Whakarongo mai KITA friends from through the years!

We thank you for continuing to listen to our music, and being curious with us through the dark times and the good.
It's been a quiet year for KITA as Nikita finishes her film LOVE LIVES HERE, inspired by the band's latest EP from 2023. Her and Ed have been scoring the feature length film with an original score. WATCH THIS SPACE, because we are cooking up big.

Nikita has also been on the frontlines of World of Wearable Arts, headlining the 2024 epic show DREAM AWAKE with an epic bunch of other featured artists, as well as having a film-acting heavy year!
Ed Moog-Man aka ZUKE had just released his debut album, now available and out in the world and not just existing in Ed's room and his dream sphere (check em out! It goes hand in hand with his epic photography that accompanies the album)! And our beloved Mr Rickastah Cranson has been seen flitting his sticks about at the latest Jazz Festival, as well as being thick in the world of passing on his world knowledge of the drums onto our tamariki.

We invite you all to a very special KITA show, first time back at The Yard since our 2023 LOVE LIVES HERE TOUR, with support from local act NON NON CHALANT!

We are celebrating a collaboration between Nikita 雅涵 Tu-Bryant and An Ogre, a single and music video titled CHASING SUMMER. So, to bring it all together, we are celebrating the release of their single CHASING SUMMER with a classic epic KITA set, and a KITA rendition of CHASING SUMMER.

We also see that it is a hard time for people, so we are dampening our ticket prices, $10 unwaged/students, or $20 waged. $25 on the door capacity dependent!

For you philomaths and readers out there, here's a bit more on CHASING SUMMER the single that is OUT NOW on all platforms:
“Chasing Summer” is a first time collaboration between Nikita 雅涵 Tu-Bryant and An Ogre.
For Nikita, “Chasing Summer” is the first release under her solo Artist name ‘Nikita 雅涵 Tu-Bryant’ since 2016. Known for her recent work headlining Aotearoa’s biggest spectacle WOW, her acting work in Far North and Avatar 2, as well as her most recent music releases with her band KITA (alongside Grammy award winning producer Tommasso Colliva *MUSE/RAZORLIGHT). Tu-Bryant is a Taiwan-born multidisciplinary Artist currently based in Pōneke, Wellington.

An Ogre is Neil Crispin Aldridge's pop electronica output.
Neil spent 15 years as a sound engineer in the music industry helping other people produce music (including Rod Stewart, All Saints, and Emma Bunton), and 10 years working with dialogue and ADR in the film industry helping other people make films (including King Kong, Tintin, The Hobbit trilogy, District 9, and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of The Dawn Treader). Now he has finally got around to releasing music and sound art of his own.
An Ogre is one strand of that...

Nikita:
“My parts in Chasing Summer were written in my van on the long drives in between touring cities. I am often on the road, and people have commented on how boring my road trips must be as I prefer my 3-9 hour stints in silence. That’s often when the ideas come. When you have constant information and sound coming in, it’s hard to hear your own thoughts, or your own ideas. Chasing Summer was no exception. I was driving back to Pōneke from Tāmaki Makaurau, when I wrote the melody and lyrics to this song. This love song is inspired by the narrative of chasing only the good times, “Chasing Summer again...deny the winter” as well as how the human condition lends us to wanting and longing for what’s new instead of sticking around for the long haul. Another metaphor used in the song refers to the tauhou, (wax-eye bird) literally meaning new arrival or stranger that often comes when the weather warms. I love collaborating with other producers and artists, Neil has been super fun to collaborate with.”

Originally hailing from Germany, SANOI is a producer, DJ and a key member in the electronic/dance music scene in Aotearoa. He has graced the stages of many of New Zealand’s most-loved festivals & clubs where his deeply danceable DJ sets see him move seamlessly across warm, melodic, groove-driven techno and beyond.

Sanoi is set to release a series of club singles just in time for the summer season & upcoming shows. This marks the first all-new material from Sanoi since his 2023 album Echoes Of Home. While Echoes of Home was designed for a rich, layered listening experience at home, these new singles bring a high-energy, dance-floor-focused sound that aligns more closely with Sanoi’s club and DJ sets. Perfect for a run of summer club shows!

As the co-founder of the Woodlands Collective in Germany, Simon Tober brings his unique sound to Aotearoa this summer. He has been a part of the DJ project 'Tober&Tober ' for over 10 years, playing shows & festivals all across Europe. As a solo artist, Simon enjoys playing mid-downtempo, indie dance, daytime disco and slow house.

You can catch them both on Friday 24 Jan 2025 at The Yard,  Raglan

Excited to get over to their local surf spot Whāingaroa, Raglan, Pineja will be joining their mates Mondogreen at The Yard. Be prepared for a night full of Pineja's face melting dubs, skanking breakdowns and dancey grooves, fused with Mondogreen's mellow, alternative flavour of shoegaze and reggae. 

Get set for a stellar summer as PARK RD and Foley team up to co-headline a series of shows across the North Island! Kicking off in January 2025, this duo will bring their signature sounds to some of our most beloved summer venues, Waihi Beach Hotel, Yard Bar, Totara St, and Leigh Sawmill.

PARK RD have had a mega 2024! Releasing their debut album The Novel, supporting The Rions across a sold-out Australia tour, selling out their own headline New Zealand & Australian tour dates all while working on a sophomore album. PARK RD are on a high & are set to take on this summer with new tunes & the attitude to match.

Debuting their first new music since their 2023 debut album CROWD PLEASER, Foley have smashed 2024 with a run of effervescent singles ‘Miss You All The Time’, Unstable & Time Of My Life alongside ‘Low and High’.  This year saw the duo become Aotearoa Music Award nominees (Best Pop Artist), enjoy a sold out five-date tour through Los Angeles and New York in April/May & be featured on the recent season finale of The Kardashians.

SOJØURN is fired up for summer, and to celebrate, we are going on tour. Fresh off the back of releasing three singles in short succession, the boys are keen to hit the road and play all their new tunes, plus all of your old SOJ faves. Taking in a couple of very fun festivals including Le Currents & Shipwrecked, along with playing at home in Northland, Raglan, and Auckland, summer never sounded so good.

Funk and Soul, Downtempo House,

Neo-Soul, Jazz Fusion. Tropical beats and Lo-Fi

Vinyl Selections

Friday Feels, Fresh Drops & Killer Beats Feat. RĀFIKI

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APRA Silver Scrolls finalists SKILAA announce a six date tour across Aotearoa’s North Island celebrating the release of their acclaimed debut album Tiger In The River.

The Tāmaki Makaurau based 5 piece, have been establishing themselves as a must watch live act following their packed headline hometown show at Neck Of The Woods. Known for their unique blend of Psych R&B, melismatic vocal harmonies, electrifying beats and shape shifting chord progressions, SKILAA will be performing their 10 song debut LP in full across the motu.