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Light Years

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It’s been four years since Kora launched its self-titled, worlds-colliding debut album, that connected the dots between funk, rock, reggae, metal, hip hop and electronic rhythms. Now this five-strong collective of fearless sonic explorers have discovered a whole new constellation of future-shocked funk, soul and r’n’b – dubbing it ‘alien funk.’

Their anticipated new album Light Years steps into the unknown on a bass odyssey, eschewing guitars in favour of a high-tech arsenal of synthesisers, live and sampled drums plus the otherworldly four-part harmonies of the brothers Laughton, Francis, Stuart and Brad Kora and brother-in-arms Dan McGruer.

“Alien funk is anything out of this world electronically,” Laughton reflects. “When we began recording the album we started putting pictures of planets and galaxies on the walls of the studio as visual cues for what we wanted to explore. The whole thing with space is that it represents the unknown, and that’s how we feel about our music – we don’t know where we’re going but when we find what we like we stay with it.”

The marriage of live and programmed instrumentation powers the unstoppable groove that continues to drive Kora, providing the sci-fi soundtrack to a collective fascination with video game culture, cosmology and space exploration.

“When you think about a galaxy, what kind of sound do you imagine?” Dan asks. “I think about one that’s limitless, with epic hooks, twinkling synths and huge arpeggiated chords. There were no rules we needed to follow to make this album. We just went about capturing our personalities and all our different influences from electronic dance music to electro-funk to classic ’80s pop song writing and filtering them into a sound that’s undeniably Kora. That’s just the sort of band we are, taking things into out of space and onto the next level.”

Track Listing:

Disc 1:
  1. Little Star
  2. Last Generation
  3. Story Ain’t Over
  4. Dream Life
  5. Love In The Shadows
  6. Take You Down
  7. Hit The Wall
  8. Drop Dead Killer
  9. Bad Thing
  10. Galaxy Express
  11. Bring The Sun
Release date NZ
October 25th, 2012
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Label
Kora Music New Zealand
Number of Discs
1
Original Release Year
2012
Box Dimensions (mm)
142x125x10
UPC
9421025888151
Product ID
20904736

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