Revulva Interview with Phoebe on Breakfast - 16/04/2025

Taking cues from Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Jamiroquai, Steely Dan, Herbie Hancock,
Minnie Ripperton and Prince, Revulva reimagines the anything-goes energy of New York
City’s 1970s downtown scene and London’s 1990s funk and soul renaissance through an
antipodean lens informed by the deadpan humour and the realities of 21st-century life in
New Zealand. The result is a hedonistic whirlwind of acid jazz, avant-funk, disco, AOR and
art-pop, where polished playing leaves room for improvisation in the heat of the moment,
and real statements come bundled up with just enough laughs to soften the snarl.