This Saturday Carlotta kept things sweet and soulful for the listeners. Pulling at the heart strings kinda vibe. Sharing some hella wonderful and recently discovered melodies! Any queries for track ID's don't hold back on reaching out here.
Travelling Tunes takes us to whichever musical motherland our resident ethnomusicologist, Dr Kirsten Zemke, sets course for. This week's topic is Yé-yé!
Cam's selects tracks From The Crate to inspire you sonically! This week's From The Crate couldn't be more relevant with International Record Day just around the corner. Thanks to our friends at Southbound Records.
Donna Kerridge (Ngāti Tahinga, Ngāti Mahuta) is a Kaumatua with more than twenty years of experience sharing matauranga and wisdom on rongoā Māori.
She holds a strong belief in the importance of building connections and learning from our environment as essential to maintaining and restoring our own health.
As part of EcoFest 2025, Donna will be facilitating an introductory workshop to Māori medicine, inviting participants to explore health through an Indigenous lens and learn more about the relationship between our taiao and the whenua.
Green Desk Producer Sara spoke with Donna this week to talk more about the workshop, and how rongoā Māori can benefit health outcomes in Aotearoa. Here is that interview.
Featuring an interview with Peter Hobbs, Travelling Tunes with Dr Kirsten Zemke discussing Yé-yé, Viewmaster with Litia and the Record Store Day special with Cam on From The Crate, thanks to our mates at Southbound Records.
Extra-terrestrial doula VIDA joins bFM for a kōrero as one of the finalists for Best Independent Debut Awards for the upcoming 2025 Taite Music Prize.
VIDA chats with Sofia on Morning Glory about their debut EP Aquatopialien. The ep revolves around the story of alien Takavi who "was jamming in space, the jam got too fire... they fell down to planet earth and had to raise the earth's place and space through sonic sound and frequency".
Aquatopialien is fluid, nourishing, and wet. Through the eye of Takavi, absurdity explores mundanity, evoking a yearning for something you can't explain, or do not yet know.
Sofia had a kōrero with Aotearoa Art Fair director, Sue Waymouth, about the kaupapa of the fair and this year’s programme, ahead of its opening on 1st May.
Beth had a kōrero with Pōneke poet Cadence Chung about their latest collection of poetry, Mad Diva, out now via Otago University Press.
Cadence Chung is a poet from Pōneke. Her poetry has been featured in Aotearoa publications such as Bad Apple, Landfall, Starling and The Spinoff. Her chapbook, anomalia, was published in 2022.
Mad Diva is their latest collection of poetry, published by Otago University Press on April 8th. It is rich in imagery of divas in opera houses, art galleries, dive bars, bedrooms; in the purple light of Farmers at dusk and in Wakefield Street at midnight.
Beth had a kōrero with Cadence about Mad Diva, and how opera and poetry informed the other in her creative process
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