Music News - New Gum Sarn 'New Gold Mountain' out July 3 on spunk!
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Gold Mountain has just as much to do with the countryside around Puhoi in New
Zealand than Auckland, where the band New Gum Sarn formed.
“The (debut) album was recorded where I grew up in a valley in the
countryside,” says singer/guitarist Oscar Dowling. “The closest town is Puhoi
which is a 15 minute drive along a dirt road. It’s a historic bohemian village,
famous for cheese and the puhoi pub. The first time my dad went to the pub the
barkeep told him to ‘get fucked hippie’.”
New Gum Sarm also features Sophia Lawler-Dormer on drums, Dave Weir on bass,
and Durham Fenwick on guitar (who co-founded the band with Dowling). Fenwick
and Dowling started writing songs together two years ago, shortly after moving
South to the city. After Dave and Sophia fleshed the songs out, the band
borrowed two van loads of gear from a variety of friends and recorded the album
live over a weekend in Puhoi with Oscar’s brother Sam Hamilton, a longtime
Auckland artist. Hamilton has played with likes of Tall Dwarfs and Dean Roberts
and has also released an array of music most notably his last two experimental
and experimental pop albums PALA and Integrifolia. Hamilton is also a prolific
artist with works ranging over the many mediums of film, dance and sculpture.
The album was mixed in both Portland, Oregon and Auckland. Most of the guitar
parts were written by Dowling or Fenwick. Dowling wrote the riff for the first
single ‘Money Talks’ while traveling in France at 18. ‘Anxiety Nap’ was a piano
piece Dowling was working on around the same time and when the band started
jamming he took the right hand and Durham took the left hand. Originally called
Small Boys, the band changed their name to New Gum Sarn last year. They are
named after a supermarket just off K Road in Auckland. It means “New Gold
Mountain”, which is what Chinese immigrants called New Zealand when they came
to New Zealand during the goldrush.
Dowling also releases music under his own name, while Weir and Durham play in
another band The Nightshades. Some other bands they have played with are in no
particular order, Shacklock Meth Party, Bargain Bin Laden, Caroles, Trust
Punks, Anthonie Tonnan, Echo Ohs, Loud Ghost, Astro Children, Mermaidenz, Green
Fog, and many more. Inspiration for the record comes from long term heroes
Television, Velvet Underground, The Modern Lovers, Neil Young and Talk Talk and
NZ/AUS artists Seth Frightening, Sharpie Crows, Rowland S. Howard, and East
Brunswick All Girls Choir.
The album is released July 3 in New Zealand and July 31 in Australia.
NEW GOLD MOUNTAIN TOUR
New Zealand Dates
Thursday 2nd July at Whammy Bar, Auckland
Friday 17th July at The Darkroom, Christchurch
Sat 18th July at The Sherwood, Queenstown
Thursday 23rd July at Chicks Hotel, Port Chalmers
Friday 24th July at Eyegum Music Collective, Wellington
Saturday 25th July at Moon, Wellington
Saturday 1st August at Winecellar, Auckland
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