1856 to 2026 – DIY outsider music, from Aotearoa NZ and beyond
On 7 May 2017 Gamelan Padhang Moncar performed Jack Body‘s first composition for gamelan, ‘So Short the Life’ as part of a choral concert with Nota Bene chamber choir at Wellington’s Sacred Heart Cathedral on.
Jack Body (1944-2015) was a key figure in the introduction of gamelan music to New Zealand.
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Continue reading “Kindred Spirits: Music of Benjamin Britten and Jack Body”
It was broadcast on Saturday 15th of April – hear the podcast online.
Terry’s Songwriters Show is a weekly programme hosted by Terry Shore – who is a singer/song-writer himself.
Continue reading “the Electricka Zoo on Access Radio this Saturday”
Gamelan Padhang Moncar braved wind and rain to perform twice at the night market on the Wellington Waterfront, near Te Papa.
Continue reading “Gamelan Padhang Moncar at the SE Asian Night Market 2017”
Next appearing at Fringe Bar in Wellington, Tuesday 28th March 2017, 8:45pm. Free entry.
The Electricka Zoo are one of Wellington’s most intriguing new live bands, a bass/guitar and live electronica duo of Dave Black and the Digitator. They combine influences from EDM, punk rock, jazz, reggae, Balkan and Portuguese music into their own homegrown NZ sound.
Keep an eye and two ears out for their first album, coming soon.
In the meantime a vinyl-only 7″ single and collection of early (2015-2016) demos on Soundcloud are available.
2016 has been another busy year here, with several new projects that should come to fruition in 2017.
The Electricka Zoo performed a battery-powered guerilla gig in Wellington last Friday.
We’re taking a break for the rest of this month to travel separately overseas, but look forward to bringing you some gig announcements for the last third of 2016… as well as these tunes we’re working on coalescing into an album.
The Digitator: New Zealand Producer, Songwriter, Vocalist, Drummer, Synth Driver, Live Looping Musician.
A fellow traveller from Taranaki, New Zealand, who formed The Electricka Zoo in late 2015 with Dave Black.
Continue reading “The Digitator”
First up there’s the international multimedia epic East to West
on Thursday 3rd of March at Photospace Gallery, Wellington.
This will be followed by the first ever gig of The Electricka Zoo 
on Saturday 5th of March, 7:30pm at the Performance Arcade, Wellington
and then by Gamelan Padhang Moncar 
on Sunday 6th of March, 10:00am at the Newtown Fair, Wellington.
If you’re in Wellington please come to some or all of these! I look forward to seeing you there… a special prize for anyone who makes it to all three…
Music video from the album ‘South Island Sessions‘, set in 19th century New Zealand with an ecological theme. ‘The Ballad of William Knife’ was the name of the show we took to the Dunedin Fringe Festival in 2006.
See also the videos for ‘Bandit Joe on a Scraded Gat’ and ‘BFD’
1861 revisited – Continue reading “the Ballad of William Knife”
The post-punk big band Ascension Band convened in 2003-2005… here’s the 2004 lineup performing at the Meatwaters Festival at Happy in Wellington.
| Nigel Patterson – hammond organ & conductor Dave Edwards – guitar & electronics Mike Kingston – guitar Jesse Toews – bass Warwick Donald – bass Antony Milton – violin & electronics Damian Stewart – laptop Jason Secto – cornet Simon O’Rorke – percussion Myles Climo – drums |
The following year we won best music award in the 2005 Wellington Fringe Festival
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