New Horizons

Sunday 22 April 2012, with William Dart

Coming Up

7:00 pm Sunday 23 June: New Horizons

William ponders the meaning of "roots" when applied to music and looks at three new albums in that context:

Luke Winslow-King - The Coming Tide
Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer - Child Ballads
Billy Bragg - Tooth & Nail

Listen out for a variety of other specimens of evidence from Six60, The Neville Brothers, William Moore, Ida Cox and Fairport Convention.

Sunday, 22 April 2012

Taking his cue from Caetano Veloso and David Byrne's Live at Carnegie Hall (a 2004 concert, recently released by Nonesuch), William explores a few live performances: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Gin Wigmore, both taken from KGSR's Broadcasts releases - recordings from Austin, Texas's South By Southwest Festival; Clare and the Reason's Live in Amsterdam (here he chooses their cover of the beautiful Harry Nilsson song for Olive Oyl in the movie Popeye, 'He Needs Me') and Holly Near and Ronnie Gilbert, recorded live at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco in 1983 - the album called Lifeline Extended. Also included is a performance of 'Case' by NZ group Dimmer, recorded live by André Upston of RNZ in the Helen Young Studio in 2004.

veloso byrne live at carnegie hall

 

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.

Sundays at 7pm

Produced by Tim Dodd

Episodes of New Horizons are available as audio on demand from 1 July 2012.

New Horizons in 2013

  • Series One – 3 March to 5 May (9 programmes)
  • Series Two – 16 June to 25 August (11 programmes)
  • Series Three – 13 October to 15 December (10 programmes)
  • Plus the altogether extra-special Christmas Special on 22 December

William Dart's Track Record

The ListenerNew 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.

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