Manjaree Music

Aarti Jadu 
Aarti Jadu is a musician and sound artist who works thoughtfully across disciplines. Her skillful experimentation with voice, performance, and design reveals an affinity for the tradition of devotional singing and ensemble music. Jadu’s sonic palette is characterised by trance-like repetitions, confounding songwriting, the use of noise and dark imagery, urban music influences, contemporary digital choral elements, auto-tuned vocals, and synths. 

Aviva Endean 
Aviva Endean is a clarinettist, composer, and performance-maker dedicated to connecting people with each other and their environment through attentive listening. Her creative practice opens up possibilities for collaborations, transcending the traditional in favour of a dynamic artistry which embraces the unfamiliar. Aviva’s solo music has been released on Room40 (Lawrence English) and SOFA music (Norway), and she has toured her work to major festivals internationally. She has worked in close collaboration with organisations including Chunky Move, Australian Art Orchestra, Chamber Made, and Liquid Architecture and is an ongoing member of Hand to Earth, The Cloud Maker, and Driftwood.

Banjo Lucia 
Banjo Lucia writes songs about feeling big and feeling small and sometimes both of them at once.  Starting out gigging in her hometown, Fremantle, she’s enjoyed playing to audiences with Stella Donnelly, Sharon Van Etten and others, and feeling like she’s part of a community of big hearts.  

Drea
Drea is a talented, young singer from Perth who captivates audiences through her vulnerable ballads and outspoken dancefloor fillers. She started her music career in church and remains connected to her faith through music. Drea is heavily influenced by gospel, hip-hop and R&B, blending the styles to create her own unique flavour. A highly sought after vocalist, Drea has opened for international phenomenon Billy Ocean, and New Zealand’s Jordan Rakei, SIX60 and Drax Project. 

Mali Jo$e 
After a breakout 2024, releasing multiple mixtapes & singles, a national brand campaign for Adidas’, ‘SPEZIAL’ sneaker, supporting Larry June, and Black Milk, and a vinyl release for his EP ‘Breezecatcher’, Fremantle’s MALI JO$E is poised for his most landmark year yet. Eyes firmly set on the global stage, the 23-year-old Fremantle prodigy keeps rising, with cosigns from US critics Anthony Fantano & Ebro and international collaborations with US artists Mick Jenkins, Sol ChYld, and shows shows supporting Bktherula, Ravyn Lenae and WIKI, Mali prepares to release his debut album. 

Praashekh 4 
The Praashekh 4 is based around the sarod playing mastery of namesake, Praashekh Borkar and brings together musicians of diverse cultures and consummate skills. Born in Pune, India, sarod maestro, Praashekh Borkar is considered one of India’s leading younger generation musicians. He is an outstanding exponent of the 22-string north Indian (Hindustani) sarod. Praashekh is joined his longtime playing partner, Mark Cain on saxophone, and Indian tabla and electronic hand percussion by Isuru Perera and keyboardist, Flavio Colonetti. 

Muriel Hillion
Muriel Hillion is a Réunionese artist and researcher based in Western Australia, explores Creolisation in the Indian Ocean through vibrant music, powerful singing and captivating dance. With a decade of performances, teaching and a doctoral focus on Maloya dance and music at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), she created the first Australian Creole musical Island Vibrations in 2022 and the Award-winning Salama Odyssey in 2023. Collaborating with multicultural artists from various backgrounds, Hillion integrates storytelling in English, with visuals, dance, singing in various languages and traditional instruments.

Kaloune
Kaloune is a singer-musician and above all, a poet who has been interested in Afro-descendant memory for around ten years. All her artistic work revolves around the notion of the repair of memories linked to trafficking and slavery, through poetry. The corpus of her repertoire revolves around the following notions: the rehabilitation of the dignity of the human being, the reclamation of her oral culture as heritage, and the anchoring of the Réunionese imagination as an intellectual, philosophical and spiritual foundation specific to the island.