Emerging local musicians are given two minutes to introduce one of their songs and say whatever they like about themselves and their music.
Photo: Justyn Rebecca Denney Strother
Name: Motte (Anita Clark).
Age (of project): Started earlier this year.
Hometown: Lyttelton, Christchurch.
Associated acts: Devilish Mary and the Holy Rollers.
Sounds like: Neo Classical tape delay violin. Sounds like what you would imagine it would feel like to be stuck inside a hothouse in the dead of night... full of tropical plants, flying insects, and a suffocatingly humid atmosphere.
Musical guilty pleasure: 60s lounge and exotica…Herb Albert, Martin Denny, Les Baxter and his Orchestra…Hawaiian music... those 10 hour long YouTube ambient tracks of running bath water, or a hairdryer. White noise.
Formative musical experience: A few Irish pub bands, The Ragamuffin Children, six months of Jazz School, The Eastern, Devilish Mary and the Holy Rollers, lots of studio and session work and collaborations.