Wairunga finds the Freddy juggernaut digging deep to debut five songs and revisit two classics captured in an outdoor performance sans audience but with wild weather elements playing an important creative role in producing this unique live album.Recorded in Wairunga, high above Waimarama Beach in New Zealand, it is place etched into the DNA of Fat Freddy’s Drop who’ve roamed here for over 20 years; to party, relax between tours, make a song Wairunga Blues in it’s honour and even to get married. Farmed by the Parker family for a century, Wairunga is an oasis of green pasture and native tree filled valleys that fall away to the ocean below.

Tracklist:

1. LP

Coffee Black
Bones
Shady
Wairunga Blues

2. LP

Bush Telegraph
Leave Your Window Open
Dig Deep

Wairungafinds theFreddyjuggernaut digging deep to debut five songs and revisit two classics captured in an outdoor performance sans audience, with wild weather elements playing an important creative role.

Wairunga, deep in Ngti Kahungunu country, is a placeetchedinto the DNA of Fat Freddys Drop whove roamed here for over 20 years; to party, relax between tours, make a song in its honour, and even to get married. Farmed by the Parker family for a century,Wairungais an oasis of green pasture and native tree-filled valleys that fall away to the ocean below.

Freddysand their sound and visual recording crews set up on a grass tennis court surrounded by a bush backdrop. The weather was calm but as the performance progressed into night, the elements turned with tempest-like bursts of rain and chill winds. Freddys dug deep to finish the session – nothing could stop the bush energy and music.

TheWairungasession was recorded byFreddy’slong-time sound engineerRichard McMenaminof Western Audio.Freddysbeat maker and master producerFitchie(aka MU) processed and crafted the liveWairungaaudio recordings atBAYSstudio while Calyx Studio in Berlin nailed the final mastering.

Another Freddy collaborator,Transmit, captured the music in the making session atWairungafor an accompanying concert film that will broadcast online as free appointment streams on 31st July and 1st August.

Tracklist

1. Coffee Black
2. Bones
3. Shady
4. Wairunga
5. Bush Telegraph
6. Leave Your Window Open
7. Dig Deep