COVID Colab is a fundraising compilation album featuring 33 of New Zealand’s finest musicians who worked on it together (but apart) during Levels 4 and 3 of NZ’s Covid-19 lockdown.

It was funded by Wellington Museum and put together by Wellington Museum’s Programme Developer, Benjamin James during his own working lockdown.

To get each track started, an initial handful of Pneke-based musicians were selected by James and given a simple set of guidelines. In the spirit of a good old-fashioned pass-the-parcel colab, each musician added their bit and forwarded it to the next musician to develop it further.

The end result is a gender-balanced 7-track LP featuring musicians from many of our favourite bands including Trinity Roots, The Phoenix Foundation, Bachelorette, The Nudge, Electric Wire Hustle, Orchestra of Spheres, French for Rabits