Wax Lyrical

This episode features a soundscape of recordings done in India and Nepal. Algal takes you on a soundwalk along the buzzy, labyrinthine streets of Thamel. Up into the rangy, rocky Himalayas. Through the humidity of Kochi. Hear what pops up, within and without Algal's brain.

Songs:
Nikhil Banerjee – Raag Rageshree
Pritish Nandy – Sometimes
Suzanne Kraft – Scripted Space
Ramu – Vinayaka Sthuthi
Charanjit Singh – Raga Megh Malhar
Wilson Tanner – Loch and Key
Malaysia Vasudevan & S.P. Sailaja – Pattu Engey (Where is the song?)

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*Explicit* Some swears and a drug reference.

What is the Aussie storyteller? A larrikin, a rabble-rouser, a muso, a politician?

Join Absent DJ in a brief and by no means exhaustive excursion into spoken word in Australian music. Poems, field recordings, samples - political malaise & the great Aussie drawl.

TRACKLIST

ju ca - ... hiding our long shadows like wilted flowers [or words that fell like murmurs... unable to touch] "live excerpt”
EYE - GST (the Goods & Services Tax - redistributing funds from the poor to the rich?)
Mood Ring - MRV1
r hunter - Improvisation for poem by Stine Marie Jacobsen
Red Wine and Sugar - That Book You're Reading
EYE - Transnational Corporations Own 90% of Australia but pay
Laila Sakini - Life Out Here Is Changing
dream dad - Bye
ju ca - ... hiding our long shadows like wilted flowers [or words that fell like murmurs... unable to touch] "live excerpt”

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2Nite's Producer sits down with musician and field recordist, Flo and the two explore memory through sound. Flo's recordings map her trip across Latin America with an emphasis on music, culture and intimate moments. Check out Flo's podcast, 'Tales In The Anthropocene' here: https://bit.ly/36YkK1A

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Algal talks to his uncle, Algie’s Little Brother about the death of a loved one.
The two expound on life after death, and life during life.
Featuring a special soundtrack of classic dad tunes from Bruce Cockburn, Jimmy Little, Sister Janet Mead and Gerry Rafferty

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Sydney based poet and DJ, DJ OFF IT, reimagines a hybrid poetry/dj set initially performed at an Ear Health Workshop put on by NECTAR, AfterHour and Apparent Motion. "ask people to repeat what they say (or a poem about decay)".

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2Nite's Producer delves back into the dystopian present. Featuring a soundscape of toil from across the world and a lucky few talking about the apocalypse at a pub. Tracks from Audiomachine, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Colin Stetson, OFB and Jóhann Jóhannsson.

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Join Algal as he takes you beneath the surface of the Darebin Parklands. Listen to the broad, lilting accent of the head ranger, Peter Wiltshire. Be awed or entranced or drowsed as a small child is, seated and starry-eyed before their storytelling grandma.
Songs from Brian Eno, Gaussian Curve, Eirwud Mudwasser, Minus Group, Wim Mertens, Cathie O'Sullivan, Walter Wanderley

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What does chess have to do with language? What does playing chess reveal about the self? In the way that you move across the board, of course, but also in the language you use when you do so - swearing and strategising.

Absent DJ challenges DJ MSG to a few games in the park...

Tracks from: Koyiul, ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ, Eli Keszler, Invisible Path, Ambienti Coassiali, Healing Crisis.

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2Nite's Producer is joined in the studio by local rapper Mack Daddy Fresh and his friends to discuss Dice Therapy, rocks with googly eyes, weapons and The Matrix.

Tunes from Zack Fox x Kenny Beats, JPEGMAFIA, Dominic Talarico and Mack Daddy Fresh himself.
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Plants

-Why they’re so good for us.
-How they cool the planet.

Find out on this episode of Wax lyrical with Algal Blooms.

Vegan, plant-based soundscape from Algal and tunes from Tom Waits, Aphex Twin, Patrick Cowley, Waak Waak Djungi, Mappa Mundi, Boards of Canada, Brian Briggs, Satsuki Shibano, Visible Cloaks, and Yoshio Ojima.

Audio of the Microbiologist Walter Jehne comes from Julian de Lorenzo's Tangled podcast.

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