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
Episodes
August 4, 2020 • 37 mins
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.
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July 5, 2020
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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June 7, 2020 • 35 mins
2Nite's Producer delves into the dystopian present one last time to complete the trilogy. This one speaks for itself. Voices from the Sydney protests thanks to Talisse Desiderio and tracks from Dave, JPEGMAFIA x Freaky, Joey Bada$$ x Capital STEEZ, Ludovico Einaudi and Kendrick Lamar.
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May 24, 2020
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...
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May 10, 2020
‘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 exhaust...
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April 26, 2020 • 33 secs
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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April 12, 2020
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 (Ir...
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March 30, 2020 • 29 mins
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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March 16, 2020 • 37 secs
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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March 2, 2020
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
Wil...
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February 17, 2020 • 40 mins
*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] "liv...
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February 3, 2020 • 49 mins
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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January 20, 2020
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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December 9, 2019 • 41 mins
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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November 25, 2019 • 39 secs
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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November 11, 2019
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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October 28, 2019 • 39 mins
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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October 14, 2019 • 42 secs
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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September 15, 2019
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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September 1, 2019
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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