The ever eclectic hosts Lonely Buffalo (aka Chris F.) and Li'l Parsnip (aka DJ Sassy) go trip-hopping and acid-jazzing into 2026 with the final 95bFM Jazz Show on 95bFM.
Sassy's top picks for the week:
Barry Adamson - Jazz Devil ... so HOT it gave me all the good vibes...wink!
Air - Le Femme D' Argent ... oui oui!
Darkstar - Hold Me Down ... this got a hold of me and I never want to let go
Connan Mockasin - Momo's ... I want mo mo of this!
James Carter / Cyrus Chestnut / Ali Jackson / Reginald Veal - Summer Babe ... brings out the ultimate summer babe in Sassy
Mica Paris - Nothing Hits Your Heart Like Soul Music ... this hit my heart AND my soul!
Mojave 3 - Got My Sunshine - this also warmed me up!
We also raised a glass to ALL the jazz show hosts to say adios to 2025?!?!
Campbell digs Japan, and he's just back from a ten day jaunt of well curated record stores, incredible food and many greetings of "Arigato gozaimasu!"
His set this month is full of raw, soulful heaters and cosmic jazz-funk that makes you screw your face up like you accidentally ate the ball of wasabi along with your sashimi. All time Swap Meet fave Garfield Fleming’s 'Don’t Send Me Away' still hits like heartbreak on vinyl, that pleading vocal over lush orchestration is pure modern soul gold. And then there’s Mystic Harmony’s Lovers Rock take on The Jones Girls' 'Nights Over Egypt' deep, spiritual, and epic. Add Freedom Suite 'Come Closer' to that category: a rare groove Trini disco dub with the kind of bassline that makes you look around the room for someone else who heard that. The funkier edges really pop off with Wild Fire 'The Dealer' another Trinidadian gem that’s psych-funk with fuzz guitar and heavy attitude.
Campbell keeps it moving with the glistening disco of Chantal Curtis ‘Get Another Love’ to Booker Newberry III’s ‘Love Town’, there’s that roller-skate-ready shimmer. Then off to Brasil with Alma Brasileira ‘Peixeiro’ a choro inflected samba and Dom Salvador’s ‘Barumba’, all syncopated rhythms and raw, earthy joy. On the modern tip, Cool Affair ‘Motoric Patterns (Kaidi Tatham Mix)’ slides in with some proper bruk energy: Kaidi doing what he does best. Mr Ngata has the jazzheads covered too - and we also gotta keep pumping current faves The Circling Sun!
John Key’s resignation means big changes for the whole of New Zealand as we wait to find out who will be our new Prime Minister, and who will lead National into the next election. But we can’t forget how John Key’s been elected into parliament for the last 14 years - the people of Helensville. Key has said he’ll continue as Helensville's MP so as to not trigger a by-election. But he won't be contesting the seat next year.
John Key’s been called the ‘everyman and nowhere man’ of the electorate, which is centered around the town of Helensville northwest of Auckland. But he’s always been popular, winning about 60-75% of the vote over the last 3 elections. So what’s going to happen to the contest for Helensville, now that it’s no longer a cut-and-dry Key victory?
95bFM reporter Daniel Walker speaks to Labour Party secretary general Andrew Kirton.
GoldLink – Rough Soul feat. April George
NxWorries – Lyk Dis
Alexander Frankel – Get Back
Phantogram – Calling All
Crystal Castles – Concrete
Dane Terry – One More Name In Nightlife
A Tribe Called Red – The Virus feat. Saul Williams & Black Bear
Cakes Da Killa – Up Out My Face feat. Peaches
Hugo Jay – Spent
Jack Grace – All Lost
Moses Sumney – Lonely World
Sun Kil Moon – I Love Portugal
Beatcomber – Sick Breeze
Obliques – Cut Me Loose (Ill Feeling)
Allah-Las – Could Be You
RBTS WIN – King Summer
Kimbra – Sweet Relief
Ricky Eat Acid – Nice To See You
Courtship Ritual – 28
Sleigh Bells – Hyper Dark
Soft Hair – In Love
Two People – If We Have Time
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Rings of Saturn
Weyes Blood – Generation Why
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions – Let Me Get There feat. Kurt Vile
Casper Skulls – Errands
Kim Gordon – Murdered Out
Tycho – Horizon
The Eversons – Good At Making Enemies
Run The Jewels – 2100 feat. BOOTS
Dbldbl – I Did My Best // Worst
The Chemical Brothers – C-h-e-m-i-c-a-l
Austra – Utopia
Jim James – Here In Spirit
LITE – Else
Aan – Forever Underfoot
Goat – It's Not Me
The Flaming Lips – How??
Soft Hair – Alive Without Medicine
Yellow Days – Gap In The Clouds
The Julie Ruin – Mr So and So
Crying – Wool In The Wash
Fake Palms – Collar Bone
Permit – Track #1
Kate Tempest – Ketamine For Breakfast
Common – Pyramids
Childish Gambino – Me And Your Mama
Lee Fields & The Expressions – Where Is The Love
The xx – On Hold
Dbldbl – Jerk
Zeds Dead – Stardust feat. Twin Shadow
Cut Off Your Hands – Hate Somebody
Pond – 30,000 Megatons
Helado Negro – It's My Brown Skin
Weyes Blood – Seven Words
Leonard Cohen – Steer Your Way
The Dustaphonics - Cachaça (Bossa Twang)
Thee Oh Sees – You Will Find It Here
Animal Collective – Mountain Game
Childish Gambino – Redbone
Soft Hair – Alive Without Medicine
Computer Magic – Been Waiting
Electric Guest – Dear To Me
Dbldbl – Happiness//Smile
Beastie Boys – So What'cha Want
The Cool Kids – Connect Four
Kate Tempest – Ketamine For Breakfast
Dead Moon – Dead Moon Night
Menace Beach – Give Blood
Quint Baker – Touch Play On The Tape Recorder
Julia Jacklin – Pool Party
Molly Burch – Try
Julie Byrne – Natural Blue
Joanna Newsom – Make Hay
Polyester – Lucky Me
The Proper Ornaments – Cremated (Blown Away)
Jim James – Hide In Plain Sight
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand
Chaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2 – Star Stuff
Foreign/National – Too Sentimental
Ty Segall – Orange Color Queen
Matthew Squires – Shape Of Your Heart
Deep Cuts – Take Me Back
Glass Animals – Season 2 Episode 3
Radiation City – The Clod and the Pebble
Soft Hair - Jealous Lies
Merk - Treehouse Club
Parquet Courts - Dust
David Bowie - Lazarus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jesus Alone
Radiohead - Burn The Witch
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
BADBADNOTGOOD - In Your Eyes feat. Charlotte Day Wilson
Childish Gambino - Riot
P.H.F. - Queen
M83 - Do It, Try It
The Weeknd - Starboy feat. Daft Punk
Leisure - Control Myself
Roots & Fyah - Arab Uprising feat. Earl Sixteen
Dr. Dog - Survive
Mariachi El Bronx - I Would Die 4 U
Pissed Jeans - The Bar Is Low
JEFF The Brotherhood - Idiot
Frank Ocean - Pink + White
Kaytranada - Glowed Up feat. Anderson .Paak
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - First World Problems
Tycho - Epoch
Cut Off Your Hands - Hate Somebody
Moon Duo - Clod Fear
Luke Temple - The Birds Of Late December
Childish Gambino - Me and Your Momma
The Beths - Mississippi Moonshine Girls
Sriwhana Spong is an artist seemingly at home on the road, so it was a great privilege that she pulled into the studio while in Aotearoa, and talked at length on artbank. This podcast file skips the intro, so, here is a quick one now… Sriwhana Spong spans disciplines as she weaves her interest in film, memory, ballet, mythology, her Balinese and New Zealand roots, language and the sublime. The paintings, films, banners and choreography that leap out from this mix can often be zingy and humourous, but are also slow-burning, cutting, heartfelt and considered investigations. It is the kind of work which one wants to know the stories that have fueled their creation. In this interview Spong discusses recent stints in Pittsburgh and Rotterdam, her work in the Headlands Sculpture on the Gulf, and her current show at Michael Lett Gallery.
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