Mad Vantage headline Northcote Social Club in support of debut album Minutiae.
If you thought prog-metal and nu-jazz couldn’t coexist, Mad Vantage are here to prove you spectacularly wrong. SOLUNE’s genre-defying project headlines Northcote Social Club on 11 December in support of their debut album Minutiae.
Mad Vantage is the brainchild of Melbourne multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser Selene Messinis, who performs under the name SOLUNE. The project fuses progressive metal with nu-jazz and electronic textures, drawing comparisons to Animals as Leaders, Plini, Hiromi and Tigran Hamasyan while carving out something distinctly her own.
Mad Vantage
- Northcote Social Club
- 11 December
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Minutiae was released on 7 November 2025 via Art As Catharsis, the result of years of artistic evolution made possible in part through the Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival Recording Prize (2021). The album was recorded live in the studio with her band, thriving on real-time interplay while delivering polyrhythmic intensity without losing its human pulse.
SOLUNE has already racked up accolades including the APRA Professional Development Award (2025) and the MIJF Take Note Leader (2025). She’s performed at WOMADelaide, RISING, Strawberry Fields and Mona Foma, and has collaborated with artists including Thndo, Parvyn, Gordon Koang and NO ZU. The live band features Xani Kolac on violin and effects, Kumar Shome on guitar, Ben Finnis on eight-string guitar, and Tim Cox on drums.
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