This week's show featured new music from James Blake, Gary Clark Jr, and a fantastic Denzel Curry cover of Rage Against the Machine's "Bulls on Parade."
Frances Chan revels in 1973 – her favourite year in jazz. Essential jazz funk fusion celebrating their 50th anniversaries this year, plus a few newbies.
Setlist:
Billy Cobham – Spectrum
Gary Burton Quartet – Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly
Flora Purim – Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly
Donald Byrd – Black Byrd
Bobbi Humphrey – Blacks and Blues
Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson – Blues Etude (Live)
Kibrom Birhane – Merkato
Esperanza Spalding – Ponta de Areia
Sun Ra – Images
Deodato – Rhapsody in Blue
Steely Dan – Your Gold Teeth
Roy Ayers – Red, Black & Green
Placebo – Only Nineteen
Jan Gabarek, Bobo Stenson Quartet – Witchi-Tai-To
Village of the Sun – First Light
Akusmi – Cogito
Herbie Hancock – Sly
Nicholas spoke to Vira Paky a recipient of Amnesty International’s Gary Ware Legacy award about a new one-day applied theatre workshop that she is running for young refugees and migrants.
He also spoke to Music therapist Rachel Foxell about the upcoming music therapy week, that is happening from the 10th-15th of April.
And Beth catches up with artistic and academic Yolunda Hickman about My Creative Rights, a programme subsidised by Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage, that provides artists free 15-minute consultations with a legal advisor.
Vira Paky is award winning poet, playwright, writer and a community activist.
In 2021 Vira was awarded Amnesty International’s Gary Ware Legacy award.
With funding from the award and in conjunction with Black Creatives Aotearoa and Auckland Theatre Company, Vira will be hosting a a one-day applied theatre workshop for young refugees
The workshop is intended to provide a space for young refugees and migrants to explore positive mental health and well-being through applied theatre.
Nicholas spoke to Vira about the workshop, he began by asking about her experience with theatre.
Today on Loose Reads, Jenna is up in studio to chat with Rosetta and Milly about Vera, Or Faith by Gary Shteyngart - a boldly imagined story of family and country told through the clear and wondrous eyes of a child. Whakarongo mai nei!
Gallstones stroke back! But long lives Fukumodo as he returns to the crate in a somewhat better condition than last week. In this episode: Corey's grandma goes through how she boils Taro and cooks Fish, Tyler Baikie troubleshoots our computer problems, Outsider Music looks at Gary Wilson, and we play the song that pissed off cyclists who tune in to bFM.
Mike Kelly called him the most important post-psychedelic artist... This week Theo interviewed one of the “truly original voices of American comics, Gary Panter. His latest comic - Songy of Paradise is an inspired interpretation of John Milton’s retelling of the story of Jesus being tempted by Satan after being baptized by John the Baptist and fasting for forty days and nights in the Judaean Desert. Panter’s version doesn’t rely on Milton’s words, but faithfully follows the structure of Milton’s Paradise Regained, with one notable exception: Jesus has been replaced by a hillbilly, Songy, who is on a vision quest before being tempted by a chimeric Satan figure. Stay tuned to Artbank to hear about this epic new work from the artist’s mouth.
On the lead up to the election we will be having a weekly topic where we explore various issues in New Zealand and find out what needs to be done in politics to address them. This week's issue is the environment.
Producer Sam Smith did a report where he dissected Labour’s campaign launch from yesterday in which climate change was a key issue. Host Joel had a chat with Green Party leader James Shaw about environmental policy, and the necessity of the Green Party to pull Labour to the left. We had Southern Cross with AUT Pacific Media Centre's Kendall Hutt, who talked to us about human rights abuses and the New Zealand Government’s refusal to take a stance. Producer Jack also spoke with Gary Taylor, CEO of the Environmental Defence Society about the state of New Zealand’s land, air and sea.
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