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Paddy Free

From New Zealand

Paddy Free is one of New Zealand's best known electronic musicians. Recording and performing with Pitch Black and as a solo artist, he has written music for television, film, theatre, dance and multi-media art, as well as acting as producer and engineer for many world-renowned New Zealand bands.
Paddy has been performing a live solo set of Pacific-influenced electronica since 1999, and his debut solo album, a collaboration with renown taonga puoro expert Richard Nunns, entitled Karekare: Te Reo O Te Whenua was released on July 14 2008, on Dub Conspiracy Recordings. Combining electronica with taonga puoro and vocals in te reo Maori from Tiki Taane and Waimihi Hotere, Karekare represents a uniquely New Zealand sound, truly The Language of the Land.
(Biography supplied by WOMAD New Zealand 2011)

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