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    Wax Lyrical

    Wax Lyrical is an exploration of written works, found texts, songs with lyrics, poems with music - join Algal Blooms, Absent DJ & 2Nite's Producer on a wonderful journey through word and sound.

    New episodes every fortnight.

    Insta: @waxlyrical_fbi

    en-AU33 Episodes

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    Episodes (33)

    ISO II.

    ISO II.
    2Nite's Producer chats with musician Josh Kreusler about isolation in Melbourne and his COVID - Song A Day project. Featuring tracks from Josh himself and Earl Sweatshirt.
    https://soundcloud.com/joshkreusler

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    Wax Lyrical
    en-AUAugust 04, 2020

    Relationships

    Relationships
    Algal decides to explore relationships in this episode. All sorts: mother and baby, algae and funghi, land and water, lover and lover. There's expert breastmilk advice from midwife and nurse, Louie Scadubi. And a short story by Melbourne author, C.W Haven.
    Sounds recorded at Malabar and Tamarama – inside rockpools and beside sighing crows.
    Songs from the KLF, Ry Cooder, Jen Cloher, Steve Roach, Maze

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    Relationships

    Relationships
    Algal decides to explore relationships in this episode. All sorts: mother and baby, algae and funghi, land and water, lover and lover. There's expert breastmilk advice from midwife and nurse, Louie Scadubi. And a short story by Melbourne author, C.W Haven.
    Sounds recorded at Malabar and Tamarama – inside rockpools and beside sighing crows.
    Songs from the KLF, Ry Cooder, Jen Cloher, Steve Roach, Maze

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    Poo, murmur, circle

    Poo, murmur, circle
    Algal Blooms travels through several dimensions to find out more about the mysterious beauty of poo. Along the way he hears the voice of John Todd, who constructs living machines and Elaine Ingham, soil microbiologist.
    He listens to Burnt Sage for her great wisdom.
    And he reads the saucy botanical poetry of Erasmus Darwin, a brilliant man who produced an early theory of evolution long before his grandson did.
    Snippets of John Todd are taken from the doco, 'Ecological Design: Inventing the Future'
    Snippets of Ingham from the wonderful 'Symphony of Soil' doco.

    Songs:
    Shiho – Tenshingoso, Tomoshibi, Forestland
    Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams – Late Anthropocene
    Hiroshi Yoshimura – Deep Echoes
    Cosmic Sounds – Capricorn
    Laraaji – Kalimba, Laarajingle, Quiet Space No.4, All Pervading
    Stevie Wonder – The First Garden

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    FREE

    FREE
    ‘free writing’ is a writing technique in which you write continuously for a set period of time or set number of pages, regardless of spelling, punctuation, rhetorical concerns. its aim is to loosen your mind, to eradicate the barriers of self, the internal critic.

    do it fast. write whatever comes to mind even if that’s the words ‘nothing, nothing, nothing’. make no corrections. do not stop until the time is up or the pages exhausted.

    tracks from: jack kerouac/steve allen, throbbing gristle, of habit, carl stone, ana da silva/phew, beatriz ferreyra, silt, gerhard rühm.

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    ISO.

    ISO.
    2Nite's Producer reads his mail during a pandemic. There's conversations from lockdown and relevant tunes from Zack Fox, Hopsin, Earl Sweatshirt, Gmac Cash, Westside Gunn and Pharrell?

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    Wax Lyrical
    en-AUApril 27, 2020

    Safe and sound

    Safe and sound
    Join Algal inside his house. Lie back, drift off and explore the wonders of...

    – Plant-walk with Hummus ‘Linda’ Solomon
    – A big frog pond in Crabtree, Tasmania
    – Waterbeetles conspiring under the Murrumbidgee River
    – The comforting, detailed visions of Mason Pillars
    – An expert round of super smash brothers (64)
    – The lovely honk of the Pobblebonk

    Songs:
    Takashi Kokubo – Awakening Of The Forest
    Helen Power – Boy With a Coin (Iron & Wine cover)
    dream dad – Goonengerry Mill Road

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    Wax Lyrical
    en-AUApril 13, 2020

    Hannah Hotker's 'Lilith Loves You'

    Hannah Hotker's 'Lilith Loves You'
    You’re in “iso”. There’s a pandemic and it’s advisable to not go outside. You might be feeling misunderstood, alone, censored. But you might also be resisting, relaxed, rejuvenated. This episode we bring you a hard-hitting 20 minute samplesoundscape from Aussie artist Hannah Hotker. & some thoughts from “A Philosophy of Loneliness” by Lars Svendsen, tunes from Arthur Russell/Allen Ginsberg, Shady Nasty and Rabit.

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    Odyssey.

    Odyssey.
    2Nite's Producer takes you on a sonic road trip from the country to the city. Old forests full of memories, seedy alleyways brimming with hustlers and the ghosts that haunt them both. Tracks from Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Jonny Greenwood, Oneohtrix Point Never and Bob Dylan.

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    Wax Lyrical
    en-AUMarch 15, 2020

    Spring to mind

    Spring to mind
    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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    spoken word in aussie music

    spoken word in aussie music
    *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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    Flow.

    Flow.
    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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    Wax Lyrical
    en-AUFebruary 02, 2020

    Dads and Death

    Dads and Death
    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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    Wax Lyrical
    en-AUJanuary 19, 2020

    Fall II.

    Fall II.
    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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    Wax Lyrical
    en-AUNovember 24, 2019

    Under the Surface

    Under the Surface
    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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    Chess: Absent DJ vs DJ MSG

    Chess: Absent DJ vs DJ MSG
    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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    Macsurdity.

    Macsurdity.
    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.
    https://soundcloud.com/user-958484099

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    Wax Lyrical
    en-AUOctober 13, 2019

    Plants

    Plants
    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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    Wax Lyrical
    en-AUSeptember 16, 2019

    Jake Goetz's 'meditations with passing water'

    Jake Goetz's 'meditations with passing water'
    Sydney-based poet Jake Goetz joins Absent DJ on a journey through his book/poem ‘meditations with passing water’. We'll gently rock you along the Maiwar (Brisbane River).

    Songs from: Gigi Masin, Midori Hirano, William Selman, Maria Moles & Adam Halliwell, Tassilo Vannhöfen, Lucretia Dalt.

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    Wax Lyrical
    en-AUSeptember 02, 2019
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