DISCOGRAPHY: as Shinjuku Zulu: -"Kiss the Honey, Honey" 7-track E.P. feat. … Read Full Bio ↴DISCOGRAPHY:
as Shinjuku Zulu:
-"Kiss the Honey, Honey" 7-track E.P. feat. "SXYLV" (electro)
-"Various Chimeras" 22-track CD feat. "Make Me Shake" (electronic/rap/dance), "We Do Supersonic" (electronic), "Scarborough Fair (A True Dub)" (chill)
-"Shinjuku Zulu" 14-track CD feat. "That Groove" (dance), "Yedayed" (chillout)
as K.I.A.:
-"Sonorous Susurrus" 22-track CD feat. "Nevermine" (breakbeat pop), "Uneunoia" (chillout)
-"Adieu Shinjuku Zulu" 15-track CD feat. "Eyeah" (dance), "Allelujah" (chill), "Mrs Major Tom" (singer/songwriter/chill)
as K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu:
-"DXLR8 -Downtempo Best of K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu" (13 tracks, chillout/downtempo) feat. "Mrs. Major Tom", "Scarborough Fair (A True Dub of Mine", "Allelujah", "Yedayed", etc.
DESCRIPTION:
Splice a strand of chain-gang melody into a breakbeat sequence.
Insert square-dance calls into the code of some collaged beats and add a banjo.
Take the allelujah-gene from a 17th-century choral song and place it into the DNA of dancehall reggae.
K.I.A., in his studio 'lab', has done precisely this on his new CD, 'Adieu Shinjuku Zulu', creating transgenic pop electronica with the help of a multitude of singers. 'Almighty Beat', featuring a soulful voice surrounded by big beats and bass, is a soaring track about salvation. 'Box-the-Gnat' is a folk-'e' love song, with a collage of footstomps, handclaps, electronic rhythms, and square-dance lyrics sung beautifully by Courtney Farquhar. 'Allelujah' takes dub to a different transcendent level featuring soothing choral vocals--the genesis of the song was wondering what dub would sound like had it been invented in Europe in the 17th century.
Many of K.I.A.'s songs start as an idea or a question. For 'Mrs. Major Tom' he wanted to continue the story of the character in Bowie's 'Ground Control' and 'Ashes to Ashes' but tell it from the perspective of the wife. Achingly sung by Larissa Gomes, it adds layers of meaning to the Major Tom story, but also exists as it's own haunting track. With 'E-Yeah' the idea was to create an epic, hypnotic, dance track using a Middle-Eastern chant as the vocal. Another track ('Operafrica') combines--you got it--African and Operatic styles...
BIO:
K.I.A. (a.k.a. Shinjuku Zulu) is producer K.I.A. (Kirby Andersen) and contributing vocalists. The music is dance/uptempo and chillout/downtempo electronica with multiple vocalists, including male and female rappers, reggae toasters, and blues, folk, opera, pop and r'n'b singers, and has received four-star reviews in major media. Shinjuku Zulu has three releases and two releases under the name K.I.A., as well as one as K.I.A & Shinjuku Zulu.
as Shinjuku Zulu:
-"Kiss the Honey, Honey" 7-track E.P. feat. "SXYLV" (electro)
-"Various Chimeras" 22-track CD feat. "Make Me Shake" (electronic/rap/dance), "We Do Supersonic" (electronic), "Scarborough Fair (A True Dub)" (chill)
-"Shinjuku Zulu" 14-track CD feat. "That Groove" (dance), "Yedayed" (chillout)
as K.I.A.:
-"Sonorous Susurrus" 22-track CD feat. "Nevermine" (breakbeat pop), "Uneunoia" (chillout)
-"Adieu Shinjuku Zulu" 15-track CD feat. "Eyeah" (dance), "Allelujah" (chill), "Mrs Major Tom" (singer/songwriter/chill)
as K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu:
-"DXLR8 -Downtempo Best of K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu" (13 tracks, chillout/downtempo) feat. "Mrs. Major Tom", "Scarborough Fair (A True Dub of Mine", "Allelujah", "Yedayed", etc.
DESCRIPTION:
Splice a strand of chain-gang melody into a breakbeat sequence.
Insert square-dance calls into the code of some collaged beats and add a banjo.
Take the allelujah-gene from a 17th-century choral song and place it into the DNA of dancehall reggae.
K.I.A., in his studio 'lab', has done precisely this on his new CD, 'Adieu Shinjuku Zulu', creating transgenic pop electronica with the help of a multitude of singers. 'Almighty Beat', featuring a soulful voice surrounded by big beats and bass, is a soaring track about salvation. 'Box-the-Gnat' is a folk-'e' love song, with a collage of footstomps, handclaps, electronic rhythms, and square-dance lyrics sung beautifully by Courtney Farquhar. 'Allelujah' takes dub to a different transcendent level featuring soothing choral vocals--the genesis of the song was wondering what dub would sound like had it been invented in Europe in the 17th century.
Many of K.I.A.'s songs start as an idea or a question. For 'Mrs. Major Tom' he wanted to continue the story of the character in Bowie's 'Ground Control' and 'Ashes to Ashes' but tell it from the perspective of the wife. Achingly sung by Larissa Gomes, it adds layers of meaning to the Major Tom story, but also exists as it's own haunting track. With 'E-Yeah' the idea was to create an epic, hypnotic, dance track using a Middle-Eastern chant as the vocal. Another track ('Operafrica') combines--you got it--African and Operatic styles...
BIO:
K.I.A. (a.k.a. Shinjuku Zulu) is producer K.I.A. (Kirby Andersen) and contributing vocalists. The music is dance/uptempo and chillout/downtempo electronica with multiple vocalists, including male and female rappers, reggae toasters, and blues, folk, opera, pop and r'n'b singers, and has received four-star reviews in major media. Shinjuku Zulu has three releases and two releases under the name K.I.A., as well as one as K.I.A & Shinjuku Zulu.
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Adieu, Shinjuku Zulu
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