Music News - The Taite Music Prize: Announcing this year’s ‘Independent Music NZ Classic Record’ Award
08 April 2015 - 0 Comments
IMNZ is proud to announce the second award to be presented at this year’s Taite Music Prize 2015 event.
The ceremony is to include the ‘Independent Music NZ Classic Record’, which aims to acknowledge New Zealand’s rich history of making fine albums that continue to inspire us and define who we are.
The panel to determine the recipient of this new award was made up of a broad section of music media / industry specialists, who have given the nod this year to the Herbs’What’s Be Happen?
(Warrior Records, July 1981) mini-album as one of NZ’s classic records. The award is scheduled to be presented by Moana Maniapoto and will be accepted by members of the band and label.
When told of the news this week, Dilworth Karaka (Herbs) said: “Thank you, that is much appreciated. It was our first bunch of songs that we’d ever recorded and was a strong indicator for the political material we would carry on to do – the memory has carried on, and it’s still our most popular record.”
Peter McLennan, author, musician and judging panelist said: “Herbs’ recording debut ‘What's Be Happen?’ holds up as a vital slice of our cultural history and a landmark for Pacific reggae.
Dropping in the dark days of the 1981 Springbok Tour, the mini album showed the band pulling together a strong set of six originals – they knew they were doing something right when people started asking them about a song off the EP, Dragons And Demons, wanting to know which Bob Marley album it was from. It's still a crucial recording, to this day.”
The Taite Music Prize 2015 event is held on Wednesday, 15th April in Auckland and is an invite-only ceremony. Delaney Davidson and Don McGlashan are scheduled to perform live sets for the gathered guests.
The Taite Music Prize 2015
Presented by:
Independent Music New Zealand
Founding Partner:
Recorded Music NZ
Official Partners:
NZ On Air / the Taite Family
Supporting Partners:
NZ Music Commission / The Australasian Performing Right Association / Native Tongue Music Publishing / NZMusic4U - Pure Capital Thinking / Media Arts Lawyers / Red Bull Studio Auckland /
MOA Beer / Spy Valley Wines / McCarthy Design / Jagermeister
Media Partners:
iHeartRadio / Juice TV / Kiwi FM
Previous Independent Music NZ Classic Record winners are:
Gordons
– Gordons (Flying Nun Records)
AK-79 –
various artists (Ripper Records)
Thanks to www.indies.co.nz for this story.
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