This week's 95bFM Jazz Show with Def Jim features six tracks by Free Jazz/Jazz-Funk/Blues guitarist James Blood Ulmer (or his bands) who died early last month at the age of 86, plus six more from a typically eclectic selection of other artists including Abdullah Ibrahim (aka Dollar Brand) - who also passed recently - and a brand new release from Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson. Many thanks to texter Deon who was able to answer the question of how Mr Ulmer acquired his epithet 'Blood', which apparently originated in his being affectionately dubbed 'Youngblood' by other musicians in his early playing days.
Playlist
Music Revelation Ensemble - What's Your Name? (from After Dark)
Steve Coleman and Five Elements - Pad Thai / Of Many Turns (edit; from Polytropos / Of Many Turns)
James Blood Ulmer - Layout (from Are You Glad To Be In America?)
Johnny Dyani Quartet - Wish You Sunshine (from Song For Biko)
This week's Sunday Mixtape was the last one at the University of Auckland as bFM pepares to end an era of broadcasting on campus. The show featured new music from Syd, Alex Cameron and more.
Playlist
This week's Sunday Mixtape was the last one at the University of Auckland as bFM pepares to end an era of broadcasting on campus. The show featured new music from Syd, Alex Cameron and more.
Continuing on with Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World, chatting with Olivia Tennet about the new Kiri & Lou feature at the NZIFF, and Lee has trouble with the phones.
Playlist
We continue with Danny the Champion of the World, chat with Olivia who stars in the new feature length Kiri & Lou go RAAAAA! screening at the NZ International Filim Festival on the 7th of August. Plus we listen to Lee grappling with a new phone system for the second week in a row! Yay!
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
Roald Dahl - Dannythe Champion of the World (ch 8,9)
This week on Sages of the Ages our hosts got separated in the timestreams, meaning Alex has to hold down the fort as Castor fights his way back to the studio. Reunited, the two bring you some bangers from the length and breadth of 2013, featuring artists such as Daft Punk, C418, Christoph El Truento. They also bring you the latest updates on digital television streams, marriage law reform, and Margaret Thatcher.
Rob brings in some horrible snacks, reads a poem, and in sport, gets excited for the upcoming Tottenham vs AFC match. Kris enjoys the Hallertau Tropic Stout, inexplicably complains about Tom Hiddleston (again) on TV on the Radio...and plays a whole lot of music as well.
Playlist
Royksopp - Keyboard Milk
Steve Roach - Karavan
Nitzer Ebb - Hearts and Minds
YLLWYBR LLAETHOG - Ty Haf Jac (Jac's Holiday House)
Severed Heads - Lamborghini (Petrol 1982)
Colin Newman - Lorries
Wire - Ahead
The Chameleons - Less Than Human
Jah Wobble - Tottenham Always in My Heart
Soulwax - KracK
Vogue Noir - Cobolt Thorium G
808 State - In Yer Face
David Lynch - I Know (Jon Hokins Remix)
The Cure - Pictures Of You
Glass Candy - I Always Say Yes
Neon - No Limit (Relax Your Body Accapella Perc. Mix)
Sonic Boom, Panda Bear - Like a moth to a flame
Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkin - The Shining Main Theme (Skelesys Panic Edit)
Mexican Institute of Sound - Tipo Raro
Digitalism - Digitalism in Cairo (Extended Remix)
L.F.T. - Biss Mich!
She Past Away - Sann
Section 25 - Dirty Disco
Simian Mobile Disco - Aspic
Leonie Pernet - Missing Love (Jennifer Cardini & DamonJee Remix)
Your one-stop shop for the greatest, latest tunes from across the motu and abroad. Featuring new music from the likes of Romi Wrights, Eden Burns, Michi + More.
After her little holiday Huia brought in a few CDs she found across the north island and played a handful of her favourite tracks out of the wide selection; Some of these being, Fiona Apple, B.C. Camplight, Buscemi and Billie Holiday.
Tony Guo is a Tāmaki-based painter. Primarily working in oil painting, Guo’s practice centres on an exploration and projection of queer allegory and performance, with his own identity and experience underpinning the work. Often depicting these apparently specific situations, Guo’s paintings turn them on their head to resist a conventional narrative or explanation, instead embracing an absurdist or whimsical language to mask an existential dilemma.
His current solo exhibition at Season Aotearoa, Queue, sees Guo entering a new era of his practice as he leans more into abstraction, interlacing these figurative and abstract gestures with one another. Imagery of multiplicity – traces of figures and entities in queue – both arising and slipping back into the works themselves. Led by a process of improvisation, the works in Queue deemphasise a predetermined outcome or a clear procedural path, instead emphasising the unpredictability of experience, offering a reconsideration of performance in queue.
Sof caught up with Tony Guo about Queue and his overall practice
Cam is back up in the studio, sharing all the latest releases out on the shelves today at Southbound! Whakarongo mai nei, listen back to hear a taster of the selection: MJ Lenderman covering This Is Lorelai, Kavinsky, and Underscores!
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