07 September 2006 - 0 Comments

The New Zealand Music Awards 2006 committee are delighted to announce the winners of the three technical awards for Best Album Cover, Best Engineer and Best Producer.

The winners were announced and Tui trophies presented at an event in Auckland yesterday (September 6, 2006).

And the winners are:

Best Album Cover

Winner: Chris Knox for 'As Sweet As Sin' (Bleeders);
Finalist: Joe Garlick for Fly My Pretties’ 'The Return of Fly My Pretties';
Finalist: Stephen Tolfrey for the cover of Blindspott’s 'End The Silence'.

Best Engineer

Winner: Andre Upston, engineer on 'Birds' by Bic Runga;
Finalist: Andrew Spraggon & Angus McNaughton, for their work on 'Moves On' by Sola Rosa;
Finalist: Lee Prebble, for Fly My Pretties’ 'The Return of Fly My Pretties'.

Best Producer

Winner: Bic Runga for 'Birds' by Bic Runga;
Finalist: Don McGlashan, Sean Donnelly & Ed McWilliams for Don McGlashan’s 'Warm Hand';
Finalist: David Holmes and Paul McLaney for 'Like Stray Voltage' by Gramsci.

New Zealand Music Awards spokesperson Campbell Smith says the technical experts are vital but often unsung contributors to New Zealand music excellence.

“We must continue to recognise, nurture and celebrate the talent these people bring to recorded music,” Mr Smith says. “We are delighted to be able to honour these achievers and recognise their efforts in helping build and maintain the current momentum in Kiwi music.

BEST ALBUM COVER

Chris Knox for 'As Sweet As Sin' (Bleeders)

Chris Knox has been designing artwork for bands since his youth in Dunedin’s original punk band The Enemy. Thirty years later, The Bleeders are part of a new generation of New Zealand punk-influenced acts and they approached Knox to design the artwork for their debut album, 'As Sweet As Sin'.

Knox’s graphic style, influenced by 20th century comic book art and horror and b-movie stylistics, is perfect for what The Bleeders wanted. A previous Album Cover Design Tui winner for the artwork on his album “Chris Knox – Polyfoto, Duck-Shaped Pain and Gum”, Chris has also contributed his Max Media comic strip to the NZ Herald for close to two decades and been a regular artistic contributor to The Listener. He has published two periodicals, Jesus On A Stick and Loose, designed numerous album sleeves and other pieces of commercial artwork and created dozens of music videos.

BEST ENGINEER

Andre Upston, engineer on 'Birds' by Bic Runga

Andre Upston has been a music engineer at Radio New Zealand for 12 years,

4 years at Studio Centre in Wellington, and 8 years managing the Helen Young Studio in Auckland. He has recorded many of the finest musicians in the country, for both broadcast on the Radio New Zealand network, and for commercial release. The artists include Bic Runga, Anika Moa, Scribe, Pacifier, Goldenhorse, and Dave Dobbyn. He has also engineered several feature-length film soundtracks including The Locals, The Irrefutable Truth About Demons, Magik & Rose, and Snakeskin.

BEST PRODUCER

Bic Runga for 'Birds' by Bic Runga

Bic Runga’s third album 'Birds' was released in New Zealand in November 2005. Taking the role of album producer herself, Bic set out to record the album as “live” as possible, and has produced a superb distillation of her own incredible songwriting talent and with firm grasp on the universal language of romance.

Bic Runga’s ubiquity in New Zealand music belies her relative youth. Three albums into her career, she demonstrates the artistic value in trying new ways to bring her songs out into the open and letting them soar on new wings. Bic will tell you that this album’s creation was a magical experience for her - and you can hear that magic in the songs.

Thanks to www.nzmusicawards.co.nz for this story.

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