hiatus kaiyote choose your weapon download – Mood Valiant. Hiatus Kaiyote’s first album in six years offers new dimensions to an already multi-dimensional band. Effortlessly inventive, inspiringly life-affirming, and unlike anything else you’ll hear this year. A lot has happened for Hiatus Kaiyote since 2015’s Choose Your Weapon, their second album. Their hard-to-categorise sound went global, especially after being sampled by musical elite like Drake , Kendrick Lamar , Beyoncé and Jay-Z . They’ve also signed to Brain Feeder, the esteemed label of Flying Lotus and Thundercat . Pretty good going for a group of self-professed music nerds. More significantly, as the Melbourne-based ensemble experienced unprecedented exposure and success, game-changing frontwoman Naomi ‘Nai Palm’ Saalfield was going through tough times. In late 2018, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, which claimed the life of her mother. She beat it but not after a mastectomy and the death of her beloved rescue bird, Charlie. Profound loss prompted deep self-reflection and Nai, ever the powerful spirit, poured it into art that’s celebratory rather than stricken by grief. “I guess the biggest lesson for me was facing my mortality,” she said on ABC TV’s The Set earlier this year. “When your cage is rattled, there’s this urgency to give your full self… It’s a blessing you know, because you really experience gratitude for your life, and it wakes you up.” That sense of life-affirming vibrancy is laid bare on Mood Valiant , an intoxicating listen that finds Nai and her equally talented bandmates – keys wiz Simon Mavin , drummer Perrin Moss , and bassist Paul Bender – further flexing their ridiculous skill but also wrangling their cosmic scope into songs rich with feeling. FireFox NVDA users - To access the following content, press 'M' to enter the iFrame. Recorded between pre-COVID sessions in Rio de Janeiro and the band’s Melbourne home studio, Mood Valiant isn’t as explosively proggy as past work. The album dials down some of the complexities but none of the innovation; it’s still just as dangerously groovy and sonically stunning. ‘Get Sun’ bristles with lively horns and strings, arranged by revered Brazilian composer Arthur Verocai , but its melodies and lyrical conceit are inviting. A mood reinforced by the playful Grey Ghost -directed music video that’s bursting with imagination. ‘Chivalry Is Not Dead’ is a kaleidoscopic ode to getting busy, using urgent, infectious rhythms to buoy Nai Palm’s riffs on the mating rituals of leopard slugs, seahorses, and hummingbirds. Meanwhile, ‘Red Room’ slinks along on irresistible atmosphere and groove (just begging to be flipped by a hip-hop artist). It is arguably the simplest song Hiatus Kaiyote have ever recorded. It’s also one of their best. FireFox NVDA users - To access the following content, press 'M' to enter the iFrame. Mixing , hip-hop, , RnB, soul, and beyond, Hiatus Kaiyote’s music has always defied easy categorisation but it’s never hard to appreciate. There’s a whole mirrorball of sounds to discover on Mood Valiant , all threaded together by staples of the Hiatus sound – sublime rhythmic feel, inventive arrangements, and Nai Palm’s mystically woven melodies and vocal harmonies. The band’s heady noodling and technical wizardry can be overwhelming – dazzling you with tricky time signatures and sudden shifts in mood – but Mood Valiant is a little more forgiving. Even at its most intricate, it radiates warmth and doesn’t sound like it has as much to prove. (Guess that’s what getting the stamp of approval from hip hop royalty will do for your confidence). FireFox NVDA users - To access the following content, press 'M' to enter the iFrame. The record’s strongest moments are when the four-piece slow down and ease into things. The sticky RnB groove of ‘And We Go Gentle’ allows Nai’s voice to unfurl like velvet taffy, while ‘All The Words We Don’t Say’ deploys the titular phrase as a chant that rattles around rhythmic hooks, and then a triumphant chorus worthy of Aretha Franklin ’s gospel revelry. Polyrhythms drive ‘Rosewater’ until the track allows itself space in the climax to return to the airy piano that opened it – drifting away as Nai breathily offers ‘ all of my heart’. ‘Stone or Lavendar’ is just as gorgeous – an ivory-and-strings adorned balled that perfects a mood Hiatus have rarely done: unabashedly tender. Mood Valiant shows us a more human side to this superhuman musical force, emphasising the soul in their soulful commitment to musical curiosity and artful expression. Here’s praying we don’t wait another six years for their next masterpiece. Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant (2021) [Hi-Res] Artist : Hiatus Kaiyote Title : Mood Valiant Year Of Release : 2021 Label : Brainfeeder Genre : , R&B, Future Beats Quality : Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-48kHz FLAC (tracks) Total Time : 42:34 Total Size : 98.2 / 262 / 527 MB WebSite : Album Preview. 1. Flight Of The Tiger Lily (0:35) 2. Sip Into Something Soft (1:43) 3. Chivalry Is Not Dead (3:27) 4. And We Go Gentle (3:23) 5. Get Sun (feat. Arthur Verocai) (5:38) 6. All The Words We Don't Say (5:06) 7. Hush Rattle (0:41) 8. Rose Water (4:00) 9. Red Room (3:52) 10. Sparkle Tape Break Up (5:15) 11. Stone Or Lavender (5:30) 12. Blood And Marrow (3:30) Hiatus Kaiyote: Choose Your Weapon review – psychedelic adventure land. P aul Bender, the bassist with Melbourne’s “future soul” band Hiatus Kaiyote, describes his band’s second album Choose Your Weapon as a “huge, massive, complex puzzle”. He’s not far wrong. Over 18 tracks and 70 minutes, the four-piece touch upon modern jazz, polyrhythmic time structures, labyrinthine explorations of 1970s funk, scat-singing, samba, West African soul, pastoral prog rock in the style of Weather Report and Gentle Giant, sprawling electric fusion and elemental rhythms. Whether or not you want to unlock its mysteries is up to you. In some places (Prince Minikid, the florid and ever-changing Atari) it feels like all those strange electronic flourishes that artists such as Beyoncé and Stevie Wonder (notably on Innervisions) use to fill the spaces between the chart-topping hits, and casually bewitch their fans. In others (the single Breathing Underwater) this is the sort of psychedelic mesmerising adventure land populated by similar exploratory jazz fusion artists such as Annette Peacock and . Much of this is down to the group’s main life force, Nai Palm (the stage name of Naomi Saalfield, whose voice and guitar twist and turn, swoop, dart and flutter through a bewildering array of supple melodies and counter-counter-harmonics and fitful key changes. Just as you feel the group have settled into a groove, just for a second, off they spin and spiral into 20 others. Listening to Choose Your Weapon can hover between delirium and frustration, delight and outright annoyance, often in the very same beat. A song like the frantic Swamp Thing, with its layers of intricate piano notes and funked-out bass, moves on too fast for pause but then … bam! The mellow Fingerprints takes the mood somewhere else entirely. This is a love letter to the whole of nature, a self-indulgent trip to the other side of consciousness, an experience you have to fully immerse yourself in to appreciate. And the meanings behind the songs are as varied and spatial as the music itself. Breathing Underwater is a homage to the “different examples of love and compassion in the world that are beyond the limitation of romance”, says Palm. The singer uses imagery like the Jericho rose to depict this – an African resurrection plant that can survive dormant without water for more than a century, but blooms within minutes after rain. Other tracks have equally as exotic roots. Jekyll, featuring some virtuoso free jazz percussion from the drummer, Perrin Moss, and typically disorienting fills from the synthesiser-player, Simon Mavin, flusters and flurries, searching for some peace of mind. The trippy funk-soul throwback, Borderline With My Atoms, feels like the band is channelling 30 or 40 years of soul into a six-minute song. The multi-instrumentalist/composer Miguel Atwood-Ferguson lends his one-man orchestra to the expansive interlude The Lung. Molasses is musical treacle. Shaolin Monk Motherfunk is some weird-shit boogie. Only Time All the Time: Making Friends With Studio Owl is self- explanatory. This album is the follow-up to Tawk Tomahawk, the 2013 debut which spawned the Q-Tip collaboration Nakamarra, the song that caused Hiatus Kaiyote to become the first ever Australian act to be nominated for an R&B Grammy. That one was recorded after the band had been together for six months. This one was put together after two world tours, and written everywhere. Goddess alone knows what they’re going to be like after another five years. Hiatus Kaiyote’s Life-Affirming, Genre-Defying Cosmic Soul. In the six years between the Australian band’s , its singer and guitarist, Naomi Saalfield, was treated for breast cancer, and recovered. By Marcus J. Moore. The Australian band Hiatus Kaiyote emerged in 2013 with an amorphous sound that pulled in rock, funk and soul, and caught the ear of Questlove, Erykah Badu and Q-Tip. Drake was listening, too: In 2017, he sampled a song from the band’s second LP for his playlist “More Life.” The group’s singer and guitarist, Naomi Saalfield, known as Nai Palm, appeared on his follow-up album, “Scorpion.” A few months later, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. “Ultimately, I became obsessed with the concept of impermanence,” Saalfield, 32, said on a video call, speaking from an almost pitch-black room in her home in Fitzroy, a suburb of Melbourne. “Time is an illusion that you have forever, but no one knows how much time they have. And when you have a massive life scare, it really puts that in perspective.” The band — which includes the bassist Paul Bender, the keyboardist Simon Mavin and the drummer Perrin Moss — incorporated that urgency into “Mood Valiant,” its first album in six years, which came out on Friday. Through bright textures and sunlit Brazilian rhythms, it scores a trek from darkness to light, providing the soundtrack of what turned into a very personal journey. Before Hiatus Kaiyote earned praise from some of neo-soul and hip-hop’s big names, it was a local group in Melbourne developing its hybrid sound organically. The band formed more than a decade ago, after Bender saw Saalfield playing a pink guitar in a small club and handed her a business card. She never called him, but a year later, they bumped into each other and began working on new music together. Moss and Mavin soon joined them, and the quartet started playing esoteric music with odd time signatures and complex rhythmic structures. “There was no normality to the way we were approaching this music,” Mavin, 38, said. “And it kind of opened my eyes to a whole new creative channel.” Hiatus Kaiyote’s debut, “Tawk Tomahawk,” arrived in 2013, and its 2015 follow-up, “Choose Your Weapon,” with its barrage of psych-funk blowouts and moody space-outs, landed as part of the moment that brought D’Angelo’s “Black Messiah,” Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly” and Kamasi Washington’s “The Epic .” “It was such a multitude of things,” Bender said of the group’s second album, which is packed with directional shifts. “I think that’s why the title fit. It’s like, ‘What do you want to choose today? What kind of vibe are you in?’” The band had completed instrumentals for “Mood Valiant” when Saalfield learned she had breast cancer — the disease that killed her mother — and she returned to Australia for an emergency mastectomy. When she recovered and returned to the studio, she came back with a renewed perspective on her personal and professional lives. “Ultimately, when I got sick, I was like, ‘What do you want from life? Who are you and what do you want to leave behind?’” Saalfield said. “It was actually a really powerful place to record from. I know what it is I am meant to do with my life and I’m going to do it as long as I’m here. And it kind of lit a fire under my butt.” It also inspired her to embrace the spiritual, already a part of the band’s alchemy. On a trip to Rio de Janeiro to record with the noted Brazilian composer Arthur Verocai, who contributed string and horn arrangements for the tropicalia-infused “Get Sun,” Saalfield stayed in the Amazon rainforest for 10 days, and took part in the kambo ritual of wiping frog poison onto her skin to remove the toxins in her body. She also recorded voice memos and used the clips for interludes on the album. The opening cut, “Flight of the Tiger Lily,” features two elders from the Varinawa people teaching her how to say the names of birds; “Hush Rattle” samples local women singing in their native language. “There’s always a spiritual element to our music,” Moss, 35, said. “In Hiatus, the more we’re in touch with our spiritual side, and more of a conduit for ideas, the better.” With its warped strings, dusty drums and introspective lyrics that embrace life, “Mood Valiant” has the feel of a ’70s Brazilian psych album. It’s being released by Brainfeeder, a label started in 2008 by the experimental producer Flying Lotus as a home for alternative soul, hip-hop and electronica. Saalfield said she hopes the LP will touch people when they need it most. “Everybody experiences suffering,” she said. “Everybody experiences joy, no matter how privileged you are or if you have nothing. The beautiful thing is that music is universal. If you can reach people in their darkest hour and comfort them, that’s what it’s for. And that’s what music does for me . It saved me in my darkest hour.” Mood Valiant. Ten years on from their debut, Hiatus Kaiyote are still Australia's funkiest act. They're funky, but also original. The Melbourne quartet led by singer-guitarist Naomi "Nai Palm" Saalfield has always put out a very unique soul sound. It has been a six-year wait after their last album Choose Your Weapon (2015), as Nai Palm has been battling breast cancer. 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Hiatus Kaiyote, Producer, MainArtist - Paul Bender, ComposerLyricist - Naomi Saalfield, ComposerLyricist - Simon Mavin, ComposerLyricist - Perrin Moss, ComposerLyricist - Warner Chappell Music/Universal Music Publishing Group (APRA/BMI), MusicPublisher. 2021 Brainfeeder 2021 Brainfeeder. Hiatus Kaiyote, Producer, MainArtist - Paul Bender, ComposerLyricist - Naomi Saalfield, ComposerLyricist - Simon Mavin, ComposerLyricist - Perrin Moss, ComposerLyricist - Warner Chappell Music/Universal Music Publishing Group (APRA/BMI), MusicPublisher. 2021 Brainfeeder 2021 Brainfeeder. Hiatus Kaiyote, Producer, MainArtist - Paul Bender, ComposerLyricist - Naomi Saalfield, ComposerLyricist - Simon Mavin, ComposerLyricist - Perrin Moss, ComposerLyricist - Warner Chappell Music/Universal Music Publishing Group (APRA/BMI), MusicPublisher. 2021 Brainfeeder 2021 Brainfeeder. Album Description. Ten years on from their debut, Hiatus Kaiyote are still Australia's funkiest act. They're funky, but also original. The Melbourne quartet led by singer-guitarist Naomi "Nai Palm" Saalfield has always put out a very unique soul sound. It has been a six-year wait after their last album Choose Your Weapon (2015), as Nai Palm has been battling breast cancer. But despite this tense period, their star continued to rise, and their music has been copiously sampled by the Carters (Beyonce and Jay-Z), Kendrick Lamar, Anderson .Paak, Chance The Rapper and Drake, who brought the singer onto Scorpion in 2018. With Mood Valiant , Hiatus Kaiyote are still making bizarre-o funk (which is no surprise, given that they are signed with Flying Lotus's label Brainfeeder) and lo-fi nu soul. And when they get going on this new record, their originality becomes all the more striking. Take, for example, Get Sun , the flagship single from this third album, for which they invited the old Brazilian master Arthur Verocai, who lends them his arrangements and strings. 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