Nathan Haines

aka Sci-clone


In 1995 Nathan Haines released his debut album Shift Left, an album which revealed a fault-line between the previous generation of New Zealand jazz players and – because of its use of turntables and rappers – a new generation which had embraced hip-hop as much as the cool sounds of the 50s and 60s.

Shift Left – the title chosen from a roadworks sign which appealed to Haines’ left-leaning attitude – remains New Zealand’s biggest-selling jazz album. Yet, a year later, when it was awarded Jazz Album of the Year, Haines wasn’t interested in the accolade or the album anymore. He was only 22 when he recorded it and had, he said, “moved on into electronic music and found the album dated.”

Label from the Nathan Haines - Shift Left 2019 reissue.
Ancestral Dance
Nathan Haines - Zoot Allure (remixes from 5 A Day - for release in Europe and Japan)
Nathan Haines in a 1994 Shift Left photo shoot outtake
Photo credit: Photo by Karl Pierard. Simon Grigg Collection
Lady J
Tell Me What You're Feeling
Nathan Haines and the Enforcers, Auckland Town Hall, July 1994 with Sani Sagala AKA Dei Hamo on vocals/raps
Doot Dude
UK's James Hardway with Nathan Haines, December 1997
Nathan Haines in the studio with his son, 2017
Nathan with producer (and Upper Hutt Posse manager) George Hubbard, 1995
Interview with Nathan Haines, 30 March 1995. Directed by Ross Cunningham. Directed by Ross Cunningham, DOP Mike Monten, edited by Gregor Boyd, art by Johnnie Pain. Huh! Records.
Lady Lwya (live at London's Lovebuzz Studios, 2014)
Nathan Haines, 1999
Nathan Haines, on the street
Nathan Haines at the Civic Theatre, Auckland, 2001
Photo credit: Simon Grigg collection
Daryn Karaitiana, Kevin Field, Nathan Haines, Sani Sagala on the Shift Left tour, Queenstown, 1995
Photo credit: Photo by Simon Grigg
Pauly Fuemana, Nathan Haines, Parnell, Auckland, October 1995
Photo credit: Photo by Simon Grigg
Heaven and Earth 15-3-10 Radio Wammo Show
The Samsung Naked Sessions - Part 2 of 2
The Making of Vermillion Skies
Nathan Haines and Simon Grigg, Parnell, Auckland, 1995
Jazz Committee at Cause Celebre, 1990. Malcolm Taylor, Steve Harrop, Joel Haines, Nathan Haines.
Photo credit: Photo By Simon Grigg
Nathan Haines's Shift Left (1994): a landmark album, it was recorded by Steve Garden in live sessions at Auckland's Revolver Studios
Kevin Field, Joel Haines and Nathan Haines
Nathan Haines in New York in the mid-1990s
Manuel Bundy, Nathan Haines, Sani Sagala on the Shift Left tour, Queenstown, 1995
Photo credit: Photo by Simon Grigg
Nathan Haines in New York in the mid-1990s
Nathan Haines, Marcelle Churchman of Warners NZ, and Peter Urlich
The 2003 Squire For Hire cover 
Nathan Haines & The Enforcers, Cause Celebre, Auckland circa 1994. Murray McNabb, Joel Haines, Ben Holmes and Nathan Haines.
Photo credit: Photo by Karl Pierard
Nathan Haines - 5 A Day
Beda
The Samsung Naked Sessions - Part 1 of 2
Jazz Committee in Vulcan Lane circa 1990. Malcolm Taylor, Steve Harrop, Ben Harrop, Nathan Haines, Joel Haines. 
Photo credit: Photo by Chris Priestley
The Poet's Embrace EPK
Pathway feat. Kevin Mark Trail
Nathan Haines - Shift Left 2019 reissue (Huh! / Universal Music New Zealand)
Hidden Fortress (feat. Kevin Mark Trail) (2016)
Nathan Haines, London, 1999
Photo credit: Photo by Kerry Brown
Nathan Haines
The second sleeve for Shift Left, December 1995.
Nathan Haines with his wife Jaimie Webster Haines and their son, Zoot
Photo credit: nathanhaines.com
Nathan Haines Family Album documentary (2005)
Nathan Haines, sax by the sea
Photo credit: nathanhaines.com
Labels:

Huh!


Haven Music


Chillifunk


Warner Classics


Warner Jazz


Foliage Records

Trivia:

Nathan and his wife Jaimie often DJ together, with Nathan playing as part of the performance, as Mr & Mrs Haines.

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