All That Jazz

Tune in to SoundScape this Thursday (Feb 14) from 9 pm on YVFM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.

This week we will play Jazz, old new, borrowed and blue.

Hear the offerings of Art Tatum, Astrud Gilberto, Billie Holiday, Blossom Dearie, Caroline Loftus, Dave Brubeck, Grace Knight, John Coltrane, Julie London, Kate Ceberano, Katie Noonan, Mel Torme, Miles Davis, Norah Jones, Thelonious Monk, Amy Winehouse and others.

This week's Goon Show will be 'The Last Goon Show of All".

Old, New, Borrowed and Blue

Tune in to SoundScape this Thursday (Sept 13) from 9 pm to hear some wonderful ambient music. YVFM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.

We will have a section of the show celebrating the talents of some wonderful lounge singers, such as Norah Jones, Kate Ceberano, Caroline Loftus and Katie Noonan

We will hear a mix of ambient music this week from the likes of Woob, Perpetuum, Russell Brower, Coolangubra, Omnimotion, Jean Michel Jarre, Mike Baum, Rhian Sheehan and Atomic Skunk.

The Goon Show this week is "The Sahara Desert Statue".

Look to the East

Tune in to SoundScape this Thursday (Dec 8) on YVFM 99.1 from 9 pm, or stream it from the website to catch some wonderful abient music.

We will start with a very eastern flavour with our artist of the week - Sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar is one of the leading figures in World Music today. She is deeply rooted in Indian classical music, having studied exclusively with her father, the legendary Ravi Shankar, from the age of nine. Thriving as a composer, she has been exploring fertile ground in the crossover between Indian music and a variety of genres including flamenco, electronica, jazz and Western classical music.

She made her performance debut in 1995 in New Delhi at the age of thirteen, and was playing venues such as Carnegie Hall by the age of fifteen, accompanying her father at his concerts worldwide. In 2007 Anoushka collaborated with the talented Indian-American musician Karsh Kale, to create the album Breathing Under Water. Co-produced by Gaurav Raina of the group MIDIval Punditz, this album featured guest appearances by Anoushka’s father, her half-sister Norah Jones, Sting, and others. 

In 2002 Anoushka conducted and performed at the historic Concert for George, a tribute to the late George Harrison. She has also appeared as a soloist with some of the world’s greatest orchestras, and premiered her father’s 3rd Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in 2009, and his first Symphony, with the London Philarmonic Orchestra in 2010. 

Over the years Anoushka has maintained active, creative careers outside of music: in 2002 she authored the book Bapi: The Love of My Life, a biographical portrait of her father, and has served as columnist for prestigious publications like New Delhi’s First City magazine and the Hindustan Times. She earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination from India’s National Film Awards for her role in Dance Like a Man in 2004.

The Goon Show this week will be 'The Junk Affair'.