NTS regular Gaika has been hosting THE SPECTACULAR EMPIRE SHOW W/ GAIKA & AKWASI BRENYA-MENSA since 23 February 2016. Gaika has been a regular guest, first appearing on 19 November 2015 and most recently on 23 August 2019. Gaika has been played on NTS over 100 times, featured on 88 episodes and was first played on 19 November 2015.

Gaika Tavares, better known as GAIKA, is a multidisciplinary artist who describes his work as ‘building worlds from the memories we have lost’.

Hailing from South London, GAIKA is influenced by creatives from across the artistic spectrum, including Arakakwa and Gins, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Torkwase Dyson, Issac Julien, Prince, Lee Scratch Perry, Wu-Tang Clan, Goldie, Genioh Yamashirogumi and Steve McQueen.

GAIKA has released a number of EPs, singles and mixtapes, as well as two studio albums, the critically-acclaimed Basic Volume (2018), and last year’s Drift. In 2018 he exhibited System, a sculpture in collaboration with Boiler Room and Somerset House Studios which filled the middle portion of Somerset House’s Lancaster Room. He is most proud of Complex Confessional (2022) and his interactive audiovisual sculpture Zemel (2022), which featured in British Art Show 9.

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