NNJA RIOT
NNJA RIOT is the solo project of artist Lisa McKendrick born in New Zealand, based in London, with Mexican heritage. Her music is a journey into the potential of electronic beats, musical instruments, diy noise synths, modular synthesis, auditory fragments, and vocals. Her live performances incorporate an amalgamation of textures, beats and melody. On stage, she likes to probe the concept of art as a ritual, employing custom-made attire and artefacts. Her approach to making live music is to allow the music to take on a new life for each performance, while maintaining a basic framework to create from.
NNJA RIOT has a new release "Violet Fields" which has sold out on Cruel Nature Records and a few remaining copies of the cassette are available on her personal bandcamp page: www.nnjariot.bandcamp.com
NNJA RIOT has a new release "Violet Fields" which has sold out on Cruel Nature Records and a few remaining copies of the cassette are available on her personal bandcamp page: www.nnjariot.bandcamp.com
Booking Enquiries: [email protected]
Live at Noise Shed (photo by Vogonlaundromat)
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Live at IKLECTIK (photo by Matt Favero)
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Music
Violet Fields is the new studio album from NNJA RIOT, the solo project of Lisa McKendrick.
Using her skills as a songwriter and her love for noise she has crafted seven new tracks which hint at the shamanistic disharmony inherent in human evolution, the futility of war and the disconcerting horror of current global events. She explores these themes amongst disparate and poetic lyrics where she conveys her own feelings of being a human struggling to make sense of a fast changing world intent on its own destruction. As if a scholar of sound she records her memoirs through beats, field recordings, noises, rhythms of the city and nature. As if viewing the contemporary world through the eyes of an alien she observes and dismantles, then rebuilds through the fullness of sound, creating a story that can only be told within the realm of music.
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Limited Edition Cassette - SOLD OUT
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"Utilising field recordings, instruction manual texts, loops, synths, various instruments, beats, phone apps and her voice, Lisa McKendrick deconstucts musical norms and releases them back into the wild glistening with new light and perspective" - Fu Inle
NNJA RIOT "Glitch Jungle houses the most eccentric electric bongos that I’ve heard in a long time. The amazing bongo is err…bongo-ing all over the place as the sound of the electronics (from the Pepsi generation) are splashed in rainbow patterns. Twisting through the slippery sheen of processed guitar and keyboards Nnja Riot does an unexpected nod to the goof-poetry of Adam Bohman as instructions are read out (for super glue or something) in a sing-song voice underwired with a hint of menace."
Radio Free Midwich - review of Glitch Jungle
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NNJA RIOT "Glitch Jungle houses the most eccentric electric bongos that I’ve heard in a long time. The amazing bongo is err…bongo-ing all over the place as the sound of the electronics (from the Pepsi generation) are splashed in rainbow patterns. Twisting through the slippery sheen of processed guitar and keyboards Nnja Riot does an unexpected nod to the goof-poetry of Adam Bohman as instructions are read out (for super glue or something) in a sing-song voice underwired with a hint of menace."
Radio Free Midwich - review of Glitch Jungle
MORE REVIEWS>>>
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