Live music - Saturday 6 July, 7pm

MADE NOW MUSIC is excited to be welcoming the ever-innovative Koi Kingdom on their east coast tour in support the release of their 3rd album “Koi Kingdom” (releasing via Earshift Music) Also joining the lineup from interstate are Franklin | Carter (Timothy fFanklin and Maddison Carter) an energetic and grounding duo who are always searching, finding and reforming for the listeners with every performance. Thrilled to be able to hear such expansive groups again at our home away from home, KEPK! 

// KOI KINGDOM

Renowned for their boundary-defying compositions and instrumental virtuosity, Koi Kingdom’s third and most ambitious self-titled album is a tale of transformation and resilience. This latest release delves into themes of friendship, loss, grief, rebirth, and joy, showcasing the special musical connection and shared creative vision that guitarist Marcos Villalta, bassist Stephen Hornby, and saxophonist Cheryl Durongpisitkul have nurtured over years of collaboration.

// FRANKLIN | CARTER

Franklin/Carter is the duo of saxophonist Timothy Franklin and drummer Maddison Carter. They play music that is full of big ideas, chaos, and warmth. Having released their debut album “Umbra” via MNM in mid-2023 this performance marks their maiden voyage (as a group) to meanjin to perform the album in full. 

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MNM acknowledges that we are located on the traditional lands of the Turrbal and Jagera nations. We extend our respects to their ancestors and elders past and present and emerging.

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Live performances - Saturday 8 June, 7pm

Bodies explores similarities between bodies of water and human bodies and seeks to blur the boundaries between them. These works incorporate sounds of water I recorded on recent trips to the Australian coastline as well as creeks and waterfalls in Far North Queensland. I have taken these recordings and other recordings of my voice and breath and heavily processed them together with synths and electronics so that the boundaries between field recordings, vocals and electronics are also blurred. These sounds together create sonic collages that move in ways to emulate rhythmic cycles that can be found in both water and humans such as waves, pulses and currents. -Madeleine Cocolas

Featuring Timothy Fairless and Unregistered Lodges

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Live performances - Friday, Sep 22nd

MADE NOW MUSIC, our favourite Brisbane-based record label, is concocting another evening of delights. With Greenhouse, MNM is launching the new album of Melbourne-based psychedelic jazz collective led by Reuben Lewis, I Hold the Lion’s Paw. They are launching Aves, their 7” vinyl.

We will also relish the premiere of “wattle”, a large ensemble of  winds, brass and rhythms presenting new works by Brodie McAllister.  

Event: Friday September 22nd, 7pm

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Live performances - Saturday, July 22nd

Doors at 7pm, Music from 7:30
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MADE NOW MUSIC is delighted to be launching the debut album of the Brisbane juggernaut ensemble sooon.
Supported by the amazing Sarah Gall and Francesca Masel performing the music of Cameron Bower.

ENSEMBLE SOOON
Ensemble Sooon situate themselves at the porous boundaries of improvisation and Indie-classical experimentation, straddling open-form compositions and third-stream structures, using notation as a springboard and as a canvas to explore contemporary notions of individual and collective action through a swirling sonic palette. Martin Kay is a saxophonist and composer with an array of releases from large ensemble Forage, trio Song Fwaa, and his solo tenor sax album chronicling fantastical tardigrade migration patterns. Danielle Bentley is a versatile cellist with an uncanny talent for improvisation and a classical technique to bring the sounds. Nozomi Omote has an astonishing imagination bringing a percussion palette from the everyday object as well as the concert stage.

SARAH GALL
Local pianist Sarah Gall draws on a rich and varied musical life spanning punk to classical, bringing a unique voice to post-genre collaboration. Passionate about the DIY where music is a force for community-building, Sarah was the founder of Browning Street Studios (2008 - 2021) and continues to work as a passionate educator, advocate and champion for the grassroots. As a performer she uses the piano as a "sounding board" within emotional, human and built environments - a type of resonant and relational sonar. Sarah is most comfortable working at the edges of musical forms and notions with performers from many and varied backgrounds. She is currently stoked to be working with Cameron Bower to help realise a number of his new works for solo piano and chamber music settings.

FRANCESCA MASEL
Brisbane-based cellist and music educator Francesca Masel has a strong passion for chamber music and collaboration. She has performed extensively in Australia and overseas at events such as the 2022 Corso Internazionale di Musica in San Vito di Cadore, the 2019 Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival and frequently with dynamic ensembles including Camerata: Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra and the Australian Youth Orchestra. Francesca graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University with a Graduate Certificate in Music Studies and a Bachelor of Music in Performance. She is excited to be continuing her studies in cello this September at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Image: Brodie McAllister

Live performances - Saturday Oct 15th, 8 pm

Olympic Swimming Pool Maintenance League @olympic_pool_maintenance
Abstract Human Radio @abstracthumanradio
Cyber Banshee @_cyberbanshee
Moscos @moscos.cosmos
Unregistered Master Builder @unregistered_master_builder
Rigidigital @rigi_digital
Sonny O'Brien @sonnyobrien
Jake Morton @makejorton

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