This July, Ōtepoti's Keira Wallace will be travelling to Tāmaki Makaurau to mark their sixth single release, Leap/Landing.
With an increasingly folk-influenced sound, 17-year-old singer/songwriter Keira Wallace curates unexpected lyrics and intricate chord voicings. Their reflections run deep through each song, shining a light on significant moments entangled with immense feelings, and resonating with warmth and cocooning vulnerability.
This single was created at SongHubs Ōtepoti in November 2022, in only 7 hours. With Keira as lead songwriter, co-writers Calla Knudson (Calla) and TJ ZEE (ZËxÏÏ), and producer Abigail Knudson (MISSY) also contributed their musical expertise to bring this expansive song to life. Leap/Landing encourages understanding that to experience the peaks of life to their full, we must endure the lows. The song tackles a fear of positive feelings when eventually, they all come to an end. Despite how these struggles can narrow our field of vision, support can be found in the people around us - people who will follow our leap and cushion every descent.
Joining the show will Calla, 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.
