Hina: Descending Dreams - The Duet Tour (with Dave Khan)

Hina will take Descending Dreams on the road this September with Dave Khan, translating the album to a two-person live setting for four shows across the North Island.

A key collaborator throughout Descending Dreams, Khan contributes electric guitar, pedal steel and viola across the record. Together, the pair will pull the songs out of their studio arrangements and into something sparer and more intimate, a chance to hear the album find another life in new rooms.

The songwriting has always been at the heart of everything for me, so I'm really looking forward to stripping this album back to its bare bones. It all began in my bedroom, and there's something really special about returning to a similar place. I hope it feels like inviting people into the room where they first came to life. It's a huge privilege to tour this album with Dave Khan. When we opened for Ian Moss (Cold Chisel) at Hollywood Avondale around Christmas last year, we felt like we were onto something special. I'm excited to keep exploring that together and to bring these songs to people in this way.

The tour follows the release of Hina's “absorbing and impressively assured debut” (13th Floor), Descending Dreams, which was released 31 July. The record marks a major new chapter for the her, its first single, 'Coucou!', earned Hina a Silver Scroll nomination. Across the album she explores identity, contraction, and a slow return to self – folk at its core, pulled sideways by country, gospel, and spaghetti western.