Although Downtown Puff was released as a solo project, it represents a multitude of musical collaborations, including Anna Coddington

Anna Coddington

Anna Coddington is a New Zealand singer-songwriter.. She has released two albums: "The Lake" in 2008 and "Cat & Bird" in Feb 2011. Her previous band 'Duchess', for whom Coddington was songwriter, singer and guitarist, also released a 6 track EP in 2005....

 as well as Neil Finn

Neil

Neil is a masculine given name of Gaelic origin. The name is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic Niall which is of disputed derivation. The Gaelic name may be derived from words meaning "cloud", "passionate", or "champion". As a surname, Neil is traced back to Niall of the Nine Hostages who was an Irish...

 and Tim Finn

Tim Finn

Brian Timothy "Tim" Finn, OBE is a New Zealand singer and musician. Finn is most known for his music with New Zealand 1970s and 1980s rock group Split Enz, and later for his solo work, a temporary membership in his brother Neil's band Crowded House and his joint efforts with Neil Finn as the Finn...

. Two of the other collaborators were Geoff Maddock and Joel Wilton, the other sides of the creative triangle which made up the short-lived Flying Nun

Flying Nun

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 phenomenon Bressa Creeting Cake

Bressa Creeting Cake

Bressa Creeting Cake is a New Zealand rock band, active during the 1990s.The band, originally named Breast Secreting Cake, formed in Auckland around 1991 around the nucleus of Edmund Cake, Geoff Maddock and Joel Wilton. Edmund, Geoff and Joel had played together on songs while they were at school,...

. Since the dissolution of the band soon after the release of their acclaimed (self-titled) album in 1997 Geoff and Joel have found popular and critical success with Goldenhorse

Goldenhorse

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.

Much of the material on the album was devised while McWilliams was living in a third-floor studio space on Gore Street in Auckland

Auckland

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's red-light district. This particular audio environment - with its incessant street brawls, strip club pop and Doobie Brothers hits played by the covers band in the 24-hour bar downstairs - provided a peculiar backdrop for the evolution of delicate instrumentals on tracks such as "Airshow" and "You're Watching Me". It was here too that McWilliams recorded the one-take improvised vocal for "My Son the Harpist", an intentionally free-form lyric which reveals itself to be the story of a complex father/son relationship in a fictitious Pacific village.

Track listing

1. "Secret Girl" – 3:16
2. "We Live Like Kings" – 2:11
3. "Golden Man" – 4:51
4. "Gunga" – 3:27
5. "My Son The Harpist" – 4:39
6. "You're Watching Me" – 3:10
7. "The Airshow" – 5:08
8. "Silverdale" – 4:16
9. "Beautiful Sleep" – 2:33
10. "Oh Baby Bear" - 3:08

External links

• Lil' Chief Records: Edmund Cake
• Lil' Chief Records