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Tūpiki - Riki Pirihi And Abigail Aroha Jensen - Vinyl Release Tour

When
Fri Mar 28th, 2025
Where
Audio Foundation,
Auckland

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General Admission $22.00+BF Buy Tickets
Doors open
8:00pm
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Tūpiki' by Abigail Aroha Jensen and Riki Pirihi is an extraordinary album inspired by Maui's journey to climb the 12 steps to heaven, featuring a tantalising blend of taonga pūoro, percussion and electronics, it transcends genres and easy descriptions. To celebrate it's release on vinyl through Audio Foundation Records on Friday 28 March at The Audio Foundation the duo will give a rare performance in Tāmaki Makaurau with support from Parks/Rāhana Tito-Taylor/Allana Goldsmith/Olga. Tūpiki is available digitally and on vinyl from audiofoundation.bandcamp.com/t-piki or at the show!

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Riki Pirihi & Abigail Aroha Jensen

Riki Pirihi (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Maahanga) is a musician and percussionist currently living in Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington. He currently practices percussion, composes music for films, and has developed a technique called Raungatuone (Weaving Gestures) for conducting Taonga Pūoro. He has performed and recorded alongside a diverse range of artists — Orchestra of Spheres, Mara TK, Crowded House, Recloose, Leila Adu, Fat Freddys Drop, Seven David Jnr, Bic Runga, Connan Mockasin, and Jeff Henderson. He is presently performing regularly as Cave Circles, Tuone Conduction Ensemble (as conductor), Orchestra of Spheres, Aja, DJ Oboe, and Clear Path Ensemble.

Abigail is an interdisciplinary artist who loves to play in all sorts of arrangements with friends and family. She has played and exhibited her work throughout Aotearoa and internationally. Her latest sound installation was recently presented at the Busan Biennale in South Korea. She likes to weave with waiata, random debris, field recordings and taonga pūoro. She loves bells. She uses a mixer for some sets, other times a bowl of water will suffice.

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The trio of Allana Goldsmith (voice), Parks (modular synths) & Rahana Larsen Taylor (Taonga Puoro) explore the textural and emotional dimensions of ancient to the future music, forging new sound worlds via electronic generators with the intimacy of the human voice and the sonorous depths of traditional and modified Taonga Puoro.

They will be joined by Olga from Kirikiriroa/Hamilton

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Doors 8PM
Friday 28 March @ The Audio Foundation
Tickets from undertheradar.co.nz or $30 on the door

Tags
art/noise, electronic, hip hop/rnb, jazz, world, riki pirihi, riki gooch, abigail aroha jensen, leafa, allana goldsmith, rahana tito-taylor, parks

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