Band & Musician News - Arjuna Oakes & John Psathas Release 'Future Lullaby' EP
30 December 2022 - 0 Comments
Future Lullaby - EP is a collection
of four heartfelt songs written and produced by rising star Arjuna Oakes and
renowned composer John Psathas.
The pair met in 2020 when Arjuna was a recipient of the NZ
Arts Foundation’s inaugural spring board award which came with a mentorship
from any of their alumni, and Arjuna chose John as his mentor. The two quickly
became friends and started making music together, soon discovering that they
had a unique creative partnership. Though their approach to making music differed,
they shared a collective understanding of how to make musical ideas hit home
emotionally. The collaboration created four beautiful tracks, all embedded with
complex themes and heartfelt, raw emotion. The second track, Safe Way To Fall (released
as a single earlier this year), was chosen to be performed by the NZSO along
with Arjuna and John in June 2023. Arjuna and John have plans to create more
music together in the future, this is just the beginning.
Arjuna Oakes is a singer-songwriter and producer based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa (Wellington, New Zealand). With an act comprising some of New Zealand’s most exciting young jazz musicians, Arjuna and his band have been exciting live audiences the last couple of years with a string of sold out shows, appearances at some of NZ’s top music festivals and recently featured as one of Assembly Festival’s digital programme in this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
NZ-Greek composer John Psathas shot to worldwide attention when his music was heard by an audience of more than a billion during the Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. The New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate has achieved a level of international success unprecedented for a New Zealand composer, his music has moved concert audiences in more than 50 countries on all 7 continents, even Antarctica. He is now also considered one of the three most important living composers of the Greek Diaspora. When glancing over Psathas’ career, one element impossible to overlook is the scope and sheer variety of his collaborations.He has collaborated on a Billboard classical chart-topping album with System of a Down front man Serj Tankian, crossed into jazz in projects with luminaries Michael Brecker and Joshua Redman, and the list goes on. There are few composers who cross the boundaries of musical genres to the extent that Psathas does, and with such ongoing global success.
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