MUSIC
SHINJUKU ZULU songs on SPOTIFY:
K.I.A. songs on SPOTIFY:
The music, done under the names Shinjuku Zulu, as well as K.I.A., parallels the visual art, collaging styles, eras and cultures. For an overview, see the compilation albums: DXLR8 (chillout), Xenophile Wildstyle (world), Boomhitech (electronic pop)
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“FOUR STARS. Sheer brilliance, haunting vocals…top ten CDs of the year” - GLOBE & MAIL
“FOUR STARS. Breaks, house, reggae, exotic vocals…Shinjuku Zulu is a cd that warrants repeated listens” - GAZETTE
“A master at aural collage” - HERALD
”Best New Music. High tech boom cut with voodoo...somewhere between M.I.A. and Prince" -THE STAR
“Good dubby house, good electronic dancehall… urban dance at it’s best” - EXCLAIM
“Especially ambitious trans-continental mashups, melds components elegantly”- POPMATTERS
Releases, in chronological order (click to see/hear on all streaming services):
For album links, press, videos and lyrics, scroll down. Stories behind individual songs are in the Blog.
Here’s the album I like the most: DXLR8. (Chillout songs, downtempo, ambient, dub, with one called “Mrs Major Tom” that Sheryl Crow later covered.) Including “Uneunoia”, “Scarborough Fair (A True Dub of Mine)”, “Coal Coal Black”, “Scatter”. Hear on Apple Music Hear on Spotify
All the K.I.A., as well as Shinjuku Zulu albums, including compilations of similar songs across albums, below:
Songs can be heard on various film soundtracks and tv series, from MTV, CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, FX, CBC, Netflix, Prime etc.
“That Groove Makes Me Shake Mrs Major Tom“, a compilation of all songs featuring Larissa Gomes, including “Mrs. Major Tom”, “That Groove” and “Hummingbird”.
“Xenophile Wildstyle” at iTunes, a new compilation of all the ‘world’ K.I.A. & Shinjuku Zulu, uptempo & downtempo, with ‘abstract’ vocals — chants — from tribal to choral. (The cover is the kabuki jet engine painting “Turboaragato“). Including “Segue”, “Allelujah”, “Music Is My DNA.
Click the below albums to hear at Apple (or search and stream them on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Tidal, etc)
PRESS:
THE GLOBE & MAIL – “FOUR STARS. Sheer brilliance, haunting vocals…top ten CDs of the year”
GAZETTE – “FOUR STARS. Breaks,house,reggae, exotic vocals…Shinjuku Zulu is a cd that warrants repeated listens”
THE STAR – “Choirboy dub…Top 5 Hitlist”
THE HERALD “A master at aural collage…”
POPMATTERS – “…especially ambitious trans-continental mash-ups…melds components elegantly into compositions that sound surprisingly natural…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.”
COKEMACHINEGLOW – “Impressive…create[s] three-headed songs by grafting cultures onto collaged beasts that growl with different tongues…as devastating as anything else this year…Make Me Shake, Da Riddim Griffin, and Coal Coal Black [are] fantastic.”
EYE Magazine – “”Various Chimeras” is a cosmopolitan musical sponge…brave fare like the choral/hip-hop of “My Man Amen” or Kraut-rocking “We Do Supersonic” play to Shinjuku Zulu’s strengths…”
EXCLAIM! – “Good dubby house, good electronic dancehall…’Sonorous Susurrus’ is minimalistic, melancholly…” and “Various Chimeras’ is classic hipster material… “We Do Supersonic” and “Shanghai Masai” represent urban dance at its best.”
“Large Slow River” (below) is a direct visual art crossover - it features a sound installation work by artist Janet Cardiff:
SONG STORIES - origins, ideas-behind, lyrics, swag, NFTs
Mrs Major Tom - cont. David Bowie’s story, from the wife’s p.o.v.
Massive Ballerina (Pirouettes For Millennia) - singing pi…
Dubmarine - 2 reggae haikus
Dirty Liar - rap & banjos
Rainbowbeau - in my arms of every color
Da Riddim Griffin - Tokyo GoGo cheerleaders, square dance calls, rap & chants
Music Is My DNA - each strand of dna vibrating like a violin string…
Slow Is the New Fast - speed tribes & time stretching…
We Do Supersonic - here come the future…
Hi, Shanghai - wax cylinder electronic…
Make Me Shake (We Pull & We Push) - badness is good stuff…
A Better Day Is Coming Soon - better days…
Dirty Liar - i don’t get broken i just get bent…
Hi, Shanghai Adieu Timbuktu - i’ve got my fare…
NFTs
Song & Lyric NFTs for Shinjuku Zulu / K.I.A. HERE
ALBUM & TRACK LIST
Shinjuku Zulu:
“Various Chimeras”
01 Tombouctou, Adieu - Lead Vocals – Billy Murray 0:40
02 Shanghai Masai -Rap – ShankhiniRap – Shankhini 3:15
03 Dirty Liar Backing Vocals – Shawn Skeir Rap – General 4:06
04 Make Me Shake (Gimme Some Crush Crush) - Lead Vocals – Larissa Gomes Rap – Shankhini 3:46
05 Chimera Hey Ya -Lead Vocals – Shawn Skeir 4:00
06 Da Riddim Griffin - Lead Vocals – Caryn Green Other [Backing Shouts] – Tokyo GoGo! Cheergirl Team Rap – Shankhini 3:36
07 Be My Woman Be My Man -Lead Vocals – Shawn Skeir 3:43
08 Slow Is The New Fast -Rap – Shankhini Backing Vocals – Sydney White 3:47
09 My Man Amen -Lead Vocals – Sydney White 6:45
10 Rainbowbeau -Lead Vocals – Larissa Gomes 5:29
11 Scarborough Fair (A True Dub Of Mine) -Lead Vocals – Giancarlo Galiani Pecchia 6:07
12 Massive Ballerina (Pirouettes For Millennia) -Lead Vocals – Miz Mac 4:54
13 We Do Supersonic -Lead Vocals – Prince I 3:37
14 Tuktuyuktuk To Timbuktu -Lead -Vocals – Giancarlo Galiani PecchiaLead 4:28
15 Coal Coal Black -Lead Vocals – Shankhini 7:39
16 One Come We -Lead Vocals – Prince I 3:46
17 The Way You Move -Lead Vocals – Larissa Gomes 4:28
18 Slow Is The New Faster (K.I.A. Remix) Lead Vocals – Sydney White 4:40
19 Hi Shanghai... -Lead Vocals – Arthur Miller 0:43
“Shinjuku Zulu”
01 Shinjuku Zulu
02 That Groove
03 Segue
04 Brando
05 Yedayed
06 Sweetness Likes the Reverb
07 Dervish
08 Cyclamen
09 Unlullaby
10 Velocity
11 Funkriot
12 Cyclone
13 A Clubber's Life
14 Behemoth
15 All the Bright Tribes
K.I.A.:
“Sonorous Susurrus”
1-01 Be My DJ
1-02 Freedom
1-03 Downquark
1-04 Sensation
1-05 Nevermine
1-06 Housin' Down the Burn
1-07 Music Is My DNA
1-08 Large Slow River
1-09 Magpi
1-10 Rashomon
1-11 Ain't No Nuns Like You
2-01 Howdydaomaori
2-02 Sleep
2-03 Dubmarine
2-04 Scatter
2-05 Rise Up
2-06 Uneunoia
2-07 She's All States
2-08 Hummingbird
2-09 Mmm
2-10 Ps/At
2-11 Goa-di
“Adieu Shinjuku Zulu”
01 Losing My Mind Like 4:32
02 A.E.M. 4:03
03 Almighty Beat 4:35
04 Allelujah 5:10
05 Mrs. Tom 5:40
06 Box the Gnat 3:40
07 Feel It 4:14
08 Operafrica 4:15
09 E-yeah! 6:15
10 Happiness Like Motion 5:30
11 Sayasaya 4:30
12 Shopping 5:37
13 Bedouin Engine 7:44
14 Shinjuku Zulu 3:58
“DXLR8”
06 Broken
LYRICS
You Went Up, So Bright Tom
Thought My Love Was Rocketing You Along
When You Didn’t Come Back, And Didn’t Come Back
My Nova Heart Collapsed
To A Black, Black Hole
Floating On Sine Waves In Inner Space
Awaiting A Signal Of Grace
From Ground Control, To Lost Control,
Ballet To Battle, Halo To Hole
You Were So Far Gone
Right Was Wrong, Up Was Down.
By Going Still Further On,
You Hoped To Come Around.
It Was Light Years Long, Dear Husband Tom.
At Last Back You’ve Come…
Yet Still, You’re Gone.
Floating On Sine Waves In Inner Space
Awaiting A Signal Of Grace
From Ground Control, To Lost Control,
Ballet To Battle, Halo To Hole
I Watched The Skies, For All That Time,
And Now Your Asteroid Eyes
Say You Were Never Mine.
Never Mine, Never Mine,
Never, Never Mine…
Floating On Sine Waves In Inner Space
Awaiting A Signal Of Grace
From Ground Control, To Lost Control,
Ballet To Battle, Halo To Hole
You Didn’t Burn Up, My Major Tom.
You Just Burnt Out.
You Just Burnt Out.
SLOW IS THE NEW FAST by SHINJUKU ZULU
(from “Various Chimeras”)
Come swing with me,
let’s make it last
Slow…is the new fast
RAP:
Come do this thing with me, yo, go with the flow
You gotta know (that) fast’s the old slow
you make me sigh and I’ll make you sing
come on let’s sway, come on let’s swing
ain’t it a kick the way time does it’s tricks,
so don’t you dare jazz me too quick
a minute’s a moment, and just like that
the future slips too soon to the past
Come do this thing with me, let’s make it last (yeah)
You gotta know that slow is the new fast
You take me tonight, I’ll bring you to the day
Sing it or say it, let’s swing it and sway
SINGING:
Ain’t it a trip, don’t jazz me too quick
RAP:
ain’t it a kick the way time does it’s tricks,
so don’t you dare jazz me too quick
a minute’s a moment, and just like that
the future slips too soon to the past
Come do this thing with me, let’s make it last
you can move me slow, but hold me fast
Swing me any way, but sway me just so
I’ll let you come, but I won’t let you go
ain’t it a kick the way time does it’s tricks,
so don’t you dare jazz me too quick
a minute’s a moment, and just like that
the future slips too soon to the past
RAP:
no shots, just a gin and tonic
less like the meth and more like the chronic
don’t get off, before you get on it,
more like the flesh and less on the bionic
a little bit of ding but a lot of dong it
if it lasts long enough yo we can bronze it
come do that thing with me, yeah
hey! love is the new pain
modesty is the new vain!
clarity is the new misunderstand
woman is the new man!
spiritual the new material
reality the new ethereal!
modesty the new bling
gentle the new sting!
right is the new wrong
naked the new thong!
diminuitive the new big
no big is the new big!
rastafarian the new librarian
lil kim is the new maid marion!
me the new you
and new the new new!
新宿 ズールー
しんじゅく ズールー
Sheryl Crow’s cover version of “Mrs Major Tom” by K.I.A.: