Tell Heaven

Ninehoursnorth and Tujiko Noriko, the undisputed queen of Japanese avant-pop, team up during her first visit to Australia in many years. Her uniquely spliced version of divergent pop cuts a fine path through delicate melodies and devolving rhythms.

Her visit comes on the back of a swag of critically-acclaimed new recordings that situate her at the top of contemporary avant-electropop from Japan.

Tell Heaven is the imagined meeting, outside of time and reality, where the legends sit down to play. Where High Lonesome brothers Ira and Charlie Louvin keep company with Boogie Woogie sister Rosetta Tharpe and where Reverend Gary Davis shouts the names of the seven gates while Johnny Cash reads to us from Revelations.

Every year seven esteemed and eclectic musicians join in that musical conversation in a celebration of the spirits of absent friends; big voiced harmony sound, all outside the compromise, pretense and confusion of contemporary life Featuring the vocals of Leah Cotterell and Pearly Black; Coojee Timms, John Rodgers, Helen Russell and Kym Ambrose, Tell Heaven is a feast for the senses.

Ticket information:

What: Ninehoursnorth featuring Tujiko Noriko and guests
Where: Performance Space, JWCOCA
420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
When: Wed 20 August @ 8pm
Cost: From $15
For bookings contact the JWCOCA Box Office (Monday to Friday) on (07)3872 9000 or www.judithwrightcentre.com

What: Tell Heaven
Where: Performance Space, JWCOCA
420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
When: Thurs 21 August @ 7:30pm
Cost: From $19
For bookings contact the JWCOCA Box Office (Monday to Friday) on (07)3872 9000 or www.judithwrightcentre.com

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