Launette's Hour 23rd June 2024

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IN FOCUS: ROY MONTGOMERY

New Zealand guitarist Roy Montgomery's music was once described by NPR journalist Lars Gotrich as "swimming through phantoms" – it may sound like an overwrought analogy at first, but simply spend half an hour enveloped in Montgomery's tones, and you'll understand. Originally a part of Pin Group in the 1980s, releasing Joy Division-indebted post-punk on the revered Wellington label Flying Nun records, Montgomery eventually unmoored himself from the strictures of verse-chorus-verse songwriting, and other musicians entirely, composing drifting, gauzy guitar instrumentals that channeled his own personal grief and loneliness into a seductively baleful magic.

Ectotherm w/ Ida & Asmus Odsat

An ectotherm is an organism reliant on environmental sources of heat to regulate body temperature. Ectotherm is also a Copenhagen-based record label founded by Courtesy and Mama Snake, home to releases from Schacke, Rune Bagge and Ibon.

Soul Soft Rock Boogie

Up with the Lark! Launette takes time out from her day job as a chocolatier to play from her treasured vinyl collection. She will also be joined from time to time by carefully chosen guests. Happy Sunday!

Tracklist

0:00:08
Fievel Is GlauqueFievel Is Glauque
Days Of Pleasure
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Fievel Is GlaqueFievel Is Glaque
My Rebel
0:06:01
BerniceBernice
Underneath My Toe

PREPPREP
Call It
StepsSteps
Your Burning Love
The Clark SistersThe Clark Sisters
You Brought The Sunshine
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Jeanette BakerJeanette Baker
Vacation From My Mind
Ryuichi SakamotoRyuichi Sakamoto feat. Ayuo Takahashi, Ayuo Takahashi, Chuel Yoshikawa, Chuel Yoshikawa, Haruomi Hosono, Haruomi Hosono, Kenichi Inoue, Kenichi Inoue, Kenji Omura, Kenji Omura, Masahiro Takekawa, Masahiro Takekawa, Motoya Hamaguchi, Motoya Hamaguchi, Satoshi Nakamura, Satoshi Nakamura, Yukihiro TakahashiYukihiro Takahashi
Tibetan Dance
Haruomi Hosono & John Carol Kirby And The Mizuhara Sisters
Fuku Wa Uchi Ono Wa Soto
Michael AndrewsMichael Andrews
Something’s Better Than Nothing
Jeffrey SilversteinJeffrey Silverstein
Cog in the Wheel
MastonMaston
Rain Dance
Boncana MaigaBoncana Maiga
Koyma Hondo
ImpressionsImpressions
Pat Martino
Fievel Is GlaqueFievel Is Glaque
Paging Agent Starling
400 Rooms400 Rooms
Fievel Is Glaque