Estonian princess, Maria Minerva (aka Maria Juur) has just announced she’ll be visiting Australian and New Zealand for the first time ever this August.
Maria was freelancing as an art and music critic while studying art history at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Together with her partner-in-crime Maria Arusoo, she was also one half of the artist duo mariaUNDmaria. It was during her 3rd year of uni when she got into music-making and quickly became the local lo-fi princess.
Maria Minerva is, in the artist’s own words, “myself as my own little sister, born out of a need to do whatever. Maria Minerva has not heard of HQ recording. Maria Minerva has not heard that postmodernism is passé. Maria Minerva wishes she was born in the 1980s and born again in the 1990s. They call it lo-fi, I call it 21st century folk music.”
Maria’s love affair with London began in 2009 when she was interning at The Wire Magazine, in 2010 she moved to London permanently to do her Masters at Goldsmiths College, University of London. In 2011, Maria Minerva signed to the acclaimed Los Angeles based label Not Not Fun and released her debut cassette Tallinn At Dawn, Not Not Fun’s dance-oriented daughter-label 100% Silk also put out her 12″ “Noble Savage”.
On August 1, Not Not Fun released her LP, the highly anticipated Cabaret Cixous, while November saw 100% Silk put out Maria’s 2nd EP Sacred and Profane Love. With her forthcoming sophomore album and “the integration LP”, a collaboration with LA Vampires, both due this Winter.
Be sure to catch Minerva in what is bound to be a unique live experience. Tickets on sale Thursday 5th July.
MARIA MINERVA // AUSTRALIAN/NEW ZEALAND TOUR 2012 DATES
FRIDAY 24TH AUGUST – WHAMMY BAR – AUCKLAND, NZ
SATURDAY 25TH AUGUST – MEDUSA – WELLINGTON, NZ
SUNDAY 26TH AUGUST – MAYLANDS YACHT CLUB – PERTH, WA
TUESDAY 28TH AUGUST – FORMAT – ADELAIDE, SA
WEDNESDAY 29TH AUGUST – JUDITH WRIGHT CENTRE – BRISBANE, QLD
THURSDAY 30TH AUGUST – GOODGOD SMALL CLUB – SYDNEY, NSW
SATURDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER – THE TOFF IN TOWN – MELBOURNE, VIC
