New Horizons
with William Dart
Sundays at 7:00 pm
Series Three 2009
18 October - 20 December (10 programmes)
20 December
It's time for the Christmas edition and William plays several tracks from Christmas albums by two of the greatest artists of the 20th century:
Bob Dylan - Christmas in the Heart (Sony)
Aretha Franklyn - This Christmas Aretha (DMI)
Aretha's disc suggests a slant to the soulful side for the rest of the programme with tracks by Wendy and Carnie Wilson, Jimmie Dean, Nancy Wilson, Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, Aaron Neville, Otis Redding, Ella Fitzgerald, Jack Jones, Tammy Wynette, Esquivel, Christopher Lee, Big Maybelle and The Manhattan Transfer.
13 December
For the second last programme of the year, William takes a quick blast through the following newish releases:
The Brunettes - Paper Dolls (Lil Chief)
The Gladeyes - Psychosis of Love (Lil Chief)
Káren Hunter - Words and Groove (RawFishSalad)
Tom Russell - Blood and Candle Smoke (Shout)
various - The Best is Yet to Come: The Songs of Cy Coleman (New West) (we play songs performed by Fiona Apple and Madeleine Peyroux)
various - Oh Happy Day (EMI) (Mavis Staples and Patty Griffin take on Waiting for my child to come home)
Sara Watkins - [self-titled] (Nonesuch)
Marc Almond - Orpheus in Exile: Songs of Vadim Kozin (Cherry Red)
In the lead up to this last disc, William plays tracks from previous Marc Almond albums, 12 Years of Tears, Tenement Symphony, A Virgin's Tale Volume 1 and his single with P J Proby, Yesterday has Gone.
6 December
As a tribute to songwriter Chris Knox, who suffered a stroke earlier this year, William revisits two old programmes from 1991 and 2003 which featured interviews with Knox. He also looks at the recently released album Stroke in which various artists perform songs from the Knox canon: contributions from Stephin Merritt, David Kilgour, Will Oldham, The Tokey Tones and Friends, The Verlaines and The Mountain Goats.
29 November
William takes a delighted look at Three Score and Ten: a 7-CD, 108-page-book celebration of Topic Records and its 70-year devotion to the recording of British folk and workers' music.
Music from The Topic Singers, Paul Robeson, Bob Davenport & The Rakes, Dominic Behan, Sarah Makem, A L Lloyd & Dave Swarbrick, Shirley Collins, The Watersons, Peter Bellamy, Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight, June Tabor, Eliza Carthy, Billy Bennett, The Oldham Tinkers, The Britannia Coconut Dances & The Nutters Band, John Wright, Andrew Cronshaw, The Copper Family, Shariff Twahir Ahmed, and Blue Murder.
The programme opens with music by Alan Bush.
22 November
Featured discs:
Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk (label? ...um I'm not sure; it's not clear on the package)
David Bowie - VH1 Storytellers (EMI)
Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring (Mercury)
Abbey Road Now! (MOJO Magazine's tribute CD to The Beatles' album, a giveaway with its October 2009 issue) - we play tracks by Noah and the Whale, Charlie Dore and Leisure Society.
Leading into Monsters of Folk, William plays a couple of tracks from supergroups of the past: Blind Faith doing Had to Cry Today, and Traveling Wilburys doing 7 Deadly Sins.
15 November
With songwriter Nick Lowe about to tour the country with Ry Cooder, it's time to survey his career. Many of the songs come from the recent compilation, Quiet Please... The New Best of Nick Lowe (Yep Roc). But we also take tracks from:
Labour of Love: The Music of Nick Lowe (Telarc)
Brinsley Schwarz - Despite it All (Festival LP)
Carlene Carter - Two Sides to Every Woman (Warners LP)
Dave Edmunds - The Best of Dave Edmunds (Swan Song)
Bespoke Songs, Lost Dogs, Detours & Rendezvous: Songs of Elvis Costello (Rhino)
Little Village - Little Village (Warners)
Johnny Cash - American Recordings (American)
Nick Lowe - The Convincer (Proper)
Nick Lowe - At My Age (Proper)
The Holmes Brothers - State of Grace (Alligator)
8 November
Four new discs:
Del Girl - Porchlight (self-released)
Rosanne Cash - The List (Manhattan)
Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill (American Dust)
Miriam Clancy - Magnetic (Desert Road)
William dusts off an old Judee Sill LP and plays Jesus was a Cross Maker.
1 November
William looks at a few local releases:
Rebel Peasant - The Walls of the Well (self-released)
The Veils - Sun Gangs (Rough Trade)
Dimmer - Degrees of Existence (Warners)
The Clean - Mister Pop (Arch Hill)
The Verlaines - Corporate Moronic (Dunedin Music)
25 October
William pairs up the Wainwrights - father and son Loudon and Rufus - for this week's programme. The featured albums are:
Loudon Wainwright III - High, Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Story (2nd Story Sound Records)
Rufus Wainwright - Milwaukee At Last!!! (Decca)
As usual, he fills in a bit of back story with tracks from Loudon's BBC Sessions, his songs from the movie Knocked Up and Rufus singing Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered from the soundtrack album of The History Boys.
Charlie Poole himself - the rambling, hard-drinking banjo player from Spray, North Carolina - is featured in the W C Handy song Ramblin' Blues. And Rufus's version of the old Irish ballad Macushla is compared with John McCormack's.
18 October
William looks at the music of Tim Finn with tracks taken from these albums:
Spellbound (Split Enz)
Escapade (Tim Finn)
The Underwatermelon Man (Fane Flaws, Peter Dasent and many others)
The Magnificent Nose and Other Marvels (Anna Paquin and Tim Finn)
Dein Perry's Steel City (Tim Finn)
Woodface (Crowded House)
Finn (The Finn Brothers)
Feeding the Gods (Tim Finn)
Imaginary Kingdom (Tim Finn)
Everyone is Here (The Finn Brothers)
The Conversation (Tim Finn)
and his latest...
North, South, East, West - an anthology
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.