Paul: I think that, generally, in terms of collaborations, it’s more important for us to develop our own thing. It’s cool to have these cool artists promoting you, but when you then connect with different people as well – I get a buzz from that.ĭoes establishing these relationships lead to working with these artists? People have written to me on Facebook from Libya and shit. Nai: The internet is really amazing like that. I hadn’t seen it and I thought “I guess I’ll watch this.” I woke up and Prince has tweeted about us! What? Nai: The crazy thing is that when Prince tweeted that, I was watching Purple Rain for the first time that night. It must feel pretty extreme when Prince tweets your music, though?
It’s more of a motivation to keep exploring our shit, rather than that now these people listen to it, we have to tailor to them. I like the fact that ‘soul’ is a throwback element, but ‘future’ is whatever is in the future and is indefinable.ĭoes having this recognition affect what you’re doing? Nai: Sometimes you need an arrowhead on what you’re doing. We’re all down to include almost anything, from any area that we like and appreciate. Paul: It’s kind of a convenient tagline, but we try not to get too wrapped up in that, in what we’re doing. You do describe yourselves as ‘future-soul’ though. Nai: We’re not massive on genre to be honest. Quite a few of those artists you mentioned are credited for pioneering what became known as ‘neo-soul’. James Poyser works really closely with Erykah Badu, so she picked it up… There were a few seed points and it just sprung up from there.
Nai Palm : Animal Collective heard on the air in LA, and they showed Angel from The Dirty Projectors, who showed ?uestlove, who then showed all The Roots. We supported him at The Espy and I think he caught like the last three songs of our set and was really into it. Who first broke you guys internationally? Maybe that’s part of the reason we like them so much. Yet when we interview the band, we find them keeping things laid back in a suburban backyard in Coburg. Headed by enigmatic frontwoman, Nai Palm, Hiatus Kaiyote’s debut album ‘Tawk Tomahawk’ received universal critical acclaim. Add to that a co-sign from both ?uestlove and Erykah Badu, and it’s not surprising that people are starting to pay serious attention to the future-soul outfit.
Earlier this year the superstar posted a link to Hiatus Kaiyote’s track ‘Nakamarra’ with the simple instruction: ‘DON’T WORRY… JUST CLICK’. But particularly if you’re an emerging band from Melbourne’s North. Being tweeted about by Prince is kind of a big deal.
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