16 June 2022 - 0 Comments

Luke Buda (he/him) is a songwriter based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington). Buda’s music finds influence in the warm strums that emanated from Laurel Canyon in the 1960's, the dreamy vocals of supreme 1970's soft rock and disco, and the digital delays and drum machines wafting out from the UK in the early 1980's. In this work, he locates the sweet spot between introspection and wry humour.

Since the release of his 2022 Taite Music Prize nominated album Buda in October, Buda has been desperate to play some sweet local music for the local crew down at the local bar! After several COVID-19 related setbacks it is finally happening.

Buda and Ōtautahi Violinist Anita Clark (Motte) will head out on an intimate four date tour to play the songs from Buda, as well as some old The Phoenix Foundation favourites and… if the mood is right: a cover or two, perhaps Roxette?

Hear the songs from Buda played by Buda (with Anita Clark) in a stripped back setting. Come and bear witness to a man singing about his lack of fitness, and his inability to keep on top of day to day life admin, while swimming in a pool of reverb and gratuitous delay. Float away on a cloud of spaced out violin and dreamy synths.

PURCHASE TICKETS TO BUDA (& ANITA CLARK) PLAYS BUDA

Luke Buda is a founding member of The Phoenix Foundation, who formed in 1997 and have since released 7 albums and 4 EPs. They've been nominated for over 30 Aotearoa Music Awards and they've won a few too! The Phoenix Foundation have been shortlisted three times for the IMNZ's Taite Prize, and three times finalists in APRA's Silver Scrolls. In 2009 Buda won a Silver Scroll, for his co-writing credit on Lawrence Arabia’s Apple Pie Bed.

In 2016 Buda co-wrote and produced Sir Dave Dobbyn's Harmony House, and in 2017 he released an album as one quarter of the band Teeth (an outfit featuring David Long of The Mutton Birds). Since 2007 he has composed music for television and film as Moniker (along with Samuel F Scott and Conrad Wedde). Their work can be found in seminal Aotearoa films such as Eagle vs. Shark, Hunt For The Wilderpeople, and Boy, the latter winning them Best Original Score at the NZ Film and TV Awards. In 2018 the group took home the APRA Best Original Music in a Series for Cleverman.

In between all of this Buda has released three solo albums, Special Surprise (2005, Arch Hill) and Vesuvius (2008, Arch Hill) and Buda (2021, Independent).

Buda is one of only a handful of New Zealand musicians to have made an appearance on BBC's Later... with Jools Holland, and recently made Morrissey quite angry when he contributed guitar to Everyone Is Horrid Except Me (And Possibly You) by Quilloughby feat. Lisa Simpson from the recent episode of The Simpson's "Panic on the Streets of Springfield."

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