SUNDAY 22nd JAN 2023
Music In Exile, Waving At Trains Artists and Volumes present...

AUSECUMA BEATS (Senegal, Cuba, Mali, Aus) and ZEITGEIST FREEDOM ENERGY EXCHANGE (Melb)
with very special guests...
AJAK KWAI (South Sudan/Aus)
MAXINE FUNKE (NZ)
JORDAN IRELAND & THE ZIGG ZAGGERS
WASHING MACHINE DJs

Early in 2020, the music community was forced to close its doors, not only to the outside world, but to each other.
Creative partnerships were lost, performances canceled, studio sessions scrapped.
In response to these limitations, as is often the case, innovation and cooperation blossomed.

Melbourne’s Music in Exile label, a not-for-profit aimed at profiling musicians from refugee and migrant backgrounds that give the city its world-class reputation in the arts, started the
Building Bridges series, a collection of recordings aimed at keeping individuals connected and inspired during lockdown.

One such project was a match made somewhere in musical heaven. The minds behind Ausecuma Beats, a nine-piece, Melbourne-based ensemble comprised of members from Senegal, Mali, Cuba and Guinea, spent weeks recording and sharing material remotely with the Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange, also known as Z*F*E*X.
Themselves a semi-improvised collective or ensemble of sorts, Z*F*E*X comprises of drummer Zeke ‘Ziggy’ Zeitgeist, keyboardist and producer Lewis Moody, bassist Matthew Hayes, and a rotating cast of guests, all prolific musicians with weighty crededitionals across Australia, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
And so from a backyard shed in Dandenong North, Australia, some of West Africa’s finest would record simple percussive tracks, when then surfed the airwaves via studios in Melbourne, Berlin and London, to finally land back on our doorsteps as Deep Heat/Tropical Storm.
Add to this heady brew two guest vocalists who are some of the most invigorating in their respective scenes, Latin America via Berlin star Gotopo, and Melbourne’s own Rara Zulu, and all of sudden what began as an exercise in percussive exploration has transformed into a hands-down banger of a record.
Music in Exile is a not-for-profit record label supporting artists from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds working in the music industry. Our vision is to build a music scene that is equally accessible to all, and represents the myriad voices and viewpoints found in our community today.

The Servo is an all ages venue but anyone under 18 must be accompanied by an parent / guardian.

This event takes place on the stolen lands of the Dharawal people. Always was, always will be.