Music News - Luke Buda announces new album 'Buda' and releases new single and video 'Here Comes The Wind'
30 June 2021 - 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.
Today he shares Here Comes The Wind, the first single from his upcoming album Buda (out October 15).
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In October Buda will release his third solo album (his first in twelve years), a collection of songs mostly recorded in his garage over the last three years. The lyrics are a mix of Buda's sincere but sardonic musings about feeling old and tired and anxious about everything, and words supplied by New Zealand novelist Damien Wilkins, all set to the kind of melodies that you could find while channel surfing through radio stations on a long midnight drive.
Buda has roped in a large range of collaborators for the album, including guests like Don McGlashan; Joe Lindsay and Toby Laing from Fat Freddy's Drop; Riki Gooch; Dayle Jellyman; Jacqui Nyman; and all the members of The Phoenix Foundation. Special mention needs to be made of Anita Clark's (Motte) contribution, as she sang on every single track.
When asked to reflect on the song, Luke Buda says "'Here Comes The Wind' was originally made for the opening scene of the film This Town. It ended up not being used for that purpose, but I had a real soft spot for it so I carried on working on it. Unfortunately, I found it impossible to write any lyrics, but luckily I had already had some conversations with Damien Wilkins about him possibly writing some words for me."
"When Luke sent me the music for what became ‘Here Comes the Wind’, I thought of those great propulsive Talking Heads songs like ‘Life During Wartime’ and ‘Once in a Lifetime’" says Damien. "The guitar part made me think of anxious repeating questions in some kind of stressful interview situation. I had no idea what the interview was about. I wrote, ‘Hey sit down I want to ask you some questions/about the planet and its future directions’ and then I thought, oh right, this. ‘If you imagine the sea, is it coming or going? If there’s a tree in your mind, is it shrinking or growing?’ In the second verse, the interviewer offers some advice, ‘I leave you this gauge for collecting data/Hold on to your spade for the system of barter’. The great calamity is happening and you have some tasks. ‘Record the butterflies and the frogs/sketch the lichen on the fallen logs’. More songs about the climate emergency I say! Look out for the birds!"
Luke notes that "Once the words were there, everything else fell into place. I knew I wanted it to be an epic guitar journey and it was incredibly fun to just go for it and play a fully indulgent guitar solo. It’s like a good cheese board at the end of the meal, almost too much, but so satisfying."
The Director, DOP, and Editor of the video, Bryson Rooney, says the direction for Here Comes The Wind "was to take bespoke animation and project those stunning surreal images into real life, to capture the unique energy of the song.""When I listened to Here Comes The Wind the first few times, I experienced thoughts and feelings of how hard it is to find personal comfort these days. One of the places I go to comfort my brain is a very ordinary but convenient park that exists behind my house/studio. It's a mundane place but I find myself there a lot pondering stuff… its goal posts and footpaths that lead to nowhere somehow de-scramble my brain each morning" says Greg Hodgson, who looked after the video effects throughout the clip.
"I decided to try and capture that mundane comfort with my trusty old VHS camera and then run it all through my little cave of analogue video effects, with no real prescriptive idea of what the outcome would be, just a trust that comfort existed in my park and that hopefully that would equal something at the finish line. Luckily Luke is the kind of fellow who trusts and lets you run free so the video is a reflection of that creative trust."
Luke Buda is a founding member of the 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. 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 two solo albums, Special Surprise (2005, Arch HIll) and Vesuvius (2008, Arch Hill).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 Simposon's 'Panic on the Streets of Springfield'.
Photo Credit: Doug Johns
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