Music 101 for Saturday 31 August 2024

 

1.20  Rikki Morris: On being an 80s popstar and finding the perfect ballad 

In 1988 New Zealand was riding the wave of 80s pop culture, and at the forefront was Rikki Morris. His hit ‘Nobody Else’, produced by his late brother Ian Morris, topped the charts here.

Rikki has won a ‘Tuis’ award, the prestigious APRA Silver Scroll, and he’s played in legendary bands Th’ Dudes and The Crocodiles, but yet he’s spent the greater part of his music career discovering new bands as a studio engineer. 

It’s been decades since Rikki Morris has given us new music, so it was exciting to hear he has released an album, aptly titled About Time. 

Rikki Morris NZ Tour dates:

Saturday 31 August, Room Twenty5, Nelson
Sunday 1 September, The Shelter, Lincoln Christchurch
Friday 6 September, The Jam Factory, Tauranga
Saturday 7 September, Nivara Lounge, Hamilton
Sunday 8 September, 4th Wall Theatre, New Plymouth

2:15  ‘It’s an other-worldly state’: Bill Callahan talks songwriting 

American Songwriter Bill Callahan has been writing music under the name Smog and his own name since the early 1990s.

His distinctive baritone voice and melancholy songs often sound like poems set to music.

Last year while on tour celebrating his album Reality, they made a recording of their live show in Chicago. The result, a live album Resuscitate! that explodes some of his best loved songs. 

Charlotte speaks to Bill Callahan about the special qualities of the live album and how he finds musical inspiration. 

3:15 'Music is a divine gift' says Teremoana Rapley

Teremoana Rapley speaks to TAHI presenter So'omālō Iteni Schwalger at the Pacific Music Awards after receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award.

 

3.40  The Sampler reviews Jack White’s new album

Elliott Childs reviews Jack White's latest album No-Name noting that it marks a return to the bluesy rock sound that originally endeared him to fans of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather. 

4pm - The Mixtape: Pitchfork former Editor Puja Patel 

Our guest picking the music today is one of the most powerful voices in the music industry.  New York-based music journalist Puja Patel was the editor-in-chief of Pitchfork, a hugely influential music publication. 

Previous to that, Puja was the editor of SPIN, the culture editor of Deadspin and has written for Rolling Stone, Washington Post, VICE, FADER and local NY rag The Village Voice.

Puja is widely credited for bringing diversity to Pitchfork’s music reviews and festivals. She has been an absolute champion of black, queer, and woman artists, and has relentlessly used her platform for change. 

Earlier this year it was announced that Pitchfork was being folded into GQ magazine and, after six years at the helm, Puja left the publication.

Charlotte Ryan talks music with Puja Patel.   

Songs played on the show
1-2
Sola Rosa - Dont leave Home
Massive Attack - Paradise Circus
The Smile - Zero Sum
Van Morrison - Sweet Thing
Rikki Morris - The Saddest Sound
StrawPeople & Fiona McDonald - Taller Than God
TV on the radio - Love Dog
James - Laid

2-3
Radiohead - The National Anthem
Oasis - Champagne Supernova
SJD - You are the Movement
Phoebe Rings - Daisy
Chris Knox - Lapse
Bill Callahan - Keep Some Steady Friends Around
Marla Ketherc - All That We Have (feat. Sofia Grant)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Song of the Lake
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Empty Trainload Of Sky
Doves - Firesuite
 

3-4
Roni Size - Heroes [Kruder's Long Loose Bossa]
Ladi6 - Guru
Christoph El Truento - Burning Sensation feat. Tom Scott
Aaradhna - SHE 
The Roots - Right On
Dateline - Dumb For My Age
Office Dog - INTACT 
Johnny Cash - Father and Son With Fiona Apple (Stevens)
The Temptations - Papa Was A Rolling Stone
Jamie XX - Daffodil

Puja's Mixtape songs:

Luther Vandross - Never Too Much
Beenie Man / Ms Thing - Dude
Robyn - With Every Heartbeat
Magnetic Fields - Book of Love
Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
Waxahatchee - Right Back to It