Various Chimeras by Shinjuku Zulu

the most casually efficient encapsulation of culture clash we've ever heard...'Shanghai Masai' is stark skittering electronic hip hop [that segues from] M.I.A. to Prince..." -TORONTO STAR's Anti-Hit List "The best new music outside the mainstream"

"...create[s] three-headed songs by grafting cultures onto collaged beasts that growl with different tongues..."Be My Woman Be My Man" comes replete with DFA grooves and Herbert snorts..."We Do Supersonic" and "Dirty Liar" will have your dance floor moving..."Rainbowbeau" sees Larissa Gomes bouncing her voice off soft clouds of picazzo strings...my favorite is "Make Me Shake" [with] sentences that say so incredibly much with so little...as devastating as anything else this year...often surprising, mostly pleasing, and at a few moments (Make Me Shake, Da Riddim Griffin, and Coal Coal Black) fantastic." COKEMACHINEGLOW

"...especially ambitious trans-continental mash-ups...melds components elegantly into compositions that sound surprisingly natural...great moments, like when "Make Me Shake" leaps from synth-shamisen-encrusted grime-pop to reggae to tango, "Dirty Liar", the surprisingly listenable country-electro-hip-hop number ("Chemical Brothers, Dust Brothers, O Brother, quips the song's ven diagram), astonishes when it slides seamlessly all the way into banjo-driven folk, "Massive Ballerina" manages to dodge effortlessly from spacey computer-narrated-ambiance to rolling techno-rock...Stick-in-your-head melodies and enough stylistic ADD to stay fresh..."Various Chimeras" is on solid footing in the current mash-up-informed, pop cultural petri-dish." -POPMATTERS

"Da Riddim Griffin" is a finalist for Best Song, Dance/Electronica category, at the International Songwriting Competition (judges include Tiesto, members of New Order, The Cure, etc.)

"Da Riddim Griffin" was a finalist for Best Song, Dance/Electronica category, at the Independent Music Awards (judges include Fatboy Slim, Paul Oakenfold, Afrika Bambaata, Peter Gabriel, etc.)

Song Equations:

DA RIDDIM GRIFFIN = Japanese cheerleaders + electro + German cabaret + disco.

SHANGHAI MASAI = Cowboy MoFos + PoMo Eskimos + Digi-Gypsies + Cholo Chreokees.

MAKE ME SHAKE (GIMME SOME CRUSH CRUSH) = la-la-la-songs + sextronica.

COAL COAL BLACK = 1920s + Dub + Dirty Liar.

DIRTY LIAR = Rap + regret + banjos.

CHIMERA HEY YA = almighty beat + tweaks

MY MAN, AMEN = sadness + scratching.

WE DO SUPERSONIC = ragga + data.

SCARBOROUGH FAIR (A TRUE DUB OF MINE) = Simon & Garfunkel + Mad Professor.

ONE COME WE = love + peace + unity

MASSIVE BALLERINA (PIROUETTES FOR MILLENNIA) = H.A.L. + e. e. cummings.

SLOW IS THE NEW FAST = right is the new wrong + naked is the new thong

BE MY WOMAN BE MY MAN = hetero + homo + disco + techno + gogo.

RAINBOWBEAU = Air + Boards of Canada.

THE WAY YOU MOVE = upright bass + breaks + downright cool + babe.

TUKTUYUKTUK TO TIMBUKTU = hypno chants + mesmo beats.

SLOW IS THE NEW FASTER = slow is the new fast + faster - rap.

TOMBOUCTOU ADIEU = wax cylinder + silcone.

HI SHANGHAI = steamtronica.

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"Various Chimeras" is dance and downtempo electronica with multiple vocalists: rappers (male & female), toasters, and singers (jazz, reggae, blues, pop). All songs written & produced by K.I.A. (Kirby Ian Andersen)

VOCALISTS FEATURED ON "VARIOUS CHIMERAS:

MC Shankhini, MC General, Larissa Gomes, Caryn Green, Shawn Skeir, Sydney White, Giancarlo Galliani Pecchia, Prince I, Tokyo GoGo! Cheergirl Team, Billy Murray, Arthur Collins. (See tracklisitings at left.)

Lyrics included with the cd...

See also the Various Chimeras Instrumentals version (iTunes, etc.)

See myspace.com/shinjukuzulu and http://www.sonicbids.com/shinjukuzulu for reviews, photos, info. See the myspace blog for all Shinjuku Zulu "Various Chimeras" lyrics.

"Shanghai Masai" was a semi-finalist in the UK songwriting awards.

Shinjuku Zulu won best Urban artist for the Toronto Independent Music Awards.

"Slow Is The New Fast" won the "Naked Is the New Thong" song championship held in Vanuatu.

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See the below releases for more info & music...

DISCOGRPAHY:

Various Chimeras by Shinjuku Zulu feat."Shanghai Masai","Da Riddim Griffin"

Shinjuku Zulu by Shinjuku Zulu feat. "That Groove", "Segue"

Sonorous Susurrus by K.I.A. feat. "Nevermine", "Be My DJ", "Howdydaomaori"

Adieu, Shinjuku Zulu by K.I.A. feat. "Mrs. Major Tom", "Eyeah", "Allelujah"

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