Estère doesn’t play music - she creates sonic amalgamations that merge culture, language and legend. She breathes life into narratives that marry the acutely human to the achingly mythic. Her vocals soar and then swoon, beckoning sultrily and opening gates to new interpretations of age-old tales. Estère plays ‘electric blue witch-hop,” as she calls her dimensions of electronic, folk and R&B. The New Zealand Herald called it “a beautiful mix of everything the music world is lauding and lusting after right now.”

Estère began her journey as a bedroom producer with an MPC called Lola. Her first album, ‘Estère’, released in 2015 via Paris-based record label Prospect, earned her accolades from prominent media outlets such as Disco Naïveté, Elle Magazine (FR) and Portals. In 2018, Estère’s second album ‘My Design, On Others’ Lives’ was championed by Radio NZ as “an exceptional record.” Afropunk called it “an immersive experience unlike anything you’ve ever witnessed.”

Estère has brought her unique live show - she plays guitar, keyboards, drums - to Europe, Africa and Asia, including slots opening for Grace Jones and Erykah Badu. Estère’s onstage talent and energy has earned her invitations to international festivals including Glastonbury (UK), Afropunk Paris (FR), Bushfire Festival (Swaziland) WOMAD (NZ), Aarhus Festuge (Denmark) and Sori Arts Festival (South Korea). She has also headlined sold-out shows in the UK, France and New Zealand.

In her push to explore new terrain in song-writing and performance, Estère has created a concept show, ‘Into the Belly of Capricorn,’ for international arts festivals in 2020. Through the lens of the show’s protagonist, audiences are invited to explore archetypal themes shaped by the songs from Estère's soon-to-be released third album - entitled ‘Archetypes’ - created with Massive Attack producer Stew Jackson.

Estère has been twice nominated for NZ Music Awards, including Best Producer (2018) and Critics Choice Award (2015).

Annabel Alpers' psychedelic pop-making femme-bot alter-ego Bachelorette has headlined worldwide intimate shows; toured with Beach House, Low, The Magnetic Fields, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, The Wye Oak, Bill Callahan and Peter Bjorn and John; and created stunning and innovative visual soundwave accompaniment to harmonic vocal crescendo, guitar and keyboards. Her music is lush, her lyrics evocative.

Annabel's songs are featured in several large advertising campaigns and independent and major movie productions.

Bachelorette's discography can be found on the amazing Drag City Records:

The End of Things - 2011 rerelease (original release 2005)

Isolation Loops - 2010 rerelease (original release 2007)

My Electric Family - 2009

Bachelorette - 2011

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To see Orchestra of Spheres is mesmerising and an amazingly good time. The band make their own instruments and outfits, and craft a psychedelic, afropopesque, polyrhythmic messed up sonic experience that Sun Ra would be proud of. Their 2016 release, Brothers and Sisters of the Black Lagoon, brought them to the attention of The Guardian, who picked them as 'New band of the week'. They've gathered a large and dedicated fanbase throughout Europe, playing festivals in Iceland, caves in Germany, and large concerts and unique spaces worldwide.

Orchestra of Spheres Discography and more information can be found on their website:

Space Art Music - 2009

Bad Spheres - 2011

Numbers EP - 2011

Nonagonic Now - 2011

Vibration Animal Sex Brain Music - 2013

Fingerweg 7" - 2014

Brothers and Sisters of the Black Lagoon - 2016