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  • Mużika Mod Ieħor – 675

    Mużika Mod Ieħor – 675

    Is-sensiela Mużika Mod Ieħor ma’ Toni Sant issa fuq ir-radju bis-675 edizzjoni li huwa l-ewwel programm fl-ewwel staġun.

    PARTI 1: Diski ġodda li ħarġu dan l-aħħar.

    • Kym Pepe – Dalgħodu
    • Emma Muscat – Lacrime Moët
    • Anthea Gatt – ok ok ok
    • Micimago & Ryan Hili – Memories
    • Owen Leuellen – Gass Freestyle
    • Il-Majċa – Skarta
    • Carlo Muscat & Tony Tixier – The Upside Down

    > Id-dettalji tad-diski u recordings oħra kollha li ħarġu matul l-2024 issibhom permezz tal-Wikipedija.

     

    PARTI 2: Poddata fuq ir-radju?

    Mużika Mod Ieħor beda bħala l-ewwel sensiela ta’ poddati bil-Malti fid-dinja f’Novembru tal-2005. Kien tkomplija fuq xandiriet oħra bl-internet li kienet tagħmel il-kumpanija MaltaMedia, sa mill-1998. Dawk kienu jissejħu webcasts, għax il-fenomenu tal-podcasts ġie mal-invenzjoni tal-iPod ftit wara s-sena 2000. L-ewwel edizzjoni ta’ Mużika Mod Ieħor fetħet bid-diska tal-grupp Xtruppaw, Ġenerazzjoni ta’ Meqrudin. Kienet it-tip ta’ mużika li ebda stazzjon tar-radju f’Malta ma kien idoqq, dak iż-żmien. U għalhekk Mużika Mod Ieħor, apparti raġunijiet oħra.
    Għall-ewwel 10 snin wara l-2005, Mużika Mod Ieħor kien jitwassal permezz tal-MaltaMedia Online Network, iżda f’Marzu tal-2016 qlibna għal fuq il-YouTube b’format ġdid li kien jinkludi l-videos tal-siltiet inklużi f’kull edizzjoni. Din hija parti mill-istorja ta’ Mużika Mod Ieħor għax timmarka wkoll il-wasla ta’ video għal kważi kull silta mużikali ġdida. Kien ukoll il-bidu tat-tmiem għas-CDs bħala format li bih jinħarġu d-diski, u l-videos fuq YouTube u pjattaformi oħra, kif ukoll id-downloads minn siti bħal Bandcamp bdew isiru aktar prevalenti. L-ewwel video li urejna fl-2016 kien Dak Li Int tat-Travellers.
    L-istorja tkompli, sintendi, u b’Mużika Mod Ieħor fuq Campus 103.7 niftħu kapitlu ġdid, li jwaħħad l-isforzi tagħna matul dawn l-aħħar 20 sena biex tindaqq aktar mużika minn Malta fuq ir-radju. U allura aktar Mużika Mod Ieħor, għax bix-xieraq li fuq ir-radju nisimgħu kull tip ta’ Mużika Minn Malta ta’ kull żmien, u li diski memorabbli jibqgħu jindaqqu regolarment, jew tal-anqas minn żmien għal żmien. Bħal per eżempju din, li konna ftaħna biha l-ewwel edizzjoni ta’ Mużika 21 f’Ottubru tal-2021 – Waiting On You ta’ Lleeggss duo magħmul minn Jon Calleja u Mike Stivala, li sparixxa wara li tawna din is-silta u oħra bl-isem ta’ Cigarette.

    Fade Into Obscurity - The Grief Aftermath album cover art

    PARTI 3: L-album tal-lum huwa The Grief Aftermath ta’ Fade Into Obscurity. Dan l-album ħareġ fit-8 ta’ Marzu 2024 u għalkemm qrajt intervista sħiħa dwaru minn Ben Mifsud Joslin (li tista’ ssibha hawn) li nafuh riċentament mal-grupp Eyes to Argus (aktar dwarhom il-ġimgħa d-dieħla) ftit li xejn naf dwar l-artist li jippreferi jibqa anonimu u jinħeba wara l-isem Fade Into Obscurity. Jikkollabora miegħu Julinu fuq id-drums u d-disin tal-qoxra tal-album. Mill-bqija isma’ l-mużika u ddeċiedi int li trid. L-album kollu ssibu fuq Bandcamp. Diġà kellna ċans nisimgħu is-silta Let them Float minnu fil-programmi li kellna fis-sensiela ta’ qabel din. Minn dan l-album għażilt dawn is-siltiet:

    • A Light in the Dark
    • Scorching the Earth
    • At the Edge of Infinity

    > Isma’ jew niżżel l-album The Grief Aftermath ta’ Fade Into Obscurity kollu fuq Bandcamp.

     

    Mużika Mod Ieħor huwa produzzjoni tal-Fondazzjoni M3P u jixxandar fuq Campus 103.7 kull nhar ta’ Ħamis fis-6pm + fil-11pm u s-Sibt fis-2pm.

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  • Spirit of the Radio

    Spirit of the Radio

    Mużika Mod Ieħor ma' Toni SantMy long-running podcast Mużika Mod Ieħor ma’ Toni Sant is about to enter a new phase. As of today, Thursday 4 July 2024, the podcast will be broadcast on the radio in Malta. To be more precise, it will be broadcast on Campus 103.7, where I have been producing radio shows regularly since October 2020.

    After a hiatus of more than 20 years, I “returned” to regular radio broadcasting during the second Covid-19 pandemic lockdown and I haven’t stopped broadcasting weekly since then. The first series was called Vjaġġi Enċiklopediċi, and featured interview with Wikipedians from Malta in season 1 and other various other countries in season 2. My favourite part of that series was a weekly meditation on the state of some Wikipedia article or other.

    This was followed by a very research-intensive series called Noti Memorabbli. The aim for that series was to raise awareness for the need to develop more historiographic sources for the performing arts in the Malta, if not the creative sector more broadly. Each 60-minute episode took about 20 hours of research to produce, which meant that the series was not sustainable beyond the one season during which it was broadcast. Luckily, throughout the summer of 2021, Campus FM (as the radio station was still known back then) agreed to broadcast an audio book version of the award-winning book Jien-Noti-Jien, which I co-authored with Immanuel Mifsud during the first pandemic lockdown.

    Mużika 21 was born in October 2021, offering me and my listeners an hour a week to listen to the latest releases from the local music scene, explore some oddities, and focus on either a new album or one from the vaults, released in the 21st century. Truthfully, the overlap with Mużika Mod Ieħor was evident right away. Both Mużika 21 (on the radio) and Mużika Mod Ieħor ma’ Toni Sant (the podcast) featured more or less the same playlist, week in week out. The two main differences, of course, where that the podcast featured videos for each and every one of the selected tracks, while the radio show afforded more time to oddities and album tracks.

    The need for M21 and MMI to become one became rather pressing as I became involved in other (writing and art curation) projects, which meant that the weekly podcast was reduced to a monthly offering for about a year or so. It was therefore a natural progression to bring Mużika Mod Ieħor ma’ Toni Sant to the radio, while retaining the podcast as an ongoing series, which has already changed format a couple of times since I first started it in November 2005.

    Here’s hoping that Mużika Mod Ieħor ma’ Toni Sant continues to delight listeners around the world, offering a veritable document of the local music scene like no other, even if in recent years the local broadcasting sector has greatly improved the amount of music from Malta on the airwaves. I still dream of a time when worthwhile local musicians no longer complain that their music is not played regularly on the radio.

    Available on Campus 103.7 on Thursday at 6pm and 11am, as well as Saturday at 2pm, every episode of Mużika Mod Ieħor ma’ Toni Sant is in Maltese. Some of the songs featured on it are not in Maltese.

  • Mużika 21 – numru 143

    Mużika 21 – numru 143

    Is-sensiela Mużika 21 tintemm bil-143 edizzjoni li huwa t-tlettax-il programm fil-ħdax-il staġun. Mll-istaġun li jmiss Mużika 21 jitwaħħad mas-sensiela dejjiema ta’ poddati msejjħa Mużika Mod Ieħor ma’ Toni Sant.

    PARTI 1: L-aktar diski li spikkaw bejn April u Ġunju 2024. Diversi diski li ħarġu fl-aħħar 3 xhur huma fost dawk li l-aktar spikkaw s’issa f’din il-parti tas-sena:

    • Chasing Pandora – Teatime
    • Bennie Blue – Happier Now
    • Current Daze – Out of Outlaws
    • Berne – Waves
    • Chess Galea – Heal Me
    • Eyes to Argus – Bloodstream Waterfall Cannonball
    • nosnow/noalps – Easy Love
    • Sarah Bonnici – Lose
    • DJ Ġorġ Borg – Regional Road
    • DJ Cathy K & DJ Sue feat. Gail & Edwina Cini – Inti Djamant
    • Amber – Għanja lil Ġużi
    • Kapitlu Tlettax – Lilek Biss
    • Kym Pepe – Mhux il-Ħin
    • Kayati – About You
    • Hannah – Birdsong
    • Gaia – Cupid

    > Id-dettalji tad-diski u recordings oħra kollha li ħarġu matul l-2024 issibhom permezz tal-Wikipedija.

     

    PARTI 2: L-aktar albums li spikkaw bejn April u Ġunju 2024. F’dawn l-aħħar tliet xhur ħarġu numru ġmielu ta’ albums ġodda u diffiċli ninkludu kollox f’din it-taqsima. Però għażilt li l-programm ikun fih biss żewġ partijiet din il-ġimgħa biex ninkludi kemm jista’ jkun mill-albums li ħarġu bejn l-Għid u l-bidu tas-sajf tal-2024.One11 - Meta Jaqa l-Ħoss album cover art

    • One11 – Meta Jaqa’ l-Ħoss
    • Brodu – Kusksu Clan
    • Robert Farrugia – Tilwin
    • Das Birthday Girl – Soft and Clear
    • Tribali – Alka
    • Melchior Sultana – Underground
    • Glen Montanaro – Trios, Had To Happen
    • Sfera – Gatt Groove
    • Sammy Murgo – The Final Chapter
    • Sean Borg – Terapija u Mħabba
    • TroffaĦamra – Weġgħet Żgħar

    > Id-dettalji tal-albums kollha li ħarġu matul l-2024 issibhom permezz tal-Wikipedija.

     

    Mużika 21 huwa produzzjoni tal-Fondazzjoni M3P u jixxandar fuq Campus 103.7 kull nhar ta’ Ħamis fis-6:00pm u s-Sibt fis-2pm.

  • Mużika 21 – numru 142

    Mużika 21 – numru 142

    Is-sensiela Mużika 21 tkompli bil-142 edizzjoni li huwa t-tnax-il programm fil-ħdax-il staġun.

    PARTI 1: Diski ġodda li ħarġu dan l-aħħar.

    • Ħelwa – Sold Cheap
    • Jas Rolyn – Lost in Love
    • Bahjat – Ethereal
    • Manwel T meets Zion Train – Dry Your Tears
    • Eyes to Argus – Bloodstream Waterfall Cannonball
    • Andre Camilleri – Lost in the Wilderness

    > Id-dettalji tad-diski u recordings oħra kollha li ħarġu matul l-2024 issibhom permezz tal-Wikipedija.

     

    PARTI 2: Min hu Ċikku l-Poplu? Qed niskanta li ma tfaċċatx f’din is-sensiela qabel din il-mistoqsija. Ċikku l-Poplu huwa l-isem li jirrekordja bih bħala kantawtur il-kompożitur Alex Vella Gregory. Ftit tal-ġranet ilu skoprejt dawn it-tliet siltiet tiegħu irrekordjati b’mod differenti minn kull kif iltqajt mal-mużika tiegħu qabel. F’dawn l-aħħar qisu ħmistax il-sena l-esperjenza kienet dejjem waħda live, waqt xi wieħed mill-cabarets li fihom iltqajna ma’ Ċikku l-Poplu matul is-snin. Dawn huma s-siltiet għal waqt il-programm tal-lum:

    • Bum Bum
    • Prosit Ministru
    • Jekk Ma Fhimtux

    > Isma’ dawn il-kanzunetti ta’ Ċikku l-Poplu fuq YouTube

    Sean Borg - Terapija u Mħabba album cover art

    PARTI 3: L-album tal-lum huwa Terapija u Mħabba ta’ Sean Borg. Dan l-album ħareġ fl-4 ta’ Ġunju ridt inwassalulkom ftit jiem biss wara li ħareġ. Dan mhux għax m’għandix albums oħra li jixirqilhom ikunu l-album tal-ġurnata. Però dan l-album tassew jinħass speċjali. Inħeġġiġkom tfittxuh fuq Bandcamp u tisimgħu s-siltiet kollha li hemm fih. Diġà kellna ċans nisimgħu xi tnejn minnhom f’programmi qabel dan tal-lum, apparti kanzunetti oħra ta’ Sean Borg. Minn dan l-album għażilt dawn is-siltiet:

    • Salvataġġ
    • Kulħadd l-Istess
    • Invictus
    • Ejja Morru Xi Party
    • Karmelin

    > Isma’ jew niżżel l-album Terapija u Mħabba ta’ Sean Borg kollu fuq Bandcamp.

     

    Mużika 21 huwa produzzjoni tal-Fondazzjoni M3P u jixxandar fuq Campus 103.7 kull nhar ta’ Ħamis fis-6:00pm u s-Sibt fis-2pm.