After the recent announcement of their new album Why is the Colour of the Sky?, dropping everywhere on November 8th via Full Time Hobby (Dana Gavanski). Bananagun have new single “Gift of the Open Hand,” the track touches on vocalist’s Nick van Bakel’s frustrations on the people’s lack of sovereignty.

“We’ve been funnelled into a perverted existence where we owe our thanks to a system that bleeds us and I don’t understand how people stand it! I think people would be happier and more productive without the intervention of governments” says van Bakel.

‘Why is the Colour of the Sky?’ is an album that departs from the ultra-slick bursts of sunshine-pop and afrobeat that defined their debut ‘True Story Of Bananagun’, and muddies the waters with a heavy blend of incendiary jazz and freak-beat experimentation. It’s Bananagun alright, but braver, bolder and more mysterious than ever.

Recorded at Button Pusher studio Preston, Melbourne and tracking with minimal takes, provided “the most organic, pure way to record”. Also imperative was to manipulate the social conditions in which the takes were performed and nail the ‘vibe’ during recording: “It was all “attitude towards life and esoteric stuff, natural law, how energy transfers, sounds, chemistry between people”, explains the band’s guitarist/vocalist/flautist, and songwriter Nick van Bakel, “trying to foster an environment together where we can make some magic, capture the phenomena of energy and soundwaves interacting with each other in the room. And that was definitely what we wanted it to sound like – pro human.”

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