Māpura Music - Māpura Music LP

Māpura Music brings a much needed wondrous feeling of messy human expression to the greater sphere of contemporary “experimental” music. A realm that year by year feels more dominated by macbook and linen clad pragmatic arts professionals, if I’m speaking my truth 😉.

Facilitated by Stefan Neville (aka Pumice), Māpura Music is a collaborative and spontaneous music making program for people living with disabilities set in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland. This record does not sound like your usual avant-improv night, I’m imagining a scene closer to the Gaelic Club’s Friday evening trad-jam if all folk standards were removed.

Comparisons will be inadequate but I certainly feel the spirit of Henry Fylnt, Breakdance The Dawn Records, Sam Esh, plus a cosy oddball atmosphere conjured by many of our NZ section staples (Funke, Galbraith, Knox etc). A spirit lifting record! - Nic