W3 – from Kanye to Cohen’s cartwheeling sisters: New Music Friday

Some new music spotted recently on our music buyer’s desk:

• Wellington World Music Collection – first in a series of locally produced music in traditional and contemporary world music styles.
• Webb Sisters – you know them already if you were lucky enough to go to the Leonard Cohen concert …  Graham Reid reviews the album Savages as “a curiously unaffecting album where 80s pop-rock (think Stevie Nicks on the title track) sits uneasily alongside material such as Baroque Thoughts and the clunking lyrics of Words That Mobilise which are grounded in anglofolk” … but actually that combination sounds appealing.
• Watch the Throne – Jay-Z and Kanye West. I wasn’t too excited until I read Alexis Petridis in The Guardian: “There are unlikely samples. No Church in the Wild sets Frank Ocean’s haunting vocal against Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera playing a tricksy prog riff.”

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Find new music at Christchurch City Libraries

• New CDs at our libraries
• The Source, which is available to library members, includes several sources of streaming music and music downloads such as Music Online and Naxos Music Library as well as reference resources.

Get ya geek on: Really useful resources for NCEA Latin

Having trouble getting your tongue around NCEA Latin? Christchurch City Libraries is here to help!

• Search for all things Latin in Encyclopædia Britannica;
• WorldBook Online InfoFinder is another great place to look for relevant articles;
• Borrow a Latin dictionary from one of our community libraries now open;
• You can also access Latin dictionaries online at Credo Reference or Oxford Reference using your library card and PIN;
• Find official information and resources for NCEA Latin on the NZQA website;
• Learn about Roman history and culture, play games, and check out other helpful Latin reference tools on Latinata.com;
• Test your vocabulary at Kepheus.

Want some more really useful resources for another NCEA subject? Go to The Pulse, the library’s website for teens.