Ngaiire – Lamentations
Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week is Lamentations by Ngaiire
The highly anticipated release of Ngaiire’s debut album Lamentations delivers a stunningly-realised work of vast sonic proportion.
Lamentations – from ‘the act of lamenting’ – reflects Ngaiire’s own persuasion of writing, shedding light on an attraction to the dark beauty of the melancholic.
Despite having already exhibited an incredible level of determination and resilience – between the car accident which left her with spinal fractures a day before recording to the death of a close relative upon the album’s completion – it is Ngaiire’s inimitable style, natural creativity and divine song craft that comes through on Lamentations.
Though she performs with a live band, composing for Lamentations was done in conjunction with Japan-based collaborator and pianist Aaron Choulai, and Sydney producer and bassist Tim Curnick. After a brief stint studying for a Jazz degree at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music, a long period of touring overseas and in Australia with roots collective Blue King Brown, mentor and electronic maestro Paul Mac and gypsy jazz outfit Monsieur Camembert, Ngaiire found her own sound, and place in Sydney.
Journeying from folk soul to jazz hop to indie pop to everything in between, Ngaiire has finally settled on an eclectic sonic identity that is uniquely hers and one that can easily transcend universal territories with its electronic soul elements as well as gratify the folk sphere with her great adoration for storytelling and heartfelt laments.
Lamentations is out now via Wantok Records
Stay closely tuned to Eastside as we are giving away a copy of Lamentations to a listener every-day this week!
Album of the Week – Ngaiire “Lamentations”