Photo Melissa Cowan
Styling Jasmine Sparrow

Expanding from Leila’s own brand of doom-pop expect blossoming layers of warm synths, a dose of intergalactic vocal cords accompanied by stellar NYC drummer Federico Ughi and of course, a stint at the good ol’ piano. Previously engineered by Steve Albini and recently voted MTV Iggy’s Artist of the Week — don’t miss Leila playing songs from her new unreleased album before Summer shows in New Zealand, London and Berlin.

Thursday May 10
7-8PM
Pianos, NYC
158 Ludlow St
New York

Tickets: LEILA ADU 7PM Pianos Tickets

Fri, March 30, 2012
Doors: 10:30 pm
Mercury Lounge
217 E Houston St.
New York, NY, 10002
$10 advance / $12 day of show
Twerps at Mercury Lounge

FEBRUARY 29th
Kiwis in NYC
Art, Poetry, Performance by many New Zealand Artists
CURATED BY HAMISH KILGOUR

Leila plays new songs from her upcoming avant electronic pop album alongside fellow New Zealand artists in New York: Jay Clarkson, Sandra Bell, David Eggleton, Otis Mace, Jamey Danger, Hinemoana Baker, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Stu Kawowski, The Mad Scene, Unsuccessful Underground Comic Strip, CAPSUL, & other surprise guests…

PROJECT SECRET ROBOT
389 MELROSE ST
BROOKLYN
NY 11237
Btwn: Flushing and Knickerbocker
Morgan Avenue L or Jefferson ave L
~donation

Made the most of the vertical time space continuum by resonating with a fellow kiwi who is gracing Philadelphia with her musical presence, Rosie Langabeer. Tom and Rosie played a duo followed by my solo at the benefit for Subcircle movement theater company at Christ Church Neighbourhood House (yeah, not the NZ Christchurch – the Philly one.) We caught the feeling in the streets a bit…

Occupy Philly

Free Tibet protest in Philly

Photo Leon Dale

Tonight Leila plays songs from her new unreleased album with NYC based drummer Federico Ughi followed by Afrobeat band Sensemaya at Terrace F. Club Princeton!

Rooftop benefit party in Brooklyn for Linea Rossa…

saturday 17 september, 8pm
NOsweetNO
Alberto Fiori + Leila Adu & guests
Arturo Vidich
Katy Gunn
Saurbah Tak
DJ set by Dak
@ The Mothership
252 Green Street, Apt 2L
11222 Greenpoint Brooklyn
NEW YORK

Photo Melissa Cowan, Styling Jasmine Sparrow

After a killer show in a bizarre snowy week in NZ at ‘Antarctica,’ Adu swings into the LA artrocker heat doing a solo show at Chinatown art gallery Human Resources and finishing off with a Cocteau Twins tribute as guest vocalist in LA band ‘Queue’ at legendary venue The Smell

friday august 26, 8.30pm
Leila Adu
howardAmb
@ Human Resources
410 Cottage Home St in Chinatown, 90012
LOS ANGELES

saturday august 27, 8.00
‘COCTEAU TWINS TRIBUTE’
Life Group
Upsilon Acrux (featuring Barrie Rose)
Magic Johnson
Luis Naranjo and Dani Elowe project
QUeUe (feat. Leila Adu)
Abe Vigoda
Dunes
@ The Smell
247 s main street downtown
LOS ANGELES

10 August 2011- For Immediate Release:
Antarctica, Friday, August 19, San Francisco Bath House, $15 presale ($20 on the door)
featuring: Leila Adu, Riki Gooch, Alphabethead & The Labcoats
w/ selections from the MLKBDGR crates. Tickets – Under the Radar

Antarctica – that wide, white space, a place where the imagination is free to roam. You will be taken to the musical equivalent of a place like that: Leila Adu, Riki Gooch, Alphabethead, The Labcoats and MLKBDGR have the staple secret. They can take you there.

These are artists-as-explorers. This is sonic excavation. Something you can really dig.

Photo by Leon Dale

Leila Adu is readying her fifth album – she’s fresh from winning MTV Iggy’s Artist of the Week and has returned to New Zealand from her American home-base to tour and record. In recent years she has wowed audiences across Europe and America. She has performed improvised and composed pieces, as a solo artist, in small combos and with larger ensembles – she has two tracks featured on the upcoming album from Italian electronica act, MDF. Leila writes songs that are tiny but bold; huge but obtainable. She is a unique voice as writer and composer; she’ll take you to an aural Antarctica – a place of infinite discovery.
Media Relations/Hi-Res Images

Riki Gooch has produced solo singers, backed folk-pop players; he masterminded the Eru Dangerspiel big band and has played with a couple of other bands you might have heard of. Is he Wellington’s own Moondog? Or is he the Capital City’s Fela Kuti? Riki has created soundscapes across electronica and dub; he sits inside the beat while living further beyond the fringe. He has a heavy metal bebop inside him that pulses deep. For this performance Gooch will be performing his Cave Circles EPs with video artists Toby and Melissa Donald. And Ant Donaldson will be on stage with Riki. They’ll take you to an aural Antarctica – a place you have never been before.

Alphabethead is a wizard of the turntables – a composer who places found sounds in surprising new contexts. He takes tunes you think you’ve heard before and makes tunes you’ll never hear again. He charts his own path through almost every genre. With Alphabethead it’s always a fresh journey through the past to the future. He can take you to an aural Antarctica – he’s a sonic navigator.

The Labcoats is an improvising collective that knows how to uncover a buried groove. They have science at their fingertips and wear their art on their sleeves. No turn will be left unstoned in the search for a new jazz; a new way to groove – a new set of moves. The Labcoats will lay you out like patience itself has been etherized and feeling stable. They’ll take you to an aural Antarctica – they may just build you a brand new one.

MLKBDGR – will be providing the glue; the invisible threads that stitch the spaces together between these vibrant acts. MLKBDGR will take you to an aural Antarctica – he’ll steal one for you; he’ll slip it to you quickly.

RG “A humble, yet incredibly talented maestro showing us the way forward.” –3 Network News

AH “Alphabethead amazed and dazzled with his rapid and accurate hand work, sliding effortlessly from turntables to sliders to switches and balance – no wonder he won – this is a man possessed.” – Melbourne ‘In The Mix Awards’

LA “This young New Zealander of Ghanaian descent treats genre distinctions in much the same way that Godzilla treated those little cities made out of cardboard.” –MTV Iggy

Antarctica artists are available for interviews at: point 3 recurring and leilaadu.com

Tickets – Under the Radar

11.00am Saturday 13th August
11.30am Sunday 14th August

Tickets are available via Ticketek or at the Film Archive

Directed by Amy O’Connor and Co-Produced by Anna Cottrell. Sound by Victoria Parsons, Mixed by Gareth Ruck, Cello played by Nigel Collins & Original Music by Leila Adu