A much anticipated release of New Zealand Music Month has just been released and it's both an album and a book.
It's from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland trio Grecco Romank. Both formats feature a slew of creative collaborators, and both are entitled Arts Colony.
Swirling brilliantly between darkness and comedy in some purgatorial underground club or cell, a range of pigeonholes have been offered for their music: industrial electronica, operatic techno, dungeon eurorave, and sewer pop.
You may hear echoes of Tāmaki Makaurau pre-rave post punk forebears the Headless Chickens, or New York's Suicide
Formed in 2020, Grecco Romank have always been about more than just music. It can be a performance art manifesting in a music video melding a video game in which they star and furry monster costumes.
Or a perfume. Or, last Christmas, the creation of an 'Asbestos Tarot' candle.
This trio are also between them designers, filmmakers, editors, painter, and publishers. Grecco Romank are Michael Sperring, Damian Golfinopoulos, and Billie Fee.
Art Colony the album and book are out now on Bandcamp.
The play the closing of the Festival Of Live Arts, where they have been commissioned to put on a Grecco stage show that is a collaboration with drag artist Copper MaeSteal.
They promise that most of the budget will be spent on latex.
