Music 101

Show Notes

13:15 Tiki Taane on why he's taken his music off Spotify

The latest musician to remove his music from the platform isn't shy about speaking out, in fact he's released a track called 'Bye Bye Spotify'. He tells Kara "this isn’t my first rodeo making protest songs".

14:15 Co-founders of Wāhine in Jazz Francesca Parussini and Na'amah Cheiban 

The Tāmaki Makaurau-based organisation have for three years been advocating for female jazz musicians in Aotearoa, celebrating with the release of a live recording by Wave Infinity Junction, which features members of Phoebe Rings and the Fazerdaze touring band. 

Francesca, Na'amah and band members Wren Probett and Minju Kim Join Kara to break it down.

15:10 Majic on final  Kōkōuri EP Mutuwhenua

The kaupapa Māori waiata project has released its third EP, Mutuwhenua. Led and organised by mātanga reo Hana Mereraiha with Majic alongside a range of other singers, it features production by Rory Noble. 

15:40 The Sampler: Jens Lekman

Tony Stamp investigates a new album called Songs For Other People's Weddings, by Swedish pop musician Jens Lekman, who has made a career pivot into actual wedding singing, and co-authored a book about it.

16:10 The Mixtape: Gareth Shute

The author of five non fiction books about music and creativity in Aotearoa, Gareth Shute's latest is called Songs From the Shaky Isles: A Short History of Popular Music in New Zealand. He also writes for music history website Audioculture, and has played in bands like The Brunettes, and more recently Thee Golden Geese. He joins us to share seven favourite songs.

Songs Played:

1pm-2pm

• Eden Burns - Vocal Tune

• Kelis - Trick Me

• La Coco - Rhythms

• Beastie Boys - Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win (ft Santigold)

• Tom Scott - Gyal Like You

• Tiki Taane - Bye Bye Spotify, Always on My Mind

• Katy J Pearson - Take Back the Radio

• Loaded Honey -  Tokyo Rain

• Dillastrate - So in Love

• Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette

2pm-3pm

• Sanoi - It Might Take Some Time

• Beth Orton - Couldn’t Cause Me Harm

• Young Moon - That Highway Light

• Wave Infinity Junction - Alone Together, Waltz #2

• Thandii – You Got It

• Zoe Hunter - Intentions, Over (live)

• Fine Young Cannibals - Suspicious Minds

3pm-4pm

• Paolo Ormi e la sua orchestra - La Cama de Josè

• Fiona Apple - Criminal

• Majic Paora - Tikina

• Pandemonium - Jordyn with a Why

• Thundercat - I Wish I Didn't Waste Your Time

• Nightmares on Wax, Mos Def - Bang Bien

• Jens Lekman - Wedding in Brooklyn, On a Pier, On the Hudson, Candy From a Stranger

• Cass McCombs - Peace

• Adrian Sherwood - The Collapse of Everything

• MĀ - Pūhā me te Porohewa

4pm-5pm

• Split Enz -  Nobody Takes Me Seriously

• The 3Ds - Golden Grove

• Sisters Underground - In the Neighbourhood

• The Brunettes - Polyester Meets Acetate

• Jonathan Bree and Princess Chelsea - Miss You

• Stellar* - Every Girl