Brand new collab between the funky fine folk at Manuka Recordings and Troy King aka the Hongi Slicker. Out on digital/7" vinyl.
"When our co-founder and in-house producer, Kenny Sterling, met Kingi for the first time backstage at an Avantdale Bowling Club show at Auckland Town Hall in 2022, he was already a fan of ‘Grandma’s Rocket Poem’ off his psychedelic funk album Shake That Skinny Ass All the Way to Zygertron (2017). Feeling a natural affinity with the song’s star-dusted ‘70s sensibilities, he approached Kingi about exploring that zone together further via some of his throwback productions.
For ‘Falling Off’ Sterling pulls in Julien Dyne (drums), JY Lee (horns), Cory Champion (vibraphone), Tiare Kelly (sitar) and Romi Wrights (backing vocals) to summon up a cruisy cinematic soul instrumental. On ‘Do It Better (For Us),’ he brings back Champion on the vibraphone and tags in Samara Alofa on backing vocals while boiling up some slow-simmering jazz-funk arrangements dripping in sunkissed guitar figures. Together, they provide a fitting platform for Kingi’s richly expressive vocal timbre and inward-looking songwriting."
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