lvdf

UK/NZ

International jazz supergroup lvdf bring their genre-bending, globally informed sound to New Zealand for an exclusive appearance at the Wellington Jazz Festival.

All acclaimed bandleaders in their own right, lvdf is a cross-cultural quartet featuring Myele Manzanza (NZ/UK) on drums, Alex Hitchcock (USA/UK) on saxophone, Michelangelo Scandroglio (ITALY) on double bass and special guest Daniel Hayles (NZ) on piano and synths (stepping in for Maria Chiara Argirò). Their fresh sound fuses jazz with electronic textures, global rhythms and raw improvisation.

With Wellington-raised Myele Manzanza returning from London for this special hometown performance, lvdf will perform his groundbreaking Festival commission Music for a Multi-Polar World. This bold new work explores shifting global narratives through sound and draws on events from Brexit to the conflicts in Gaza, Sudan and Congo. Manzanza reflects “I’ve noticed how much the geopolitical shifts have unsettled and angered me, as well as shifting and widening my views on the world, and giving me some things to be hopeful for amidst change.” The work channels both the uncertainty and hope of a rapidly changing world.

The set will also feature tracks from lvdf’s upcoming self-titled EP - a bold and electric statement from a group as diverse in experience as it is unified in vision.

Only in Wellington - don’t miss the debut of one of modern jazz’s most exciting new ensembles, live at Meow Nui.

Pēne puoro tautito rongonui i te ao whānui. E heri mai ana i tā rātou momo whanokē ki konei ki Aotearoa ki Te Puoro Tautito o Pōneke. Koia tēnei ko lvdf.

Katoa katoa, he kaiarataki i roto i tō rātou ake raiti, he ahurea maha o roto, a ko rātou tēnei ko Myele Manzanza te kaitaramu (NZ/UK), ko Alex Hitchcock te kaipūtohe (USA/UK), ko

Michelangelo Scandroglio (ITALY) te kaipanguru ā ko Daniel Hayles

(NZ) te kaipiano (e whakakī ana i te tūranga o Maria Chiara Argirò). Ko tō rātou momo, he ranu i ngā~tangi tautito, ngā tangi ā-hiko, me ngā tangi o te ao.

Kua hoki tonu mai Myele ki te kāinga i Rānana mō tēnei whakaaturanga. Ka whakaaturia e lvdf tō rātou mahi hirahira rawa atu i titoa mō te Multi-Polar World. Tēnei mahi tāmiramira hou, he mea rangahau i ngā kōrero nekeneke o te ao mā te whakamahi i ngā oro i rangoa i te Brexit, tatū atu ki ngā raru e haere atu ana i Kāhā, i Hūtāne, i Kōngo

Ka rangona hoki hētehi atu waiata o rātou. Ki Pōneke motuhake, kei mahue rā i a koe tēnei whakatūranga puoro tautito ō-nāia me hōna kawenga hou, e haere ake nei ki te pokapū, ki Meow Nui