Music 101 for Saturday 1 April 2023

Nau mai haere mai, welcome to Music 101 with Charlotte Ryan on 1st April. 

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1.20 Kimbra - NYC, Synthony and A Reckoning

Kimbra joins Charlotte Ryan to talk new music, life and living in NYC

2.10 Music 101 LIVE Grace Cummings

Grace Cummings is a folk/blues musician from Australia who says she takes influence by 20th century poets and luminaries such as Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Paul Kelly. 

Her voice is powerful as you will hear and her songwriting intensely personal. 

Last year she released her album STORM QUEEN to critical acclaim. 

In her short career, Grace has been invited to support Weyes Blood, Evan Dando, J Mascis and the Allah-Lahs in Melbourne. 

She is currently touring NZ with The Veils so we asked her to come in and play her a Live Session.

2.30 The Sampler: SURF FRIENDS

This week Tony reviews the latest from Tamaki Makaurau duo Surf Friends.

3:20 Introducing: AJA 

This week on Introducing its 2022 APRA Maioha Silver Scroll Award winner AJA. 
The Poneke based singer and producer has just released her beautiful new single ‘Feel It’ 

3.30  Vera Ellen is finally back home

After mostly living in America since 2016, Pōneke native Vera Ellen is firmly based back home. Her last album It’s Your Birthday won her an Aotearoa Music Award for Best Alterna-tive Artist, and received a nomination for the Taite Prize. She’s just released Ideal Home Noise via Flying Nun Records, an album that was the product of some tough times, but is full of joyous songs. Tony Stamp visited Vera in Wellington to learn more. And just a content warning – this story contains mention of suicide.

4pm  The Mixtape - Guy Montgomery

GUY MONTGOMERY is an award-winning stand up comedian, podcaster, improviser, and Kiwi, and he is going on tour in 2023 with his brand new stand up show My Brain is Blowing Me Crazy.

His Mixtape playlist is:

Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto - Corcovoda

 Radiohead - Separator

 Donna Lewis - I Love You Always Forever

 Mos Def - Umi Says

 Jerry Jones - Still Water 

Talking Heads - Naive Melody

Songs played on the show today:

1-2
Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou - Homesickness Pt 2
The Beths Tiny Desk - Expert in a Dying Field 
Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Interview: Kimbra 
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - Dead to the world
Patsy Cline - Crazy
Boy Genius - Not Strong Enough

2-3
​Val Bennett - The Russians are coming (aka Take Five)
Interview: Grace Cummings 
Speedometer - Kashmir
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
Office Dog - Big Air
The Sampler: Surf Friends 
Fly My Pretties - Fly My Pretties (feat. Barnaby Weir)
Ms. Dynamite - Dy-Na-Mi-Tee
Khruangbin and Leon Bridges- Mariella 

3-4
Baileys Nervous Kats - Rumble
LIPS - Never have I 
Bill Callahan - Coyotes
M101 Introducing: AJA
Marta, Tricky - Moving through water 
Tom Lark - Radio Blaster
Vera Ellen Ideal Home Noise 
Cowboy Junkies - What I lost 
Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fool
Mali Mali - The Sentence 

4-5
Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto - Corcovoda
Radiohead - Separator
Donna Lewis - I Love You Always Forever
Mos Def - Umi Says
Jerry Jones - Still Water 
Talking Heads - Naive Melody