New stuff added to the Distribution catalogue:
New releases from Powertool Records.
Albums from Lord Bishop Rocks
, Enshrine, Surf
Friends, Brother Love,
Lost Universe, Factory
Kids, Bill Direen &
The Bilders,
The Weather,
Vorn and Mark
Airlie & Keith Austin.
PT097: Lord
Bishop Rocks - 21St Century Underground Rock (CD Album)
2010
He's flamboyant, sexy, rude, wild, he's the one and only
Lord Bishop. Lord
Bishop could be called the original punk, resuming
where MC5 left. He's filled with the energy of black
rock icons like Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone.
This album was compiled and released especially for the New
Zealand tour in Feb 2010.
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PT095: Enshrine
- This, Then Now (CD Album) 2009.Powertool
Records
Enshrine are Kelly Micheal
& Angela Forsman. This DIY album is the result
of nine years work. Raw and beautiful and now finally available
for all to enjoy.
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PT094: Surf Friends
(CD/EP) Powertool 2009
"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 will make anyone into that sound happy , looped tracks
background synth and harmonica along with guitar bass and
drums create a very large 3 piece sound
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PT091: Mark
Airlie & Keith Austin - Life In The Farce Lane (CD
Album) 2009
Life in the Farce Lane is an obvious pun!! -It springs
from lonliness of the heart / impurities in the soul/ suburban
neurosis/ empty wallets and lucid recollections of urban life.....
urban stories / tales if you like ......with strong political
undertones. it's like ; one night i went to bed when i was
29yrs old ,- then woke up in the morning and i was 47yrs old....(and
rather tarnished at that) Though, twisting or writhing through
this album is a huge light of hope ; (not to be forgotten)!!!!!!
I initially wrote the songs and collaborated with my good
friend; Keith Austin (Keyboard Maestro , Extraordinaire)
and out of our consciousness and sub-conscious minds , bloomed
''Life In The Farce Lane''.......... i really feel
that Keith totally complimented the songs and also breathed
new life /colour/contrast / and equilibrium to them.
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PT089: Vorn
- Modern Classics (CD Album) 2009
Vorn's Modern
Classics is the work of an artist at the very peak of his
game, a blind fury of creation that takes pop music as we know
it, pulls its ironic vintage T-shirt over its head, batters
it with a sock full of dollar coins, and leaves it stunned,
bruised, and strangely grateful. Besides being a clutch of mature,
perfectly crafted pop songs, rich in texture and unceasingly
varying in tone, the Modern Classics are a work of musical
revisionism - an alternative history of rock and/or roll. Listening
to this album, you step into a world where Abbey Road
and Teen Pan Alley are midgets, overshadowed by the bedrooms
and garages of Dunedin and Wellington. Where hip-hop starts
with The Great Unwashed, and Phil Spector waves
his revolver at a young Don MacGlashan in Chris Knox's
garage - a concept album written for an age of iShuffling single-worshippers.
All the hallmarks of previous Vorn
albums are there in spades - barbed-wire-sharp lyrics, stylistic
U-turns, insanely catchy melodies - but here they are joined
by lush horns, soaring strings, and a sense of the big studio
production of the 60s jammed into a damp basement in Johnsonville.
Listen on these works, ye mighty, and despair.
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PT090: Brother
Love - The Gospel According To Brother
Love (CD Album) 2009 Powertool
Records
Brother Love
has returned with a new album ..... 'The Gospel According
To .....' This is an album of well-crafted songs with a fresh
punk attitude and a gospel feel and still retains a willingness
to explore, which crosses genre boundaries like they never
existed. Brother Love
have been compared to everything from Human Instinct
and Jimi Hendrix, to Sonic Youth and Sebadoh,
to The Clean and Split Enz.
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PT088: Lost
Universe (CD Album)
2009 Powertool Records
In the beginning, there was space! Lots and lots of space.
Nothing happened for a long long time. Until one day at the
beginning of the big bang, the Lost Universe started
to form. First there was Phil Lambert who escaped from
the Zombies Of The Stratoshere, spent some time as
a Terror Of Tinytown and a Nice Nazi before
forming a Rebel Truce with a local Suburban Reptile
called Tony Baldock. Together they formed the nucleus
of the Lost Universe.
Needing more, they recruited Tony Waerea, a celestial
sax blower from the outer extremeties of the Parisian Galaxy
where the Dead Can Dance. All that was required now
was a frontman and all round entertainer who could help create
new spheres to exist within their Lost
Universe. Someone that could provide the raw material
for the band to breath life into. Beam down Julian Hansen,
guitarist, vocalist and songwriter who has had past glories
playing in a neibouring galaxy called the Spelling Mistakes.Together
they began creating pop gem classic planets to populate their
ever increasing Lost Universe.
If your a fan of old school New Zealand punk/pop like the
Spelling Mistakes, Suburban Reptiles, Toy
Love, The Androidss and Otis
Mace, you need to take a voyage and discover the Lost
Universe.
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PT087: Factory
Kids (Album) 2009 Powertool
Records
Formed in 2008, Factory
Kids are musician/artist Christina Marie (formerly
of The Modern Hour/Audn) and singer/songwriter Tim
Chaplin (solo/Luminous). Indie pop coated in a heavy
dose of reverb and distortion, The Factory
Kids have been compared to The Raveonettes, The
Vaselines and The Jesus & Mary Chain.
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PT086: Vorn
- Vorn And The (CD Album) 2008 Powertool
Records
New Album from Wellington artist Vorn.
This time backed by a full band. Includes such sing-along
gems like 'Im wicked and everybody else is shit', 'Black
Forest Clocks' and 'Get Better Work Stories'.
Vorn mixes his cutting black humour lyrics with a
variety of musical styles such as Indie and Hip Hop.
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PT085: Bill
Direen And The Bilders - Chrysanthemum Storm (CD Album)
2008 Powertool Records
Bill Direen and The
Bilders hit the tarseal again this year with a new album
called Chrysanthemum Storm.
Bill has been working in Dunedin and –with three snowstorms
hitting the country this winter (at last count) – he has been
taking the cold in his stride. In fact he has been taking
a lot of things about New Zealand as inspiration for his new
songs. These are carefully crafted melodies and lyrics from
one of New Zealand’s most accomplished songwriters. It’s not
all snow though – at times it is warm enough for real Chrysanthemums.
The album was recorded during an intensive series of sessions
at a balmy studio called Gravel Road in West Auckland.
The studio really is down a gravel road, and the rhythm tracks
were laid down live. That’s why the album has a great live
feeling, something all true Bilders album are known
for.
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