{"product_id":"mapura-music-mapura-music-lp","title":"Māpura Music – Māpura Music [LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003eMāpura Music is a collaborative and spontaneous music making program for people living with disabilities set in Tāmaki Makaurau \/ Auckland. Its facilitator, Stefan Neville (of Pumice etc.), has been active in the New Zealand underground for over thirty years, personifying an Aotearoa DIY sensibility that effortlessly links melodic song formats with open ended experimentation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn surface level, this collection of improvised group jams verges towards the latter, but soon structures of a playfully melodic sensibility reveal themselves and references beyond the Corpus Hermeticum \/ Kye axis can be considered. This is neither avant noise nor is it sound collage, but it also barely adheres to any (western) folk, rock or pop song formats.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKinship might be sensed with other disability music projects such as Reynols and Les Harrys, the anarcho stew of London's Triple Negative and even Basil Kirchin's elaborate 'Worlds within Worlds'. But whilst Kirchin famously used the voices of neurodiverse people as source material – with all its possible implications – here we have the people themselves taking agency and center stage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wildly original sound vision is put forward by this fairly constant crew of ad hoc music makers (Jemima Aherne, Hugh\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBawden-Hindle, Trevor Bull, Tom Cathro, Allyson Hamblett, Colin Harris, Dave Kane, Cheyenne Minhinnick, Thais Nesbitt, Stefan Neville, Sushannah Shaw, Yung Sung Chen and Kevin Tan) and a wicked sense of humour ripples through unusual arrangements and track titles like 'Here when You Don't Need Me'. Ominous clatter and drone rock give way to mantra-like vocalisations, slide-guitar workouts to sheets of dreamy keys, chaos is summoned and resolved into clarity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Neville puts it: \"every feeling that is possible is released into the air\".\"\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003eHorn of Plenty, 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"naturestripstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45643294310641,"sku":"","price":48.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/8859\/0065\/files\/mapura_music.jpg?v=1730347567","url":"https:\/\/naturestripstore.myshopify.com\/products\/mapura-music-mapura-music-lp","provider":"naturestripstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}