NZ Music Every Godzone Month! sign from Too Tone Records in Dunedin.
Our New Zealand Music Month for day #31 ends the month the way it started – with a song from Shayne P Carter. This time it’s the title track opening the last Dimmer album “Degrees of Existence”:
“Degrees of Existence” was recorded by a Dimmer line up that had played and toured for 2-3 years and captured the energy of a live band in a studio, or “the roar and the outerpaceness we were/ are capable of live.”
In his recently published memoir Carter says of “Degrees of Existence”:Â “The title track wasn’t friendly. It had zinging guitars and a big thumping bass played by Kelly. Dino did a mantra in the middle. The song was a finalist for that year’s Silver Scroll songwriting award, and Demarnia Lloyd did a superb version with just drums, bass and a small vocal ensemble, and when I heard the words come out of someone else’s mouth I realised the lyrics were right and that I could allow myself some credit.”
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