by JAK | Jan 11, 2019 | culture, development, music
Ever had that feeling that when times are challenging you learn more. No one actively likes having a tough time but if everything was easy / peasy I suspect we’d be in cruise mode and oblivious. Many years ago a wise friend referred to some of this as the...
by JAK | Jun 18, 2017 | culture, music, TEDx
TEDxSydney is a TEDx event that probably has more music in it than most. The idea is that layering music and short films between talks helps with absorbing and nourishing the brain food from the speakers. Every so often a musical performance comes along that is an...
by JAK | May 14, 2017 | culture, music
Every so often I hear a song that really moves me. One of the things that makes a song great is when others can sing the same words, the same song yet bring other layers of meaning into their performances. Which is what happens here. One song that has stood the test...
by JAK | Jan 13, 2017 | culture, music
Last Wednesday was the 1st anniversary of my fathers death. Due to the vagaries of timezones he died on the same day as David Bowie last year. (11th of Jan in NZ was 10th of Jan in U.S). Of course Bowie’s passing was big news unlike my Dad. At the funeral I made...
by JAK | Dec 21, 2016 | culture, music
Imagine if we lived in a country where 160,000 kids learned songwriting each week and a few hundred of them even got paid and made a living at it? Sounds far fetched? Apparently around 160,000 New Zealanders play rugby every weekend. I’m guessing most of them...
by JAK | Dec 1, 2016 | culture, music
I went to the New Zealand music awards a couple of weeks ago. There were some surprising performances from Shapeshifter and Tami Neilson who were both stunning but not exactly popular music I would have thought. Most of the music was from mainstream popular “not...
