Singer-songwriters and performers Tali and Georgie Fisher bring their summer tour to Dunedin this weekend, with a show at Taste Merchants.
Meeting through a mutual friend in Berlin and bonding over their shared roots in the electronica scene, the pair of seemingly disparate musicians have become firm friends as well as collaborators.
Tali is best known as a drum and bass artist, a prolific MC with the ability to freestyle or sing soulfully over mixes, but who has more recently been focusing on more classic songwriting, self-releasing "cinematic soul & gangsta jazz'' album Wolves in 2015.
Fisher meanwhile is a street musician and busker, who also has a history of singing on d'n'b tracks.
Playing her acoustic guitar around the world led to her debut record Big City Howl, her raspy and soulful voice and pulsing up-strums foregrounded in her songs.
The tour will see the two performers taking to the stage as co-headliners, Fisher on her acoustic guitar and Tali triggering beats on the keys.
GRIFFIN HEADLINES EVENING
Francisca Griffin, a member of seminal Dunedin group Look Blue Go Purple, headlines an evening of music tonight at Chick's Hotel.
After Look Blue Go Purple, best known for their 1987 jangle pop hit Cactus Cat, parted ways, Griffin went on to form Cyclops with Xpressway classicist Peter Jefferies.
In 1998, Griffin also put out a gorgeous and somewhat lost (at least online/digitally anyway) solo record called Some From the Sky with the help of Heka and David Kilgour among others.
A vaguely folk-Americana take on some distinctly jangly songwriting, feeding off a Liz Phair twang, and the gloom and melodicism of My Dad Is Dead, Some From the Sky sounds like aural self-medication for melancholy.
Griffin is now being joined by her son Gabriel, of discordant jazz noisemakers Sewage, on drums, and put down the bones of 10 songs for a new album in April 2015, tracks that are reportedly soon to be released in a physical format.
In support are new kids on the prairie, mid-fi country duo Terrified.
Comprising Nikolai Sim and Eliana Gray, Terrified makes outlaw country music from a port-side Chick's Hotel bedroom.
The pair released the single Bad Luck in November.
Beginning as a screechy, distorted badlands ballad, the songs balloons into a dark brush powered slide guitar and harmonica number, like something off the Brian Jonestown Massacre's Thank God For Mental Illness.
It's dirty, retro, and catchy, and bodes well for the full band shows and debut full-length the band are working towards.
See it, hear it
• Tali & Georgie Fisher (Aust/Berlin), tomorrow at Taste Merchants (Lower Stuart St). Doors from 8pm. Presales $15 from dashtickets.co.nz
• Francisca Griffin (Look Blue Go Purple), Terrified, and Al G, tonight at Chick's Hotel, Port Chalmers. $10 on the door from 8.30pm.
The Chick's Hotel Magic Bus leaves Countdown Central at 8.30pm, University of Otago library at 8.35pm, returning to town after the show.
Download the single Bad Luck at terrifiednz.bandcamp.com
