Maxine Funke
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Maxine Funke is a New Zealand singer-songwriter, based in Dunedin.{{Cite web |title=Feature – Maxine Funke: A Sound Of Quiet Shores – Ōtepoti |url=https://nzmusician.co.nz/features/maxine-funke/ |access-date=1 June 2023 |website=NZ Musician |language=en}}
Biography
Growing up in a musical family, her early bands included the Snares, the Hundred Dollar Band (with Alastair Galbraith) and the Beaters, before beginning her solo career with the full-length album Lace in 2008 and Felt (2014).
Her first two releases began to build an audience which led to significant media attention for her third album Silk in 2018{{Cite web |last=Gotrich |first=Lars |date=11 December 2018 |title=Maxine Funke Breathes A Quiet Mantra For The New Year |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2018/12/11/673016306/maxine-funke-breathes-a-quiet-mantra-for-the-new-year |website=NPR}} and her fourth, Seance in 2021.{{Cite web |last=Shand |first=Martin Boulton, John |date=13 August 2021 |title=New Zealand singer Maxine Funke's gentle songs pack a punch |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/music/new-zealand-singer-maxine-funke-s-gentle-songs-pack-a-punch-20210809-p58h28.html |access-date=1 June 2023 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}} The Sydney Morning Herald featured Seance, writing that Funke "has for several years quietly gone about making exquisite, minimal music on a small scale, tucked away in New Zealand – yet has consistently attracted worldwide acclaim." Pitchfork praised the album, writing, "spare acoustic arrangements make deceptively simple containers for songs charged with memory and mysticism."{{Cite web |title=Maxine Funke: Seance |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/maxine-funke-seance/ |access-date=1 June 2023 |website=Pitchfork |language=en-US}} Within New Zealand, Seance occasioned a review of her career from NZ Musician, noting forthcoming projects and how the Covid-19 isolation fed into her 2021 album.
A compilations of singles and out-takes, Pieces of Driftwood, was released to acclaim in 2022 both within New Zealand{{Cite web |date=22 December 2022 |title=The Sampler: The best local albums of 2022 |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/thesampler/audio/2018872277/the-sampler-the-best-local-albums-of-2022 |access-date=1 June 2023 |website=RNZ |language=en-nz}} and internationally.{{Cite web |last=Freeman |first=Hamid Drake, Daniel Spicer, Bill Meyer, Keith Moliné, Emily Bick, Neil Kulkarni, Francis Gooding, Hannah Pezzack, James Gui, John Morrison, Jo Hutton, Phil |title=The Wire 466 |url=https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/466 |access-date=1 June 2023 |website=The Wire Magazine – Adventures In Modern Music |language=en}}
Her most recent album River Said came out in April 2023 with UK record label Disciples, who had released her previous compilation.{{Cite web |date=14 May 2023 |title=Maxine Funke: River Said (Disciples/digital outlets) |url=https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/music/10710/maxine-funke-river-said-disciples-digital-outlets/ |access-date=1 June 2023 |website=Elsewhere by Graham Reid |language=en}}
References
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External links
- [https://maxinefunke1.bandcamp.com/ Artist Bandcamp page], featuring all releases
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Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century New Zealand women singers
Category:21st-century New Zealand songwriters
Category:New Zealand women singer-songwriters
Category:New Zealand singer-songwriters
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