimental album made in tribute to a lost friend.
Ruby is a writer, musician and music therapist living in Pōneke. She offers contemplative rhythms through taonga puoro, the cello and her haunting melodies.
Gig Information Tamira Pūoro is a new duo featuring Ruby Solly (taonga pūoro, cello, vocals) and Michelle Velvin (harp, vocals).
They have recently recorded their first album. Instrumental tracks explore the relationship between taonga pūoro and harp, and vocal tracks look into the history of Aotearoa New Zealand s social landscape.
Michelle Velvin is a harpist, composer and teacher living in Wellington, New Zealand. She has a special interest in writing harp music and performing New Zealand compositions.
Ruby Solly is a Kai Tahu musician, taonga puoro practitioner, music therapist and writer living in Wellington. She has played with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Whirimako Black, Trinity Roots, and The New Zealand String Quartet as both a cellist, and a player of traditional Māori instruments (ngā taonga puoro). In 2019 she completed a Masters thesis in the therapeutic potential of taonga puoro in mental health based music therapy, while working
The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending March 12
Bestseller chart
The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.
AUCKLAND
1 Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber, $37)
New Ishiguro! New Ishiguro! It really should be shouted from the rooftops. (As should the fact that he’s appearing via livestream at the Auckland Writers Festival, in May.)
The Nobel Prize and Man Booker winner’s eighth novel is narrated by Klara, an android or “Artificial Friend” bought as a companion for an ill young woman in a strange future version of America. Ishiguro delves back into themes he explored in Never Let Me Go – and yes, it stacks up, and yes, you should read it.
Press Release – Sonicity Sonicity is an exciting new platform for sonic artistic expression, created in Wellington by the combined talents of mDigital, POW Studios and Pirate & Queen (Lemis, Verb Festival). It is location-aware, meaning it responds to the geolocation of the …
Sonicity is an exciting new platform for sonic artistic expression, created in Wellington by the combined talents of mDigital, POW Studios and Pirate & Queen (Lōemis, Verb Festival). It is location-aware, meaning it responds to the geolocation of the user. Using a smart phone and consumer-grade headphones, users can immerse themselves in a series of real-world soundscapes situated across the city.
crone is the sci-fi goth duo of Emily Berryman and Lucy Reid.
Their sound is underpinned by a sustained sense of drama, stirring effected live loops and samples into an intoxicating mix that evokes the space in between dance and drone, dark and melancholic.
NATIVE BUSH
Beating strong with the south pulse, Pipiana Hemi (Ngāti Pikiao/Ngāpuhi) is takatāpui Māori and a queer interdisciplinary artist exploring the bounds of a digital body with deep roots. Based in Tāmaki Makarau and working under the current pseudonym Native Bush, her work cultivates an experience between old & new worlds to convey the driving force of duality. Their memos share a constant of few fucks and fluid motion to break the monotonous crutch of capitalism… yawn. Her explorations have led her to support acts and events such as Riki Gooch, Julien Dyne, Jayda G, Daydreams, Filth, Bodyhaus, Flamingo Pier and Hybrid Festival (alongside Ngāti Kangaru) as well as opening for Betty Apple, Eartheater + more as p