This edition of Swap Meet on 95bFM sees Oogun of Drunk Elephant Sound take the controls again.
We have to kick off with Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 (as he's just announched a show 30 May at the Auckland Town Hall), celebrate 40 years of Anita Baker's Rapture LP. From there the show journeys through Hammond organ jazz courtesy of Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery, the irresistible samba groove of birthday boy Jorge Ben, Zanzibari taarab rhythms from Rashid Makame, and the hypnotic desert blues of DJ Bamanan. Rail Band and Orchestra OK Jazz bring the golden age of Malian and Congolese rumba into the mix, while Ebo Taylor and the Souljazz Orchestra represent the broader Pan-African sweep that runs through the whole set.
Oogun also brings original productions - "Version for Version" and "Deep Architecture" teaming with OSC alias sitting alongside dub selections from Mungo's Hifi, Matty G and Jaffa Sound that give the show its NuZillund reggae tip. We spin Gang Starr to salute Preem's birthday, Ethiopian jazz textures arrive via Zena's "Kazanchis" (Brownswood) and AHC's "Push Me Pull You," and the cosmic soul of Nona Hendryx and Azimuth round things out. Press the button.
The Aotearoa Americana show for NZ Music Month, wallowing in the glory of it all. Not surprisingly featuring Marlon Williams, The Warratahs, Delaney Davidson, The Eastern, Reb Fountain, Kendall Elise, The Broadsides, Bernie Griffen and The Grifters & The Vietnam War among others. A little more surprisingly perhaps, sneaking in that quaint Hallelejah Picassos version of Who do you love?, Some Chills & Street Chant's epic NZ folk song of despair, Pedestrian Suppport League.
Join Jenn for another Thursday filled with her musical curiosities. We play some punky pop from CHAI and New Pants, get smooth with Gene Harris and Gemma and Jenn announces the first ever NZ show of Hiss Golden Messenger. Look after yourselves, don't be adick and look after our home. Mauri Ora!
It's a rainy, steamy morning in Tāmaki Makaurau and Thursday host Emma Gleason has new music from Hemi Hemingway, Repulsive Woman and Sleaford Mods (with Aldous Harding) plus some classics from Bauhaus and Kraftwerk.
Post Folk Festival slide, so a bracket of early blues women singing about sex to cheer us up. Thanks to our sponsor Studio 1 Vintage Guitars. That's a trip down memory lane too - check em out at Victoria Park Market.
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