Happy Rāmere e te whānau! It's been a huuuuuge week but Rosetta and Milly are ending on a high, with a great Brekkie show for you! E whai ake nei, coming up on the show today: Travelling Tunes with Kirsten Zemke, a kōrero with Deva Mahal about her EP release and forthcoming tour, and From The Crate with Cam! Whakarongo mai nei!
This week Sofie flies solo, sans Jude! Joined by the wonderful Gabi, the show storms through the miserable weather with some sunny feel-good tracks and a sprinkling of English & Russian Post Punk.
Heaven is the place where nothing ever happens, ya frothers! Heaven is the mighty B. ⛅🧘💫🌌🪄
Filling in for Huia today (don't worry, she'll be back next week).
This week's Fancy New Band is self-described "Tāmaki chorus pedal dealership" Young Baptistplaying forthcoming singles and a bFM classic, live and direct from the bFM studio and brought to you by NZ on Air Music.
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.
After a hiatus following their first release in 2019, Young Baptistare back with new material. The Tāmaki Makaurau four-piece is comprised of vocalist and guitarist Hugo Collins, drummer Emlyn Williams, Tim Burrows on lead guitar, and Nico Fitzpatrick on bass. Whakarongo mai nei to hear their forthcoming singles, plus a live version of a tune familiar to bFM listeners, Ice Cold Sensation. Keep an ear out for more recorded tunes set for release this year.
Principal Tara Iti Ranger at DoC, Sol Cranna-Smith, chats with Rosetta and Milly about his mahi looking after the Tara Iti / New Zealand Fairy Tern. Whakarongo mai nei!
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