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	rubble 2007 Featuring some of Auckland's finest musicians playing a set of Karen's dirty blues and jazzy 'storytime for adults'. Showcasing songwriting skills fine tuned over the last five years of studying music full time - Rubble is a veritable explosion of texture and grooves reminiscent of early Tom Waits or Rickie Lee Jones. Rubble is also available through i-tunes and amplifier.co.nz

	sunlight & shade 2005 This recording is a beautiful portfolio of Káren Hunter and Brendan Turner's work together as a acoustic guitar and upright bass duo. Stylistically leaning towards a mellower jazz sound, this CD contains some fine funky acoustic grooves as well as a couple of timeless jazz standards.

	mr kite goes fishing 2004 Mr Kite Goes Fishing features guest vocalists Rachel Anderson, Shane Hollands and Val Huntington as well as a huge cast of instrumentalists. 'Mr Kite' incorporates spoken word poetry and computer based loops, samples and live playing with trumpet, sax, guitar, bass and keys.

	inside outside (double live album) 2001 ....... This album showcases Hunter's live skills. The disc "inside" features Hunter as a powerful singer/ songwriter. Disc two "outside" displays Hunter's writing with a raunchy backing band consisting of Al Khan, (guitar) Will Seiffert (bass) and Nannette Fortier (drums).

	the private life of clowns 1997 'Clowns' pulls together five years of recordings at different Auckland Studios. Musicians are Matthew Hunter - Drums/sampler, Jo Taylor - Bass/vocals, Leraine Horstmanshoff - Sax/vocals and Christine White - vocals. An atmosphere of diversity and originality permeates this classic album of kiwi music history.

	spinning wheel live 1995 This retrospective release celebrates the wonderfully energetic duo Spinning Wheel: Káren Hunter and multi talented Leraine Horstmanshoff. The shows were recorded in two venues on a National Tour and remain as fresh as if they had been played yesterday.

	spinning wheel - self titled debut release 1993 Classic sound of Spinning Wheel from our debut release in the early 1990's - that is myself and the terrifically talented Leraine Horstmanshoff on bamboo sax, guitar, djembe, vocals, flute and various percussion!