Shapeshifter (live / NZ) Fri Dec 7 @ The HiFi

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Shapeshifter are back in Brisbane, Friday December 7. Busy in the studio all year they are ready to come set The Hi-Fi on fire with their massive energy and a live show you will never forget. This is one you won't want to miss.

Shapeshifter have had Record-breaking New Zealand tours, scene-setting appearances at festivals like Glastonbury, The Big Chill, Big Day Out and Parklife, sold-out performances across Europe, worlds-colliding collaborations with Symphony Orchestras, multiple music awards, four EPs and five LPs – three with platinum sales – and an army of fans who return to relive the experience time and time again: the towering achievements of Shapeshifter, the future-shocked soul outfit who hail from Christchurch New Zealand, were built by a living, breathing band of musicians, with all the form-changing sonic possibilities live instrumentation offers. The players in Shapeshifter created their very own heavy soul, a stadium-sized sound which adds layers of drum & bass, jazz, funk, rock and electronica to solid bass culture foundations, capable of morphing from rolling drum & bass to pummelling guitar-driven jams to horizon-shifting electronic soundscapes. This genre-defying amalgamation of influences continues to draw from new source material and inspiration as Shapeshifter evolves, motivating dancefloors worldwide and delivering audiences to the bleeding edge of musical possibility. As at home in an amped club environment as they are playing to packed festival fields, Shapeshifter is a truly adaptable unit. The five-strong lineup of PDigsss (vocals), Devin Abrams (sax/keys/synths), Sam Trevethick (guitar/synths/sampler), Nick Robinson (bass/synths/MPC) and Johnny Hooves (drums) have individually called Auckland, Wellington, Melbourne, Kingscliff, Berlin, Queenstown and, first and foremost, their original Christchurch stomping ground home, yet a chemistry refined over 12 years of playing together means they lock back into formation whenever they regroup.Shapeshifter will lay new foundations this year on their new album set to connect the dots of new sonic terrain and influences. And it’s a prospect that the members of Shapeshifter continue to relish as they ready a new campaign to take these sounds to the world.

Tickets available from >> http://www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/shapeshifter-nz/60204

https://www.facebook.com/events/367971899955341

The new Shapeshifter album will be released early 2013.

www.shapeshifterlive.com