Rosetta and Milly kick off their coverage of the Auckland Pride Festival, joined by TAKATAPUNANI, MAN(K)ILLA, and Allie Howell - who are part of the Wheke Fortress takeover of Te Tīmatanga this year! Catch them screening their short film on February 14 at the Auckland Art Gallery with a panel of insightful kōrero led by Coco Solid. Whakarongo mai nei!
Frances Chan features the brand new album by Clear Path Ensemble from Wellington and plays a round of jazz-tinged reggae.
Setlist:
Sarah Vaughan – Summertime
Clear Path Ensemble – Drumatix
Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann – Dr T
Perez Prado – Music Makers
Jean Carn, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Black Love
Clear Path Ensemble – Solar Eclipse
Mark de Clive-Lowe – Third Plane
Theo Croker ft. Ego Ella May – Somethin’
Raffy Bushman – Olympus
Str4ta & Emma-Jean Thackray – Lazy Days
Swindle – Miss Kane
Athletic Progression – And1
Athletic Progression – Emelev
Linton Kwesi Johnson – Wat About Di Workin’ Class
Ernest Ranglin – D’Accord Dakar
Rotterdam Ska-Jazz Foundation – St James Infirmary
Jaco Pastorius, Bireli Lagrene, Thomas Borocz – I Shot the Sheriff
Ezra Collective – Ego Killah
Thomas McCook – Caution
The Aggrovators – Springtime
Clear Path Ensemble – Sunrise Motif
Tonight's show was actually entirely curated by bFM's own Samuel Harmony, who sent Oto and Jaycee, not just a playlist, but a stack of CDs and Casettes that he collected while he was in Indonesia as part of the New Zealand Delegation attending AXEAN Festival 2025. Whakarongo mai to experience 2 hours of Psych rock, folk, disco and more by Southeast-Asian artists playing at the festival!
Happy New Year and with that Walao starts off strong with Co-Host Jaycee showing us demos and his top plays and discoveries from 2025. From Hyperpop to experimental, what a treat!
Oto and Jaycee played a variety of shoegaze and dreampop tracks by artists from across Southeast-Asia and had a chat with Daystar, a Singaporean artist who recently dropped a track called 'washed up' in the lead up to his upcoming E.P.