![]() ![]() Nai Palm had actually worked as fire dancer in Melbourne before she focused wholly on music. The nascent band played their first gig at the Bohemian Masquerade Ball among sword swallowers, fire twirlers and gypsy death core bands - a setting that suited their eclectic nature. From their first jam session, there was an undeniable shared telepathic connection. Bender brought multi-instrumentalists Perrin Moss (drums/percussion) and Simon Mavin (keyboards) into the equation, and the electric, organic nature of Hiatus Kaiyote was set in motion.īy chance, the three guys in Hiatus Kaiyote happened to reside in the same shared house, though they’d never previously played together in a band, while Nai lived nearby. One year later, the two began to collaborate on compositions that felt intuitive. Her performance with a pink nylon-stringed guitar at a small Melbourne club inspired bass player Paul Bender to seek her out. “I always knew I wanted to be in a band, but I never knew it could be my own conversation,” she says. Singer-songwriter Nai Palm was the gravitational force that crystallized the vision for Hiatus Kaiyote’s brand of future soul. The four band members suggest that it was fate that brought them together through a series of coincidences in their native Melbourne, Australia. Each song whispers of delicious, ancient and futuristic stories untold. ![]() ![]() Out of the ether, Hiatus Kaiyote’s 2012 debut album Tawk Tomahawk magically appeared as if the vast desert landscape had opened up, borrowing ingredients from far-reaching lands to concoct a distinctive flavor that is the essence of all its parts. In late 2014, Hiatus Kaiyote releases their EP By Fire with three new songs that will appear on the band’s hotly anticipated sophomore album Choose Your Weapon - to be released in March, 2015 on Flying Buddha/Sony Music Masterworks. They have carved out their own ecosystem populated with songs, each embodying its own mini-cinematic sonic soundscape. The music of Grammy-nominated Hiatus Kaiyote strikes the perfect note merging poetry and polyrhythms. ![]() Every so often a band comes along that captures the collective imagination, a band that has all the essential elements in place to become a musical movement. ![]()
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