Guitarist for The Artful Escape (video game)

Eastward’s organic touch is rich with vinyl-esq beats, percussion, acoustic guitar and funky bass. Throughout his music, Eastward often opens up a portal to a psychedelic web of retro-future collage that gently blends the foreign with the familiar. As per his pseudonym, Eastward persuades his listeners to embark on a journey, and that journey seems to go where the sun rises; east.

NGĀSTI is CRDIO + SEZZO 
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Jamaica Moana "Tuggawar Tour" / 28 Nov '25 @ Back Bar Kirikiriroa NZ
Port Noise Festival / 10 Jan '25 @ Lyttleton NZ
Brian Fuata "SEINI_TRANSMIT" /  10 Aug '24  @ Sumer Gallery Akl NZ
Walter's Prize/AKL Contemporary Afterparty / 5 Jul '24 Akl NZ
Christchurch Art Gallery / 24 Nov '23, Chch NZ
Mechatok / 23 Sept '23 @ Whammy Bar, NZ
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Previously Sezzo's Soundcloud
Ngāpuhi DJ from Aotearoa NZ via Naarm/Meanjin
sezzosnot@gmail.com

Sezzo Shows:
2023
11 Nov - Door 84 opening @ Meanjin
2 Jun - Happy Kids Archive @ Samoa House Library
22 Apr - SUBZERO, Underground (St Kevin's K road), NZ
18 Mar - Depot Artspace, Light Night, Auckland Arts Fest NZ
11/12 Mar - Hope St Radio stage/House of Mince stage @ Pitch Music and Arts Festival, Naarm, Aus
4 Mar - Club 77 World Pride Takeover (Sydney) w/ Dameela/Halfqueen/Nina Las Vegas
4 Mar - Nasty Party, Factory Theatre, Sydney Mardi Gras, Aus
18 Feb - Auckland Pride, Britomart NZ
22 Jan - Hope St Radio (This Mob), Naarm Aus
8 Jan - Umami Day Party, Naarm/Melbourne

2022
2 Dec - Daddy Daycare, Everybody's Late, Auckland
19 Nov - The Gift (Artspace Aotearoa), No. 7, Auckland
18 June - East St Hall, Auckland
25 Feb - Le Fag, Melbourne CANCELLED/OMICRON
19 Feb - Melbourne Art Fair CANCELLED/OMICRON
23 Jan - Judy Free @ Yot Club, Raglan NZ

2021
23 Dec - BOILER ROOM x UMAMI, Melbourne CANCELLED/OMICRON
30 July - Asahi Sessions w/ Halfqueen B2B @ Longroom, Auckland
16 July - Lei Lei Kung "Home for a Bunny" @ Neo Gracie / Samoa House Library, Akl
18 June - Parasite Gallery, Akl
28 May - "Slow Boil" party for Artspace Aotearoa, Samoa House Fale, Akl

2020
18 Jan - Uniiqu3, Martyn Bootyspoon + more (Sydney)
1 Feb - Ngāti Kangaru (Cement Fondu, Syd)

2019
Jan - MONAFOMA w/ Nidia Minaj, Shyboi
4 Apr - Ngāti Kangaru @ Institute of Modern Art w/ Jamaica Moana + more
26 Apr - Sanctum w/ Toni Yotzi + more (Melb)
9 May - Oscar Key Sung @ Angel Bar (Melb)
10 May - Independent Curating Panel (Verge Gallery, Syd)
18 May - Bahdoesa (Loop, Melb)
31 May - Nightfall (Boney)
7 Jun - Sanctum (Boney)
9 Jun - Hope St Radio (Lazerpig)
9 Jun - One Day Sundays (Penny Black, Melb) 
27 Jun - Sanctum (Section 8)
29 Jun - Hybrid Festival feat. Ngāti Kangaru w/ Fatima Al Qadiri + Aisha Devi + Lotic + DJ Stingray + Omar S + more (Melb)
29 Jun - Precog experimental DJ and reading performance w/ Matka (Emerging Writer's Festival, Melb)
4 July - Justin Shoulder/Corin, Palais de Tokyo (PARIS, FR)
11 July - Fempre$$: Motherlode @ Arts House (Melb)
14 July - Rogue Cuts (Boney)
15 July - 3CR with DJ Abyss
20 July - Unicorns @ Queer Pride (Rubix Warehouse, Melb)
25 July - Zobi Wan (Ferdyduke, Melb)
26 July - Leak Your Own Nudes (Loop, Melb)
9 August - 25th Anniversary of Tasty!
16 August - Filthy w/ Half Queen (Akl, NZ)
2 Aug - Athletica (Syd)
8 Sep - "Home Is Where the Club Is" Panel @ Melbourne Writer's Festival w/ Miss Blanks + more (Kaleide Theatre, RMIT Melb)
20 Sept - Fluxxx Club (Crazy Arms, Melb)
18 Oct - Red Bull Music Festival, 1800DOOF (Le Fag @ Yours&Mine, Melb)w/ Dinamarca + Leonce
2 Nov - Momentum, Next Wave Festival 35th Birthday
4 Nov - Hope St Radio (Rooftop, Melb)
8 Nov - Umami ! (Melb)
9 Nov - Peel St Fest @ Grace Darling
14 Nov - Melbourne Music Week, Opening Night "Swell" (Melb)
21 Nov - Writing and Concepts: Club Theory 2.0 Lecture w/ Sally Olds (Mpavilion, Melb)
21 Nov - Chunky Move Party @ Chapter House (Flinders Lane, Melb)
1 Dec - One Day Sundays (Bourke St Courtyard)
6 Dec - PRECOG: TE-MOANA-NUI-A-KIWA (Firstdraft, Syd)

Selected pre-2019 performances:
Charli XCX presented by VICE - Melbourne
Moor Mother and Black Quantum Futurism - Melbourne
Cher @ Mardi Gras - Sydney
Dark Mofo - Hobart
Monafoma - Hobart
Coolio - Brisbane
Le1f - Brisbane, Sydney and Hobart
Melbourne Music Week - Melbourne Town Hall mainstage, Melbourne

Talks:
UNSW 2020 talk "Friendships" exhibition
https://artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/programs/flesh-meet-dj-sezzo
Institute of Modern Art interview 2020
https://makingart.work/projects/interno/sezzo

Writing:
KILL YOUR DARLINGS “What does is mean to be Māori in Australia” article for Waitangi Day - Feb 2021 
https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/what-does-it-mean-to-be-Māori-in-australia/
LIEU JOURNAL “Peace is a bunch of shit” article about the essence of parties - August 2020
https://www.lieujournal.com/Sezzo.php
UN MAGAZINE Issue 13.2 for Un Projects “The Clubbing Ape” article as Kōtare 
https://unprojects.org.au/issue/13-2/
RUNWAY JOURNAL Issue 39: Ocean edition “Te Moana Nui a Kiwa  - Māori in Te Ao Moemoea” article as Kōtare
http://runway.org.au/39oceans
“CLUB THEORY” ARTICLE 2018
Published “Club Theory” in AQNB, philosophical article about clubbing with Sally Olds
https://www.aqnb.com/2018/05/03/club-theory-two-recombinant-texts-on-the-impossible-space-between-theory-experience-by-sally-olds-dj-sezzo/

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Melbourne Music Week Sound School Showcase @ SIGNAL Arts - November 17th

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