Best Christopher Funk Podcasts (2024)

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Radical Son on soulful learnings, and the picturesque compositions of Christopher Cerrone 53:57

27m ago53:57

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Kamilaroi and Tongan singer and musician Radical Son (AKA David Leha) has just released his second album, a full decade after his debut. Called Bilambiyal (The Learning) it demonstrates his growth as a songwriter with a knack for weaving personal stories alongside wider reflections on culture, community and Country. He's also a masterful collaborat…

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Brett Dean's Hamlet and Linda May Han Oh's bass 53:57

29m ago53:57

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Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn's Hamlet (2017) has been one of the most successful operas of recent years with performances at the Glyndebourne Festival, the Adelaide Festival, New York's Metropolitan Opera and the Bavarian State Opera. Now it comes to the Sydney Opera House in its original production by Neil Armfield, with the tenor Allan Clayton,…

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The music of Australian ballroom: disco, house, and the sounds of Western Sydney 54:06

3h ago54:06

54:06

This program contains strong language throughout. Before Madonna brought voguing into the limelight, the queer community had been quietly putting on balls and celebrating this form of expression since the 1970s. Far from the ballroom of waltzes and tangos, queer ballroom is an artform, a community, a form of protest and its very own genre of music.…

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Andrew Gurruwiwi’s new Yolŋu funk and Louis Armstrong’s last great performance 54:07

16h ago54:07

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Andrew Gurruwiwi leads the Andrew Gurruwiwi Band in what they call 'Yolŋu funk', a mix between reggae, heavy metal, and funk in language from across the region. Andrew tells us about his music-making, his career as a radio presenter, and explains the stories behind some of the tracks on the band's dynamic debut album, Sing Your Own Song. "He basica…

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Remembering Ruby Hunter, with Emily Wurramara and Dan Sultan 54:08

12d ago54:08

54:08

First Nations listeners are advised that this program contains the names and voices of people who have died. At the start of NAIDOC Week, The Music Show explores the legacy of the late Ruby Hunter – short in stature, a giant in music, and a mentor and parental figure to so many First Nations musicians in subsequent generations. We’ll hear Ruby from…

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The power of three: tabla, veena and violin unite and Opera Australia stages Puccini's triptych 54:08

8d ago54:08

54:08

Russian-American conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya comes to Opera Australia to conduct Puccini’s Il trittico, a rare triptych of operas which span tragedy, farce, and religious fervour. Lidiya is at home with the operatic canon but she’s also conducted a swathe of new opera world premieres. She joins Andy to talk about finding the same passion for the m…

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Finding radical newness in tradition with Neal Peres Da Costa's harpsichord and Jenny M Thomas's Welsh choir 54:05

14d ago54:05

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that this program contains the names and voices of people who have died. Neal Peres Da Costa’s most recent recordings include a Mozart piano concerto and a Robert Schumann song cycle, each using a model of piano its composer would have recognised. But as he explains on today’s show, there’…

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Grace Petrie's protest songs and Mat Schulz's Unsound festival 54:05

15d ago54:05

54:05

British singer songwriter Grace Petrie has an EP called “There’s No Such Thing As A Protest Singer” – but if there was such a thing she would definitely be one of the preeminent ones. Her musical career started in the early years of the UK Conservative Party’s now 15 years in government, and she’s railed against injustice throughout those years. Sh…

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The Beatles in Australia 54:06

26d ago54:06

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Sixty years ago The Fab Four toured Australia for the first and last time. Greg Armstrong is the co-author of When We Was Fab - Inside The Beatles' Australasian Tour 1964. He takes us behind the scenes of the tour— the promoters who lucked out by signing the band up before the height of their fame, the late inclusion of the Adelaide shows, the band…

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Caroline Shaw and Nicolas Altstaedt 54:06

24d ago54:06

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American composer Caroline Shaw’s latest album, a collaboration with Sō Percussion, is called Rectangles and Circumstance. It’s a collection of ten songs run through with words by Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte, William Blake and Christina Rossetti, as well as Caroline herself. She joins Andy from her home in the US to talk about her collaborators a…

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Clive James on words and music 54:07

30d ago54:07

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This week on the Music Show, we take a look into the archives to an interview with the late, great Clive James. Andy spoke to Clive back in 2003 about what it was like writing for the song and the stage, and they discussed some of Clive's favourite pieces of musical poetry — from Stephen Sondheim to Aretha Franklin. As ever, we’re indebted to Penny…

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Novelists on music: Margaret Atwood, Andrea Goldsmith and Anna Goldsworthy 54:07

1M ago54:07

54:07

Three authors on music from The Music Show archives. Margaret Atwood spoke to Andrew Ford back in 2003, after the transformation of her novel The Handmaid’s Tale into an opera by Danish composer Poul Ruders. Andrea Goldsmith joined Andy on stage for the 2013 Melbourne Writers’ Festival after her novel The Memory Trap invoked Beethoven amongst other…

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Deep Inside the Blues 54:05

1M ago54:05

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The Music Show goes Deep Inside the Blues with photographer and writer Margo Cooper, who’s assembled a beautiful book of photographs and interviews with blues musicians from Chicago to the Mississippi Delta. She joins Andy on The Music Show to outline a sprawling, searching and ultimately living tradition, plus interviews with Blues legends from th…

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Deerhoof returns to Australia, and soprano Anna Fraser sings through a snorkel 54:06

1M ago54:06

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Indie-rock veterans Deerhoof are set to make their first appearance in Australia in a decade, and drummer Greg Saunier joins us on The Music Show to discuss their journey. With a repertoire spanning nineteen albums and a diverse range of styles, Greg talks to us about politics, conceptual art, and his own foray into solo work for the first time in …

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Ziggy Ramo's Human? 54:06

2M ago54:06

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Ziggy Ramo returns to The Music Show with a new album that’s more than just an album. Human? will be released later this year but right now the only way you can hear it is through QR codes in his book of the same name. It’s a new and beautifully contradictory sound for Ziggy, blending folk (with guest vocals from Vonn) and his signature rap, precip…

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Jeremy Deller's acid brass, Bach's St John Passion, and Victoria Pham's singing mushrooms 54:06

2M ago54:06

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Artist Jeremy Deller first made the connection between acid house music and brass bands back in 1995. The project that emerged, ACID BRASS, brings community bands together in raucous live events. Deller says he was “liberated by brass bands” – since then he’s won the Turner Prize, made conceptual, installation and video art across the world, and re…

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Becoming a Composer with Errollyn Wallen 54:06

2M ago54:06

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Errollyn Wallen’s memoir Becoming a Composer is a look into the mind of the composer as well as the life of one. Born in Belize but now based in the far-flung north of Scotland, where she sometimes inhabits a lighthouse, she works at a brisk pace, composing prolifically for orchestra, chamber ensemble, choir, and over twenty operas. Her major publi…

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Kate Mulvany updates Dido & Aeneas and Elefant Traks finishes up after 26 years 54:06

2M ago54:06

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Playwright, screenwriter, and actress Kate Mulvany has been commissioned with the task of writing the lost prologue for the first true English opera, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. She joins Andy on The Music Show to chat about getting into the head of the queen of Carthage, and what it was like writing for opera for the first time. Independent hip-hop…

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Omar Musa, turning poetry into music & the music of Jane Austen 54:06

2M ago54:06

54:06

Omar Musa is an author, artist, poet, and woodcutter making music and art from Borneo to Brooklyn. He is back in Australia to talk about his latest album The Fullness. His third album touches on the environment, culture, religious identity, and mortality. He creates poetry from a spoken-word background, melding hip-hop, jazz, and electronic sounds …

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Stuart Skelton sings the Song of the Earth, and Reuben Lewis and Huda the Goddess meet in the middle of jazz and spoken word 54:05

2M ago54:05

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Australian tenor Stuart Skelton returns to The Music Show as he prepares to sing Mahler’s Song of the Earth (Das Lied von der Erde) with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Looking over his increasingly heroic career from oddball roles like the titular Peter Grimes to the pantheon of Wagner’s men, Stuart reflects on growing into his voice, and what h…

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Lotte Betts-Dean’s voice, Bram de Looze’s piano, and Roland Peelman’s final year at Canberra International Music Festival 54:06

2M ago54:06

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Andrew is at the Canberra International Music Festival, where we get to catch up with an Australian who lives in the UK, a Belgian who tours the world, and another Belgian who lives in Australia. Lotte Betts-Dean, Aussie mezzo-soprano now based in London, makes a trip home to perform a series of form-expanding vocal works from composers like Michae…

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Rainbow Chan explores language through lament, and when George Gershwin met Arnold Schoenberg 54:06

2M ago54:06

54:06

Rainbow Chan returns to The Music Show to discuss her latest audio-visual project, The Bridal Lament. In an attempt to preserve her mother's mother tongue, Rainbow has spent the last five years researching and learning the Weitou language, an endangered Cantonese dialect, through learning traditional bridal laments. Rainbow talks to Andy about the …

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Folk trio Apolline, and Blossom Dearie at 100 54:05

3M ago54:05

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Bringing huge amounts of energy, musicianship and a sense of humour to the Australian folk scene is Apolline. They chat to Ce Benedict about their trio's unusual line up (fiddle, cello, bass), their approach to arranging and layering tunes, and having varied musical influences—from jazz to Scandi folk and Eurovision. They'll also perform two sets o…

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Maanyung on saltwater, sand, and sound & Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth 54:06

3M ago54:06

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Norwegian trumpet player Tine Thing Helseth returns to The Music Show as she prepares to play with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. She talks to Andy about the peculiarities of trumpet concertos, about composers writing for her versus writing for her instrument, and about expanding her musical life to include playing and writing. Maanyung is a pro…

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Pits, picket lines and pop music: the 1984-5 UK miners' strike 54:06

3M ago54:06

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It's been forty years since the 1984–5 United Kingdom miners' strike and The Music Show has dug into the archives for a special program looking at the role that music played in this political, industrial and personal struggle. From Peggy Seeger to Paul Weller, Billy Bragg to brass bands—there's music supporting the striking miners, songs tormenting…

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Radical Son on soulful learnings, and the picturesque compositions of Christopher Cerrone 53:57

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Brett Dean's Hamlet and Linda May Han Oh's bass 53:57

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The music of Australian ballroom: disco, house, and the sounds of Western Sydney 54:06

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Andrew Gurruwiwi’s new Yolŋu funk and Louis Armstrong’s last great performance 54:07

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Remembering Ruby Hunter, with Emily Wurramara and Dan Sultan 54:08

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The power of three: tabla, veena and violin unite and Opera Australia stages Puccini's triptych 54:08

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Finding radical newness in tradition with Neal Peres Da Costa's harpsichord and Jenny M Thomas's Welsh choir 54:05

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Grace Petrie's protest songs and Mat Schulz's Unsound festival 54:05

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The Beatles in Australia 54:06

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Caroline Shaw and Nicolas Altstaedt 54:06

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Clive James on words and music 54:07

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Novelists on music: Margaret Atwood, Andrea Goldsmith and Anna Goldsworthy 54:07

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Deep Inside the Blues 54:05

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Deerhoof returns to Australia, and soprano Anna Fraser sings through a snorkel 54:06

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Ziggy Ramo's Human? 54:06

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Jeremy Deller's acid brass, Bach's St John Passion, and Victoria Pham's singing mushrooms 54:06

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Becoming a Composer with Errollyn Wallen 54:06

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Kate Mulvany updates Dido & Aeneas and Elefant Traks finishes up after 26 years 54:06

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Omar Musa, turning poetry into music & the music of Jane Austen 54:06

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Stuart Skelton sings the Song of the Earth, and Reuben Lewis and Huda the Goddess meet in the middle of jazz and spoken word 54:05

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Lotte Betts-Dean’s voice, Bram de Looze’s piano, and Roland Peelman’s final year at Canberra International Music Festival 54:06

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Rainbow Chan explores language through lament, and when George Gershwin met Arnold Schoenberg 54:06

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Folk trio Apolline, and Blossom Dearie at 100 54:05

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Maanyung on saltwater, sand, and sound & Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth 54:06

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Pits, picket lines and pop music: the 1984-5 UK miners' strike 54:06

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