[CLOSED] Win a copy of Southern Utopia CD

Win a copy of Southern Utopia CD - If you made a list of people who have made a significant impact on Tauranga's music scene in the last 20 years Tim Julian would be close to the top. He is a keyboard and bass player. But that's not his main contribution to music in the Bay. The thing that has left a lasting musical mark on the area is that Tim runs and owns The Colour Field Studio in Welcome Bay. Over the past 15 years a steady stream of musicians and bands have passed through his doors and he has recorded countless songs and albums in almost every musical style imaginable. When Tim arrived from Tokoroa in 1998 he set up in a spare bedroom. He had basic gear and the plan was to finish recording an album he had started a decade earlier with a friend back in Tokoroa, to be called Southern Utopia. It's taken a while... The first person Tim “officially” recorded was Vicky Loach and her band Moss from Auckland. But his first significant recording came after attending the Bay of Plenty Music Awards (when such things existed) and hearing Marion Arts sing. “I want to record her”, Tim thought, and that's just how it worked out. A year later Marion was completing her remarkable “Songs of the Rings” album at Tim's studio. Since then he has recorded blues for Grant Haua, country for June Armstrong, jazz for Woody Woodhouse, and a string of fantastic rhythm 'n' blues CDs with Brilleaux, as well as albums for Colleen Gibson, Leilani, Toner, Nine Mile Stone, Jamie Strange, Bonjour Swing, The Remarkables and Liz Robinson. He's even recorded the inimitable Whirimako Black. And, through the years, Tim kept working on that original album of his. When I first met him in 2003 he played me a song from it. He was hoping to finish it soon... It had started back in Tokoroa with a bunch of songs written by Tim and Fred Renata in the late eighties. Fred wrote the words, Tim wrote the music. Tim kept the songs and Fred went on to become many things, most recently the Director of Photography on several New Zealand films, including Mount Zion. Now it's done. You can find Southern Utopia on iTunes, Spotify and most digital platforms or you can order a CD through www.fragilecolours.com. Or you can win one in our competition. Good luck! watusi@thesun.co.nz The Weekend Sun has a Southern Utopia CD to give away to one lucky reader. Entries must be received before Wednesday, November 4.

This competition closes on Wednesday, 4 November 2015 at 11:59 PM AEST.