Ta-Ku & Wafia’s New Collab(M)Edian EP Out Today!
BUY / STREAM HERE: iTunes
Australian producer Ta-ku releases his new collaborative (m)edian EP with fellow Aussie and rising singer Wafia today via Future Classic. The EP is a collection of beautifully crafted and highly vulnerable songs where both artists speak candidly on themes
of relationships, compromise and sacrifice.
After a chance meeting in Melbourne in early 2015, Regan Matthews and Wafia Al-Rikabi began trading ideas over the Internet and studio sessions when schedules allowed. By October 2015, the two were
collaborating at a Future Classic writing camp in New York, sharing the stage at Ta-ku’s headline show at MoMA PS1 and releasing their own interpretation of Estelle’s ‘American Boy’.
The (m)edian EP sessions followed in early 2016. Wafia flew to Perth and joined Ta-kuin his studio, bringing with her trusted collaborators Thomston and Ben Abraham. On the very first day, Matthews received a phone call that would crystallise the direction of their music. “We were in the studio feeling out the first
song,” recalls Matthews, “and I got a phone call from my dad. I got into a bit of an argument with him and had to walk out. I came back and Wafia was like, ‘You seem a bit off.’ And I remembered when we were in New York, she’d had an issue with her dad. So I told
her: my dad and I have this thing. We’re not really seeing eye-to-eye at the moment. And we kind of opened up as to what
that was.”
The pair poured their experiences into m(edian) - a thematically braided, five-track set that borders on raw confessional. Across the dusky pulse of the pair’s velvet
production and honeyed voices, the collaborators turn friend and foe; lover and lovelorn; accuser and confessor. It
unearthed parallel influences that ran deeper than music – a bedrock of complicated emotions traced to heritage, family,
and faithfulness.
Following a spree of sold out shows in Europe and Australia, Ta-ku will be kicking off his first ever national headlining US tour featuring Wafia in Los Angeles onSeptember 21 and wrapping at Miami’s III Points festival on October 8. All shows will feature their elaborate new set with a full band and artful original visuals from frequent collaborator Sam Price.
Tickets are on sale now here: takumusic.com/tour.
WATCH TA-KU’S PARIS TOUR RECAP:
WATCH THE DUO PERFORM ‘LOVE SOMEBODY’:
Credit: Johnny Castle
TOUR DATES:
9/21 - Los Angeles @ Novo
9/24 - Oakdale @ Symbiosis Gathering
9/26 - Vancouver @ Vogue
9/27 - Seattle @ Showbox
10/1 - San Diego @ CRSSD
10/2 - Chicago @ Thalia Hall
10/4 - Toronto @ Opera House
10/5 - Montreal @ Berri
10/6 - New York @ Brooklyn Masonic Lodge
10/8 - Miami @ III Points
TA-KU SOCIALS:
TA-KU & WAFIA’S NEW COLLAB(M)EDIAN EP OUT TODAY!
BUY / STREAM HERE: iTunes
Australian producer Ta-ku releases his new collaborative (m)edian EP with fellow Aussie and rising singer Wafia today via Future Classic. The EP is a collection of beautifully crafted and highly vulnerable songs where both artists speak candidly on themes
of relationships, compromise and sacrifice.
After a chance meeting in Melbourne in early 2015, Regan Matthews and Wafia Al-Rikabi began trading ideas over the Internet and studio sessions when schedules allowed. By October 2015, the two were
collaborating at a Future Classic writing camp in New York, sharing the stage at Ta-ku’s headline show at MoMA PS1 and releasing their own interpretation of Estelle’s ‘American Boy’.
The (m)edian EP sessions followed in early 2016. Wafia flew to Perth and joined Ta-kuin his studio, bringing with her trusted collaborators Thomston and Ben Abraham. On the very first day, Matthews received a phone call that would crystallise the direction of their music. “We were in the studio feeling out the first
song,” recalls Matthews, “and I got a phone call from my dad. I got into a bit of an argument with him and had to walk out. I came back and Wafia was like, ‘You seem a bit off.’ And I remembered when we were in New York, she’d had an issue with her dad. So I told
her: my dad and I have this thing. We’re not really seeing eye-to-eye at the moment. And we kind of opened up as to what
that was.”
The pair poured their experiences into m(edian) - a thematically braided, five-track set that borders on raw confessional. Across the dusky pulse of the pair’s velvet
production and honeyed voices, the collaborators turn friend and foe; lover and lovelorn; accuser and confessor. It
unearthed parallel influences that ran deeper than music – a bedrock of complicated emotions traced to heritage, family,
and faithfulness.
Following a spree of sold out shows in Europe and Australia, Ta-ku will be kicking off his first ever national headlining US tour featuring Wafia in Los Angeles onSeptember 21 and wrapping at Miami’s III Points festival on October 8. All shows will feature their elaborate new set with a full band and artful original visuals from frequent collaborator Sam Price.
Tickets are on sale now here: takumusic.com/tour.
WATCH TA-KU’S PARIS TOUR RECAP:
WATCH THE DUO PERFORM ‘LOVE SOMEBODY’:
Credit: Johnny Castle
TOUR DATES:
9/21 - Los Angeles @ Novo
9/24 - Oakdale @ Symbiosis Gathering
9/26 - Vancouver @ Vogue
9/27 - Seattle @ Showbox
10/1 - San Diego @ CRSSD
10/2 - Chicago @ Thalia Hall
10/4 - Toronto @ Opera House
10/5 - Montreal @ Berri
10/6 - New York @ Brooklyn Masonic Lodge
10/8 - Miami @ III Points
TA-KU SOCIALS:
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