Blood Lotus "Middle of the Night" Album Launch with Nū and Blue Mud
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CONTENT.NET.AU presents: Blood Lotus' Middle Of The Night Album Launch at the Norla Dome, Mission to Seafarers.
Live sets by Blood Lotus (with Kuya Neil, Voidhood and Zhi Ma), with supports from Nū and Sui Zhen.
Saturday 26th September 2026
Doors 7pm, Music from 8pm.
"With musical nods to FKA twigs, Kelela and Arca, Middle Of The Night is a borderless record that fuses experimental electronic music, alternative R&B, avant-garde pop, and traditional Chinese melodies. Pushing beyond conventional genre parameters, the record is shaped by Blood Lotus' interest in the concept of Asia-futurism: a creative framework that reinterprets ancient musical histories through contemporary electronic music. Drawing on her studies of traditional pentatonic scales from musical traditions across Asia (particularly within Sino-linguistic regions) alongside her practice as a guzheng player and intimate vocal delivery, Blood Lotus reimagines these musical systems by translating them into a whole new sonic world.
Produced in collaboration with Kuya Neil and Voidhood, Middle Of The Night was written between Melbourne and Taipei, emerging almost entirely in the middle of the night through the process of voice notes containing lyrics and melodies assembled in bedrooms, hotel rooms, recording studios, on long walks, during late-night phone calls, and on public transport throughout several summers spent between the two cities. Bound by her strengths as a creative, the album layers intimate vocals, synths, strings, intricate rhythms, and textural production together to detail the complexity of transition and human emotion."
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Blood Lotus
Blood Lotus is the music project of Hannah Wu, who fuses experimental electronic, alternative R&B, avant-garde pop and traditional Chinese instruments to push the sonic parameters of genre. She constructs spectral worlds where the past and future collide in motion; intimate vocals flutter over shapeshifting beats, scaffolded by oscillating synths and glistening strings. With a focus on collaboration, she has worked with Kuya Neil and Voidhood to produce her debut album, slated to be released with CONTENT.NET.AU in 2026. She was featured by NME Magazine, Line of Best Fit, Mixmag and spotlighted by COLORSxSTUDIOS for releases from her debut album, Middle Of The Night. In 2026, she undertook the Lazy Thinking Artist Residency in Sydney and the CAMP Residency in France. She has performed at music festivals and venues in Australia, including Dark Mofo, Sydney Biennale, Strawberry Fields, Now or Never, Phoenix Central Park and Eightysix Festival.
Nū
Nū is an Ethiopian-Australian sound artist, vocalist and live coder whose work blends non-Western musical traditions, improvisation and Afrofuturism. Using Sonic Pi, strudel and her vocals, she creates immersive sonic worlds that weave elements of ambient, jazz, R&B and electronic music. Nū has performed debut EP, TECHNIFRO-185, internationally in China, Malaysia, the UK, Berlin and New York and nationally at Phoenix Central Park, the Powerhouse Museum (Sydney Observatory), Dark Mofo (Hobart) and Hopkins Creek Music Festival. Recipient of Sydney Opera House's Shortwave Commission, she scored the short film A Being, Of Course (dir. Kalu Oji), which played at the Opera House in January 2026.
Blud Mud
Blue Mud is a trio of Naarm-based musicians Sui Zhen, Monosylabik (aka T. Xuân Nguyen / Tino) & C.M. Oliver (badskin). The group formed with the arrival of the Lunar New Year of the Horse, around a common practice of improvised, textured sets with vocal and melodic moments. Blue Mud is what a three-year-old described as sand under blue water. The trio tap into those inner instincts in their sets, shedding their conditioned adult selves, so musical instinct can flow without pressure for resolve. Later they would discover the geologic and oceanographic life of the term – intertidal zones, microbiomes deep in the seafloor – and find their creative prompts already living there, asking with childlike curiosity how we might create in a time of climate collapse. This is where they play.
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Tram Stop D5 in the free tram zone serving #70, #75, & City Circle trams Short walk from Southern Cross Station
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