RNZ: New Horizons

William Dart looks back at the career of Laurie Anderson and her latest album, Landfall, about Hurricane Sandy, created with the help of Kronos Quartet.

William Dart pays tribute to singer-songwriter Tom Rapp, most well-known for leading the late 60s-early 70s band Pearls Before Swine, and who died recently.

After announcing the demise of its own print version earlier last year to go fully digital, the local magazine NZ Musician reappeared on the streets with a December/January edition. A fan of paper, William Dart celebrates by featuring a number of the local albums reviewed in its 'Fresh Cut' section.

William Dart looks at the music of Lisa Knapp, an English folksinger-songwriter with tiny hints of Kate Bush and Björk to her sound.

English banjo player and songwriter Dan Walsh is currently touring NZ: he’s playing 21 small venues across the county, so William Dart thought this week’s New Horizons just had to be... Banjo week.

William Dart kicks off the year by listening to a number of brotherly musical partnerships, including the Finns, the D'Addarios (from The Lemon Twigs) and the Maels (from Sparks).

William Dart is hauling a sack of Christmas goodies … songs by Sufjan Stevens, Jamoa Jam, Paul McCartney with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots, Shirley Temple, The Radio Kings, Esquivel, and Luther Vandross among others.

For his penultimate show of the year, William Dart pulls together a few tracks that had to be left out of his previous programmes. Featuring Randy Newman, Neil Finn, Andrew Bird, Fiona Apple, Lol Coxhill, and Lorde.

William Dart looks at some newish American folkie releases from Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Deer Tick, and Ages and Ages.

One of the most mysterious outsider figures in contemporary music was Connie Converse, considered now to be one of the first of the modern singer-songwriters. William Dart looks at a recent tribute album of her songs featuring artists from Jeff Tweedy to Laurie Anderson.