13th Floor MusicTalk

Wanaka rockers Powder Chutes are celebrating the release of their self-titled debut album with a nation-wide tour.

Marty Duda spoke to guitarist Clarke and bass player Otis to find out what these guys have up their sleeves when they make their way to the City Of Sails.

iwi Country singer Jenny Mitchell has just released her fourth album, Forest House...recorded in recorded in a house in Pirinoa (Wairarapa), it explores all of the experiences that can happen within four walls; the welcoming, heartbreaking, healing and everything in between.

Marty Duda found Jenny in her new home in Melbourne, taking a quick break from touring Australia with one of her heroes, Kasey Chambers. So, here is Jenny to talk about recording with her dad, her sisters and songwriting with Tami Neilson.

Petit Choux is French-born, Wellington-based singer-songwriter Sophie Sabri. The musical artist and therapist has just released her debut EP, titled, Coule.

Marty Duda found Petit Choux at home on release day. According to the artist, Coule, explores the idea of our “inner waters” — the deep, often unspoken currents of our being. The title, meaning “to flow” or “to sink” in French, reflects the delicate balance between surrender and strength. Water, the essence of life, serves as both a symbol of vitality and impermanence. It flows freely, shapes our world, yet is constantly changing — just as emotions and moments in life do. 

Translator was (and occasionally still is) a band based in San Francisco who put out 4 albums in the early 80s before calling it quits in 1986 with a 3-hour blow-out concert.

Marty Duda spoke to Translator front man Steve Barton about how and why that show has just now been released as: Beyond Today - Live At The Farm San Francisco 1986.

Voom has just released a new album on Flying Nun...Something Good Is Happening is the band's first in almost 20 years and third in as many decades.

Marty Duda found bandleader Buzz Moller sitting in his garden shed where much of the new record was made and talked to him about the band's unusual career trajectory.

Robin Trower, fresh from celebrating his 80th birthday, is about to release a new album titled Come And Find Me.

Marty Duda did indeed find Robin Trower and spoke to him at length about making this new album, preparing his For Earth Below for a 50th Anniversary Edition, working with Jack Bruce, appearing on Top Of The Pops and his days growing up in New Zealand

Jazz pianist, composer, educator, modular synthesist and session musician Darren Pickering and his Small Worlds have just release a new album, Three, on Rattle Records.

Marty Duda spoke to Darren, who was home in Christchurch where is is also a full-time tenured lecturer at Ara Music. Darren shared his valuable time to talk about the “vibrant” Christchurch jazz scene, how Three was made and how Spike Lee got him into jazz.

British punks mclusky have just released their first new album in 20 years and so bandleader Andrew Falkous fronts up to explain what took so long.

Marty Duda spoke to Andrew, who was in Bristol, to talk about making The World Is Still Here And So Are We, and to talk about Chekhov, Kafka and Steve Albini.

Justin Devereux is an ex-pat Kiwi, based in L.A. who has just released his debut album, Nickels&Dimes.

Marty Duda spoke to Justin about his life in L.A. and why he chose to record his album back in New Zealand, at Neil Finn's Roundhead Studios in Auckland. Along the way the conversation turns to Tami Neilson, Seinfeld and his brand new video

TALL TALES is the debut collaborative album and visual experience from Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Electronica artist Mark Pritchard and film director Jonathan Zawada.

Marty Duda goes deep into the making of the album and the film with Mark Pritchard who tells us, first how he and Thom Yorke created the album and then how Jonathan Zawada joined the team to create the stunning visuals set to that music. Along the way we learn about EQ, distortion, miking a room, vari-speed and plate reverb v spring reverb...its an audio geek's dream come true!