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Fresher, leaner and even cuter than its larger namesake, Pōnekes Mini Mermgrown boutique festival

Jess sits down with Māori Jewish talent Ana Chaya Scotney to discuss her thrilling debut album, Dawn Ocean Swimming and how she creates her singular “high lonesome sound”.

Announced earlier this month following a groundswell of demand, the spine-tingling shortlist has

Ana Scotney in high definition Ana Scotney (Ngāti Tāwhaki, Ngāi Tūhoe) released her first single as Kōtiro last year, and now she’s dropped the full-length EP, Hi-Def Multinational. She chats to producer Thomas Arbor about concept albums, asymmetry and the smallness of long-distance walking.  Ana Scotney is a rising star of the stage and screen, a creator of theatre, art and zines, and an experimental musician who has just released an EP as her alter-ego, Kōtiro. You’ll have seen her...

I was first witness to the talents of Ana Scotney a few years ago in surreal, dark-comedy Mr. Burns