New Horizons
with William Dart
Sundays at 7:00 pm
Series One 2009
1 March to 3 May (10 programmes)
3 May
William ponders beauty. Spurred on by the new EMI release 'Beautiful Music' (from which he plays Petula Clark's performance of Charlie Chaplin's This is My Song), he seeks out other beautiful music on more alternative avenues including the new releases:
Charlie Haden Family and Friends - Rambling Boy (Decca)
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
Eddi Reader - Love is the Way (Rough Trade)
Bon Iver - Blood Bank (Jagjaguwar)
26 April
William takes a peek at pop princesshood. He starts with three prime examples from the early 60s: Little Peggy March, Annette Funicello and Lesley Gore. Then he proposes three new palace-dwellers: Lenka, Lily Allen and Inara George of The Bird and the Bee.
Lenka - Lenka (Epic)
Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You (Regal)
The Bird and the Bee - Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future (Blue Note)
19 April
Three lovely albums from our own fair shores...
Tama Waipara - 'Sir Plus and the Requirements'
Lawrence Arabia - 'Chant Darling'
Jordan Reyne - 'How the Dead Live'
12 April
William surveys the career of Don McGlashan: Blam Blam Blam, From Scratch, The Front Lawn, his collaboration with Ivan Zagni, The Mutton Birds, his soundtracks to 'Absent Without Leave' and 'Dean Spanley' and his 2006 solo album 'Warm Hand' (Arch Hill). It's a long and impressive list.
All this as preparation to a review of his most recent release with his band The Seven Sisters, 'Marvellous Year' (Arch Hill).
5 April
The release of 'Motown 50', which celebrates the 50th anniversary of Motown Records and which was compiled by "popular vote", prompts William to select some of his favourite lesser-known Motown songs from Marv Johnson, Mable John, Tammi Terrell, The Marvellettes, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Valerie Simpson, The Temptations, The Miracles and Marvin Gaye.
Then he turns his attention to 'Re: Generations', a compilation of Nat King Cole remixes. He plays the creations of Cee-Lo Green, TV on the Radio, Will.I.Am, Damian & Stephen Marley, Michaelangelo L'Acqua, and Just Blaze. He winds the programme up with Nat King Cole in unremixed splendour - his performance of the classic Billy Strayhorn song Lush Life.
29 March
One of the stand-out tracks on the 'Dark was the Night' compilation that didn't get played in last week's show was singer-songwriter Antony's version of Dylan's I Was Young When I Left Home. That's because William was saving it for this week as part of his introduction to the Antony and the Johnsons CD 'The Crying Light'.
Also featured this week is the new release of live recordings from The Fiery Furnaces, 'Remember'.
22 March
The Red Hot Organisation is dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture. Since 1989, it has released fourteen albums devoted to raising funds for the cause. William features tracks from the most recent, 'Dark Was the Night' by the Kronos Quartet, The Books with Jose Gonzalez, The National, Grizzly Bear & Feist, Arcade Fire, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and Sufjan Stevens. In the lead-up he plays tracks from several previous compilations: Neneh Cherry, Annie Lennox, Johnny Cash, The Verlaines, David Byrne, Astrud Gilberto & George Michael, Gilberto Gil and Clark Terry.
15 March
Thinking of naming your band after a city? Well, Montreal and Beirut are already taken. Just one of the several links between the various artists in today's programme.
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)
Beirut - March of the Zapotec (Pompeii)
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone (Anti)
Sparks - Exotic Creatures of the Deep (Lil' Beethoven)
9 March
Some elder statesmen and their latest releases:
Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream (Columbia)
David Byrne and Brian Eno - Everything that Happens will Happen Today (Pod Inertia)
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Listen to the Lion)
1 March
The indestructible Marianne Faithfull, at a mere 62, is back in the shops with a new collection, 'Easy Come Easy Go' (Naïve). William plays six tracks from this after a whip through her earlier releases 'Marianne Faithfull', 'North Country Maid', 'No Regrets', 'Broken English', 'Strange Weather' and 'A Perfect Stranger'.
Different woman, different voice. Blossom Dearie died in February. William pays her tribute and includes a couple of songs recorded at the 1990 International Festival of the Arts in Wellington.
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.