Music 101 for Saturday 12 June 2010

Saturday 12 June

2-3 pm

National Recording Studio Open Day. Nick Atkinson checks out three diverse Auckland studios: from the crammed Earwig Studio, with its reverb chamber and modified vintage amps to the regal and retro main studio at Stebbings. As much a journey through the classic studios as the minds of the boffins who operate them.

Meet the sweet voices behind The Bellbirds - Don McGlashan, SJD, Sandy Mill and Victoria Kelly - ahead of next week's beautiful session at Roundhead Studios.

Meet seven sisters of soul celebrating Matariki at Te Papa's Marae- Lisa Tomlins, Ria Hall, Puawai Cairns, Bella Kalolo, Ramon Tewake, Kali Kopae and Riria Hotere.

3-4 pm

Nick Bollinger talks to Brendan Perry - formerly of Dead Can Dance and Kiwi punk pioneers the Scavengers - about his latest solo album. Here are live recordings and interviews with Brendan Perry's punk band The Scavengers at the 2008 AK 79 Reunion gigs.

 

Take a walk through an orchestra that recreate and play the ancient indigenous instruments of Latin America (Emma pictured above with Alejandro Iglesias, Director of the Orchestra of Indigenous and New Technologies). Listen here

Catch up with Christchurch band Bang Bang Eche, who've spent their late teens ripping up stages from Berlin to New York and show no signs of tour-lag yet.... Listen here

And an update of what live music is on offer.

4-5 pm

Raashi and Rhian in India

New Zealand born Indian Raashi Malik, and her husband composer Rhian Sheehan went to India to work on some of Raashi's solo debut. Raashi is best known as a member of Rhombus, and is a talented singer and pianist in her own right.

Armed with a lap-top studio, microphones, a hand-held recorder and a few contacts, the pair recorded traditional musicians in Delhi and Mumbai, and some distinctive sounds of India - the haunting 'Call To Prayer' or Azaan, the cacophonous traffic noise, and fearsome thunder storms during Monsoon. Along the way they came across singing Rajasthani camel handlers, a New Zealander learning under one of the best Bansuri (traditional flute) masters in India, and Buddhist monks chanting high in the mountains near Nepal, and performed for a yacht party filled with all the glamour and wealth of Bollywood and a dance party in the desert. Listen again and see photos here

Rhian and Raashi outside the Taj Mahal

And soundscraper Sam Hamilton reveals his pop side in his album Pala ahead of his NZ and US tour. Hear another interview with Sam from RNZ Concert here