Album Notes

If there is a better value children’s album out there than this, buy it!!!

COSMIC ROCK is a compilation taken from the first 16 Aunties albums.
The range of styles and the calibre of the song-writing is astonishing.
There is something timeless about this music and even though the tracks were recorded years apart with different line-ups, it fits together seamlessly.
In short, this is a bona-fide classic.

Other Aunties albums will be available on cd baby later in the year.

The Aunties are “world famous in New Zealand”, having released 24 albums, been New Zealand's most successful performers-in-schools group and had a hit television series ("Aunties Alphabet"), which was broadcast 16 times, apparently a New Zealand record.

CREDITS:
Many excellent, well-known Kiwi musicians and singers have appeared on Aunties albums, often using Aunties pseudonyms.
Those who appear on COSMIC ROCK tracks are:

LEAD VOCALISTS:
Auntie Anna – track 17
Auntie Clockwise – tracks 1, 20
Auntie Dottie – track 4
Auntie Emma – tracks 2, 6, 17, 24
Auntie Hazelnut – track 20
Auntie Jean – track 12
Auntie Kev – track 11
Auntie Sheri – track 21
Auntie Stellar – track 7
Auntie Uncle – tracks 3, 6, 9, 10, 13, 16, 19
Doctor Bop – track 5
Dottie – track 22
Madame Salami – tracks 18, 24
Old Kina – track 22
Parson Tui – track 14
Queen Bee – tracks 6, 8, 15

INSTRUMENTS:
Alaistair Riddell – guitar, drums
Auntie Clockwise – guitar, xylophone, bass
Auntie Coromandel - bass
Auntie Ella – trumpet
Auntie Hugh - clarinet
Auntie Uncle – keyboards, drums
Babu Chatterjee - tablas
Fat Boy – drums, xylophone
Fireman Tim – drums
Jinja Beer – sax, flute
John Buckland – bass
John Quigley - drums
Kelvin “The Martian” Roy – bass trumpet
Kiwi – hi-hat
Madame Salami – sax
Mr Hooper - drums
Parson Tui – violin
Peter Koopman - bass
Peter Neumegen - guitar
Phil Lyons – sax
Richard Ghent - flugelhorn
Ricky Rooster- sax
Ross Hill – guitar
Tony Gaballe - guitar

BACKING VOCALS:
Auntie Anna
Auntie Clockwise
Auntie Ella
Auntie Emma
Auntie Grandpa
Auntie Hazelnut
Auntie Hugh
Auntie Jean
Auntie Shari
Auntie Stellar
Edith the Elf
Fireman Tim
Madame Salami
Old Kina
Pauline Berry

Tracks selected by: Nigel Gavin, Kim Halliday, Arif Usmani and Lynn Usmani
Digitally remastered by Steve Garden
Cover by Lynn Usmani
All lyrics and music by Arif Usmani