Mark Petersen (musician)
Mark Petersen is a New Zealand rock guitarist from Auckland.
He replaced guitarist Andrew Brough in Straitjacket Fits in 1991.
Petersen played on their" Done" EP and final album" Blow" and toured with the band until they broke up in February 1994.
Petersen continued on playing guitar and singing with his' Cabbage Bomber' but is best remembered for his bass and guitar work in Bob Cardy's[' Shaft'].
He played guitar and sang on the Straitjacket Fits 2005 reunion tour of New Zealand.
In 2008 he was inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame with the rest of Straitjacket Fits.
He now records and performs under the pseudonym' Seeds Of Orbit
Hail (album)
Hail is the first LP album released in 1988 by New Zealand band, Straitjacket Fits.
There were three releases of the album, a New Zealand release in 1988, a United Kingdom and United States release also in 1988 and an extended album in 1989.
The UK/ US release featured tracks which had earlier been released in New Zealand on the" Life in One Chord" EP; the 1989 release contained all the songs from both the New Zealand album and the earlier EP.
Most of the songs on the album were credited to Shayne Carter/ Straitjacket Fits, the exceptions being" Sparkle That ShinesTake From The Years" and" Fabulous Things"( all Andrew Brough/ Straitjacket Fits), and a cover of Leonard Cohen's song" So Long, Marianne".
This was the only cover version recorded on any of Straitjacket Fits' albums.
The album was well received, though the band were disappointed that the sound of the finished release failed to capture either their live sound or the intensity of their debut EP.
" Rip It Up" described it as having" tidal waves of sweetly distorted guitar noise that spill over and around the vocal harmonies."
The title track and" Sparkle That Shines" were both released as singles from the album.
Straitjacket Fits
Straitjacket Fits formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1986 and were a prominent band in the Flying Nun label's second wave of the Dunedin sound.
Battle of the Bands (disambiguation)
Battle of the Bands is a contest in which two or more bands compete for the title of" best band".
Battle of the Bands may also refer to:
Life in One Chord
Life in One Chord is an EP released in 1987 by New Zealand band, Straitjacket Fits.
It was the band's debut release.
All of the tracks from the EP were later released as part of an extended version of their first full album," Hail", in 1989.
All of the songs on the EP are credited to Shayne Carter/ Straitjacket Fits except for" Sparkle That Shines"( Andrew Brough/ Straitjacket Fits).
" Sparkle That Shines" was released as a single in 1989.
Working with Walt
Working With Walt was a music group formed in the 1980s, and based in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Working With Walt disbanded sometime by the late 1980s with Jan Hellriegel going on to a solo music career, and David Wood helping form Straitjacket Fits.
Andrew Brough
Andrew Brough is a singer, songwriter and guitarist from Dunedin, New Zealand, who is best known for his work with the New Zealand Music Hall of fame inductees, Straitjacket Fits.
Blow (Straitjacket Fits album)
Blow is the third album released in 1993 by New Zealand band, Straitjacket Fits.
The album has a harder, less melodic sound than the band's previous albums.
This reflects the change of line- up, with Andrew Brough having left the band prior to this album's recording, to be replaced by Mark Petersen.
It also reflect's the band's change of recording method( for this album the tracks were recorded live) and a change of producer.
The album was described by one contemporary reviewer as" ... twisted rhythms, see- sawing guitars, and brash intensity ...
Straitjacket Fits at their least user- friendly and most challenging."
All the songs on this album are credited to Shayne Carter/ John Collie/ Straitjacket Fits.
Two of the tracks from the album(" Done" and" Spacing") had previously been released in New Zealand on the" Done" EP in 1992, though both were re-recorded for the album.
The American release includes one extra track," Sycamore", which was released in New Zealand as a B-side of the first single from the album," Cat Inna Can".
The album's other single was" If I Were You".
Shayne Carter
Shayne P Carter( born in Dunedin, New Zealand) is a musician best known for leading Straitjacket Fits from 1986 – 1994, and as the only permanent member of Dimmer( 1995 – 2012).
Carter is a member of the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame, and has been awarded the" New Zealand Herald" Legacy Award( with Straitjacket Fits at the 2008 New Zealand Music Awards), and New Zealand Music Awards for Best Group and Best Rock Album( with Dimmer, 2004).
New Zealand music critic Nick Bollinger told" North& South" magazine in 2019:
“ To me, Shayne Carter really stands head and shoulders above pretty much the whole of the Dunedin scene.
I mean, there were some other brilliant musicians, do n’t get me wrong.
But that was the era when shoe- gazing was at its peak – they wore black jerseys, stared at their shoes, and strummed their meaningful, heartfelt songs.
But Shayne was different.
Shayne was a rock star, and he knew it.
He was actually aware of his charisma and what it meant to be a performer. ”
Carter published his autobiography" Dead People I Have Known" in 2019
Faraualla
Faraualla is an Italian female vocal quartet from the region of Apulia, which explores vocal polyphony.
The group was formed in Bari in 1995 and consists of: Gabriella Schiavone, Teresa Vallarella, Marinella Dipalma,& Serena Fortebraccio.
The group also works with the percussionists and Pippo D'Ambrosio.
The group explores the use of voice as a musical instrument, studying and incorporating sounds from a diverse group of places, times and cultures among which are: Apulia, Corsica, Bulgaria and Tahiti, which deal with the traditional music of gypsies, Moravians, Ars Nova, and Southern Italy.
Faraualla has performed with various artists of international renown, including the Mongolian Sainkho Namtchylak, the Italo- Palestinian Al Darawish, the American Bobby McFerrin, and the Italians Daniele Sepe and Lucilla Galeazzi.
In Italy in 1999 they accompanied the singer Mango in a live concert.
In the Visto Così Tour, transmitted directly on Videoitalia Live, they performed as a solo group.

Question: Are the bands Faraualla and Straitjacket Fits, from the same country?
Answer: no