Rosetta and Milly catch up with Deva Mahal, to chat about her new EP Future Classic Vol II: Future - out today! Deva is also heading on tour in April and May, and you can catch her playing at Double Whammy on May 2. Whakarongo mai nei!
Anto Yeldezian is a Tāmaki-based artist of Armenian heritage, who works amongst an expanded painting practice that often leans into methodologies of printmaking. Utilising methods of monoprinting, and stencils, along with a playful use of paint and material exploration.
Within his current solo show Desert Island on at Coastal Signs, Yeldezian presents a series of 7 large scale works on raw loose canvas. Installed in a manner in which the works almost engulf the gallery walls, and bring the space into a continuous field of symbols, and marks.
The works themselves harness this heavy use of motifs, and symbols as a kind of centering point to the show. The references include camels, palm trees, oil pump-jacks, Homer Simpson's thirsty bird'; ancient fossils, the triple Gs of Canterbury Clothing Company, union jacks and logos of American defence and oil companies.
Through the making of the work Yeldezian takes these symbols and applies them to various painterly techniques that almost pull them away from their own inherent meanings/references and into this place of a pattern-like language with its own set of meanings.
Maya caught up with Anto about the show as well as his overall practice.
SPDRTWNBBY peforms live in the bFM lounge on a rainy Rāpare. The avondale artist delivers a sonical silk show of unreleased tracks, covers, and the latest hit BACK2SELF with JARNA.
Listen back to the incredible set as part of 95bFM x Carhartt WIP audio archives
set list: PLAYGROUND, How Deep Is Your Love (cover), you and i , Merry go round, Distance (cover), BACK2SELF
For the first week of Sages of the Ages, hosts Alex and Castor are stranded in the year 1998. This year brings you tracks from the likes of Massive Attack, Neutral Milk Hotel, and The Offspring. They also bring you the latest in the ongoing Bill Clinton scandal and England's disappointment at the FIFA World Cup.
Whakarongo mai!
Playlist
Thanks for listening to Sages of the Ages (1998)!
Fur Patrol - All the People
Silver Jews - People
Voom - Relax
Wilco & Billy Bragg - California Stars
Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
Air - You Make It Easy (feat. Beth Hirsch) (Vegyn remix)
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
SPDRTWNBBY peforms live in the bFM lounge on a rainy Rāpare. The avondale artist delivers a sonical silk show of unreleased tracks, covers, and the latest hit BACK2SELF with JARNA.
Listen back to the incredible set as part of 95bFM x Carhartt WIP audio archives
set list: PLAYGROUND, How Deep Is Your Love (cover), you and i , Merry go round, Distance (cover), BACK2SELF
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