HIGH ALTAR Tour of Aotearoa New Zealand Starts This Week

Aotearoa audio alchemists HIGH ALTAR are the duo of Brendan Moran (Hasselhoff Experiment, Subliminals, Vor-stellan) and Taipua Adams (Terror of the Deep, The Perms), reconvening this Friday onwards for a triple date autumn tour. Masters of deep zone delving, 'semi-improvised' bass guitar / drums / electronics locked-in heavy psych-noise interplay, you can hear a preview of their motorik new track 'Mystic Lamb' in the latest Freak The Sheep podcast, hosted by myself and handily streamable HERE (from 1:03:20 onwards). The mega-talented pair have of course lined up formidable special guests for their shows in Ōtautahi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara and Kirikiriroa (Tāmaki misses out this time), here is the intel...

HIGH ALTAR

Friday 17th April - Space Academy, Christchurch w/ Instant Fantasy, The Glass Eye
Friday 1st May - MOON, Wellington w/ The New Things, Box Of Hammers
Saturday 2nd May - Last Place, Hamilton w/ Commodore 65, Tooms

Tickets on sale HERE via UTR

Warp your ears around HIGH ALTAR's 2025 single 'angles of incidence'...

Press release:

HIGH ALTAR are an intense crackle of spectral sounds; a potent audio tool built on a bare-bones structure of rhythm section components and added electronic timbre which alights a crooked path trailing sonic vortices with oscillatory behavior. In short - drum kit, bass guitar, atmospheric electronics. Sometimes heavy, sometimes fast and punchy.