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more everything into [its] creation. To see it get recitation with the release in Australia and getting people to experience it for the first time, it brings us back ... make it as pure a process as possible, whatever feels right, whatever sounds right, and we try to follow that

Mokoomba , then a few minutes later you can be grooving to the smooth jazz sounds of Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca (who incidentally pulled out the only kora of the festival ... Melanesian ensemble Airileke , made up of artists from PNG, Manus Island, West Papua, Australia and the Torres Strait. Airileke is actually one of the members, a percussionist and producer perhaps

just wanted to do a record that we really liked above all. It sounds selfish because well, it is (laughs). We wanted a record that was heavy and still sort ... could help Dollars / Washed Up Records bring it back. When I first moved to Australia in 2008, SYM was actually the first show I ever went to and I knew

Hayden Thorpe, not simply because of Present Tense 's imminent release, but because, in Australia on a Christmas holiday, he's confronted with his past. Thorpe's just taken ... Beasts to “justify [their] continued existence”. “For something to defy gravity, for it to sound effortless, that's actually a huge amount of work,” Thorpe offers. “Building things up, stripping

Mondanile says as we sit down for a beer during his brief stop in Australia. He says it with a sigh that can only come from jetlag. “It's about ... time to stop. I've got these interviews and then the sound check, and then we fly out straight again tomorrow. So yeah, hectic.” He's somehow finding time

artist, eager to continue refining a sound which has quickly made her one of the most progressive young songwriters in Australia. Having already supported the likes of Chairlift and Chvrches ... very impatient person sometimes, but it's worked out for the better.” Still sounding completely fresh and now – naturally balancing R&B with intelligent electronica – the self-titled offering