Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

Saturday 4 September 2010

2-3 pm

Mick Farren's involvement in the sixties UK counter culture and psychedelic agitprop carved his career path. Today he has over 40 books to his credit and a discography that includes his work with the Deviants, Pink Fairies, and Hawkwind. And he's big in Japan! For Access All Areas Trevor Reekie talks to Mick Farren about prose, poetry and what ever happened to the revolution?

Southern metallers El Schlong are on a trip home from their big OE in London. Back in New Zealand to record their second album, Leah Hinton takes us inside their intricate compositions.

3-4 pm

Giving the back-room boys some love we report back from the Tui Techies.... where the winners of the technical sections of this year’s NZ Music Awards, and the finalists for the main awards, were announced this week.

Naked and Famous bare all the details on their debut album Passive Me, Aggressive You.

We connect the four corners of influential New Zealand hip hop crew Deceptikonz for a final interview.

4-5pm

Creativity in a Box: An investigation into how limits, constraints and boundaries affect music composition. Nick Atkinson speaks with Sean Donnelly, Matt Black of Cold Cut, Jack White and many others who prefer to limit the scope of their invention to best enable it. Listen here

Nick Bollinger reviews an album of Elvis covers by a late starting song bird. The Erica Miller Experience features guest appearances from friends and family - including son Shayne Carter.

Saturday 28 August 2010

Nick Bollinger has a new favorite party album - and its by local rapper Tommy Ill. Listen here.

Having dedicated most of his 72 years to the appreciation of jazz and middle-eastern music, Dr Lloyd Miller is incredibly talented yet still obscure. That may be about to change. His new album recorded with the young UK jazz collective the Heliocentrics is destined for the spotlight.

For Access all Areas Trevor Reekie talks to Dr Lloyd Miller about his lifetime in Oriental Jazz and Iranian Folk. Listen here.

Simon Comber performs a session in the Music 101 studio. Listen here.

3-4 pm

We recall the 1982 visit to NZ by post-punks The Fall,

Street Chant managed to make it to our studio without the car catching fire this week, so they’ll tell us a bit about their first album Means.

Cairo Knife Fight talk about live drumming versus loops;

And we hang at sound check with Melbourne pop rockers Temper Trap during their recent visit.

4-5 pm

Music that Heals

Ancient cultures figured out thousands of years ago what western medicine is only just coming to terms with: music is good for you. Whether it's therapy based on Jungian psychology or the more new-age end of the spectrum, music is said to improve memory, aid in rehabilitation and act as a windscreen wiper to the brain, slushing away negative chitchat inside the mind. Julie Hill met the practitioners, the patients and the musicians using music to make themselves and others happier and healthier. Listen here.

Dub Terminator (Aucklander Christian McLay) produced an album of his rhythms featuring emerging reggae vocalists from Jamaica, the U.K., Canada, Europe and Africa. Dub Terminator discusses the making of the Soul Island Volume 1. Listen here.

Saturday 21 August 2010

2-3 pm

Nick Bollinger reviews new music from theatrical New York singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia

Re-imagine early Californian surf pop with surprise American Top 40 band Best Coast. Listen here.

And the beautiful sounds of East Timorese folk-singer Ego Lemos.

3-4 pm

Young New Zealand new wavers Kids of 88 reinterpret the plastic glitz of 80s synthpop on their debut album Sugar Pills.

Join eclectic local two-piece Golden Axe (below) inside their latest art installation where they launched their new... cassette. Listen here.

Review a next-generation tribute from Dweezil Zappa.

4-5 pm

Music That Hurts...

In the wrong hands music can be torture.

From armies who use music to demoralise their opponents to shopkeepers who play high-pitched frequencies to dissuade teenagers from loitering, Julie Hill finds that the evil applications of music are almost inexhaustible. Not to mention those unfortunate people who suffer from painful and unusual musical disorders. More here

Reality Chant - uniting reggae cultures around the world for the album Kings Highway. Listen here.

Saturday 14 August 2010

2-3 pm

The Grateful Dead were ‘60s psychedelic renegades who mixed countercultural sentiment with unabashed marketing pitches. The Dead built their brand by consistently touring and in the process they became adept at cutting out the middleman. Fans became Deadheads, who recorded shows, traded tapes, and bought tickets directly from the band - crowd sourcing and direct marketing, well before the digital age.

For Access All Areas Trevor Reekie talks to author David Meerman Scott about his new book Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead. Listen here.

Visual artists Ronnie Van Hout, Caroline Johnston and Bryce Galloway respond to vinyl recordings and the proliferation of digital music at the Adam Art Gallery. Listen here.

Aussie singer/songwriter Bill Chambers (dad of Kasey) plays live in the Music 101 studio. Listen here.

3-4 pm

Nick Bollinger talks with Jonathan Alley about his planned documentary on David McComb (The Triffids), and the David McComb tribute album Deep In A Dream. Listen here.

Nick then reviews The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions.

Meet Stornaway bassist Oli from the Oxford, England band with a charming debut album. Listen here

4-5pm

Musical Chairs featuring Scott Muir
Scott Muir (pictured below) is a man at the centre of the Dunedin music scene. He manages the live music venue Re:fuel, as well as prominent Dunedin bands The Chills and Del Girl, and mentors many others. Muir is one of the people behind the music resource website DunedinMusic.com and has a role in managing the business end of the new Albany Street Recording Studio - a co-operative venture with the University of Otago Music Department. He is on the board of Independent Music New Zealand (IMNZ), is a regional coordinator for the Music Managers Forum (MMF), and sits on the board of the Dunedin Fringe Arts Trust. He is too self-effacing to describe himself as the face of Dunedin music, but it’s a hat that fits him well.

For Musical Chairs Trevor Reekie talks to Scott Muir about the diverse portfolio of roles he undertakes, and his contribution to the thriving Dunedin music community.Listen here. 

Urban Tramper in Tokyo - thanks to the Japanese guy who fell in love with NZ music, and is now trying to connect underground music scenes between the two countries.