Makeda - Crate Focus

Makeda - Private Sphere

Makeda - Recreation

MAKEDA - 'THT', as taken from Moontown Records 'Cassette Club 3' compilation. Released June 2015

Available for purchase here http://bit.ly/1fz7LcK

'THT' - MAKEDA

This collage hopefully serves two purposes:

First, to spread an informed primary view of the situation on the Manus Island and Nauru detention centres. The text used here is taken from an article written by Behrouz Boochani (an Iranian journalist, and refugee currently detained on Manus) recently printed in the Saturday Paper —

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2016/05/28/damned-lies-news-corp-and-manus-island-refugees/14643576003302

Second, I hope this may also encourage listeners to vote very carefully in this upcoming Australian election. Talk, share and discuss what you learn and read with all who will listen. It’s vital for everyone to be as fully informed and engaged as possible. Lack of engagement is continuing to allow unethical decisions through the back door. 


TRACKLIST

Steve Reich ‘Clapping Music’
Car start up sample from Yves Tumor ‘Hialeah’
Wench ‘Sick’ 
Felicita. ‘Heads Will Roll’ 
Elysia Crampton ‘Lake’ 


Image taken from the FFFAD facebook page
@melbournefffad

NOT VOTING FOR THIS // A meditation on mandatory detention in Australia (mix)

‘Bayati Contours’ takes its name from the Islamic musical mode, the Maqam Bayati. In Arabic music, the mode is associated with femininity. 

When I first begun creating music in a solo context, I found the concept of 'gendered sound' to be a curious one - stylistic tropes based on male or female...,a woman sings, a man as the instrumentalist, producer, or technologist... A boyfriend pushing me in the sonic/aesthetic direction he saw fit. A long history throughout various cultures of instruments performed specifically by men or women... These ideas informed this track.

My own project explores postgenderism. I cite Judith Butler in suggesting that gender is performative - and that the action of this performance produces a series of effects. I’m interested in the social and economic results of these effects, how they can be put into place, and why 'non-complying' gender expression is seen as taboo. 

This rendition of ‘Bayati Contours’ was recorded live on Melbourne’s 3RRR during Magic Steven’s 1am residency in mid 2016, and makes use of the Maqam Bayati. The recording documents a rare occasion in which the track was performed with lyrics. The lyrics document an experience of emotional abuse from a partner who detested the agency in which I explored and expressed my own identity.

Bayati Contours (Live on 3RRR)

An ambient piece commissioned by Dark Mofo as a prelude to the 'Welcome Stranger' event. 

The piece is constructed of samples from indigenous Tasmanian wildlife.

Dark Mofo 'Welcome Stranger' commission

J’OUVERT is a new collaborative work between Melbourne-based artist Makeda, and the AM Trio - including dancer/performance artist Ece Yavuz, renowned Trinidad born steel-pan player Alvin Rostant and percussionist Ryan Bennett.

J’OUVERT unpacks several themes - the tumultuous history of the steel-pan drum, the relationship between healing practices and embodiment, and Trinidad’s the theatre of the streets. Foremost, the performance explores the legacies of Afro/Indo Trinidad, and its unique relationship to resistance in an ode to the country’s annual J’Ouvert festival. J’Ouvert emerged in the years prior slave emancipation, as a wild 4am street party. It occurred on the slaves’ single annual day off, In tandem to white-settlers celebration of Lent. J’Ouvert however, reflected the added symbolism of a year at work in the field - the pain, fatigue and bloodshed endured by slaves. Revellers often stole their masters clothes for the evening - others covered themselves in mud, oil, paint or talc. All painted their faces in order to disguise themselves from their masters and authorities.

Translating from French Creole, J’Ouvert means ‘the opening’ or ‘the beginning’. Renewal and rebirth are central concepts of J’OUVERT - particularly in relation to the Indo-Caribbean condition post slave abolition; where workers immigrated from India for employment as indentured labourers, working under similar conditions to the former slaves. Here, yoga is of particular interest, in its origins as a (pre-religion) form of healing. As a yoga practitioner of 15 years, Makeda’s artistic practise is inseparable from the form.

J’OUVERT posits its curiosity on the binary conditions required to drive community and bureaucratic action, and the strategies each party take to regain power and control.

“it’s the work’s blending of the anachronistic with the electric insistence of the present that feels in some way prophetic.” Elyssia Bugg, Difficult Fun

J'OUVERT (excerpts)live at Precog

3NDLES5 - Polyester (Makeda edit)
Makeda - Pearl & Trotter
Makeda - Abuse (tool)
Makeda - Job for Life (tool)
Mayer & Aguayo - Slow
Makeda - Smoke v Mirrors
Inga Copeland - A&E
Tiga & Clarian - Stay Cool (Beton remix)
S’Press - Lollypop (Chris & Cosey Remix)
Morgan Wright - Menu
DJ Yoni - Hammered
Bjork - Violently Happy (Basso Hitto edit)
Andy Garvey - Club Music (tool)
Tiga & Clarian - You’re so Special (Eats Everything Remix)
Zaliva-D - Evocation (Noise & Noise Remix)
Umfang - Ok 
Makeda - Untitled scarlet outro

Credits: @mxtildx much love, you know why

Makeda | Intervention | Red Light Radio - 9.8.18

More info: https://www.residentadvisor.net/tracks/951434
Pre-order EP: https://nicemusiclabel.bandcamp.com/album/026v-lifetrap

Island Life

As a musician, DJ and multi-disciplinary experimentalist, MAKEDA’s work sketches a svelte aural palette. Recurring through each project, Makeda pairs left-field electronic alongside socio-political criticism.

ALL DAY BREAKFAST ENTERPRISES is a (now defunct) label and project centered around music experimentation, and has traded in indecision since late 2011. 

Bookings / Soliloquies :
makedazucco [@] gmail dot com

UPCOMING
4 June - w/ bar italia, Eora

2024
4 April - w/ Rory JS, Eora 

2023
20 Oct - SXSW Sydney, Eora
22 Jul - Ace Hotel, Eora 
10 Jun - Dark Mofo. Night Mass, Nipaluna
9 Jun - Dark Mofo. Night Mass, Nipaluna
27 Apr - Blue Void, Eora
25 Mar - AGNSW, Eora
12 Mar - Absorb, Naarm

2021/2022
31 Dec - Defcorn, Mt Bundawung NSW
29 Dec - Ace Hotel w/ Chela, Marcus Whale SYD
26 Dec - Black Bear Lodge, Shandy BNE
21 Oct - Sideway, w/ Anuraag, Hei Zhi Ma, CBR
18 Jun - Fiber Festival, AMST NL
4 Jun - Soft Centre, SYD
3 Apr - Piknic Electronik w/ Peggy Gou MEL
24 Mar 22 - Princess Theatre, w/ HTRK BNE
8 May 21 - Shandy, The Tivoli BNE

2019
Sat 26 Oct @ Angostrom Fest, MEL
Sat 19 Oct @ Lucid 3rd Bday w/ Andy Garvey, Sleep D, MEL
Sat 12 Oct @ Colour w/ ZFEX, MEL
Sat 12 Oct @ Outhouse, MEL
Sun 6 Oct @ Echo Flats, NSW
Sat 28 Sept @ Critical Mass w/ Slim Set, C.Frim, Bby.B, MEL
Fri 13 Sept @ Artshouse w/ Nkisi, DJ Plead, MEL
Fri 2 Aug @ Sub Club w/ GLM, Noise In my Head, MEL
Sat 13 Jul @ Bleus, The Gaso w/ Harold, MEL
Thurs 4 Jul @ Changes, MEL
Sat 29 Jun @ Hybrid Fest, MEL
Fri 28 Jun @ Series w/ Aisha Devi, SYD
Sun 16 Jun @ Natty Waves, HBA 
Sat 15 Jun @ Dark Mofo, HBA
Fri 14 Jun @ Dark Mofo, HBA
Thurs 30 May @ VIVID, Harpoon Harry's, SYD
Fri 10 May @ NECTAR: Thrive, Bridge Hotel, SYD
Sat 5 May @ Sideway, CBR
Sat 27 Apr w/ Umfang & Shyboi, MEL
Wed 24 Apr @ Skydiver, LIFETRAP EP launch, MEL
Fri 19 Apr @ RBMA w/ Lone, MEL
Fri 12 Apr w/ Jasmine Guffond, Jannah Quill, Bayu, MEL
Sat 6 Apr @ BLEUS, MEL
Sat 23 Mar w/ Ross From Friends, Cop Envy, Jess Zammit
Sat 2 Mar w/ Gramrcy & Nummer (DJ) 
Sat 2 Mar @ Animals Dancing (Live) 
Sun 10 Feb @ Native Home w/ Sleep D & Albrecht La'Brooy
Sat 2 Feb @ Duke St Block Party (DJ) w/ Floating Points, Evelyn Champagne King, Brooke Powers etc
Sun 27 Jan @ Daydreams (DJ), Gasometer Hotel
Sun 20 Jan @ Abbotsford Convent w/ Fia Fiell + Music Yared

2018
Fri 28 Dec @ Rooftop w/ Roza Terenzi, Moopie, Cale Sexton & Jon Watts
Fri 1 Dec @ Oscar Key Sung Dance Party, Gasometer Hotel
Sat 25 Nov @ (Live set) A Weekend With... Rutherglen, VIC
Fri 9 Nov @ Nectar (DJ set) w/ Inga Mauer, Syd
Tues 23 Oct @ Howler w/ Papaphilia, Nina Buchanan + R. hunter
Fri 12 Oct @ Precog - Hugs and Kisses, Melb
Fri 5 Oct "J'OUVERT" for Cool Room @ ACMI, Melb
Mon 17 Sept @ Bossa Nova Civic w/ Anuraag, NYC
Fri 14 Sept @ The Lot Radio, NYC
Thurs 13 Sept @ Commend instore w/ M-treka, NYC
Thurs 9 Aug @ Red Light Radio, Amsterdam
Sun 5 Aug @ Rye Wax 4th Bday Party, London
Fri 20 Jul @ Hugs&Kisses (B2B with Threepiecesuit), Simona, Slam Ross + special guest
Fri 13 Jul @ Boney, Burning Rose Presents: FLOORBREAKER w/ Darcy Baylis, Morgan Wright, Nenagh + more
Fri 22 Jun @ Howler (DJ set) w/ Oscar Key Sung, HVNCOQ, Nina Buchanan
Sun 10 Jun @ (DJ set) Hugs&Kisses w/ Jennifer Loveless, Onyx, Threepiecesuit
Fri 25 May @ FNAWN fundraiser (DJ set), Loop Bar w/ Brooke Powers, Jalé + MTLDA-S
Sun 6 May @ "J'Ouvert" The Tote - PRECOG for Next Wave Festival, w/ Klein, Angela Goh, Enderie, Poison, Bhenji Ra etc
Tues 24 Apr @ (DJ set) Lazerpig B2B w/ András 
Sat 21 Apr @ LUCID (DJ set) w/ D.Tiffany, Rok Riley + Minou Oram
Mon 5 Mar @ Hope Street radio w/ Simon J. Karis (Nice Music)
Thurs 1 Mar @ Lazerpig (DJ set) w/ MTLDA-S
Sat 17 Feb @ (DJ/Live) 4A Contemporary White Night takeover w/ Amrita Hepi, Rainbow Chan, Deadkebab, Jalé, Strict Face + Coris 
Sat 3 Feb @ Factoid / One Year w/ ∆/π, DJ Kiti , Jaala VS Man + more
Fri 12 Jan @ Howler (DJ set) w/ Howie Lee, Corin, Jalé, Nico Niquo + WA?STE 
Tues 9 Jan @ Howler, w/ WDK, Nina Buchanan + Poison

MAKEDA / ALLDAYBREAKFAST

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