Joe Blossom Releases Nocturnes
Date: Thursday 26 May (Kiwi Music Month)Venue: San Francisco Bath House, Cuba St, Wellington
Support: Full Fucking Moon (kids, swearing doesn’t make you cool) and
Gold Medal Famous
Format: CD available at the gig, with 12” vinyl records still to come
Nocturne |ˈnäkˌtərn|noun
1 Music a short composition of a romantic or dreamy character suggestive of night, typically for piano.
2 Art a picture of a night scene.
ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: French, from Latin nocturnus ‘of the night.'
Nocturnes was cleverly recorded and mixed by James Goldsmith (live engineer to Die Die Die, So So Modern, Cut Off Your Hands, Tommy Ill…) at a Te Horo bach and a garage on Majoribanks St, Wellington. Three earlier tracks were initially laid down by Dr Lee Prebble at his Surgery Studio.
The core band is a three piece comprised by Blossom, Flash Floods (Regan O’Brien – also bass player with Sophie Burbery) and Jack Frost (Chris Fawdray – also drummer with Grayson Gilmour). The album includes cameos from Bek Coogan (Cortina), Grayson Gilmour (So So Modern) and Nigel Collins (touring cellist for Flight of the Conchords).
Sounds Like
You wake up from a dream about Bowie fondling three glass spheres in one hand, you’ve got a Roxy Music song stuck in your head… but what’s really on your mind is whether you’re going to move back to the Manawatu and take over the farm. It’s sonic piano pop.
In the age of the press release, the sound bite, the friend request, the ‘Like’ button, the viral thought, the fast burning fuse of fame, the hit stats, the friend tag, the citizen journalist, the bedroom rock star, the midnight fact find, the pad, the pod, the phone, revolving credit, the text, the troll, the tweet, the twit, the tube, the tube of lube, www.guesshermuff.com, rabid conspiracy theorists and the ubiquitous “catch-up-for-a-coffee”… there, in the cyberstraits we find Joe Blossom ordering a fish burger at Welcome Takeaways and listening to the world.
