A 24-hour recording of RNZ National. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:
04 June 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight (RNZ); 12:30 Laugh Track (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (BBC); 2:05 NZ Live (RNZ); 3:05 Sourdough by Chris Baker read by Peter Hambleton (RNZ); 3:30 The Week (RNZ); 4:30 Global Business (BBC); 5:10 BBC Witness (RNZ); 5:45 Voices (RNZ)
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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A Bird's Egg, by Jean Anderson, told by Jed Brophy ; The Little White Lie, by Ruth Paul, told by Madeleine Sami ; Rain Dance, by Joy Cowley, told by Moira Wairama, Tony Hopkins and Prue Langbein ; Birthday Party, by Kimiora Raerino, told by Kelly Tikao ; The Great Queen's Birthday Shemozzle, by Judith Holloway, told by Jennifer Ludlam ; Glowworm Nights, by Don Long, told by Erina Daniels ; Three Ways to Keep Yourself Safe From Aliens, by Briar Grace-Smith, told by Turei Reedy
===7:10 AM. | Country Life===
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Memorable scenes, people and places in rural New Zealand (RNZ)
===8:10 AM. | Saturday Morning===
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A mixture of current affairs and feature interviews, until midday (RNZ)
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08:12
Dacher Keltner: power and corruption
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Kim Hill talks to the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center and professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, whose new book is The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence.
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The best way to become powerful is to be nice, but being powerful turns people nasty – that is the 'power paradox' Dacher Keltner explores in his latest book.
Dr Keltner argues it is the seductions of power which enduce people to lose the very skills that enabled them to gain power in the first place.
Dr Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center. He is the author of the 2009 book Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life and was the "scientific sounding board" on the 2015 Pixar film Inside Out. His new book is The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence.
Topics: author interview, books, business, history, identity, inequality, law, money, politics, science, world
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Tags: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, John Kasich, Inside Out, Pixar, Lord Acton, psychology
Duration: 29'12"
08:45
Van Badham: privilege in Australia
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Kim Hill talks the Australian theatre-maker, novelist, social commentator, and columnist for Guardian Australia, who has written widely about privilege and politics.
Topics: economy, education, history, identity, inequality, media, money, politics, world
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Tags: Malcolm Turnbull, Duncan Storrar, Bill Shorten, The Guardian, Australia
Duration: 15'54"
09:05
Philip Armstrong: sheep
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Kim Hill talks to the Head of the Department of English at the University of Canterbury, and co-director of New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies about his new book, Sheep.
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Philip Armstrong is the Head of the Department of English at the University of Canterbury, where he also runs the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies with Annie Potts.
They are the authors, with Deidre Brown, of the 2013 book, A New Zealand Book of Beasts: Animals in our Culture, History and Everyday Life (AUP).
Professor Armstrong’s new book, Sheep (Reaktion Books), is the latest in the Animal series of short illustrated natural and cultural histories of particular animals.
He talks to Kim Hill.
Topics: author interview, farming, food, history, language, life and society, rural
Regions: Canterbury, Southland
Tags: Mesopotamia, sheep, goats, elephants, animals, Herodotus, Sarah Franklin, Annie Potts, Valerius Geist, wool, shearing, zoos, homosexuality
Duration: 41'59"
09:45
Art Crimes with Arthur Tompkins: La Bella Principessa
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Kim Hill talks to the editor of Art Crime and its Prevention: A Handbook, and District Court Judge, about La Bella Principessa, purportedly by Leonardo da Vinci.
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Arthur Tompkins is a District Court Judge, and editor of Art Crime and its Prevention: A Handbook (Lund Humphries).
He is writing a bi-monthly series of articles in the online magazine Versopolis about stolen masterpieces now back on public display.
He talks to Kim Hill about the La Bella Principessa, a chalk and ink profile portrait, purportedly by Leonardo da Vinci.
Topics: arts, crime, history
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Leonardo da Vinci, forgery
Duration: 11'19"
10:05
Anna Reed: prostitution and sexuality
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Kim Hill talks to the regional co-ordinator for the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective in Christchurch, who retired this week after 28 years.
Topics: business, education, health, history, law, life and society
Regions: Wellington Region, Canterbury
Tags: sexuality, prostitution
Duration: 27'18"
10:35
Brannavan Gnanalingam: spies, travel, and the law
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Kim Hill talks to a Wellington lawyer and writer, whose fourth novel is A Briefcase, Two Pies and a Penthouse.
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Brannavan Gnanalingam is a Wellington lawyer and writer of non-fiction (mainly for the Lumière website) and fiction.
His fourth novel is A Briefcase, Two Pies and a Penthouse (Lawrence and Gibson).
The title is a reference to a top spy who misplaced a briefcase in Wellington's Aro Valley.
All that was in the case were his business cards, a diary, three mince pies, two fruit pies, the NZ Listener, and a Penthouse magazine.
Gnanalingam's novel is is a satirical take on modern-day spies in New Zealand and how, instead of Communism, the new existential threat is Islamic terrorism.
He talks to Kim Hill.
Topics: author interview, books, conflict, crime, history, law, security, world
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: GCSB, Africa, Iran, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Sri Lanka, travel
Duration: 23'41"
11:05
Richard Ovenden: digital preservation
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Kim Hill talks to Bodley's Librarian at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries and president of the Digital Preservation Coalition.
Topics: books, history, internet, media, money, technology
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Tags: libraries, Clifford Lynch, Vint Cerf, Mary Shelley, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, vellum, Isaac Newton, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Heath
Duration: 28'36"
11:40
Simone Douglas: photographing 'home'
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Kim Hill talks to the Associate Professor of Photography at Parsons, The New School in New York about Home, the exhibition she curated for the Auckland Festival of Photography.
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Simone Douglas is Associate Professor of Photography at Parsons, The New School in New York.
She is the first international guest curator at the Auckland Festival of Photography, and will give a Talking Culture presentation (2pm, 4 June, Auckland Art Gallery) about her curation of the Home exhibition at Silo 6 (to 20 June), which features work by photographers Shan Turner-Carroll, Lin+Lam, Shoufay Derz, Ian Strange, Anna Carey, Sean Lowry, Arthur Ou, and Eva Marosy-Weide.
Simone talks to Kim Hill.
Topics: arts, climate, environment, identity, international aid and development, Pacific, refugees and migrants, technology, world
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Shan Turner-Carroll, Lin+Lam, Shoufay Dertz, Ian Strange, Anna Carey, Sean Lowry, Arthur Ou, and Eva Marosy-Weide, Vietnam, Taiwan, calligraphy, photography, Australia
Duration: 19'18"
11:55
Listener Feedback
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Kim reads listener feedback from this mornings show.
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Duration: 9'29"
11:56
Listener Feedback 4 June 2016
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Kim reads listener feedback from this mornings show .
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Duration: 9'29"
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8:12 Dacher Keltner
Dr Dacher Keltner is the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center and a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the 2009 book, Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, consulted on the 2015 Pixar film Inside Out, and his new book is The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence (Penguin).
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8:45 Van Badham
Van Badham is an Australian theatre-maker, novelist, social commentator, and columnist for Guardian Australia.
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9:05 Philip Armstrong
Philip Armstrong is the Head of the Department of English at the University of Canterbury, where he also runs the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies with Annie Potts. They are the authors, with Deidre Brown, of the 2013 book, A New Zealand Book of Beasts: Animals in our Culture, History and Everyday Life (AUP). Professor Armstrong’s new book, Sheep (Reaktion Books), is the latest in the Animal series of short illustrated natural and cultural histories of particular animals.
9:45 Art Crimes with Arthur Tompkins
Arthur Tompkins is a District Court Judge, and editor of Art Crime and its Prevention: A Handbook (Lund Humphries). He is writing a bi-monthly series of articles in the online magazine Versopolis about stolen masterpieces now back on public display. He will discuss La Bella Principessa, a chalk and ink profile portrait, purportedly by Leonardo da Vinci.
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10:05 Anna Reed
Anna Reed retired this week after working for 28 years as regional co-ordinator for the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective in Christchurch.
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10:35 Brannavan Gnanalingam
Brannavan Gnanalingam is a Wellington lawyer, and writer of non-fiction (mainly for the Lumière website) and fiction. His fourth novel is A Briefcase, Two Pies and a Penthouse (Lawrence and Gibson).
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11:05 Richard Ovenden
Richard Ovenden is Bodley’s Librarian at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and president of the Digital Preservation Coalition.
11:35 Simone Douglas
Simone Douglas is Associate Professor of Photography at Parsons, The New School in New York. She is the first international guest curator at the Auckland Festival of Photography, and will give a Talking Culture presentation (2pm, 4 June, Auckland Art Gallery) about her curation of the Home exhibition at Silo 6 (to 20 June), which features work by photographers Shan Turner-Carroll, Lin+Lam, Shoufay Derz, Ian Strange, Anna Carey, Sean Lowry, Arthur Ou, and Eva Marosy-Weide.
[gallery:2094] Images from the Home exhibition at Silo 6 (to 20 June), curated by Simone Douglas and featuring work by photographers Shan Turner-Carroll, Lin+Lam, Shoufay Derz, Ian Strange, Anna Carey, Sean Lowry, Arthur Ou, and Eva Marosy-Weide.
This Saturday’s team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington engineer: Damon Taylor
Auckland engineer: Blair Stagpoole
Christchurch engineer: Andrew Collins
Research by Infofind
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Artist: The Ashley Clinton Sheep's Choir
Song: Baa Baa Black Sheep
Composer: Trad, arr. Donald J.Squire
Album: The Ashley Clinton Sheep's Choir
Label: Kiwi, 1959
Broadcast: 11:35
===12:11 PM. | This Way Up===
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Exploring the things we use and consume. Some content may offend (RNZ)
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12:01
This Way Up 4 June 2016 Part 1
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Electricity sensing bumblebees, sci fi couple, and a new approach to fighting Alzheimer's? Also tech news: music streaming options.
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Duration: 48'12"
12:15
Electric bumblebees
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Bumblebees can sense electric fields generated by flowers, and are using these electrical signals as a navigational aid to distinguish between different flowers as they buzz around gathering pollen. We speak to researcher Gregory Sutton from the University of Bristol who's made the startling discovery.
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Bumblebees can sense electric fields generated by flowers, and are using these electrical signals as a navigational aid to distinguish between different flowers as they buzz around gathering pollen. We speak to researcher Gregory Sutton from the University of Bristol who's made the startling discovery.
Topics: science, environment
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Tags: bees, bumblebees, electricity, flowers
Duration: 4'26"
12:20
Sci fi couple
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Rochelle and Paul Scoones met through a shared love of the BBC TV show 'Doctor Who' about 20 years ago. Now they run a shop called Retrospace in Takapuna, jampacked with all manner of sci fi collectibles and memorabilia.
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Rochelle and Paul Scoones met through a shared love of the TV series 'Doctor Who' about 20 years ago. Now they run a shop called Retrospace in Takapuna, jam packed with all sorts of sci fi collectibles and memorabilia.
Paul's story of the lost Doctor Who episode The Lion, found in NZ
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Tags: collecting, sci fi, fandom, Doctor Who
Duration: 21'11"
12:40
New approach to fighting Alzheimer's?
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A new study suggests that the protein amyloid beta's bad reputation could be ill deserved. Although it's seen as the prime cause of the neurological knots and tangles found in the brains of Alzheimer's and dementia patients, now it looks like amyloid beta could be one of the ways our body's fighting off infection, working like a natural antibiotic to imprison bacteria. Robert Moir of Harvard Medical School is one of the study's authors.
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A discovery about the operation of a protein linked to Alzheimer's disease could shift the way the neurological condition is treated.
The protein beta amyloid gathers in tangles in the brain, causing neurological damage and eventually killing brain cells. Past Alzheimer's research has focussed on reducing levels of beta amyloid, but a team of researchers based in Australia and the US has found that it could be an essential part of our immune system.
Their research, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, suggests that beta amyloid is one of the ways our body fights off bad bugs; it's an antibiotic that we produce to keep infections under control.
The study was on mice and worms, but the discovery that beta amyloid is part of an immune response could mean that future treatments of Alzheimer's are more targeted at avoiding particularly damaging infections through testing or vaccination.
Robert Moir, an Assistant Professor in Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, is one of the study's authors.
Topics: health, science
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Tags: Alzheimer's, dementia, amyloid beta, protein, brain, brain cells, brain function
Duration: 10'29"
12:50
Tech news: music streaming options
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Tech correspondent Peter Griffin with the latest tech news. This week, music streaming options including YouTube Red and Spotify. Also Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund invests US$3.5 billion in Uber.
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Tech correspondent Peter Griffin with the latest tech news. This week, music streaming options including YouTube Red and Spotify. Also Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund invests US$3.5 billion in Uber.
Topics: technology, internet, music
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Tags: streaming, Spotify, YouTube
Duration: 9'14"
13:01
This Way Up 4 June 2016 Part 2
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Longevity drug, wood burners buyer's guide, treating menopause symptoms using acupuncture and Sean Carroll's 'The Serengeti Rules'.
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Duration: 51'54"
13:10
Longevity drug
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Trials with an immunosuppressant drug called rapamycin have had an astonishing effect on the longevity of mice. Early results of a small study involving dogs also look promising, and researcher Matt Kaeberlein of the University of Washington is optimistic that humans could be enjoying some of rapamycin's effects within the next decade.
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Could taking an immunosuppressant drug help us (and our pets) live longer?
That's the intriguing prospect offered by trials involving rapamycin, a medicine which prevents rejection of human organs after a transplant that's been shown to extend the lives of mice by up to 40 percent.
Now early results of a small study involving dogs also look promising. And researchers are optimistic that we humans could also enjoy some of the effects of rapamycin within the next decade.
Professor Matt Kaeberlein of the University of Washington is about to publish results of a trial involving about 40 dogs, with plans to extend this research to a larger sample size over a longer period.
Topics: science, health
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Tags: rapamycin, ageing, longevity
Duration: 8'50"
13:20
Wood burners: a buyer's guide
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George Block of consumer.org.nz is looking at the best home heating options with us as we head into winter. This week, wood burners.
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As we head into winter, This Way Up looks at the best home heating options with George Block of consumer.org.nz. This week - wood burners.
Heat pumps: a buyer's guide (This Way Up)
Electric heaters: a buyer's guide (This Way Up)
Guide to buying firewood (This Way Up)
Home Heating Guide (consumer.org.nz)
Read an edited extract of the conversation:
Simon Morton: We're in a large retailer and we’re surrounded by [wood burners], George. The first thing that strikes me is that most of them are square, most are of them are a dark blacky-brown colour. The only variable is the fact that some will sit inside a wall. Over here they almost look like cassettes. They’re inserts versus these stand-alones. Which are more efficient?
George Block: Generally these stand-alones which sit on the ground and radiate heat out from all sides are the most efficient. But those inset cassettes are definitely a good option if you’ve got an old open fire to replace or you’re replacing an old night store heater or gas fireplace.
The other distinction they make is radiant and convector. Radiant fires shoot heat out from the front. They’re the ones that you sit around with a glass of cognac. The convector ones are a bit more… not like a heat pump,but they warm the air. So they’re less toasty out front, but they provide more ambient heating.
Generally, in drafty houses radiant heaters are a good option ‘cause you can sit in front of it, warm up quickly. But if you’ve got a well-insulated, modern, airtight home, we think convectors are worth considering, as well.
So the first thing you have to work out as a consumer when you’re coming in to look at a fire is how big a fire to get – when I say big, how much heat it’s going to give out – is that the critical thing?
Absolutely, yeah. Just like heat pumps, get the right amount of kilowats for the room you’re heating. In the north of the north island in a well insulated house, 10 kilowatts is going to be fine. But if you’ve got a drafty home down south or a big, huge house in Queenstown to heat up, for large spaces you’re going to need 14 kilowatts and upwards. If you’re heating a whole home by way of a ducted heat transfer system, look upwards of 20 kilowatts.
Right here we’ve got a 26-kilowatt beast. It is a lovely looking fire – this is made in New Zealand, nearly $3,000 – versus one over here, 14 kilowatts $1,600. Quite a lot of difference in price, nearly twice the price for the bigger unit. We’re talking quite a lot of capital here, aren’t we?
Yeah, that’s right. But that said, a big heat pump is going to set you back about $3,000 plus $500 - $1,000 to install. So they are comparable to heat pumps and natural gas fires. And they also cost about the same amount to run, even if you are buying firewood. But the fact is, there is more hassle, so it’s not an option for everyone. What we’ve found is that kiwis still love their wood burners. We recently asked our Facebook followers what was the best sort of heat and wood burners won hands down. People love the radiant toasty heat. They don’t like the hairdryer effect of heat pumps. So there’s definitely still a place for wood burners. They’re going to be here for years to come.
Another number on these fires, I can see there’s a plate here attached to it and it says 67%. This is the ‘overall average efficiency burning soft wood’. What does that mean?
That’s the number that they’ve come up with in the National Environmental Standards test. This NES test we’ve got a lot of issues with. It doesn’t give an accurate measure of how efficient it is in real life. That’s because they burn this ideal wood, this flat no-knots radiate that’s burnt in ideal test conditions. When we’ve tested a wood burner with anything like real firewood those efficiencies and emissions figures are far lower. But these percentages are valuable as a comparative tool. So this one - 67% - this one is definitely going to be more efficient, you’re going to get more heat from a piece of wood.
So the critical thing is get the highest efficiently you can afford and higher means you’re going to get more efficient wood burning.
That’s right, but the most important thing to consider is the raw heat output.
What about emissions? How do you measure emissions on a wood burner?
If you look on any wood burner label, you’ll see a figure that says ‘so and so grams per kilogram’ and it’s how many grams of your firewood is going into the atmosphere in terms of particulates. That’s a real hazard because people breathe in those pieces of firewood, basically, and it can cause all manner of respitory issues. Timaru – where they’ve got a lot of wood burners – has the worst air quality in Australasia.
Surely a big factor would be the quality of the firewood in determining those emissions. If you’ve got damp, bad firewood you’re going to have higher emissions. Is it as simple as that?
Yeah, basically it is. You’re going to need to burn well-seasoned firewood. That’s firewood with moisture content less than 25%. For soft woods like pine you’re going to need to dry it for 6 to 12 months. For things like gum and macrocarpa and manuka you’re going to need to dry it for anything up to 18 months.
Topics: energy
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Tags: heating, home, wood burners
Duration: 9'27"
13:30
Treating menopause symptoms using acupuncture
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Professor Nancy Avis at the Wake Forest School of Medicine is lead author of a study on more than 200 women, showing that acupuncture can reduce the frequency of common menopause symptoms by up to 36 percent.
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Acupuncture can reduce the frequency of common menopause symptoms by about one-third.
We explored the topic of menopause late last year with this 7 part series. In it we heard about concerns regarding the long term use of HRT and the questionable efficacy of alternatives like black cohosh or bioidentical hormones. This means that many women endure hot flushes and night sweats without any effective treatment.
Nancy Avis from Wake Forest School of Medicine conducted a large-scale study on more than 200 women, who were experiencing at least four hot flushes or night sweats on average every day. Her results confirm smaller studies she's done in the past, with people receiving acupuncture reporting an average 36 percent reduction in how often they experience hot flushes.
Topics: science, health
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Duration: 5'41"
13:40
The Serengeti Rules
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Sean Carroll's a biologist and science writer and we talk to him about his new book 'The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why it Matters' (Princeton University Press).
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Sean Carroll is a biologist and science writer and in his new book The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why it Matters (Princeton University Press) he argues that regulation underpins life at every level and on every conceivable scale.
These are the rules that regulate the amount of every molecule in our bodies and rules that govern how many animals and plants there are in the wild. And according to Professor Carroll, the rules that regulate life are basically the same whether you look down a microscope or examine the whole planet and its ecosystems.
Topics: author interview
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Tags: environment, nature, animals, plants, algae
Duration: 17'52"
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We're playing these tracks too...
Artist: Royal Headache
Track: Need You
Composer: Royal Headache
Album: Rough Trade Shops: Counter Culture 15
Label: ROUGH TRADE
Artist: Juan MacLean
Track: Feel So Good
Composer: Juan MacLean
Album: DJ KICKS: Juan MacLean
Label: !K7
And our theme music is:
Artist: Jefferson Belt
Track: The Green Termite
Composer: Jefferson Belt
Album: Table Manners
Label: Round Trip Mars
===2:05 PM. | Music 101===
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The best songs, music-related stories, interviews, live music, industry news and music documentaries from NZ and the world
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10:00
Introducing: Sere
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Sere introduce their song 'Hazy'.
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Name of project: Sere
Real name/s: Bridge Shoebridge, Calum Gunn, Grant Sheridan, Zac Arnold
Age (of project): 1 year
Hometown: Auckland
Associated acts: Brand New Math, Crawler, The Electric Confectionaires, Freudoids, The Grow Room, Mean Girls, The Naenae Express, Smashin' Off, Two Wolves, Xuri Xruz, Yolanda
Formative Musical Experience:
Bridge - Seeing Gaslamp Killer DJing at Splore was an experience that happened when I was 18, so a bit later, but it has certainly informed me in a big way. I'd always watched his sets on YouTube and listened to radio rips, but seeing it live changed it all for me. I realised I was going to be dedicated to DJing and playing the drums on my own terms from then onwards, just like the big bro!
Calum - At 13 my Mum saw that I was listening to of a lot of her music (Roxy Music, Beatles etc) and she was like, listen to this - and gave me 'Strictly Commercial' by Frank Zappa. At first I hated it, but I wanted to keep listening to it for some reason. It was the first time I came across something that you had to work at to enjoy, but as a result is far more rewarding.
Grant - At age ten I used to watch lots of TV. At around 1 or 2 in the afternoons on Saturdays on tv2 they used to play good movies. One afternoon they screened the Talking Heads film Stop Making Sense. David Byrne walks out with a boom box and plays Psycho Killer by himself. That moment has stuck hard.
Zac - I knew I wanted to play music after seeing the video for In Love by The Datsuns on TV on a Sunday afternoon.
Musical Guilty Pleasure:
Bridge - I've always had a special space in my heart for M People's 'Movin' On Up', but I'm not even guilty I'm proud! When I was younger I used to keep it more of a secret I guess.
Calum - Believe by Cher, though can an amazing song be a guilty pleasure?
Grant - I don't care if people know I love ABBA and Boney M. ABBA is Pure pop genius. Especially S.O.S love that song.
Zac - True Blue by John Williamson.
Music Details
Artist: Sere
Song: Hazy
Composer: Sere
Album: Sere
Label: Arcade Recordings
Topics: music
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Introducing, Sere, Blade Runner, Arcade Recordings, rock music, psychedelic music
Duration: 6'50"
09:00
Opiuo: Born on the Dance Floor
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New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based DJ/producer Opiuo is taking his celebratory sound – and energetic live show – to the world.
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New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based DJ/producer Opiuo is taking his celebratory sound and energetic live show to the world. Alex Behan finds out how.
The late ’90s were a vibrant time for electronic music in New Zealand. As the shine wore off grunge, people began flocking to boiler rooms and dance tents. At the top of the South Island, festivals like The Gathering became a mecca for musically curious partygoers from all walks of life. It was here that Oscar Davey-Wraight – better known as Opiuo – got his first taste of the nightlife.
“I was around parties, bands and festivals with my parents, which evolved into them throwing festivals on their land in rural Motueka, up there by the river Ngatimoti. I still remember my aunty going to one of the very early Gatherings – it might have been 1996 or 1997 – and telling [me] about this festival and how it had many different types of music – I would have been 10 or something. I ended up going in 1999 and it just blew my mind.”
The Gathering remembered - RNZ Music
The Gathering Documentary ‘97/’98
Opiuo has just released Omniversal, his third album of wall-to-wall, speaker-bending soundscapes. While it’s hard to put Opiuo into a musical genre, at the beginning of his career he was one of a few artists pioneering a style known as glitch hop.
Constantly remixing and collaborating with well-known and little-known artists, his work shows his depth of musical appreciation – from Kimbra to Ray Charles, Infected Mushroom to Shapeshifter.
“I stay free and have fun with what I’m doing. As soon as you get put into a box the creative juices are restricted, and you’ve got to change that or your creative career is over.”
The young Opiuo drummed in high school bands before developing a passion for production. As a DJ, he won the national Rumble in the Jungle DJ competition in 2004 before leaving New Zealand for Melbourne.
“As I started writing music and finishing one or two songs a year, I started playing them at the start of my DJ sets. The thought of being able to make something and perform it for people, knowing that you’ve made it and produced it – it’s a crazy feeling and one I’ll never get tired of.”
In addition to his DJing, he has formed a live group. With soul singers, a brass section and one of the former Shapeshifter drummers behind the kit, The Opiuo Band now transforms his energetic songs into live music events. Whether solo or with the band, Opiuo’s live shows are something he prides himself on.
“I’ve been to see a lot of people play and been let down by the feeling that there’s no connection with the audience or it looks like they’re sending emails, and that was something I wanted to work on a lot – especially with my live solo show. I spent six months pulling apart my songs, to arrange [the show] in such a way that is visually exciting. If you want to just listen to music you can sit at home and that’s totally cool too, but I really want to let people see that when I hit this thing and when I press that thing it makes this noise.”
In Australia, Opiuo has become the darling of the underground music festival scene. He regularly headlines festivals like Queensland’s Earth Freq or Victoria’s Rainbow Serpent, which attracts 15,000 hedonistic high-energy participants every Australia Day weekend, and the clubs he plays are always heaving. But it’s America and Canada that are his biggest potential markets.
“In America you can play 50 cities in a tour. Even in Australia, you can only play seven, maybe eight. In New Zealand there’s four, five decent sized cities. It’s just sheer numbers in the end.
“The first tour I did I went over and I did like 12 shows or so. I played Burning Man, which is a crazy participation, high-involvement festival in the middle of Black Rock Desert in Nevada, and I played maybe 10 times over the week. I got a lot more shows just by playing Burning Man and another festival, Shambala, in Canada. After that I did a major tour every year of between 20 and 30 shows. The most intense one, I did 30 four shows in 38 days.”
With a new album ready for release, he is excited to get back on the road and share his new creations.
“It’s even more varied than anything I’ve ever done before. I wanted to make music that represents me and also, of course, make people party and dance.
“Music for me is a celebration of life. It’s a joy to be able to do it.”
Omniversal is out now on Slurp Music.
A Beginners guide to glitch-hop on Spotify, a playlist by Alex Behan
Topics: music
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Tags: Opiuo, electronic dance music, breaks, bass music
Duration: 7'15"
10:00
The Veils: first look at Total Depravity
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The Veils' 'Axolotl' – a menacing sign of things to come.
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UK-based NZ band The Veils are set to release their fifth album 'Total Depravity' in August, shifting the band into even more dramatic sonic territory. Frontman Finn Andrews talks to Sam Wicks about working with Run the Jewels' El-P and David Lynch on the record.
i have been listening to the veils for 5 years straight. this week i made songs with them. things are good, thanks.
— el-p (@therealelp) 5 February 2015
With one tweet, Run the Jewels’ El-P announced his collaboration with The Veils in February last year. The first of these tracks, ‘Axolotl’, has just been unveiled, along with news that the single will appear in David Lynch's new instalment of Twin Peaks.
On ‘Axolotl’, ex-pat frontman Finn Andrews is in full preacher mode, proclaiming, “Who needs the devil when you’ve got the Lord?”
Matching Andrews' fire-and-brimstone rhetoric is El-P’s dystopian synth squelches and death rattle drum programming, augmented by trumpets and guitar – a menacing sign of things to come.
The Veils’ fifth LP, Total Depravity, is released 26 August on Nettwerk Records.
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Tags: The Veils, Run the Jewels, El-P, David Lynch, Twin Peaks
Duration: 9'23"
14:00
Ladyhawke Sees The Light
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Pip Brown is in a good place right now. Sober, married, and living at the base of the Hollywood Hills, 'Wild Things' is her third album as Ladyhawke, and it reflects her positive frame of mind. She talks to Kirsten Johnstone about what got her there.
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Overcoming extreme anxiety and a reliance on alcohol to perform, Masterton daughter Pip Brown is in a good place right now. Sober, married, and living at the base of the Hollywood Hills, she's just released 'Wild Things', her third album as Ladyhawke. It's an album that reflects her positive frame of mind. She talks to Kirsten Johnstone about what got her there.
Masterton, sometime in the late '80s. Pip Brown is seated on the floor of her tiny Catholic school library. A nun is reading the notices for assembly, but Pip is daydreaming, as she often does. “I was imagining myself with the bandanna, the jeans and the denim jacket, and a guitar - rocking out in front of thousands of people.” She calls it her “Bruce Springsteen phase”. It’s a vivid memory for Pip, and one that has become a reality - but it hasn’t been easy at times.
The teenage guitar shredder escaped to Wellington in the early 2000s, where her band Two Lane Blacktop quickly gained a following. Rock was big business again, after years of club culture hogging the mainstream, and by 2003 the band had a million dollar international publishing and record deal lined up. But the pressure proved too much for the young band. On the eve of extensive tours of the US and Australia, Pip says “everything f**ked up. It was the last date of our tour with Shihad, and there were bad vibes, everyone had been fighting. Matt [Harrop] smashed his MG up at the end of the show. It was a shame – it was a nice guitar”.
Pip took the booked flight to Melbourne. “I sat with the empty seats beside me where the guys were supposed to be sitting. I didn’t say goodbye to anyone, I was so sad. That band was my life.” She was struck down by glandular fever almost as soon as she arrived, and didn’t play music for a year.
Nick Littlemore of Sydney electro outfit Pnau was looking for a new band, and convinced Pip to join. They recruited a couple of New Zealanders to play rhythm, and Teenager was born. Their 2006 debut featured contributions from members of Sonic Youth and Sleepy Jackson, and a cameo from Rowland S Howard. Pip was playing in front of crowds of thousands - again.
Encouraged by Littlemore, she started to sing - something she says her 16 year old self would never have thought possible. By 2007 the demo version of her debut as Ladyhawke ‘Back Of The Van’ was a bonafide B-net hit here in New Zealand. Taking musical cues from Pat Benatar and Stevie Nicks, and looking like a long lost member of The Runaways, she was quickly signed to Modular Records. London - and international fame - beckoned.
“I was a wide-eyed naive kid when I got to London. I was meeting all these people and feeling so vulnerable - I didn’t want to be ripped off or taken advantage of. There were people who tried things, who tried to change me. That really upset me. I had no management and no record label, but I got myself a lawyer.”
Behind the superhero moniker, impenetrable blue eyes, and confident pop songs, Pip suffered from debilitating anxiety attacks, and depression. She was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome in 2006. Alcohol was a constant prop for those awkward industry parties and stadium performances, but its effects compounded problems for her.
Ladyhawke’s 2012 album ‘Anxiety’ tackled her issues head on, a process she said was therapeutic. Sonically it returned to her rock roots, something that UK music critics weren’t impressed with.
Fast forward another four years, and ‘Wild Things’, Ladyhawke’s third album, is here. Her hooks are barbed, her synthpop sparkling, and her lyrics are positive affirmations.
But getting to this point wasn’t easy. Faced with a collection of demos reflecting the dark space she was in, she decided to throw them out and start over. “It didn’t feel like me. I didn’t want the next Ladyhawke record to be dark. I was sick of feeling dark, it’s horrible.”
She quit drinking, a process she says was “the hardest thing I’ve had to do in my life”. She didn’t leave the house in months, but her friends and family supported her in the decision, and she’s been sober now for two years.
She’s living in Los Angeles - a Melrose Place style apartment in the Hollywood Hills - with her wife, actor Madeleine Sami. She’s put down roots.
“This is the longest I’ve ever lived in a house. Since I was a kid. I like now that I can wake up in the morning, make a coffee and clean. I like that, it’s a little sense of ritual that I need.”
She’s excited to tour this record, excited to have a band around her again. She thinks she knows how to tackle that lingering anxiety onstage. “I need to be rehearsed. I used to get so wound up about shows, I’d be too nervous to rehearse at rehearsals. There’s new clarity - I feel excited to play live now.”
She reflects on past performances: “I know people knew I was nervous onstage, and I would really rock out. Like, sometimes the music wasn’t rocky. I was just nervous, and that was my way of dealing with it.”
“Now, the person that you see on stage is most likely the person you’ll meet after the show.” And you know she’ll be wearing her favourite denim and bandanna.
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Tags: Ladyhawke, Two Lane Blacktop, pop, synthpop
Duration: 12'35"
14:20
Pikelet
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Pikelet rekindles their musical practise with their latest album 'Tronc'.
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Melbournian Evelyn Morris has been making music as Pikelet for nearly 10 years.
But more recently Evelyn has been the driving force behind LISTEN, a collective who exists to spark and cultivate a conversation from a feminist perspective around the experiences of marginalised people in Australian music.
Evelyn was in the country touring their latest album Tronc and sat down with Zac Arnold.
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Music Details
Artist: Pikelet
Songs: One Structure Also Many, Dear Unimaginables, The Neighbour's Grass, Survived
Composer: E. Morris
Album: Tronc
Label: Chapter Music
Topics: music
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Tags: Pikelet, Listen, Chapter Music, electronic music, alternative music
Duration: 14'15"
14:30
Shayne P Carter - We Will Rise Again
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Shayne P Carter introduces the first offering from his forthcoming piano driven album 'We Will Rise Again'.
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Shayne P Carter introduces the first offering from his forthcoming piano driven album - 'We Will Rise Again', with Yadana Saw.
Topics: music
Regions: Otago, Auckland Region
Tags: Dimmer, Shayne Carter, Flying Nun, piano
Duration: 10'17"
15:05
Eastern Bloc
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Seasoned resident club DJ and one half of bass outfit Eastern Bloc, Marek Peszynski speaks to Yadana Saw about juggling beats, babies and bands.
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Seasoned resident club DJ and one half of bass outfit Eastern Bloc, Marek Peszynski speaks to Yadana Saw about juggling beats, babies and bands.
Uptempo bass, jersey club duo Eastern Bloc are gaining attention. Last month, MTV Australia leaked their Pop Like video, and their debut EP Flamingo hit number one on both NZ Apple Music and Spotify charts. They’ve played Rhythm and Vines, Splore 2016 and have more upcoming dates. So far, so good for DJs Artur AKA Beat Mob and Marek, whose stage name Eastern Bloc was a nod to their respective Ukrainian and Polish ancestry.
“We both realised we were Eastern European and our villages were [geographically] quite close to each other. Hence our quite volatile personalities and love of vodka”
Staying true to the ethnic-typecasting, Marek jokes that “Eastern Bloc is the sound of disappointment”. But as he shares the story of how he moved into beat production instead of vinyl spinning, I can’t help wonder whether it is the fork in the proverbial road of adulthood and a sense of former self.
Reflect on the last fifteen years of club and bar life and there is fairly high chance that DJ Marek was behind the turntables of many nights of frivolity.
“Studio Nine, Matterhorn, Havana, Good Luck, Bettys. Sandwiches - I played the opening night,” says Marek.
His residencies were predominantly in Wellington, though Aucklanders would have encountered his sets too. There are some particular features to the DJ lifestyle: late nights, ongoing parties, alcohol - at the very least, and a strong competitive gamesmanship between DJs and the music they played. It’s a seductive way to live, but for Marek it was ultimately unsustainable when he became a father - though the big turning point only happened when the eldest of his three children was about to start school.
“I fought it hard [until then], it was messy. I’d stay up. I’d get home at 6 and the kids would be up by 6.30. I did my best to remain composed, but it is really difficult.”
And that’s understandable when playing music to a crowd is your formative experience that becomes your adult way of life
“I remember my first gig, I was in Seventh Form in 1995, and I put my hand up to DJ the Junior Social”
Having seen pictures in magazines of a mixer, which he promptly hired from audio accompany, he then
“Brought two tape players from home and stacked up my arsenal of 1995 [dancefloor] bangers and a cassingle of Deee-Lite’s Groove Is In The Heart.”
So began Marek’s insatiable taste for vinyl that only he owned; attending dance parties on any given night - which was easy in the era of Squid Bar, The Box, Cause Celebre, The Brain et. al. It was also the era of easily accessed student loans, enabling Marek to invest in his first mixer and turntable set-up which he put to good use hosting house parties in his warehouse flat and thus completing the picture of mid-90s youth. Marek went on to work in record stores, vinyl labels, and promotion locally and overseas, and throughout continued to DJ other people’s music.
Now, with Eastern Bloc he’s moved into producing, but as the self-confessed “Big Poppa” amongst his and Atur’s collaborators, such as Montell 2099 and many up-and-coming producers, Marek’s not sure he’s ready for his parenting instincts to kick in in this “non-parent” world.
But so long as the music’s good, Marek won’t be hanging up his headphones just yet.
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Introducing: Montell2099
Music details
Artist: Eastern Bloc
Songs: Japanada, Pop Like, Pinky
Composer: Aldridge, Peszynski
Album: Flamingo EP
Label: Private
Artist: Deee-Lite
Song: Groove is in the Heart
Composer: Tei/Brill/Kirby/Chung/Deee-Lite/Q-Tip/Hancock
Album: World Clique
Label: Elektra
Topics: music
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Eastern Bloc, bass music, electronic music, dance music, parenting, vinyl, DJ
Duration: 11'21"
16:00
Unstrung Heroes at the Spiegeltent
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Led by Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper, The Black Quartet is bridging musical worlds. For a one-night-only concert for the Auckland Arts Festival, they collaborated with Tiny Ruins, Lawrence Arabia and Rob Ruha - we caught the performance for your listening pleasure.
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Led by Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper, The Black Quartet spans musical worlds, having played with everyone from Kanye West to the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.
For one-night-only they are joined by special guests James Milne (Lawrence Arabia), Rob Ruha & Hollie Fullbrook (Tiny Ruins) to perform arrangements of favourite artists songs, in a show commissioned and produced by Auckland Arts Festival, and premiered live in the Spiegeltent during the Auckland Arts Festival 2016.
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Medley (Quartet)
Travelling Shoes (w/James Milne)
Tiki Tapu (w/Rob Ruha)
Ravel medley (Quartet) Ravel/Gotye
Me At The Museum, You at the Wintergardens (w/Hollie Fullbrook)
Whakapuakina (w/Rob Ruha)
It's Time (w/Rob Ruha)
Mishima (Quartet) Philip Glass/David Bowie
Early Kneecappings (w/James Milne & Hollie Fullbrook)
Night Owl (w/Hollie Fullbrook)
Eleanor Rigby (w/James Milne & Hollie Fullbrook) The Beatles
Take On Me (Quartet) Aha
Unstrung Heroes was recorded by Andre Upston for Radio New Zealand on 10 March 2016.
Topics: music
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: live music
Duration: 55'24"
16:30
SWIDT - Onehunga's Finest
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SWIDT's Smokeygotbeatz, Spycc and INF talk to Sam Wicks about their hometown rap pride.
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Drawing together the talents of Spycc, INF, JAMAL, Boomer, AZA and SmokeyGotBeatz, Onehunga crew SWIDT (See What I Did There) fly the flag for their hometown, name-checking its sights and sounds any chance they get.
“It wasn’t like we had a meeting and were like, ‘Yo, let’s rep Onehunga to the maximum,’ says Spycc. “It’s just an innate thing – like we’re from there, we grew up there, eh. Even if you ask other locals, they’re the same. It’s just within the culture of Onehunga.”
With the release of their Smokeygotbeatz’s presented debut, SWIDT vs EVERYBODY, they talk to Sam Wicks about their hometown pride.
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Duration: 10'27"
17:00
Music 101 Pocket Edition 89: Ladyhawke/Eastern Bloc/SWIDT
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In this week's Music 101 Pocket Edition: Ladyhawke and her new sober LA life; Eastern Bloc's sound of disappointment and SWIDT fly the flag for Onehunga.
Topics: music
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Tags: Pocket Edition, Ladyhawke, Eastern Bloc, SWIDT
Duration: 51'32"
19:30
Day Of The Dead: an epic tribute to the music and artistry of the Grateful Dead
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Nick Bollinger surveys an epic five-disc tribute to tie-dyed icons Grateful Dead.
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Nick Bollinger surveys an epic five-disc tribute to tie-dyed icons Grateful Dead.
Bryce and Aaron Dessner like big projects. A few years ago, the twin brothers – who play in the group The National – oversaw Dark Was The Night: a two-disc compilation for AIDS fundraiser the Red Hot Organisation, a celebration of alternative music in the broadest sense, with contributors ranging from Cat Power to the Kronos Quartet. Now they have curated another Red Hot collection on an even grander scale.
The theme is the music of the Grateful Dead, that legendary American band, known among other things for concerts of epic length. In their heyday, a Dead show could last anything up to six hours, which is roughly the length of Day Of The Dead: a staggering 59 tracks, spread over 5 discs. To a Deadhead, that’s obviously an appropriate tribute. For anyone who dislikes the Dead it’s a promise of torture.
(There’s a joke told among the unconverted that goes: What do Deadheads say to each other when the drugs wear off? Answer: What is this horrible music we’re listening to?)
Then there are those who wouldn’t know whether they liked the Grateful Dead or not - after all, it’s more than twenty years since the group disbanded, following the death of its leader and figurehead Jerry Garcia, and there’s a generation for whom the Dead are just some hairy hippie band from the pages of history. For such people, Day Of The Dead makes a good corrective. Though the music here isn’t performed by the Grateful Dead, the Dessners have gone out of their way to show what the Dead were, representing their work in all its facets.
The set seems to be designed to ease you in gradually, opening with ‘Touch Of Grey’, the Grateful Dead’s fluke top ten hit from 1987, the only time in their 30-year career that they ever threatened the pop charts. It’s reworked in an 80s-retro style by the War On Drugs, with frontman Adam Granduciel offering a passable approximation of Garcia’s reedy singing.
In fact, one thing that is established early in this collection is the uncanny number of contemporary singers who can sound like dead ringers for Jerry Garcia, a singer I always thought of as unique in his plaintive, unflashy warble. Jim James of My Morning Jacket does a plausible ‘Candyman’, backed by the album’s house band, which includes the Dessners, fellow Nationals Bryan and Scott Devendorf and drummer Conrad Doucette, while Grizzly Bear’s Ed Droste tackles the Garcia solo tune ‘Loser’.
By this point the Grateful Dead neophyte may be getting the impression that the Dead weren’t so psychedelic after all, but rather a mellow country-rock band; and at times that’s exactly what they were. It’s not all they were though, and one of the things that made them interesting, even at their most erratic, was that they could be many things at once. In his pre-Dead days, Garcia had been a jug band and bluegrass musician, elements of which remained a cornerstone of the group’s sound throughout their thirty years. Bass player Phil Lesh, on the other hand, was a trained classical trumpeter and had studied composition under Italian modernist Luciano Berio. Drummer Bill Kreutzmann (kroytsman) had a background in jazz; percussionist Mickey Hart was an ethnomusicologist, and guitarist Bob Weir was the closest thing they had to a conventional rock’n’roller. They came together in San Francisco in the mid-60s, just as the hippie movement was staking its ground, and almost by default became its soundtrack. They played at acid tests, trips festivals and Be-In’s, and what had started out as a fairly stock repertoire of 60s folk-rock began to expand into cosmic opuses, which the Dessners’ nod to here in tracks like ‘Nightfall Of Diamonds’, a long improvisation in which the Dessners capture the spirit of one of the Dead’s psychedelic jams, while creating a whole new piece of music.
At other times, it’s more the classical experimentalism of the Dead that’s being honoured. Pioneering minimalist Terry Riley and his son Gyan rework ‘Estimated Prophet’ using a series of drones, while Bryce Dessner takes transcribed fragments of a live Garcia guitar solo to create a whole new composition.
The peak of the Dead’s own compositional ambitions came in 1977 with the second side of their album Terrapin Station. It’s a suite, composed by Garcia and the band’s lyricist Robert Hunter, as elaborately layered as anything in the catalogues of King Crimson or Yes. And it’s performed here in its seventeen-minute entirety – with full orchestration – by an ensemble that combines members of the National and Grizzly Bear.
If prog-rock epics aren’t to your taste, how about world music? Senegal’s Orchestra Baobab offer a version of ‘Franklin’s Tower’, picking up on the hints of African highlife that ran through the Dead’s Blues For Allah album.
While the Dessners can be heard behind the various guests on most of the 59 tracks, providing a solid continuity, a few acts, like Orchestra Baobab, have been left to their own devices. Wilco – who, in their broad embrace of everything from Americana to the avant-garde, resemble in some ways a modern-day Dead – weigh in with a concert recording of the Dead classic ‘St Stephen’; Courtney Barnett gives the Altamont memoir ‘New Speedway Boogie’ her patented slacker-trio treatment, while Marijuana Deathsquads attack the stoner anthem ‘Truckin’ with electronics.
And New Zealand’s own Ruban and Kody Nielson, as Unknown Mortal Orchestra, turn in a far more funky treatment of ‘Shakedown Street’ than the Dead ever managed.
The one time I actually saw the Dead in concert was in the early 80s, at the University of California Los Angeles. I went with a local who had seen the Dead dozens of times. When I asked him what I could expect, he said, as though he were quoting Desiderata: ‘Dead shows are like snowflakes. No two are the same.’
It was certainly unlike most other rock shows I’d seen. There was little fanfare as they shambled on stage; no costumes, none of the usual arena pyrotechnics. A couple of the band were actually wearing shorts. It was maybe half an hour into the set before I started to hear beautiful flurries of guitar notes cutting across the chords – Garcia, who had been keeping a low-profile to one side of the stage, seemed to have finally woken up.
In some ways this album resembles that show I saw, with all its peaks and a few troughs. Mumford and Sons massacre ‘Friend of the Devil’, one of my favourite Dead songs.
But perhaps more than anything, Day Of The Dead is a tribute to a spirit; a spirit in which the rootsiest folk songs and the most cosmic psychedelia exist on the same plane, and where the best things happen when there is room left for chance. Whether you are a paid-up-and-tie-dyed Deadhead or a complete novice, it would be hard to come away from these six hours of music without thinking how rare and noble that spirit is.
Songs featured: Touch Of Grey, Candyman, Loser, Terrapin Station, Franklin’s Tower, Shakedown Street, Truckin’, Morning Dew, Nightfall Of Diamonds, Gracia Counterpoint.
Day Of The Dead is available on 4AD Records.
Topics: music
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Tags: music, music review, Grateful Dead, The National
Duration: 14'46"
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Artist: Flume
Song: 3
Composer: Streten
Album: Skin
Label: Transgressive
Ladyhawke
Artist: Low
Song: I'm On Fire
Composer: Bruce Springsteen
Album: Dead Man's Town: A Tribute to Born in the USA
Label:
Artist: Bat For Lashes
Song: Sunday Love
Composer: Natasha Khan
Album: The Bride
Label: Warners
Shayne Carter - We Will Rise Again
Artist: Shayne P. Carter
Song: We Will Rise Again
Composer: Carter
Album: Single
Label: Private
Pikelet
Artist: Pikelet
Songs: One Structure Also Many, Dear Unimaginables, The Neighbour's Grass, Survived
Composer: E. Morris
Album: Tronc
Label: Chapter Music
Introducing: Sere
Artist: Sere
Song: Hazy
Composer: Sere
Album: Sere
Label: Arcade Recordings
Artist: The Veils
Song: Axolotl
Composer:
Album: Total Depravity
Label: Nettwerk Recordings
3-4pm
The Sampler: Day of the Dead
Artist: The War On Drugs
Song: Touch of Grey
Composer: Garcia, Hunter
Album: Day of the Dead
Label: 4AD
Artist: Jim James and Friends
Song: Candyman
Composer: Garcia, Hunter
Album: Day of the Dead
Label: 4AD
Artist: Daniel Rossen, Christopher Bear and The National (featuring Josh Kaufman, Conrad Doucette, So Percussion and Brooklyn Youth Chorus)
Song: Terrapin Station
Composer: Garcia, Hart, Hunter, Kreutzmann,
Album: Day of the Dead
Label: 4AD
Artist: Ed Droste, Binki Shapiro & Friends
Song: Loser
Composer: Garcia, Hunter
Album: Day of the Dead
Label: 4AD
Artist: Orchestra Baobab
Song: Franklin's Tower
Composer: Garcia, Hunter, Kreutzmann
Album: Day of the Dead
Label: 4AD
Artist: Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Song: Shakedown Street
Composer: Garcia, Hunter
Album: Day of the Dead
Label: 4AD
Artist: Marijuana Deathsquads
Song: Truckin'
Composer: Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter
Album: Day of the Dead
Label: 4AD
Artist: The National
Song: Morning Dew
Composer: Dobson, Rose
Album: Day of the Dead
Label: 4AD
Artist: Nightfall Of Diamonds
Song: Nightfall Of Diamonds
Composer: Garcia, Hunter
Album: Day of the Dead
Label: 4AD
Artist: Nightfall Of Diamonds
Song: Nightfall Of Diamonds
Composer: Garcia, Hunter
Album: Day of the Dead
Label: 4AD
Artist: Anderson. Paak
Song: Am I Wrong? ft. Schoolboy Q
Composer: Anderson. Paak
Album: Malibu
Label: Steel Wool Recordings
Eastern Bloc
Artist: Eastern Bloc
Songs: Japanada, Pop Like, Pinky
Composer: Aldridge, Peszynski
Album: Flamingo EP
Label: Private
Artist: Deee-Lite
Song: Groove is in the Heart
Composer: Tei/Brill/Kirby/Chung/Deee-Lite/Q-Tip/Hancock
Album: World Clique
Label: Elektra
Artist: Leisure
Song: All Over You Montell2099 remix
Composer: Leisure
Album: Single
Label: Private
Opiuo
Artist: Opiuo
Songs: Wiggle Sticks
Composer: O.Davey-Wraight
Album: Butternut Slap, Part 2
Label: Slurp Music
Artist: Opiuo
Songs: Misty Digits, Spuzzle Bucket
Composer: O.Davey-Wraight
Album: Meraki
Label: Slurp Music
Artist: Opiuo
Songs: Sneakers
Composer: O.Davey-Wraight
Album: Omniversal
Label: Slurp Music
Artist: Kendra Morris
Songs: Japanada, Pop Like, Pinky
Composer: Aldridge, Peszynski
Album: Flamingo EP
Label: Private
Artist: Beck
Song: Wow
Composer: Hansen
Album: Single
Label: Capitol Records
4-5pm
Artist: The Warratahs
Song: Mount Victoria Rain
Composer: Saunders
Album: Runaway Days
Label: Native Tongue
Unstrung Heroes Live at the Spiegeltent
Medley (Quartet)
Travelling Shoes (w/James Milne)
Tiki Tapu (w/Rob Ruha)
Ravel medley (Quartet) Ravel/Gotye
Me At The Museum, You at the Wintergardens (w/Hollie Fullbrook)
Whakapuakina (w/Rob Ruha)
Album: RNZ Recording
Label: RNZ Recording
Artist: Jordan Rakei
Song: Blame It On The Youth
Composer: Rakei
Album: Cloak
Label: Soul has No Tempo
Artist: Johnny Wakelin
Song: Black Superman
Composer: Wakelin
Album: Single
Label: Rajon
SWIDT vs Everyone
Artist: SWIDT
Songs: No More Parties in Stonehunga, 312
Composer: I.Libeau, D.Latu, A.McGoram, J.Muavae
Album: SWIDT vs Everybody
Label: SWIDT Records
Artist: Spycc feat. David Dallas
Songs: Ain't a Phase
Composer: I.Libeau, D.Latu, D.Dallas
Album: SWIDT vs Everybody
Label: SWIDT Records
Artist: SWIDT
Songs: Level Up
Composer: I.Libeau, D.Latu, A.McGoram
Album: SWIDT vs Everybody
Label: SWIDT Records
Artist: Ganxsta Ridd and Aaradhna
Songs: West Without You
Composer: I.Libeau, P.Devoux, D.Devoux, A.Patel
Album: SWIDT vs Everybody
Label: SWIDT Records
Artist: Hit-Boy
Songs: Automatically
Composer: I.Libeau, C.Hollis
Album: SWIDT vs Everybody
Label: SWIDT Records
Artist: Audio Push
Songs: SixtyOneImpala
Composer: I.Libeau, J.Browne, L.Jacks
Album: SWIDT vs Everybody
Label: SWIDT Records
Artist: Jay Rock
Songs: Parental Advisory
Composer: I.Libeau, J.Mckinzie
Album: SWIDT vs Everybody
Label: SWIDT Records
Artist: King Lil G
Songs: Born 2 Be A Menace
Composer: I.Libeau, A.Gonzales, P.Wadams
Album: SWIDT vs Everybody
Label: SWIDT Records
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=AUDIO=
=SHOW NOTES=
This playlist is a work in progress and therefore subject to the odd change. The final version will be here at around 6pm on Saturday.
7 - 8pm
Kitty, Daisy and Lewis - Swinging Hawaii
Richard Tauber - Waltz Of My Heart
Franz Lehar - Gold And Silver Waltz
Errol Mason - Napoli
The Ravens - Ol' Man River
Louis Armstrong and Frank SInatra - The Birth Of The Blues
Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons
10CC - Rock And Roll Lullaby
Andy Williams - Danny Boy
Andre Rieu - Once Upon A Time In The West
Michaelangelo - Emmylou Harris
Simon and Garfunkel - The Boxer
The Righteous Brothers - Rock And Roll Heaven
8 - 9pm
Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé - Barcelona
Alma Cogan - I Can't Tell A Waltz From A Tango
Tex Williams - The Night Miss Nancy Anne's Hotel For Single Girls Burned Down
The Faces - Sweet Lady Mary
The Yoots - Po Atarau (Now Is The Hour)
Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
Marianne Faithful - Going Home
21 Pilots - House Of Gold
Tami Neilson - Walk Me Back To Your Arms
The Grimethorpe Colliery Band - Abide With Me
Jose Feliciano - Old Turkey Buzzard
Pink Turtle - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
Tommy Emmanuel And Glenn Shorrock - Reminiscing
9 - 10pm
Carly Simon - Coming Round Again
Tim Buckley - Sweet Surrender
10CC - Don't Ask
"Hair" Original Cast - Easy To Be Hard
The Louvin Brothers - Brown's Ferry Blues
The Monkees - Good Times
The Monkees - She Makes Me Laugh
Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
Arlo Guthrie - Cowboy Song
Manhattan Transfer - A Girl In Calico
Joe Jackson - I Ain't Got Nothing But The Blues / Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
The Puppini Sisters - Sisters
Nina Simone - Mood Indigo
10 - 11pm
The Brooklyn Rundfunk Orkestrata - Climb Ev'ry Mountain
Kitty, Daisy and Lewis - I'm So Sorry
Wishbone Ash - The King Will Come
Stevie Wonder - Isn't She Lovely
Manfred Mann - Snakeskin Garter
Nomad - Love Will Call
Howlin' Wolf and Eric Clapton - The Red Rooster
Snakefinger - The Model
Townes Van Zandt - For The Sake Of The Song
11pm - Midnight: Late Night Phil. Looking (and listening) to the week in music history.
The Hillbilly Moon Explosion - Westbound Train
Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli - St. Louis Blues
Gary Brooker - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
Cee Lo Green - Crazy
Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick
Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Ronnie Wood - Train Kept A Rollin'
Alanis Morrisette - Let's Do It
Oasis - Live Forever (Acoustic)
Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Woman (live)
Ian Hunter - Just Another Night
Curtis Mayfield- New World Order
Ray Davies and Paloma Faith - Lola