the hunt!More NZ Music month good­ness is upon us, with the release of the Phoenix Found­a­tion’s Samuel Flynn Scot­t’s solo album – ‘The Hunt Brings Us Life’.

Those of us lucky enough to receive sneak pre­view cop­ies were also amused by the very excel­lent accom­pa­ny­ing press release cour­tesy of ‘Prof’ Rus­sell Brown, which we recom­mend you go to and read in its entirety over at Pub­lic Address. If only all music­al acts could approach their PR with such good humour. (Tellingly enough, the last CD that had any­thing remotely as good was fel­low Phoene­cian Luke Buda’s PR for his also recently released ‘Spe­cial Sur­prise’ album, which fea­tured pho­tos of Luke as Rambo and Her­cules (although not, we were dis­ap­poin­ted to see, Benny from Abba (although, we did fix that))).

As if all this Phoenix Found­a­tion mem­bers doing their own thing was­n’t enough, we get the added bonus of a broad­cast of Scot­t’s oth­er ‘oth­er’ band – Bun­nies on Ponies – live at Bar Bodega, on Nation­al Radio tonight (web stream avail­able here). At 7:30pm. When … hold on … there’s some­thing else on .. around then? Any­way, Scott describes Bun­nies on Ponies as a,

…hotch potch kind of folk band that com­bines gentle folk songs with slightly aggress­ive impro­vised arrange­ments.

We know exactly what he means. And, for those who don’t, you can just tune in and find out.