MUSIC NEWS: Sonic Dialog launches with Community Radio Stations

Sonic Dialog radio show launches with KCRW, DJ Raul Campos in partnership with Australian Community Radio stations Edge Radio, FBi and more!

Introducing Sonic Dialog, a fresh new collaboration between LA’s DJ Raul Campos, best known from 89.9 KCRW, with Australian community radio hosts and artists showcasing endlessly diverse music from Australia and the US. In each episode, the show will explore connections between US and Australian artists, with the mission to entertain, inform, and get a glimpse at the tapestry of music and music creation via our friends across the Pacific.

“Australia has such a strong relationship with the United States, and music is no exception. I’m thrilled to dig into how that relationship is evolving today, the influences, the differences and most importantly, the friendship." – Raul Campos

Produced by the Australian Music Alliance and Pitchikker's Australian expat and LA-based Adam Burke, Sonic Dialog will be hitting the airwaves on Wednesday 16 October with Hobart's Edge Radio 99.3FM's Music Director Aeron Clark and Tasmanian rapper and activist Grace Chia alongside Raul Campos to take audiences through their current favourite and emerging artists from the US.

Campos produced and hosted  Los Angeles KCRW’s Global Beat radio series, which featured emerging artists and tracks worldwide. The series launched with Global Beat: Australia via a partnership with the Australian Music Radio Airplay Project (of the CBAA). It ran for 32 episodes through 2021 and into 2022, introducing Americans to over 100 artists from many regions, styles and genres with the show amassing 3.8 million listens.

Sonic Dialog will air 20 episodes across Hobart's Edge Radio 99.3FM, Sydney's FBi, The Kimberleys' Radio Goolarri and more with episodes featuring Grace Chia, Jack McEwan of Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Lucinda Shannon of Slag Queens, Godrich and Andrew from A. Swayze & the Ghosts. The program will launch with an episode featuring multidisciplinary artist Grace Chia, who uses her roots in spoken word poetry to influence her hard hitting bars with a twist of soulful RnB melodies back with old school boom-bap beats. She performs regularly at local hip-hop, queer allied, and female-led gigs around Hobart’s live music venues. She has supported a range of national and international hip-hop and electronic artists including Drapht, Allday, Manaz III, K+Lab, Grouch in Dub, and poets Alok Vaid-Menon (US), Luka Lesson, and Harry Baker (UK).

I’m super excited for the Sonic Dialogue episode to go live! It was a great experience talking to Raul about artists I’ve loved for a long time across the world.’ - Grace Chia

About:
Raul Campos
Described by the LA Times as “a unique voice for radio”, Raul ascended from LA’s club scene in the 1990s to start a distinguished career at LA’s legendary KCRW public radio station.  Today, as KCRW’s weekend anchor, he creates a mix of emerging artists and current favourites, bringing essential cuts from around the world and a little closer to home. He is also a prolific producer, with active projects including his podcast Pili Raul y la Música, and KCRW’s Global Beat series.

Adam Burke
Having grown up listening to community radio in Melbourne, Adam moved to LA in the mid-90s to pursue a career as a lawyer.  From there his career became increasingly about music, representing Southern California’s major venues including the Greek Theatre.  His achievements include a senior leadership role in presenting Mexico’s bicentennial of independence among many other production credits. More recently: he formed the Australian Music Alliance, is executive director of the Pitchhiker Foundation, and created and produces KCRW’s Global Beat series.

Edge Radio 99.3FM
Edge Radio is a not-for-profit community station, in Hobart, lutruwita (Tasmania). As Hobart’s only youth station, Edge Radio aims to provide a vibrant, youth-focused and broadly inclusive radio with a mix of music, entertainment, local journalistic content and information to enhance Hobart’s cultural landscape, broadcasting to the greater Hobart area and streams globally.

SONIC DIALOG ON EDGE RADIO 99.3FM:
Wednesdays at 11 am and repeats on Saturdays at 4 pm AEDT
Episode 1: Grace Chia
Episode 2: Jack McEwan - Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
Episode 3: Lucinda Shannon - Slag Queens
Episode 4: Godrich
Episode 5: Andrew - A. Swayze & the Ghosts
 
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