Mistletone

Artwork by Alex Fregon

NITE JEWEL: THURSDAY JANUARY 31 @ Goodgod Small Club w/- Holy Balm + Buzz Kull + Astral DJs. Tickets on sale now from Moshtix.

Led by Ramona Gonzalez, a glimmering LA four-piece will bring Nite Jewel‘s sophisticated, playful jams to Goodgod’s dancefloor for a delectable club night to accompany their Laneway Festival performance and Sydney Festival Kraftwerk show.

Joining the Nite Jewel party at Goodgod will be Sydney’s juiciest psychedelic dance outfit Holy Balm. Traipsing through hazy, sultry tropical flavours to brooding dark-wave tinged ballads, Holy Balm take a daring position within the realm of dance and synth based music to create their own endless dance floor. Local duo Buzz Kull (a/k/a Marcel Whyler and Rebecca Liston) open proceedings with their reverb-laden, enterprisingly intimidating lo-wave vibrations, and Astral DJs deliver the party jams for intermissions and beyond. Tickets on sale now!

Ramona Gonzalez first began her transcendent minimalist dance-pop escapades in the privacy of her own home. With the aid of her multitrack cassette recorder and whatever keyboards, drum machines, and other instruments that were available to her, Ramona very quickly developed her own unique sound and began performing as Nite Jewel. Later teaming up with Cole Marsden Greif Neill (co-producer of Mature Themes by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti and current engineer for Beck), Nite Jewel became a four-piece live act, touring with Little Dragon, DaM FunK and James Blake. In 2009 Nite Jewel moved from Ramona’s bedroom to stages worldwide, thanks to the nonchalantly good debut Good Evening. This year’s One Second Of Love (out locally via Inertia) is a re-imagination of golden era R&B pop, positing future-classic sounds alongside vocal sultriness. If Nite Jewel’s earlier work brought to mind the likes of Lisa Lisa or Debbie Deb on quaaludes, this new body of work conjures Sade, Eurythmics-era Annie Lennox and Tracy Thorn. It’s pure, confident, singular-but-intricate and delightfully sophisticated music, bringing Nite Jewel’s evolution of fidelity and nuance to a dizzy head.

• “Layered, smart headphone pop and meta-dance music that messes with the classic song structures of pop music… Ramona Gonzalez has created her own uniquely Nite Jewelian style” – LOS ANGELES TIMES
• “This is a kind of liminal music, fascinating because it’s so much closer to credible pop… intense (and) joyous, full of precision, engagement and life force” – NEW YORK TIMES