Time for another playlist. I made this one a few days back – 40 songs, just under three hours of music. No real theme here, just a bunch of songs I like and thought might sound good altogether. That’s it. But I wanted to share it around – in case anyone else liked what they heard too.
So here you go.
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Lisa Gerrard & Jules Maxwell Burn Atlantic Curve / Schubert Music Europe gmbh There is a sound Lisa Gerrard has been mining across some 40 years now – it’s there in solo albums, soundtrack compositions and collaborations and of course most tellingly, it’s been at the heard of Dead Can Dance albums. The sound is […]
If you’re anything like me – and we’re probably both praying to our gods now for that to not be the case – you hunt out podcasts to match your interests. There are about 100 million podcasts today. That number will probably double next month. Some seem to stop quicker than they ever started. And […]
What I said was that I’d first read the poem when I was about 15. And had loved it ever since. Had thought about it – and often – for nearly 30 years. And because that clearly wasn’t lofty enough I added that the poem, this one poem, was in fact a guiding light. I […]
The Nathan Haines Octet Opera House, Wellington, 8pm Saturday, June 12 Headlining this year’s Jazz Festival The Nathan Haines Octet – and, yes, we all know how lucky we are to be seeing anything in this climate, so no issues about an all-local line-up for this year’s festival, but also Nathan Haines is an internationally […]
efficiency and poetry met and fucked had baby haiku
Hélène Grimaud The Messenger Deutsche Grammophon French pianist Hélène Grimaud is a risk-taker and a concept-maker, creating albums that pull from different styles and eras, and push into place new understandings, new beginnings even – here, with The Messenger she seeks to compare and contrast Mozart with the contemporary classical composer Valentyn Silvestrov.
Grant Lee Buffalo released two great albums Fuzzy and Mighty Joe Moon. They were released in 1993 and 1994. I caught up with them a few years later, a new friend loaned me the albums – I returned the favour by giving her a copy of The Cat Inside by William S. Burroughs and an […]
Michael Houstoun and The Rodger Fox Big Band ft. Erna Ferry Opera House, Wellington, 2pm Saturday, June 12 The once unlikely pairing of classical pianist Michael Houstoun and big-band stalwart Rodger Fox is now an annual event. They’ve even sewn up the same slot too – an afternoon show and always to a packed house. […]
There aren’t many rules in our house – but a big one is to not have the music too loud unless we all agree, unless it’s party time, unless I’m in the house alone. And to not have competing sounds – no music blasting in one room with a TV still on somewhere else, all […]
Eventually ol’ Fitzy or Trev or Mucka or Graeme or whatever the name was, asked me what sport was my favourite – my rugby-bluffing had been going about as well as the game itself. I told him I watched a lot of basketball – and loved it. And he gestured, adding “oh yeah, the hat”. […]
We are worried about billionaires and the anti-vaxxers and the pandemic they are currently anti getting vaxxed from. We are worried about tax-dodging companies and white-collar crime and gentrification’s winning streak. We are worried about climate change but never enough. We are worried about the climate-change deniers. We are worried they might be a bigger […]