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Troy Kingi returns with a fifth album, and this time he’s brought a friend.
Kerikeri’s Troy Kingi will perform at the Leigh Sawmill Café on Sunday, August 8, at 7pm, to launch his latest album, Black Sea Golden Ladder.
The album is a collaboration with artist and producer Delaney Davidson, and was written as part of Troy’s Matairangi Mahi Toi artist residency. The residency was created in partnership with the office of the Governor-General to support Māori and Pasifika arts. During the residency, artists live and work in a house in the grounds of Government House.
The new album is based on poetry about the different stages of life.
“It is the most personal of all my albums – the first one I feel that is truly about me,” Troy says.
“Delaney took it on himself to be something of a shrink, digging deep into my memories and subconscious to find my own experiences, and, in the end, it led us to this album.”
The pair wrote the album in four days while getting to know each other at the end of Clyde Wharf in Wellington.
“We were writing non-stop. It felt like we were in the water and songs were washing around us,” Delaney says.
“Troy said he wanted these songs to be about the human experience and the common threads that weave a life together. I asked him his thoughts on fatherhood, love, work and childhood.”
Troy is on a journey to produce 10 albums in 10 genres in 10 years. Black Sea Golden Ladder is his fifth album, written in a folk style.
Tickets are $50 from www.ticketmaster.co.nz.
