New Horizons
with William Dart
Sundays at 7pm
Sunday, 29 April 2012
Audio will be posted after broadcast.
All three of this week's new releases deal in story-telling.
Anais Mitchell - Young Man in America [Wilderland] ... "We live in dispiriting times. Wolves howl, civilisation is in regression and Anais Mitchell offers us a cycle of songs to deal out some instances."
Jim White - Where It Hits You [Yep Roc] ... "Jim White's new album has a folky spine to it ... He likes his songs on the lengthy side, but there are also some that pack a punch within a few minutes."
Shelley Hirsch and Simon Ho - Where Were You Then [Tzadic] ... "Hirsh is a New York composer, singer and raconteuse ... You'd probably find her filed under 'Experimental' if our local record shops ran to such a category."
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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 2013.
Series One: 3 March - 5 May (9 programmes - no programme on 31 March)
Series Two: 16 June – 25 August (11 programmes)
Series Three: 13 October – 15 December (10 programmes)
Plus a Christmas special on 22 December.
When a series is running, the programme plays on Sundays at 7.00pm, on Radio New Zealand Concert.
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Episodes of New Horizons are available as audio on demand from 1 July 2012.
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.
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