New Horizons
with William Dart
Sundays at 7:00 pm
Series One 2007
4 March to 13 May (11 programmes)
13 May
In the final programme of the first series for 2007, William takes a brief look at a number of discs:
MOJO Magazine's tribute album celebrating the 40th anniversary of the release of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper. We featured Chin Up Chin Up doing When I'm Sixty-Four and Puerto Muerto doing With a Little Help from My Friends
Charlie Louvin: Charlie Louvin (Tompkins Square)
Various Artists: Endless Highway (a tribute compilation to the music of The Band) (Shock) - we featured tracks from Death Cab for Cutie (Rockin' Chair), Lee Ann Womack (The Weight) and the Animal Liberation Orchestra (Ophelia)
Bryan Ferry: Dylanesque (Virgin)
Mavis Staples: We'll never turn back (Anti)
Belinda Carlisle: Voilà (Ryko)
Françoise Hardy: Parenthèses (EMI)
6 May
Featured albums:
Guided by Voices: Earthquake Glue (Matador)
Robert Pollard: Normal Happiness (Merge)
Arcade Fire: Funeral (Merge)
Arcade Fire: Neon Bible (Merge)
29 April
Featured albums:
Bright Eyes: Cassadaga (Polydor)
Rickie Lee Jones: The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard (New West Records)
The Bird and the Bee: The Bird and the Bee (Blue Note)
22 April
William wends a windy course in this programme. He starts with a birthday tribute to Bach scholar, conductor and orchestral arranger to the stars, Joshua Rifkin. Featured are his collaborations with Judy Collins: In My Life and Wildflowers (both on Elektra), and his Nonesuch album of music by Scott Joplin. He then looks briefly at some other arrangers: Van Dyke Parks, the New York Rock and Roll Ensemble, Graham Downes and Geoff Maddock. And he closes off with The High Llamas' new album Can Cladders (Drag City)
15 April
Ry Cooder's latest album 'My Name is Buddy' is a witty take on a dustbowl story. From the CD's booklet: "Let's join Buddy Red Cat, Lefty Mouse, and Reverend Tom Toad as they journey through time and space in the days of labor, big bosses, farm failures, strikes, company cops, sundown towns, hobos, and trains... the America of yesteryear." (Nonesuch)
8 April
Featured CD: The Who: Endless Wire (Polydor)
William also takes a look back 40 years to the early albums by The Who: A Quick One (Polydor), The Who Sell Out (Polydor), Tommy (MCA) and Quadrophenia (Polydor).
He also profiles a couple of albums from Pete Townshend's solo career: Coolwalkingsmoothtalkingstraightsmokingfirestoking (Atlantic) and Lifehouse (Eel Pie) which is based around a radio play that he wrote for the BBC.
1 April
Featured albums:
Yoko Ono: Yes, I'm a Witch (Astral Weeks)
Stephin Merritt: Showtunes (Nonesuch)
Yoko Ono's career is quickly traversed with selections from her previous albums: Two Virgins (with John Lennon) (Ryko), London Jam (Ryko), Approximately Infinite Universe (Ryko), Blueprint for a Sunrise (Capitol), Rising (Capitol) and Rising Mixes (Capitol). Also a single Stephin Merritt track from The Magnetic Fields' album 69 Love Songs (Merge).
The programme is bookended with two versions of the Bacharach/David song "Me Japanese Boy" - one, the orignal by Bobby Goldsboro, and the other by Pizzicato Five.
25 March
Recent New Zealand releases:
Káren Hunter: Rubble (Monkey Records)
Dudley Benson: The Orders, Medals & Decorations EP (Golden Retriever Records)
Bachelorette: Isolation Loops (Electroplate)
And a local tribute album 'My Life with John Lennon' released with the magazine 'Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People' (available from Bryce Galloway, PO Box 27527, Wellington, NZ, stinkispinkis@yahoo.com)
18 March
'The Harry Smith Project: Anthology Of American Folk Music Revisited', a 2-CD/2-DVD box set culled from a series of concerts staged by Hal Willner that took place in 1999 and 2001 which pays tribute to Harry Smith and his influential Anthology (Shout Records).
Also featured in this programme are tracks from the original anthology on Smithsonian Folkways Records and from the 1998 tribute release 'The Harry Smith Connection', also on Smithsonian Folkways.
11 March
Dionne Warwick: My Friends and Me (Concord)
Lucinda Williams: West (Lost Highway)
Joanna Newsom: Ys (Drag City)
4 March
Featuring Tom Waits' new triple-CD release 'Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards' (Anti), along with tracks from albums throughout his career.
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 2012.
Series One: 4 March - 6 May (9 programmes - no programme on 18 March)
Series Two: 3 June - 12 August (11 programmes)
Series Three: To be confirmed (10 programmes)
Plus a Christmas special probably on 23 December.
When a series is running, the programme plays on Sundays at 7.00pm, on Radio New Zealand Concert.
Podcasts?
Each New Horizons programme will be available as audio on demand for two weeks following the date of broadcast.
William Dart's Track Record
New Horizons has been on air for over thirty years. Its first broadcast in April 1980 was heralded by a cover on the New Zealand Listener. The albums featured on that cover - albums by Ry Cooder, XTC, The Kinks and Ray Davies, Sparks, Randy Newman, Lou Reed, Joni Mitchell, Elvis Costello and Jonathan Richman - were chosen by William. The artists have mostly continued to have flourishing careers and have been featured many times on the programme over the years. It just goes to show that William knows how to pick'em.