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New Horizons
with William Dart
Sundays at 7:00 pm
Series One 2010
28 February - 2 May (10 programmes)
21 March
William looks at the recent EMI release The Complete Fourmyula, an exhaustive collection of The Fourmyula's recordings 1968-70 which were originally released as singles or on five albums The Fourmyula, Green 'B' Holiday, Creation, Alive and Turn Your Back On The Wind.
Well ... almost exhaustive, because there are three tracks on 'Alive' featuring vocalist Shane that don't make it to this collection. William plays one of these, Black Sheep Boy, from the gristly LP.
14 March
Barbara Morgenstern - BM [Monika] ("...a beguiling package...")
Wave Machines - Wave if you're really there [Neapolitan] ("...cheers the heart of any survivor of the 70s...")
Vampire Weekend - Contra [XL] ("...extreme cleverness afoot...")
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus [Loyaute] ("...some piece of work...")
Eels - End Times [E Works] ("...a sad, miserable trek...")
At the end William segues - for the hell of it - from the miserable to the magical and celebrates one of his favourite songwriting teams.
7 March
William: "The various music that I'm playing tonight strikes me as the work of songwriters testing just how much they can stretch and toy with the object of their craft."
Examples of song stretchers and the albums featured are:
Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom Live [Anti]
Yoko Ono - Between my Head and the Sky [Chimera]
Rain Machine - Rain Machine [Anti]
Jan Hellriegel - All Grown Up [Blind Date]
There are cameo performances by B J Thomas, Johnny Cooper and Margaret Francis, and John Pizzarelli. And we end with a birthday tribute to a songwriter whose work you might not expect to hear on New Horizons, with songs performed by Madeleine Grey and Linda Thompson.
28 February
Songwriter Kate McGarrigle died in January. William pays her tribute with tracks from the following albums:
Maria Muldaur - Maria Muldaur [Reprise]
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Kate & Anna McGarrigle [Hannibal]
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Dancer with Bruised Knees [Hannibal]
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Pronto Monto [Warners LP]
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - French Record [Hannibal]
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Love Over and Over [Hannibal]
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Heartbeats Accelerating [Private Music]
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Soundtrack album [Geffen] (Rufus Wainwright and Dido perform I eat dinner)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Matapedia [Hannibal]
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - La Vache qui Pleure [Tribu]
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - The McGarrigle Hour [Hannibal] (Irving Berlin's What'll I do performed by the whole Wainwright-McGarrigle clan)
The Team
Presented by
William Dart
Produced by Tim Dodd
Email us newhorizons@radionz.co.nz
About New Horizons
William Dart hosts an hour of rock, pop, country or folk music; each programme focusing on a new release or two and placing these in the context of an artist's career to date. His encyclopaedic knowledge and gargantuan record collection allow him to find hidden gems and surprising links. With plenty of humour along the way, William gives a serious treatment to these vital forms of music.
Schedule
New Horizons will have three series in 2010.
Series One: 28 February - 2 May (10 programmes)
Series Two: 6 June - 8 August (10 programmes)
Series Three: 12 September - 14 November (10 programmes)
When a series is running, the programme plays on Sundays at 7.00pm, on Radio New Zealand Concert.
Podcasts?
At this stage we are unable to offer New Horizons programmes as podcasts or as audio on demand from this site owing to copyright restrictions on the music sourced from commercial recordings.