Calla
Calla is a force of nature wielding unique musical skill as a spiritual spellcaster capturing audiences in a suspended time-rift. A master of the-human-voice-as-instrument, electronic musician, violinist, and pianist, Calla is one of those people for whom music is not a pond lightly dabbled in, but an ocean that she calls home. It’s not so much that she plays music; it simply pours out of her. Expect elements of operatic vocals, heavy bass, and hommages to the worlds of folk, pop, and cinema epics. If music is the language of the soul then Calla speaks truth in many tongues.
This winter she’s touring Aotearoa with her second album, Patterns of Remedy. The album shows the breadth and depth of her musical palette, with lines of jazz, shades of classical, gradients of bass music, outlines of the experimental, and a background of art-pop. Themes range from the pre-apocalypse golden hour of our civilisation to the thousand hidden kisses of forbidden love, with vast ground covered between.
This is not background music to stand around and yarn to your mates over a cold one, save that for afterwards. This is a listening experience designed to stir the depths of our primal and vulnerable inner worlds.
GULLS
Whanganui musician and sonic adventurist GULLS appears in their first ever hometown show! GULLS is the musical project of singer/songwriter Adam Stewart, presenting a solo sound that encompasses both the world of lo-fi bedroom recordings and chill ambient music to massive pop and electronic production, critics were quick to label his first album “folk-tronica”: a genre-bending array of sweet nothings and heavy drums, whispering vocals, poetry, piano, synthesizer, and a very melodic guitar. Adam’s work has been compared to productions by Radiohead /Thom Yorke, James Blake, Grouper, and Feist, as well as more popular/rock music artists such as Slowdive, Kurt Vile, and Damon Albarn and PJ Harvey. Adam will attempt to reproduce the entire album “love/evolve/solve”, with the addition of a beautiful new single off a forthcoming LP. You can check out the album at the link below, or browse their previous two offerings as well!
Confusiohm
There is a hunger in some, forcing them to consume vast oceans of pith to uncover a sliver of brilliance. Helpless but to tirelessly wander through dreary wastelands to patiently unearth the coveted truffles of inspired passion. It is a cursed life to have such an eye, a palate, an ear. The relationship of these few to satisfaction can swing and gnarl from obsessive and euphoric to bitter and gaunt, but the archived fruits of their tireless trials are treasures of human culture.
A librarian that supersedes registries: Confusiohm is a shaman of celebration, and an alchemist of atmosphere.
