The @Peace And The Plutonian Noise Symphony Tour Review 25/10/14

@Peace

Review by jck2 // 8 November 2014
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Four lunatic space dorks and their anti authority band of banshees, one beat making rapscalion, and a tattooed terrorist aka hip hop group @peace and supporting act Louie Knuxx recently finished a nationwide tour to celebrate the deluxe double vinyl release of their highly-acclaimed debut album @Peace And The Plutonian Noise Symphony released March this year.

The nine-date escapade spanned the North and South Island and saw the group joined on the road by special guest Louie Knuxx, who recently released his own sophomore album PGT/GRR after an eight-year wait. The South Island leg of the tour also had young and infinitely talented guest Jay Knight join the line up.

The songs @Peace played explore themes of space, time, evolution and religion. The music is exciting and sophisticated, transcending the typical Boom Bap people might expect to hear from a Hip Hop group. Jazzy with elements of Funk, Soul and Downbeat is how I would describe the sound scape of the night, compliments of beatmakers and musicians Christoph El Truento, Hayden ‘Dandruff’ Dicky and Brandon Haru. The fast paced rapping of vocalists Tom Scott and Lui Tuiasau provides the icing on the cake. With vocals often mutated through the use of pitch bending and shift, adding layers of extra-terrestrial-like voices.  

Their tour ended with a fantastic gig at Galatos which saw them completely sell out of their vinyl pressings. I think it’s safe to say thats a strong sign of a successful tour.

Check out their latest music video Matters off of the album @Peace And The Plutonium Noise Symphony.
http://youtu.be/eSqh6L02TAY

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About the author jck2

JCK formed in music school in 2002 as `JCK and the dirty ho bags`. Back then It was James Castady-Kristament as MC and 3 female back up singer and dancers.That incarnation didn`t last long but one of the singers Lou Ludbrook would go on to be the second member of JCK in its second incarnation as a boy/girl duo. They worked hard writing recording and playing shows around Auckland City which eventually payed off. In 2004 they caught the attention of respected Indie label Pagan/Antenna records and scored a record deal. Soon after, they were successful in receiving funding from New Zealand on Air and recorded their debut single ‘Freak in the club’ with an accompanying music video, Freak in the club was a “Hip Pop” single that took the nation by storm and played on all of New Zealand’s music television shows for a good part of a year.

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