MZAZA The Birth and Death of Stars [LIVE music] on stage

World music favourites MZAZA bring you their brand new show, with exotic rhythms and melodies that tap into the beating heart of humankind .

SAT 31 OCT 8PM

 MZAZA 

The Birth and Death of Stars [LIVE music]

  

 

tix all $15 | $12 group 10+

Multi-award winning world music favourites MZAZA premiere The Birth and Death of Stars, drawing inspiration from history’s philosophers and astronomers and leading us on a surreal voyage through the ether to explore what links us to each other and the world around us.

 Sitting comfortably between music and theatre, the show is brought to the stage by a powerful collaboration of creative minds featuring director Benjamin Knapton, Finnish animator Laura Matikainen and writer Pauline Maudy.

 Celebrate the launch of the band’s third album, take a step away from the everyday and contemplate our place in the universe to the sounds of some of Australia’s most uniquely diverse musicians and songwriters.

Lead by enchanting French vocalist Pauline Maudy, this group of talented musicians and songwriters from Bosnia, Latvia, Greece, Turkey, France and Australia will mesmerise you with inspired performances on accordion, violin, shah kaman, percussion, double-bass and guitar.

 

Don’t miss this multi-award winning, international touring group that relishes connections with communities across Queensland.

Stardust official video clip 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdFPYoWCYUY

 

MZAZA Live Show Reel 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIi4fM97qNs

About the Company

 Brisbane based six-piece MZAZA deliver Balkan-French sounds to folk lovers around the world. Led by enchanting French-Sephardic vocalist Pauline Maudy, this award-winning group of musicians from Bosnia, Latvia, Greece, Turkey, France and Australia has been mesmerising audiences with powerful and inspired performances and recordings.  The impressive musicianship of MZAZA – deftly realised with accordion, violin, percussion, double bass and Flamenco guitar – embraces diversity, the old and the new, the familiar and the foreign. 

 Some milestones include:

2018 - 6 show tour of Europe, plus seven days in a studio in Athens recording their third album.

2017 - 18 show tour of Queensland courtesy of arTour and Arts Queensland.

2016 - 20 date European tour including 4 festival appearances.

2015 - Album release; Ghosts, mixed by ARIA-nominated engineer Robin Mai and featured a collection of impressive musical collaborators. Ghosts spent three weeks in the AMRAP Metro Charts, was feature album on Melbourne’s PBS and spent five weeks in 4ZZZ’s top 20. Ghosts tracks received two Queensland Music Awards (2015, 2016)

2012 - Album release; Journey Over Skin three tracks Highly Commended in the Queensland Music Awards

MZAZA’s festival highlights include: Cygnet, National and Woodford Folk Festivals, MONA FOMA, Brisbane Festival and Queensland Music Festival.

 MZAZA support highlights include: Violent Femmes (USA) Yasmin Levy (Israel), Melbourne Ska Orchestra (AUS), Baba Zula and Baro Banda (Turkey), and DJ Click (France).