Blind Mango Chutney, & Miss Dom slide into a New York Groove - following Blind Mango's trippy opening track. The pair are then joined by a Special Studio Guest Jason Wald - Jason is a Kiwi & also a 95 BFM Alumni, Resident Lower East Sider (NYC) & Founder & Host of the East Village Jazz Show.
The Jazz Gang get into a real cool Jazz Hangout during the course of the show - jamming some sweet tunes. Jason as Guest Selector shares a bunch of his favorite jazz jams - & for the most part - Jason's selections are centered around his & the station's New York Neighborhood of the Lower East Side.
DJ Sassy joins & Hosts the Jazz Gig Guide & also gets the crew percolating - by turning on a few rounds of super smooth, & awesome Expresso Martinis ! Miss Dom follows the Jazz Gig Guide with a Vinyl Fair Guide.
Blind Mango rounds off by paying tribute to the recently passed Lalo Schifrin - & then hits a high as he Fizzes at his recently purchased VG+ Gene Ammons vinyl.
P.S: Check out Jason Wald's past shows here: https://eastvillageradio.com/the-east-village-radio-jazz
RIP to the legends @lalo_schifrin and Walter Scott of @themightywhispers who passed away in the last week or so - we dig into Lalo's back cat of CRIME JAZZ (tm) hour one including some our favourite tracks that use his tunes as sample sources, after that Kirk's goodies including a brand new track from local jazzy house crew @after_ours_official, a salute to Walter Scott, and some birthday tunes for the great Phyllis Hyman.
Hour three we had a super special pre-release listen (in the company of the excellent Kenny Sterling) to the Orbits LP from The Circling Sun (released Friday 11 July). Shit is incredible! They will be performing at the Karangahape Road branch of Flying Nun record store 3pm Saturday 12 July), and the record will be available in either limited edition green or classic black vinyl from all the best stores: Dusty Crates, Stack Records, Flying Nun, Flying Out, Southbound, Real Groovy, Marbecks, Ulo (Raglan) and or course on the Circling Sun bandcamp. Buy that!
Playlist
RIP to the legends Lalo Schifrin and Walter Scott of the Whispers who passed away in the last week or so - we dig into Lalo's back cat of CRIME JAZZ (tm) hour one including some our favourite tracks that use his tunes as sample sources, after that Kirk's goodies including a brand new track from local jazzy house crew After 'Ours, a salute to Walter Scott, and some birthday tunes for the great Phyllis Hyman.
Hour three we had a super special pre-release listen (in the company of the excellent Kenny Sterling) to the Orbits LP from The Circling Sun (released Friday 11 July). Shit is incredible! They will be performing at the Karangahape Road branch of Flying Nun record store 3pm Saturday 12 July), and the record will be available in either limited edition green or classic black vinyl from all the best stores: Dusty Crates, Stacks, Flying Nun, Flying Out, Southbound, Real Groovy, Marbecks, Ulo (Raglan) and or course on their bandcamp. Buy that!
Featuring a special announcement, 95bFM is pleased to be presenting Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival for 2025! Later, Pennie Noir phones in for Fashun and whakarongo mai for the weekly book review on Loose Reads, thanks to our pals at Time Out Bookstore!
Playlist
Das Goldene Zeitaler - Don't Give Up Your Smile Today
John Carroll Kirby - Blueberry Beads
Look Blue Go Purple - As Does the Sun
Four Tet - Into Dust (Still Falling) - Radio Edit
Monsoon - Wings Of The Dawn (Prem Kavita)
LEIGH - She's Back (feat. Finn Grieve)
Carnivorous Plant Society - You're Too Much
Julee Cruise - Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Tibetan 12'' Mix)
Geneva AM - Urban Planning
Zhane - Vibe
De La Soul - The Magic Number
Pearly* - Superglue
Exploding Rainbow Orchestra - Shut Your Mouth (feat. Lucy Suttor from Dick Move)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
Ladi6 - Fuarosa
Te KuraHuia - BIG MANA (feat. Kenzie)
Memory Foam - Numbers
Lives Of Angels - Golden Age
Stormzy - Know Me From
Marie Pierre - Say A Little Prayer
Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
Takeshi Terauchi & Blue Jeans - Side A Track3 (sorry I can't read the Hiragana)
Crying Ivy - Fission
Wet Leg - catch these fists
The Electric Prunes - Benedictus
The Circling Sun - Bones (Live At Auckland Unitarian 8th July)
Srirajah Sound System - Si Phan Don Lovers Rock ft Molam Inteng
Karyn yarns with Joel from Pōneke music collective Eyegum on Your Gig Is Showing about the upcoming Sceneic Tour #5 and their multi-venue festival Great Sounds Great, then later Demo Gods with Finn Johannson.
Playlist
95bFM The Saturday Spring w/ Karyn Hay Playlist
Rāhoroi, Saturday July 5th 2025
Blood Orange – The Field
Caroline Polachek – On The Beach
The Duretti Column – Sketch for Winter
The Duretti Column – Sketch for Summer
Soft Bait – Long Line
Oberbaum – Solitude
Lifeguard – Ripped + Torn
The Beths – No Joy
Carnivorous Plant Society – You’re Too Much
The Blue Nile – A Walk Across The Rooftops
Laura Anderson – Not Us
Tyler Childers – Oneida
Automatic – Is It Now?
Lifeguard – France And
Joel from Eyegum phones in from Pōneke to yarn about the collective's upcoming Scenic Tour #5 with Pearly* from Ōtepoti and Pōneke-outfit Cruelly, and their annual multi-venue festival Great Sounds Great.
Murmuration is a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Li Si Rong.
Within Murmuration Li Si Rong presents a body of work that hovers between the everyday and an imagined dream-like space, navigating humanity's relationship with the home, and the things inside them.
Her paintings Sing with sweeping colours and dance amongst familiar forms while pulling the viewer into a world of the paintings themselves; that of a feeling of home and into a space of community.
Mobile like structures hang alongside the paintings, playing a careful balancing act like that of the movements of starlings, Murmuration. Li Si Rong uses Murmuration as a metaphor for community, shifting the gallery space into a place of murmuration itself, bringing us together into a space of warmth when we need it most.
Maya had a chat with Li Si Rong about Murmuration, as well as her overall practice .
Ma 間is a new exhibition curated by Yuka O’Shannessy on at the Arts House Trust at Pah Homestead.
With a background rooted in her upbringing in Japan and exploration of artistic mediums and making, including her pursuit of fashion studies, Yuka has a refined, distinct, and thoughtful aesthetic as the Director of Public Record.
Ma is often translated to mean ‘gap’, ‘space’, or ‘interval’, referring to a space that creates harmony between elements. Exploring space, connection, and transformation, Ma 間 traverses the Japanese concept with a ‘series of intentional pauses, moments of tension, openness, and calm, that invite reflection and connection within an environment.’ Showcasing the works of 28 artists as sourced from the Arts House Trust’s collection, as well as Public Record’s and other selected artists, this exhibition presents a considered curation, presentation, and appreciation of craftsmanship and refined and unique visual expression.
Sofia had a kōrero with Yuka O’Shannessy, as well as Director of the Arts House Trust at Pah Homestead, Anita Tote-ah, about the show.
Differences in kind and rhythm is the second in a series of dialogue exhibitions made at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery since 2024, for which artists from Aotearoa are paired with international artists.
Curated by James Gatt, this exhibition pairs the work of senior multidisciplinary artist Peter Robinson and Italian painter Giorgio Griffa, eliciting a considered and cross-cultural conversation between the works and their respective practices.
Together, the paintings by Griffa and sculptural forms by Robinson have shared qualities of repeated forms and movements that respond to related concepts of repetition and difference, emergence and continuum. Common threads can be seen within the works through the complex, lyrical, the sharp and soft, illustrating subtle distinctions between similar forms and difference in expression.
Sofia had a kōrero with Peter Robinson about the making of Differences in kind and rhythm.
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