25 Aug 2023

New music with Ian Chapman: Four Dunedin acts

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 25 August 2023
When music takes over ... Mads Harrop recorded her first EP Contagious World at Studio Sublime, her family's fully-equipped analogue and digital recording studio in the Waitaki Valley.

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From the depths of the deep south Ian showcases four acts that the rest of New Zealand may not yet have heard but which they surely should: Ivy, Akoba, Mads Harrop (pictured) and The Mentalist Collective. Each of these four acts is very different to the others; testament to the ongoing and expansive creative spirit and adventurousness that Dunedin music is famous for

 Ian Chapman is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Music at Otago University.

Songs played: For the Sake of It by Ivy, Weighed Down by Akoba, Harmonise by Mads Harrop, and Red Red Rose by The Mentalist Collective.