Hiatus Kaiyote at (le) Poisson Rouge NYC

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    RnB was a big thing in the 90s. Then before it had a chance to breathe, it was 2010’s and Frank Ocean bought it back under the guise of a smooth kind of hip-hop.

    Soul music on the other hand, has been an ongoing thing in New York City for a million years. Well, not a million, but a long time. In a way that the mainstream Australian crowd doesn’t quite have time to get into.

    (le) Poisson Rouge in Noho, Manhattan, encourages a blending of pop and art cultures, creating a thriving atmosphere of creativity for bands, but also audiences. Imagine a combination of trench-coated soul + jazz fans, with sk8er-boi model females in leather and some of the most epic groovers in New York, and you have yourself the crowd. The perfect venue for Melbourne raised band, Hiatus Kaiyote.

    I felt kind of un-Australian (not the first time… I have been somewhat vocal of my *ahem* distaste for Vegemite) as friends in the US actually introduced me to this band, and even more so as I continued to explain to them that the Australian music crowd can be somewhat snobby in the way they only welcome certain bands after they have earned themselves some cred in the US. Hiatus Kaiyote certainly earned themselves that, as the Brooklyn crowd all went on excursion to Manhattan, as the band outsold their original venue (the Brooklyn Masonic Temple) and had to be upgraded to the Manhattan Village gate.

    There’s a version of the single ‘Nakamarra’ on the band’s debut Album Tawk Tomahawk that features Q-Tip, and other fans of H.K. have spoken out in the forms of Erykah Badu, Questlove, Flying Lotus, Stereogum, KCRW… the list continues (exponentially). Singer/songwriter front-woman Nai Palm was the driving force towards joining the band members, and in some ways was lucky to have succeeded. There was a time when Palm’s voice was one in a million, but combined with the musical diversity of her band members has created something more forward thinking: a fusion of several different genres, including jazz, hip-hop, electronic, opera, rock and soul. Get sexy and support something slightly off centre.



     

    -Leilani Williams

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RnB was a big thing in the 90s. Then before it had a chance to breathe, it was 2010’s and Frank Ocean bought it back under the guise of a smooth kind of hip-hop.

Soul music on the other hand, has been an ongoing thing in New York City for a million years. Well, not a million, but a long time. In a way that the mainstream Australian crowd doesn’t quite have time to get into.

(le) Poisson Rouge in Noho, Manhattan, encourages a blending of pop and art cultures, creating a thriving atmosphere of creativity for bands, but also audiences. Imagine a combination of trench-coated soul + jazz fans, with sk8er-boi model females in leather and some of the most epic groovers in New York, and you have yourself the crowd. The perfect venue for Melbourne raised band, Hiatus Kaiyote.

I felt kind of un-Australian (not the first time… I have been somewhat vocal of my *ahem* distaste for Vegemite) as friends in the US actually introduced me to this band, and even more so as I continued to explain to them that the Australian music crowd can be somewhat snobby in the way they only welcome certain bands after they have earned themselves some cred in the US. Hiatus Kaiyote certainly earned themselves that, as the Brooklyn crowd all went on excursion to Manhattan, as the band outsold their original venue (the Brooklyn Masonic Temple) and had to be upgraded to the Manhattan Village gate.

There’s a version of the single ‘Nakamarra’ on the band’s debut Album Tawk Tomahawk that features Q-Tip, and other fans of H.K. have spoken out in the forms of Erykah Badu, Questlove, Flying Lotus, Stereogum, KCRW… the list continues (exponentially). Singer/songwriter front-woman Nai Palm was the driving force towards joining the band members, and in some ways was lucky to have succeeded. There was a time when Palm’s voice was one in a million, but combined with the musical diversity of her band members has created something more forward thinking: a fusion of several different genres, including jazz, hip-hop, electronic, opera, rock and soul. Get sexy and support something slightly off centre.



 

-Leilani Williams

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