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This June 20th, Monkey Records and Banished from the Universe are proud to present Spring Summer Awesome Winter, the second album from Bond Street Bridge and the follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2008 debut The Mapmaker's Art. Pre-order your copy here and be the first kid on the block to have it.
Bond Street Bridge is the solo project of Auckland-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Sam Prebble. Since the release of The Mapamaker's Art, Prebble has been busy, touring extensively in New Zealand, Australia and Europe and playing shows everywhere from dive bars to art galleries and festival stages. As well as his solo work as Bond Street Bridge, Prebble plays violin, mandolin and guitar for Reb Fountain and the Bandits and the Hannah Curwood Band, and is a long-standing member of Auckland folk-pop group The Broken Heartbreakers. In
Bond Street Bridge
Bond Street Bridge is the creation of Auckland-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Sam Prebble. Sam has been playing music for as long as he can remember, and ‘probably before that as well,’ as he puts it. Bond Street Bridge is currently a solo project, but Sam has always played in bands, orchestras and choirs. For the past few years he has been playing in the Broken Heartbreakers and Reb Fountain’s Bandits, and has recently guested on releases by White Swan Black Swan, Dylan Storey and Andy Gibson, playing fiddle and writing string arrangements. Sam’s experience in bands and orchestras has developed the strong sense for arrangement and orchestration he brings to his debut album, ‘The Mapmaker’s Art.’ Listening to the lush soundscapes and cunningly interleaved parts on this record, it is hard to believe that it was recorded on a laptop with one microphone, in a falling-down villa next to a motorway.
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This June 20th, Monkey Records and Banished from the Universe are proud to present Spring Summer Awesome Winter, the second album from Bond Street Bridge and the follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2008 debut The Mapmaker's Art. Pre-order your copy here and be the first kid on the block to have it.
Bond Street Bridge is the solo project of Auckland-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Sam Prebble. Since the release of The Mapamaker's Art, Prebble has been busy, touring extensively in New Zealand, Australia and Europe and playing shows everywhere from dive bars to art galleries and festival stages. As well as his solo work as Bond Street Bridge, Prebble plays violin, mandolin and guitar for Reb Fountain and the Bandits and the Hannah Curwood Band, and is a long-standing member of Auckland folk-pop group The Broken Heartbreakers. In
Now We're 28
Now We Are 28 is the new single and video from Bond Street Bridge.
This song is about getting older – older than Percy Shelley, older than Kurt Cobain, older than the illustrious roll-call of bright and doomed artists who made it to 27 and checked out. It's about hoping that maybe there's more to life than looking at things and trying new drinks, but suspecting that there maybe there's not. It's about remembering fast cars and the feeling of being ready for whatever, and it's about the feeling you get when it slips away, and you have to start going to bed before midnight or getting up in the morning will be even more of a pain in the ass. For all that, though, it's got a spring in its step and a sparkle to it.
Now We Are 28 is accompanied by a web-only video shot (and
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'Silver’ is the second single from Bond Street Bridge's critically acclaimed debut album 'The Mapmaker's Art.'
The song and the video tell an epic story of folly, adventure, and eventual insanity. A well-dressed but confused-looking young man pushes a mannequin in a post-apocalyptic shopping trolley through a desert populated by dessicated skulls, poisonous snakes, and cantankerous alchemists. With only a deck of cards for guidance, he's searching for a mysterious potion – presumably he'll know it when he sees it. As in most ill-conceived endeavours, things go wrong quite quickly.
The video was shot in lush black and white by Briar March, and directed by Nigel Braddock. Sam Prebble, the one-man multi-instrumentaliser behind the Bond Street Bridge project, wrote the script and provided art direction. He explains 'the logistics of the shoot were a bit of a nightmare, but since it was my idea, I couldn't really complain about
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The debut album from Bond Street Bridge, 'The Mapmaker's Art,' was recorded with one microphone and an old laptop in a falling-down villa next to Auckland's northwestern motorway. The circumstances of the recording had a strong influence on the content of the record; and this is particularly audible on the track 'motorways,' the new single and video from Bond Street Bridge. Most of the songs on 'The Mapmaker's Art' are about ways of traveling, and this song is inspired by the motorway at night, wet from the rain.
'Motorways' is a lush track. The glitchy beats, driving strings, and rolling bass surround a sinister tale of misadventure on the open road, delivered in a hushed an impressionistic vocal. There are bones, there's poison and knives, and the wet road follows powerlines through the mountains to an unspecified destination.
In the video, shot in grainy black and white by Sam
Monkey Records is pleased to announce the release of a summery little gem from Auckland artist Bond Street Bridge. The new song 'Birds' is the first single from Bond Street Bridge's forthcoming sophomore album, due for release in early 2010 following on from the critically acclaimed The Mapmaker's Art released last year.
In this catchy wee number, Bond Street Bridge, aka Sam Prebble, reflects on the mating habits of New Zealand's paradise shelduck, Tadorna variegata. These striking brown-and-white ducks generally mate for life, and pairs are a common sight in open country in New Zealand.
Prebble says 'I spend a lot of time driving around the country for shows and whatnot, and anthropomorphising the wildlife is a good way to pass the time. I have to concede that the birds in this song are probably not really in love, but based
