Music News - Third Launchpad Winner Announced
Kora, the winners of the third round of Launchpad.
21 June 2003 - 0 Comments
Kora were selected by the public as the winners of the Round 3 Coke Launchpad competition. Their song Politician is an infectitious, up-beat, reggae cut.
Originally hailing from Whakatane, four musical brothers from the Kora family - Laughton, Francis, Stuart and Brad - began playing together as a band in the early 1990s under the name Auntie Beatrice, winning the national Rockquest high school band competition in 1991 and the East Coast region Battle Of The Bands three years running, earning a release on Tangata Records for their efforts.
In early 2002 Kora's core members Laughton and Francis recorded a four song demo while on holiday in Queenstown, sharing songwriting duties with local muso Dan McGruer who also joined them on bass guitar and keyboards, and inviting visiting Madagascan tourist Lilou to lay down vocals on the song "Barely Can See".
Kora's four track demo caught the attention of Wellington-based record label LOOP Recordings Aot(ear)oa in late 2002, leading to the release of "Barely Can See" on the label's LOOP Select 004 compilation CD in December. The track, touched up by enigmatic electronic musician Lee Tui (aka epsilon-blue)
Of late Kora have been in the studio to begin recording their debut album. The first track to be released on New Zealand radio was 'Politician' which was play listed up by over 15 stations nationwide and held the number 1 spot on Radio Scopes alternative charts for 2 weeks whilst staying in the top ten for 8 weeks.
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