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WAIRUNGA

by Fat Freddy's Drop

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theUtmost
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theUtmost Loving the 2 newer choons on this,
My favourite Drop tracks are all the more dubby variety, but there's a time & place for all in here!
Really enjoy the supafly funk version of classic Bones track.
For your next release I have my fingers crossed for similar treatment of my 2x favorite FFD tracks (ever) which are "Mother Mother" and of course "Bohannon".
Please go nuts with Bohannon. Moar BASS!!! (yuss!) Favorite track: DIG DEEP (WAIRUNGA).
Jëkoff Sedofski
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Jëkoff Sedofski A big confirmation of your quality and creativity. I love the mix of slower, reggae/dub and faster techno/dub tunes.
Moreover. you have a real guitar in it. Genies. Favorite track: DIG DEEP (WAIRUNGA).
freejazzy
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freejazzy This is relaxed & they are relaxed. Nevertheless steadily pushing forward. Relaxness mixed with determination. Perfect blend I'd say. Favorite track: SHADY (WAIRUNGA).
jamesfaction
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jamesfaction This album seems to point to lockdown being good for the Drop. Time to slow down, reflect and make some damn fine music. Very strong album, all killer no filler! Favorite track: WAIRUNGA (WAIRUNGA).
ptamaro
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ptamaro Earthy crunchy and really tasty tracks — keep 'em coming, much love from Boston Mass, USA

Thank you!

:) Favorite track: BUSH TELEGRAPH (WAIRUNGA).
globalgogoradio
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globalgogoradio Global A Go-Go's #5 new album of 2021, and FFD's sixth appearance on my Top Ten list. Favorite track: BONES (WAIRUNGA).
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'WAIRUNGA' bush-alchemy album, digging deep to debut five songs and revisit two classics captured in an outdoor performance sans audience with wild weather elements playing an important creative role.

In Freddys inimitable fashion the new tunes run a gamut of genre busting styles. 'Coffee Black' is layered with cosmic hot buttered soul and cinematic wigged out psyche-blues while 'Shady' continues Freddy's Afro-Acid adventures with Fitchie’s beat-making tapping into a South African township brand of techno Freddys experienced on tour.

'Bush Telegraph' is a reggae classic featuring MC Slave aka Mark Williams on the mic with freshly minted yum char spiced rhymes of hope. The other new tracks, 'Leave Your Window Open' and 'Dig Deep', are loose rhythmic experiments that the band have been working on for a long time. Versions were developed, rehearsed, but then set aside – dismissed, demonised - only to be revived with new energy in some future moment of creative cohesion. The results are loose-limbed; broken and bruised beats smashing into subterranean bass and twisted up melodies. Freddys love playing this stuff.

'Bones' and 'Wairunga Blues' are the two classics from Freddy's vast back catalogue. Off the Blackbird album, 'Bones' has aged beautifully - like a fine wine - the song’s component parts matured and melded together in harmony and balance. DJ Fitchie rates this 2021 vintage superior to the 2013 original. 'Wairunga Blues' has been a work-in-progress since it was released on Bays in 2015. Kuki dials up some appropriately off-kilter keys to match the wonky-funk laid down by Fitchie’s bass line and the horns. It’s a mighty comeback – and a fitting tribute to this magical place.

Places we roam, Wairunga is located deep in Ngāti Kahungunu country in Aotearoa NZ. It's a place etched into the DNA of Fat Freddy’s Drop who’ve roamed here for over 20 years; to party, relax between tours, make a song 'Wairunga Blues' in its honour and even to get married. Farmed by the Parker family for a century, Wairunga is an oasis of green pasture and native tree-filled valleys that fall away to the ocean below.

Throwing caution to the trade winds, literally, Freddys and their sound and visual recording crews set up on a grass tennis court surrounded by a bush backdrop. The weather was calm but as the performance progressed into night, the elements turned with tempest-like bursts of rain and chill winds. Freddys dug deep to finish the session, nothing could stop the bush energy and music.

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released August 20, 2021

Song composers : DALLAS TAMAIRA, CHRIS FAIUMU, IAIN GORDON, TOBY LAING, SCOTT TOWERS, JOSEPH LINDSAY, NED NGATAE

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Internationally regarded as one of the world’s finest live draws, Fat Freddy’s Drop hail from New Zealand, South Pacific.
FFD has navigated its way from an incubator of sunshine reggae thru a colour-saturated field of soul psychedelia before swerving onto a desolate Detroit superhighway at night. It’s a potent mixture of jazz virtuosity and diaphragm-wrecking digital sonics.
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