30 April 2010
For May 2010, Xtreme Music celebrates New Zealand Music Month with a FREE online portfolio featuring thoughts and musings with 40 of New Zealand's most visionary musicians and writers.
Justin St. Vincent, Managing Editor of Xtreme Music, has interviewed over 1000 people to explore the deeper meanings of music, and has hand-picked 40 Kiwi contributors to share their thoughts on music and spirituality for music-makers and music-lovers during New Zealand Music Month.
Contributors include members of Hamilton punk-rock band All Left Out, Christchurch-based death-metal band Human, Napier's progressive post-rock band Jakob, singer-songwriter Nathan King, author and physician Robin Kelly, keynote speaker and spiritual entrepreneur Mike Handcock.
Online readers are able to explore these exclusive interviews for free, download layout previews as PDFs, and forward any of the artists' responses to fellow fans and friends. To access this free Online Edition with 40 Kiwi artists for New Zealand Music Month, together with their brief biographies and exclusive interviews, click onto Xtreme Music: www.xtrememusic.org
Justin St. Vincent's latest book "The Spiritual Significance of Music" includes New Zealand-born singer-songwriter Daniel Bedingfield sharing his thoughts on why 'music is the deep hum behind reality, part of the thread that ties the universe together', and Rigel Walshe from Auckland's death-metal band Dawn Of Azazel discusses how "few things in the modern world can rival the significance of music.
Simon Moore, former guitarist of Parachute Band from Parachute Festival, also shares how "loving and needing music seems to be woven into the fabric of who we are and how God created us. All contributors offer insightful views that celebrate the beauty and diversity of music. Xtreme Music has a special offer for New Zealand Music Month on First Editions of the new book, now available for only $20 plus P&P (RRP $29.95).
A complete list of all 40 Kiwi contributors for New Zealand Music Month is available here:http://www.xtrememusic.org/nzmusicmonth.html