STREAM: Electric Fields - INMA EP

Emergent Adelaide duo Electric Fields are getting ready to launch their debut EP, INMA, in their home town this weekend but, ahead of the celebratory show, The Music is thrilled to be streaming the new release in full this week.

Electric Fields, as will become swiftly obvious, are a truly transcendent pairing; a living convergence of musicality, culture and gender that yields remarkably fluid and infectious arrangements that straddle multiple worlds. The individuals at its core — vocalist Zaachariaha Fielding and producer Michael Ross — have both cut their teeth to great acclaim (Ross' song Equal Love was snapped up by Gay Marriage USA, while Fielding won hearts in the 2011 season of The Voice, even seeing their rendition of John Lennon's Imagine make a splash on the ARIA charts) and they now bring their disparate experiences into gorgeously realised confluence. 

The songs often feature Fielding's traditional languages — those of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara people of north-west South Australia — alongside English lyrics, while their vocal work ricochets between delicacy and devastating power, delivering a constant stream of genuine soul atop Ross' electronic instrumentation.

Electric Fields now have their sights set on ever-expanding horizons, with festival invitations coming their way from the UK and in China of late, but, before the world inevitably takes notice, you can make sure you're a part of the INMA celebrations when the band hit Jive, in Adelaide, this Friday, 22 July. They'll be supported by post-pop electro outfit Hummingbird, African soul luminary Bortier Okoe and local "funk samurai" DJ Oisima.

The show is being held as part of Adelaide's current Umbrella Winter City Sounds program — check out some of our other picks from across the event here.