Bret McKenzie - Songs Without Jokes - Blue/White Smoke - VINYL LP

Glacial Blue Vinyl. Bret McKenzie is a Grammy and Academy Award winning artist most well known for his band Flight of the Conchords and their eponymous television show. McKenzie is internationally renowned for singing and writing funny, strange, and unique songs primarily for film and television. Bret's songs have been sung by Kermit the Frog, Celine Dion, Lizzo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brittany Howard, Homer and Lisa Simpson, Fred Armisan, Miss Piggy, Amy Adams, Jason Segal, Ricky Gervais, Benee, Isabela Merced, Spongebob Squarepants, Tony Bennett, Mickey Rooney, and more. As a young adult Bret was an active part of the Wellington music scene playing in multiple bands across multiple genres. He was a founding member of the popular band The Black Seeds, a reggae funk phenomenon that went on to make multiple gold albums and tour extensively around the world. He also started the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra, a surprisingly popular ten piece ukulele group, played in Dub Connection, an experimental electronica ensemble, made an indie pop electro record under the alias Video Kid, and performed in various jazz groups from The Shrinks, a band made up of people playing miniature instruments, to corporate function quartet The Canapés. At the same time Bret was heavily involved in the local theatre scene performing regularly in countless devised comedy theatre productions where he developed a friendship with a large community of theatre artists including long time collaborators Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi. In 2000 he was cast as an extra in the first Lord of the Rings film, The Fellowship of the Ring and was unexpectedly catapulted to fame as a background elf that garnered an abnormal amount of attention from the Tolkien fans. He was coined Figwit - an acronym for InchFrodo is great, who is that?Inch Around the same time The Flight of the Conchords emerged fro

The band came into being when a young trumpet player named Daram Karanga offered to assemble a group to entertain the workers at a copper mine in the Zimbabwean town of Mhangura. During the next five years, the band would relocate from their small mining town to the capital city, go through numerous line-up changes and pay a few more visits to the recording studio, without ever losing the raucous urgency that had transformed them from popular entertainers into titans of Zimbabwean culture. Take One collects the HCR Band's biggest hits along with several rare tracks recorded between 1974 and 1979, all painstakingly remastered from original master tapes and vinyl sources; originally released on CD by Analog Africa in 2006. CD comes with a full color 24-pages booklet & digital album as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.1. Mudzimu Ndiringe 3 152. Kare Nanhasi 3 323. Tamba Zimba Navashe 3 174. Ngoma Yarira 2 115. Sekai 2 416. Manheru Changamire 3 367. Gore Iro 3 198. Mukadzi Wangu Ndomuda 3 249. Alikulila 2 5710. Tinokumbira Kuziva 3 2111. Mutoridodo 2 1012. Ndopenga 3 3213. Mwana Wamai Dada Naye 3 2614. Chaminuka Mukuru 3 41

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Bill Wyman's fourth solo album was originally only released in Japan and Argentina. Aided by former Elton John Band percussionist Ray Cooper and the ever-faithful Terry Taylor, former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman worked on a number of original tunes for this , notably 'Stuff (Can't Get Enough)', and excellent R&B/Soul-based track with insistent backing vocals and a loose-limbed rhythmic thrust.