Maxine Funke

New Zealand's Maxine Funke is an Internet-shy, folk-inspired singer/songwriter whose hushed, enigmatic, lo-fi acoustic analog recordings draw comparison to work by Vashti Bunyan and Sibylle Baier. After brief tenures on electric guitar alongside her drumming stepfather, Mike Dooley, in comparatively louder early-2000s outfits -- the Beaters, Snapper, and the Snares -- she met and became the partner of Alastair Galbraith, an experimental musician and ex-frontman of '80s Flying Nun act the Rip. Alongside Galbraith and Dooley, Funke went on to play cello in the improvisational Hu...