#no zu

[burlveneer-music]

No Zu - BODY2BODY2BODY

No Zu strengthen their postpunk funk cred with remixes by A Certain Ratio and Jonny Sender of Konk.

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[burlveneer-music]

NO ZU - Liquid Love - oh yeah that postpunk funk that I love; single from forthcoming EP Heat Beat

Melbourne's mutant punk-funk icons NO ZU return with their first new original music since 2016. Today they release the single Liquid Love from new EP Heat Beat, which is out on limited edition speckled yellow vinyl (500 copies only) and digital on November 18. Liquid Love is accompanied by a great slimy video directed by Hayden Somerville. “The Liquid Love video was a wild and very sticky one to make,” says NO ZU’s magnetic and tireless leader Nicolaas Oogjes. “In many ways it achieves my original fantasies for NO ZU - of a parallel Heat Beat world, spinning alongside and rubbing up against the 'real' one, picking up its light, shadows and her/histories and digesting them. It's a world of antipodean mutant punk-funk, of underground clubs and of a propulsive hedonism that keeps the body moving in dangerous ways. It's fitting that Liquid Love's mutant protagonist melts down and returns back (literally) to the primordial soup where Heat Beat first emerged from. Full circle. It's been wild. It's been gooey.” NO ZU have stormed stages from Barcelona's Primavera Festival to Festival NRMAL in Mexico to Meredith's Golden Plains. NO ZU's multi-limbed, mutant punk funk has evolved over the last decade to make them one of Australia's most distinctive and debauched groups. The passing of powerhouse NO ZU vocalist Daphne Camf in 2021 left a huge hole in Melbourne music, and the band fell into a long silence. Heat Beat is made up of Daphne’s final recordings with the group. The EP, named after the band’s own trademarked genre, is classic NO ZU. Dark and playful, layered with cryptic allusions and implausibly danceable, Heat Beat shows NO ZU at their restless, exploratory best.

[bandcampsnoop]

7/18/21.

While doing yesterday’s post I realized I’d never posted about the excellent “Life” LP from No Zu (Melbourne, Australia, this album on Metal Postcard, but they are now associated with Chapter Music).  Vacation posting is the perfect time to catalogue this. 

It has always reminded me of Talking Heads “Remain in Light”.  Another Bandcamp user mentioned Golden Palominos and The Thievery Corporation (never listened to this).

[burlveneer-music]

NO ZU - Talking To A Stranger - live video of their new single, a cover of Hunters & Collectors’ great song from 1982; B-side is a cover of Bryan Ferry’s “Sensation”

Video directed and edited by Ryan Sauer Filmed live at Something Unlimited Festival, Northcote Town Hall, 15 February 2020 Original song by Hunters & Collectors

Melbourne’s irrepressible "heat beat" collective NO ZU come charging back with a double A-side single, covering all-time heroes Hunters & Collectors and Bryan Ferry. These are the first new sounds from NO ZU since the mutant punque-funque of second album Afterlife (2016) and remix EP BODY2BODY2BODY (2017). Afterlife took NO ZU to Spain’s Primavera festival and a huge concert broadcast live on French Television for Transmusicales Festival. BODY2BODY2BODY saw Afterlife tracks reworked by the band's own 80s idols A Certain Ratio and Jonny Sender of Konk. Since then the band has played every Australian festival from Golden Plains to Expo Liaison, with lineups swelling up to 15 people onstage (not including dancers!). They even toured Australia with ESG, in a pairing so perfect it seems unreal. Still hard at work on Afterlife’s follow up (what comes after Afterlife?), NO ZU tease us with muscular studio recordings of two live favourites, a swaggering version of Talking To A Stranger by Oz-Rock icons Hunters & Collectors, and the razor sharp disco of Sensation by Bryan Ferry. 

Talking To A Stranger by NO ZU

[resistance765]

“BODY2BODY (A CERTAIN RATIO DO THE DU ZU MIX)” - NO ZU

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“Hi Hypnomania” - NO ZU