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Play that Guitar! - Paul van Wering
Play that Guitar! by Paul van Wering is a beginner guitar book which teaches you how to play chords and rhythms, pick well known tunes and learn to read music for the guitar.
Flip Grater - The Cookbook Tour Europe (Adventures in Music & Food)
When celebrated New Zealand indie musician Flip Grater took her guitar to Europe, she slept on couches, took in the sights and must-sees of Europe, performed her music in seven countries – and ate some great food. Now she captures her journey in an exciting new book, describing the places, people and experience of touring.
I Felt Like a Fight, Alright - Ruth Carr (Minuit)
As the powerful front-woman of renowned Kiwi act Minuit (minwee), and the unforgettable lyricist behind their tunes, Ruth Carr has always known the power of words – they are her currency.
Full of one-liners, poems, lyrics and short tales, Ruth takes us deeper into her world with her debut book I Felt Like a Fight, Alright?
Dave Dobbyn: The Songbook
While generations of New Zealanders have grown up with Dave Dobbyn's music, his songs have never been collected together and published in written form before.
Produced to coincide with his new album of greatest hits, Dave Dobbyn: The Songbook contains 39 of his most celebrated and loved songs.
The Great New Zealand Songbook - Deluxe Edition
This deluxe set of 'The Great New Zealand Songbook' includes a 100-page journal of handwritten lyrics, photos and memorabilia, contributed by the artists themselves -- the coolest Kiwi music coffee table book ever, and the music that goes with it!
SOUNDTRACK: 118 Great NZ Albums
Grant Smithies' marvellously passionate, insightful, hilarious and always entertaining paen to New Zealand music is a great read to anyone remotely interested in New Zealand music of the last 30 years. Smithies has written about 118 albums that he personally loves, music that he believes rises above the background noise to say something significant about the musicians who made it, and the place and time from which they came.
Hip Hop Music in Aotearoa
The first book to examine New Zealand's hip hop scene, Hip Hop Music in Aotearoa looks at the music's evolution, from its early roots with Upper Hutt Posse, through to MC OJ & Rhythm Slave and 3 The Hard Way in the early 1990s and Che Fu, King Kapisi, Scribe and Nesian Mystik in the present day. The book features interviews with these and other prominent musicians and discusses the journey New Zealand hip hop has taken to become the mainstream, popular art form it is today.
Making Music in New Zealand
MAKING MUSIC IN NEW ZEALAND examines the reality of being a local musician. It collects together comments by popular musicians along with quotes from other major players in the industry. It covers: getting started; songwriting; practising and playing live; touring; promotion; recording; the industry; and surviving as a musician. The text is complemented by a stunning range of black and white photographs. The result is a book that gives an engaging insight into the life of a local musician.
Hotel Cabana - thru the decades
Napier's most famous Art Deco hotel - regarded as the 'best gig in the country' - is now immortalised in print! While other venues were 'wine, women and song' the Cabana was sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll!
The book contains loads of rare photos, autographs and stories from everyone between Sam Hunt- Midge Marsden, and from Jordan Luck- Wayne Mason, Graham Brazier-Jenny Morris.
Flip Grater - The Cookbook Tour (Travels in NZ Food and Music)
In 2006 singer-songwriter Flip Grater went on an epic tour of New Zealand to promote her debut album Cage For A Song.
Travelling the length and breadth of the country in her trusty 1988 Lada station wagon, she sang for her supper in small towns and big cities, blagging accommodation, food and most importantly recipes along the way.
NZ Rock: 1987 - 2007
The highly talented Gareth Shute returns with what will be a seminal book on the history of guitar music in this country.
NZ Rock 1987-2007 begins in 1987 at the point where Crowded House's track, 'Don't Dream it's Over', had just reached the top of the singles charts in the United States. It traces the history of guitar music in New Zealand from this time until the present, showing how local bands have tried to follow this example or have sought different routes to success – either locally or internationally.
Stranded in Paradise
The original book, published in 1988, immediately became a classic. It was the first proper history of New Zealand rock and roll, told as a series of inter-linking, anecdotal stories. To buy an original on Amazon.com now costs at least $US150.00
Bing Turkby and the missing speakers
In the time-honoured TurkbyTone Rekkids tradition of filling a market gap that wasn't actually there, we are proud to present to you Bing Turkby's children's picture books.
Bing Turkby and the broken guitar
In the time-honoured TurkbyTone Rekkids tradition of filling a market gap that wasn't actually there, we are proud to present to you Bing Turkby's children's picture books.
