S9 E1: Louise Distras

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02/03/23 • 61 min

Louise Distras has always made her music with a progressive mindset. New visions, new influences, new collaborations and new ways of doing things. I think she’s challenged the way that we behave when we're on our own and when we're part of groups and also the way movements have a tendency to institutionalise themselves the longer they exist and create unspoken rules for how we live our life, how we make music, what we sing about and how we sing it. It's interesting to explore why self-interest always seems to rise to the top. In many ways, Louise makes me think of Chumbawamba. Not the accent 😇 - what they stood for.
Check out her new singles, Black Skies and Girl in the Mirror, and the new album Beauty After Bruises.
This was a lot of fun and full of stuff that really makes you stop and think...
Welcome back Louise.

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S8 E10: Billy Nomates

Three things struck me about Billy Nomates when I first heard her work - vulnerability, humanity and what a bloody exciting talent.
I first saw Tor perform live when she supported the Sleaford Mods at the 100 Club in September 2020. She played with such charisma - perfectly DIY, raw and defiant intensity with gallows humour vulnerability, it was a perfectly razor sharp crossover that gave me a feeling that she is giving herself a massive amount of freedom to musically do whatever she wants.

Her second album, Cacti, was released on 13 January 2023 and it’s wonderful to see that musical freedom flourishing into what is a really fantastic record. I love the symbolism that Tor mentions of how cacti use their resilience to survive in hostile environments.
We also chat about her upbringing, her dad's slightly out of tune piano, empathy, identity, gut instinct, true wealth and the incredible power of being in tune with trees and nature.

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S9 E2: Gena Rose Bruce

It's a great privilege to have conversations like I do with so many talented and amazing humans, each of whom is making their mark through their music and other creative projects.
Today's conversation is one of those.
Gena Rose Bruce is a phenomenally talented Melbourne-based artist who has just released her sophomore album Deep Is The Way. The title track written and performed with Bill Callahan will attract lots of attention – and rightly so, because it is truly beautiful piece of work - but the entire 11 tracks are sublime. There’s this beauty and curiosity within the tension, it makes me feel like I want to go back to somewhere I’ve never been to, makes me think of the landscapes of long road trips where you can be at one with your thoughts by just immersing yourself.
What I really love is that the record demands patience, something that is a pretty scare resource these days.
We had a really deep and engaging conversation about what she's been learning about herself, getting out of comfort zones, self belief, what success mean, the benefits of about collaborations, the power of nature, perfectionism, instinct, uncertainty and resilience. Gena has such an instinctive and organic outlook on life.