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Hearing Mike Nock

The Music Show ·

2023/07/23

In 1993, Mike Nock recorded one of his most iconic solo albums, Touch in the Eugene Goosens Hall at the ABC studios in Ultimo, Sydney.30 years on from his last solo album, Mike has returned to same hall for his newest release, Hearing. Through its 13 tracks, this album showcases Mike's musical artistry as both a pianist and composer, featuring a range of his own compositions, improvisations and some tunes from some other of his favourite musicians including Bryce Rohde and Jonathan

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Benjamin Appl's Forbidden Fruit & Busby Marou's...

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2023/07/22

Singing forbidden fruit with Benjamin Appl, and live music from Rockhampton duo Busby Marou.Rockhampton duo Busby Marou have been making music together for sixteen years. They say they’re better live but their fifth studio album, Blood Red, doesn’t sound too bad either. Combining Tom Busby’s singer-songwriter sensibilities and Jeremy Marou’s guitar chops and Torres Strait islander musical culture, their sound has a breezy optimism that they’ve worked hard to achieve, as they

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Chopin's Piano with Aura Go

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2023/07/16

Australian pianist, Aura Go plays Chopin - both the character, and all 24 of his Preludes - in the stage production of Paul Kildea's book Chopin's Piano. Combining live musical performances with theatre, the production brings to life the story of the piano made by the local Majorcan craftsman, Juan Bauza in Palma. Threaded together by Chopin's 24 Preludes, the story follows the piano from its time with Chopin during that historic winter in Majorca, to its new life in Paris with

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Marcia Hines is Still Shining, and Evelyn Ida Morris...

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2023/07/15

Fifty years after her debut recording Marcia Hines reflects on a life and career full of stories, and Evelyn Ida Morris finds their voice through improvisation on the piano. Marcia Hines marks fifty years since her debut recording this year, but her life in music started long before that. Raised with gospel in Boston, she was at Woodstock when she was 16 and then shortly after on her way to Australia to star in the local production of Hair. And then she stayed. After Hair came

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Unbreakable Bach with Michelle Nicolle

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2023/07/09

Bach is indestructible. Jazz singer Michelle Nicolle is the latest in a line of musicians to take the music of J.S. Bach and do things to it. Her jazz ensemble pops by The Music Show studio to play live selections from her new album The Bach Project, in which her acrobatic vocals draw closer and further from Bach’s original music.As an improviser himself, Bach’s music is fertile ground for reinterpretation, and we’ll hear from the late Jacques Loussier, the Brodsky Quartet’s Paul

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Riding the waves: cosmic country, saltwater songs,...

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2023/07/08

In 2019, Freya Josephine Hollick travelled to the famed Rancho de la Luna studio in Joshua Tree to record her most recent album titled The Real World. Growing up in regional Victoria, her music education mainly stemmed from Black Swan Record Store in the heart Ballarat, wihch eventually sparked her passion for music by the likes of Gram Parsons, Townes Van Zandt, and other giants of the Cosmic and Outlaw Country scene. Ahead of her appearance at the Adelaide Guitar Festival, Freya

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From Little Things Big Things Grow

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2023/07/02

This is the story a song written by Kev Carmody and Paul Kelly around a campfire in 1988. What started off as a casually recorded folk number has become what Carmody calls “a kind of cultural love song”: a foundational entry in the Australian songbook.This year’s NAIDOC Week theme is “For Our Elders”, so RN’s Rudi Bremer went to speak with Kev Carmody at his studio on Kambuwal Country to gather his recollections of From Little Things Big Things Grow as it started, the story of the

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On the dancefloor with First Nations artists Naretha...

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2023/07/01

Robbie speaks to Electric Fields - Zaachariaha Fielding and Michael Ross about the perspectives that have been infused into the music through collaborative songwriting and Zaachariaha's upbringing in Mimili (APY Lands). After noticing their undeniable creative spark back in 2015, they have been making music together that hark back to the days watching Rage on the weekends, while adding their own individual sounds and stories to the mix.Electric Fields made their orchestral debut

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ANOHNI & the Johnsons reborn, Sydney trio HEKKA get...

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2023/06/25

ANOHNI & the Johnsons return with My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, a kind of reunion-rebirth for the band after frontwoman Anohni Hegarty devoted over a decade to her solo work. Famed for her soulful voice that bridges an extraordinary range of intimacy and power, My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross is an album that takes ANOHNI’s lifelong preoccupations with the self and the natural world into a new space with a new vocabulary. Robbie talks to her about the album, her

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Ragas on modular synth with Arushi Jain; and Freedman...

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2023/06/24

Arushi Jain is adamant that she’s not a “classical Indian musician.” Leaning on her roots in Hindustani musical tradition, she weaves together ethereal soundscapes that feature melodies and moods based on traditional Indian ragas swirling around an electronically generated soundscapes. Previously releasing music under the monikers Modular Princess and ose | ओस, she draws on her studies in computer sciences at Stanford, and gravitates towards the electronic DIY, working mostly with

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Quartet: The musical lives of four British women...

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2023/06/18

Writer Dr. Leah Broad's book Quartet charts the transition from the Victorian era to mid-20th century modernism through the lives and works of four significant female composers: Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell and Doreen Carwithen.

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Pop Hooks for Big Weekend of Books

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2023/06/17

Pop music is an art, it’s a science, it’s an industrial complex. Two experts, musicologist Jadey O’Regan and psychologist Tim Byron, have joined forces to write the book on Hooks in Popular Music and they're going to tell us about the mechanics behind the music that gets in our head, from Beethoven to Britney.And producer Ce tells the story of Ethel Smyth, the Suffragette composer, and the music she wrote for her beloved Emmeline Pankhurst.

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Remembering Kaija Saariaho

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2023/06/11

The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho died over the weekend at the age of 70. Eschewing hardcore serialism and hardcore spectralism, her music found a way of describing colour and light with the orchestra and on the opera stage. Jack Symonds is the artistic director of Sydney Chamber Opera and an advocate for Saariaho’s music. Ahead of his performance of her choral work Tag de Jahrs with The Song Company Jack remembers Saariaho and her music.Melbourne-based Speak Percussion are using

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Max Richter Sleeps again, and Balinese electro-jazz...

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2023/06/10

Internationally renowned composer Max Richter is in the studio for his Music Show debut. On tour in Australia to perform at VIVID in Sydney and Dark Mofo in Hobart, Max speaks to Robbie about his "protest music" and how he the moon remains a generous source of inspiration. Perhaps best known for his extensive project SLEEP, Max also talks us through some of the thoughts behind the music to doze off to. And we are joined in the live music studio by musicians from two Melbourne

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Chamber music by French trailblazer Louise Farrenc...

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2023/06/04

Pianist Leigh Harrold returns to the stage of Tempo Queer - a series of concerts run by Coady Green at Brunswick's Tempo Rubato. With oboist Dafydd Camp, Leigh presents "In Praise of the Vulnerable Man," a program of music by queer male composers. And clarinettist from the Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra, Nicole van Bruggen gives us some insight into what it might have been like to be a female composer and pianist in mid-19th Century Paris through the eyes of Louise

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Little Richard & Joy Oladokun: Blackness, Queerness &...

The Music Show ·

2023/06/03

Director Lisa Cortés’s new documentary Little Richard: I Am Everything traces the conflicts and contradictions of one of the pioneers of Rock n’ Roll. Lisa talks about Richard’s battles with his queerness and his religiosity with a particular gentleness, as well as revealing what made him one of the era’s greatest performers.And Joy Oladokun is another American artist whose music balances her queerness and her faith. Raised in a charismatic church community in Arizona, she was

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Shirley Collins' Octogenarian Folk Trilogy

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2023/05/28

Shirley Collins was a cornerstone of the English folk revival, releasing twenty something albums, travelling, and cataloguing traditional tunes with Alan Lomax between the 1950s and the 1970s. Then, after a tide of personal misfortune, she lost her voice. She sustained herself working clerical jobs until her pension came through, at which point she moved back to her native Sussex and reconnected with music. After a 38 year gap between albums, 2016’s Lodestar cemented her place as

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Yazmin Lacey's Voice Notes and Balkan Jazz Fusion...

The Music Show ·

2023/05/27

After arriving late to the music scene via a pub in Nottingham, Yazmin Lacey brings a fresh outlook to the world of British soul. After finding her voice through an open-mic-night, Yazmin has taken the little moments from her life that she captured as short voice notes to realise her debut album, aptly named Voice Notes. East of West brings a taste of the Balkans and the Mediterranean to the Music Show's live music studio. The trio (Goran Gajić, Malindi Morris and Philip

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Three countertenors, a sea monster, and the pianist...

The Music Show ·

2023/05/21

Behind Pinchgut Opera's production of Legrenzi's neglected military epic Giustino, and Polish pianist composer Hania Rani pulls apart the piano.

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Chinese Opera from the Pear Garden and Cabaret in the...

The Music Show ·

2023/05/20

Ali McGregor talks about falling into opera and cabaret (and a mixture of both!) And we take a trip into the Pear Garden with Li Fuhua, Li Mingliang and Lulu Liu as we chat about Chinese Opera.

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