One of Naarm's greatest voices has announced a special one-off show at the beautiful Brunswick Ballroom on October 12.
For one night only join them at Brunswick Ballroom as they perform a stripped back, intimate reimagining of their songs, reminiscent of their 2022 lockdown Live at Bakehouse set but never before presented in front of a live audience!
Recent years have seen multiple ARIA-nominated musician and songwriter Mo’Ju enter new realms of renown, their brand of visceral storytelling striking at the heart of a country whose social and cultural climate was manoeuvring a particular state of unrest and change.
Mo’Ju at Brunswick Ballroom
- Brunswick Ballroom & Lonely Lands Presents Mo’Ju
- 6:30pm, Sat 12 October, 2024
- Brunswick Ballroom, Melbourne
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The epic Oro, Plata, Mata
Oro, Plata, Mata, Mo’Ju’s fourth studio album, pays homage to the work of their late uncle, acclaimed filmmaker Maurice Ruiz de Luzuriaga Gallaga (better known as Peque Gallaga).
Gallaga, whose filmography includes Shake, Rattle & Roll, Magic Temple, Tiyanak, and Sonata, is best known for directing Oro, Plata, Mata (Spanish: Gold, Silver, and Death), a historical war drama that earned him various awards, including from the International Film Festival of Flanders-Ghent and the Manila International Film Festival.
Oro, Plata, Mata, the film, is an epic that tells the story of two affluent Filipino families whose fortunes deteriorate in the course of Japan’s occupation of the Philippines during World War II.
Mo’Ju’s album has its own narrative but also shares commonalities with the film. The album, like the film, is split into three themed sections – ‘oro’ (gold), ‘plata’ (silver), ‘mata’ (death) – that nod to the Filipino architectural superstition that essentially forbids building in multiples of three, since the number ‘three’ in these sequences is counted as ‘mata’.
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