Phil Elverum is the primary songwriter, performer, and producer for Mount Eerie and The Microphones. For around 27 years, Phil has been creating some of the most revered and critically acclaimed indie folk of all time. His music veers between stripped back acoustic guitar recordings, to terrifyingly loud and distorted sonic experiments.
Mount Eerie is currently on the verge of a return to Aotearoa, playing in Tāmaki Makaurau, Pōneke, and Ōtepoti with Black Belt Eagle Scout - another band from Washington State that will bring new and classic Mount Eerie tunes to a new, full band soundscape.
I’ve been obsessed with the music of The Microphones and Mount Eerie since I was fourteen. I think I had the Glow Part 2 album cover as my profile picture on Google for about four years, so suffice to say it was a real privilege to interview him. We had a yarn about the upcoming shows, his previous tours of Aotearoa, twenty years of the Mount Eerie name, and more.
Sperber Dan highlights new and recent releases and a few classics, does some jazzplaining about ‘In A Silent Way’ with Laura Biding-Citizen, then takes us op shopping in West Auckland and spins the week's vinyl finds.
(New releases and classics)
Sunlight - The Golden Eternity
Wild Horses - Javier Malosetti
Routes To Knowledge - The Golden Eternity
Drum VS Tide - Salin
Sugarcane Funk - Salin
Moewe - Löwenzahnhonig
Wildfire - Kresten Osgood
Sibomandi (feat. Fallo Nioke) - Alabaster De Plume
One For Mganga - Mike Clarke
Nakuru - Niclas Knudsen
Existe Uma Voz - Rogê
Eu Só Quero um Xodó - Gilberto Gil
In A Silent Way - Joe Zawinul
In A Silent Way - Miles Davis
(Op shop LPs)
Am I Blue - George Barnes (From Velvet Guitar)
123 - Alan Haven (From Organ Magic)
Cadenza - Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra (From Presents)
Mambo Garner - Errol Garner (From Mambo Moves Garner)
The Good The Bad And The Ugly - Basil Henriques and the Waikiki Islanders (From Hawaiian Honeymoon)
Roda - Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66 (From Look Around)
Ebony Jam - Tower Of Power (From In The Slot)
Besame Mucho - Herb Alpert (from Magic Man)
Sugar - Ernie Wilkins and the Almost Big Band (From S/T LP)
Texture - Dizzy Gillespie (From Closer To The Source)
Norwegian Wood - Alan Haven (From Organ Magic)
Easy Listening - Shieldstone (From S/T LP)
The government recently made a series of changes to the licensing requirements for early childhood centres to be able to operate.
These include repealing the network approval provisions for people looking to establish early learning centres and removing the Person Responsible Staff requirements to have a full teaching licence.
The government justified these reforms by saying regulation cuts would make it easier for early childhood centres to operate, thus addressing Aotearoa’s teacher shortage.
However, many Kaiako working in early childhood education have said deregulation does not address the root causes of the teacher shortage, and that more focus is needed on addressing pay inequality for teachers within the sector.
For this week’s Get Action! Oto spoke to Early childhood Kaiako and member of the New Zealand Educational Institute, Hayley Cross, to discuss a petition from the union to the government calling for pay parity in early childhood education.
Campbell and his good mate Cassawarrior at the controls on June's final show with incredible selection of dusty treats from the Afro disapora, and some surprises thrown in for good funky measure. Turn it up!
A selection of works by the four artists nominated for Aotearoa's most prestigious art prize, The Walters, is currently being exhibited at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
The $50,000 Walters Prize - which is now awarded every three years - is being decided this year between artists Owen Connors, Juliet Carpenter, Brett Graham and Ana Iti.
Sofia spoke to Senior Curator of Global Contemporary Art at Auckland Art Gallery, Natasha Conland, about the prize and the candidates this year.
The winner will be announced in late September, so stay tuned for more coverage from us then! You can see the works of the finalists yourself at Auckland Art Gallery on until the 20th of October.
Dr Suliana Mone is a lecturer at Auckland Law School whose research focuses on international law, human rights, women's rights, and Pacific law. She is especially focused upon exploring the resistance to adopting the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in the Kingdom of Tonga. Dr Suliana Mone hops on Ready Steady Learn to discuss the changes in the law relating to Human Rights and the environment in the Pacific Islands, as well as the impact and longstanding complications caused by the imposition of colonialist laws in these nations.
Earlier this week, ACT leader David Seymour announced that the basic outline of the treaty principles bill, which would be introduced to parliament in November later this year, would include acknowledgements saying that iwi and hapū had specific rights to their lands.
This comes after more than 400 Christian leaders in Aotearoa signed a joint letter condemning the bill and asking MPs to strike it down, as well as Prime Minister Christopher Luxon making an official statement saying that he wouldn't support the bill beyond its first reading.
For our weekly catch up, News and Editorial Director, Joel, spoke to the Green Party’s Ricardo Menendez-March to discuss the recent changes to the treaty principles bill and whether or not it guaranteed protections for Iwi and Māori.
We also talked about government cutting pay parity agreements for relief teachers at Early Childhood Education Centres, as well as Concerns over Nicole McKee's efforts to reform gun laws
Featuring Your Gig Is Showing with Reuben Bonner - one of the co-organisers of The Others Way, Implausible Deniability with Stella and Dear Finn. Whakarongo mai nei!
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