4 Sep 2024

Justin DeHart - Towards Midnight

From Three to Seven, 4:00 pm on 4 September 2024
Percussionist Justin DeHart

Percussionist Justin DeHart Photo: Cory Blackburn / University of Canterbury

Percussionist Justin DeHart has a new album out on the Rattle label: Towards Midnight.

It's his second album of New Zealand percussion music and includes works by Gareth Farr, John Psathas, Antonia Barnett-McIntosh and Phil Dadson. 

RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump spoke with Justin DeHart about some of the instruments and techniques used in the music, which he recorded and mastered himself.

Some of the instruments used by percussionist Justin DeHart when recording Phil Dadson's work Kōrero Kōhatu - A Conversation With Stones.

Recording Phil Dadson's work Kōrero Kōhatu - A Conversation With Stones. Photo: Supplied / Justin DeHart