On the Air - Mā runga iarere

Nau mai haere mai, welcome to On the Air - Mā runga iarere with Tony Stamp and Maggie Tweedie for Thursday, 23 January 2025.

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12.35 Sharon Van Etten on touring and new music

American singer songwriter Sharon Van Etten discusses her music and new tour with her band The Attachment Theory across America and Europe. 

1:10 What inspires Te Kaahu?

Te Kaahu is one of two projects by Em-Haley Walker (Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Tīpa). She caught up with Tony and Maggie over Zoom to talk everything from the inspiration for her Te Kaahu projects, her time at Massey University, singing in Te Reo and her latest Theia single ‘BALDH3AD’.

2:10  The young musicians changing how Pasifika music is defined

The TAHI podcast host, So'omālō Iteni Schwalger, takes a deep dive into some of the young Pasifika musicians across Aotearoa who are changing how Pasifika music is defined, and shares a handpicked playlist to match.

3:30 Clinical psychologist Julia Rucklidge on bush bathing 

Professor Julia Rucklidge, a clinical psychologist, is the Director of Te Puna Toiora, the Mental Health and Nutrition Research Lab at the University of Canterbury.  On this episode of On The Couch Julia Rucklidge gives Maggie Tweedie and Tony Stamp some more helpful lifestyle interventions to improve wellbeing from savouring to meditation and bush bathing. 

4:10 Musical Chairs: Dennis Bovell

Tony Stamp sits down with Caribbean Reggae King Dennis Bovell MBE and trails through his many lives in music as a record producer, reggae guitarist, bass player and taste maker in the UK and abroad. 

Songs Played:

12:30pm - 1pm

Alessandro Alessandroni - Cielo Verde

Rufus - Tell Me Something Good ft. Chaka Khan

Betty Wright - Clean Up Woman

Sharon Van Etten - Afterlife

Sharon Van Etten - Southern Life

Maribou State - Blackoak

1pm - 2pm

Akalé Wubé - Anbessa ft. Manu Dibango

Te Kaahu - I Roto I Te Poo, I Roto I Te Ao

Te Kaahu - Taku Makau

Quincy Jones - Summer in the City

Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Time Will Tell

Nadia Reid - Hold It Up

Grace Jones - Man About The House

Joan as Police Woman, Tony Allen, Dave Okumu - Geometry of You

2pm - 3pm

The Quantic Soul Orchestra - Father

big al. - In Tune ft. LB

Nganeko - Down Bad Patrol

Myshaan - Summer Serenade

SEMA - Real

Deadforest - Plastic

Juga - Wonder

Hales - Castle in the Sky

3pm - 4pm

Fatback Band - I Found Lovin'

Bicep - Glue

Smog - I Feel Like the Mother of the World

George Johnston - Zealandia Dawn Chorus

Fela Kuti - Fefe Naa Efe

4pm - 5pm

Dennis Curtis - Come With Me

Dennis Bovell - Game of Dubs ft. Janet Kay

LKJ In Dub - Peach (Dub)

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Riot in Lagos

Saâda Bonaire - You Could Be More As You Are

Dennis Bovell - Dub of Ages