Where: Festival Hub: Trades Hall
Carlton
3053
Australia
Melbourne
What: MZAZA @ Festival Hub: Trades Hall
When:
A captivating evening of award-winning folk music, collage animation and theatrical storytelling. Embark on an unforgettable theatrical journey with MZAZA, one of Australia’s most captivating world music ensembles.
This extraordinary production blends enchanting melodies, rare and exotic instruments, and mesmerizing animated visuals to create an experience that’s as beautiful to watch as it is to hear. You’ll be transported to another cosmic realm featuring mesmerising Balkan and French inspired music, stunning visuals, and compelling storytelling exploring what connects us to the world and each other.
Much more than a concert, The Birth and Death of Stars is brought to the stage by a powerful collaboration of leading creative minds featuring accomplished theatre director Benjamin Knapton (CIRCA), Finnish animator Laura Matikainen and writer Pauline Maudy. The production has received widespread acclaim, premiering at Brisbane Festival before touring over 25 Australian venues and festivals to date, including Darwin Festival, New Annual Festival, and NAFA.
The show is set around MZAZA’s eponymous album, which was finalist in the Australian Folk Music Awards (Best Contemporary Album), received a Queensland Music Award for Best Song, spent two months in the Transglobal World Music charts, and was reviewed by UK Magazine Songlines as “a supernova of an album ★★★★”. Recorded in Greece, it draws inspiration from history’s philosophers and astronomers, and has an aesthetic that recalls the free-spirited romanticism of Lhasa de Sela or the redoubtable France-based collective Lo’Jo.
Led by enchanting French-Australian vocalist Pauline Maudy (2023 Australian Folk Music Awards Artist of the Year), MZAZA is a group of talented musicians and songwriters who mesmerise with inspired performances on accordion, violin, shah kaman, percussion, double-bass and guitar.
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3053
Australia
Who: MZAZA
Balkan
MZAZA is one of the most unique bands coming out of Australia today. Lead by acclaimed French-Australian vocalist Pauline Maudy, this award-winning group of musicians from around the globe has been mesmerising audiences with powerful and inspired performances. With a fascination for making something new from the old MZAZA create their own set of traditions from a tapestry of skilfully woven influences. Driven by her ancestry, Maudy is an enchanting stage leader at the helm of this unlikely group who have found each other at the end of the world to draw audiences into their tales of life, love and death. With much of the original material in French or English and inspired by Balkan music, MZAZA’s sound is deftly realised with accordion, violin, percussion, double bass and Flamenco guitar – embracing diversity, the old and the new, the familiar and the foreign, through timeless melodies. It is the timelessness of the music and stories that fuels an intense live show, an unforgettable musical journey, that has enraptured audiences internationally. Jaw-dropping technique, unique compositions and captivating shows have earned MZAZA supports for the likes of Baba Zula, Yasmin Levy, and DJ Click. www.mzaza.com