![]() In fact, the fantastically named Hiatus Kaiyote came together over time, its members encountering one another fatefully in various bands, cafés, and share houses. Straight away I was like, Oh, man, I gotta do a band with this girl." He business-carded her post-gig but Nai, having no formal musical background, was initially unsure about collaborating, worried her songs were "a bit weird". I'd never really heard that combination of elements before. She just started playing and singing and I was like, Whoa, what is this? This is crazy! I was instantly blown away by the voice and the complexity of the tunes. It was like this child's pink shit little nylon guitar. "She started the set explaining that her guitar was locked in someone's house and she couldn't get it, so she had to borrow this one. "I didn't know what she was gonna do because she was there with this really whack pink guitar," Bender remembers drolly. Bender, as everybody calls him, was hanging out at Gertrude's Brown Couch in Melbourne's groovy inner suburb of Fitzroy when the striking Nai performed solo. Hiatus Kaiyote's story begins with a girl toting a novelty guitar. I predict that the March 2015 release of Choose Your Weapon (in hard-copy of course) will be a special day in world music history and so will the days after that when Hiatus Kaiyote will no doubt tour their new music to various corners of the world.It’s inspiring to think that a four-piece band from the mid-Northern Melbourne, Australia suburbs could explode around the globe with a genre defying cascade of soulful sounds that would inspire the likes of some of the most respected names in popular music and a rabid legion of fans worldwide. ![]() Watch footage here of Hiatus Kaiyote performing live at Byron Bay’s Sonic Architects’ National Conference… The inclusion of three back-up singers in their live performance ( Loreli+ Jace+ Jay Jay) – two of them vocalists in supporting group Kirkis – adds something extra wholesome to Hiatus Kaiyote’s sound which although usual to find in soul/R&B groups from the States (almost every international act at Australia’s recent Soulfestfestival for example), is unfortunately not so commonly found in Australian music. In witnessing the spunky Nai Palm breathe life and passion into those songs with every single one of her movements and unique, soulful scatting-to-operatic-like vocal sounds, it was absolutely clear that Australia’s Nai Palm has a well-deserved place in that group called ‘the world’s greatest contemporary music divas’. ![]() Whilst hearing Hiatus Kaiyote perform those songs live in all their fresh glory and witnessing the incredible ‘multi-dimensional polyrhythmic’ chops of its instrumentalists, it was also plain to hear that I can count Simon Mavin (keys/synths), Paul Bender (bass) and Perrin Moss (drums/percussion) amongst my favorite contemporary musicians in the world to listen to. With all the music that’s been made so far in our long history of music, that unique sound in 2014 is a special thing. The second clear thing at the show was that every one of those Hiatus Kaiyote songs old and new, in all their sonic diversity, sounds like no other music in the world. New tracks played live from their just-released (digitally only □ ) EP By Fire, a teaser to the upcoming album Choose Your Weapon, were similarly but differently diverse, innovative and fluid blends of jazz, soul, funk, electronica and hip hop in which you could blink to find that the sonic vibe within a song had delightfully morphed into another. #HIATUS KAIYOTE BY FIRE FULL#Old songs performed from the debut album Tawk Tomahawk sounded fresh – dynamically recomposed to create innovative new versions of the originals full of wonderful sonic surprises. Nai Palm – Hiatus Kaiyote live at Byron Bay Brewery
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