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In this episode of Rotations, we hear the work of Helen Svoboda, from the newly released album, Headwater, and Theresa Wong, from their recent collection, Journey to the Cave of Guanyin.Tracks played:     If / Helen SvobodaChild / Helen SvobodaBlur / Helen SvobodaVoid Of Space / Helen SvobodaTwo Trees  / Helen SvobodaChords  / Helen SvobodaVeins (feat. Selma Savolainen)  / Helen SvobodaMorning Hepuli  / Helen SvobodaYmni / Helen SvobodaOctopus  / Helen SvobodaWhen it Rains  / Helen SvobodaSolo (feat. Jacques Emery) / Helen SvobodaPekki / Helen SvobodaLight in the Grotto / Theresa WongSea Eating Sun / Theresa WongA Ritual Begins / Theresa Wong

Marisa and Rob (Doin' Time) present an hour of mostly local metal and punk music. Brendan chimes in with noob questions from time to time!Tracks played:Tide through Time / Outright / from the LP Keep You WarmTroubled / Outright / from the LP AvalancheSome Scars / Viscious Circle / From album BravePolice Brutality / Viscious Circle / From album BraveBreak the Silence / South East Desert Metal / From album South East Desert MetalEagle / South East Desert Metal / From album South East Desert MetalSpirit Woman / South East Desert Metal / Album: Break the SilenceCatacombs / Suldust / Album: Luna FallsThe Demon Calling / Witchgrinder / Album: Demon CallingFrom the Black Sky We Drink / Mar Mortum / Album: Nhilistic AdvanceComputer God / Black Sabbath / Album: Dehumanizer

In this episode of Rotations, Celine Yap and Brendan Bonsack share the studio with musicians Kate Lucetta and Jake Gray, talking about the local open mic community and sharing some of their songs live to air.

Shae (Climate Action Show) presents a collection of songs to shake to!Tracks played in this episode:Shake These bones / The BengsonsAdi Shakti - Jungle Kitchen Remix / Raio, sophie sôfrēē, Baptiste Sejourne, Jungle KitchenMinca / Yeahman Miniyamba / Yeahman, Hajna, Mini Shankha Song of motley love / RapossaMonkey Business / Nomadic Liberation / Harold van LennepSenegal / AleceoBread & Cheese / The Halluci Nation, Black BearSisters / The Halluci Nation, Northern VoiceBone Dance - Dancing Tiger Remix / Deya DoveDjapana / Yothu YindiBaianá - Pablo Fierro Radio Edit / Barbatuques, Pablo FierroSete / BLOND:ISH, Francis Mercier, Amadou & Mariam

Antimony and co-host "Space" the cat present 70s space rock, 80s electronica, and other ditties from the kitty. Strange sounds from space!Tracks played:Sopwith Camel / Maybe in a dreamBaroque 1 / Ultimate SpinachFugue in D Minor / EggGods Of Norse / CybotronGyöngyhajú lány / OmegaHocus Pocus / FocusLaser / LaserGyroscopic Nutation / WaveStarQuantum Leap / John MausSome Other Place, Some Other Time / RocketsIn my spaceship / Jan TurkenburgI am a cat / Shonen Knife

Beth (Radical Philosophy) presents a selection of soundtracks from the horror genreThe Deathmaster /1972 music by Bill MarxDr. Phibes Rises Again /1972 music by John GaleThe Return of Count Yorga Original Trailer (Bob Kelljan, 1971)Madhouse 1974 music by Douglas GamleySugar Hill 1974 music by Nick ZessesTeenage Exorcist theme 1991Lalo Schifrin's music score from "ROLLERCOASTER" (1977)Bill Marx/ Main Title music from The Return of Count Yorga (1971)

Playlist: Rotations 28-6-2026 presented by Joe (3CR Music CoOrdinator) Live to Air Selections from the 3CR archive. Sunwrae Live at 3CR (14.12.2005)Recorded by Meg tarantula Live at 3CR (9.3.2007)Recorded by Meg Stiff Gins Live at 3CR (7.2.2003)Here Now / One Voice / Driving / WeekRecorded by Cara Beltrame Sista She Live at 3CR (Girly is Good Sundays 2 to 3pm - 29.06.2003)Recorded by Cara BeltramePlay Dat Track / What R Yooze Girls Doin’ / Down in Front / Burn For You (Farnham)

Playlist: Rotations 21-6-2026 presented by Joe (3CR Music CoOrdinator) More selections from the 3CR (Dynamic Recorders) produced Cassettes titled Kurdish, Greek and South American. Plus selections from Canto Coro recorded live on 19th November 1995 and 2 tracks by Kavisha Mazzella & comedia academia recorded live on Local & Live on May 21, 2010. KURDISH - Roma SerhildanSide AXone le rabe here Kurdistan (Sevim Akbas)Zanim daye can sirine (Cemal Acar - Sakine Bagdas)Gav Ez Bimrim (Sakine Bagdas) SOUTH AMERICAN - Fernando Gallardo & Grupo BahiaSide ALa Media Costilla (Traditional)Una Fotographia (Bony Zepeda)Querer O Perder (Traditional) Canto Coro recorded live at Brunswick Town Hall, 19th November 1995 GREEK - Irine Vela & Sandra DamniksSide AHow Long (John Romeril)Plenty Cargo (John Romeril) kavisha mazzella and comedia academia recorded live for Local and Live, May 21, 2010Sento il FischioThe hunchback song

The 2026 Radiothon show, with Brendan, Michele and Joe. In this episode, we play Part 2 of archival live-to-air recordings, made in the studios of 3CR in the late 1980s/early 1990s. In the first half of the show, we play music by Costa Tsicaderis from a compilation cassette of live-to-airs entitled Greek.In the second half, we play music by Nestor Agis, recorded live at 3CR, from a compilation cassette of live-to-airs entitled South American.Thank you to everyone who called in to donate, or chipped in online.To make a pledge to help keep 3CR on the air, please call 9419 8377 during business hours, or donate online: www.givenow.com.au/cr/rotations2026

A special presentation of a 3CR Live to Air made for the program Local & Live c.1994 by the duo Ochre, plus a live recording by Roma Serhildan, KURDISH Association of Victoria (both digitised from cassette). Presented by Joe (3CR Music CoOrdinator) and Brendan (3CR Radio trainer).Playlist:OchreSide AAboriginal Woman / Dreaming On / Hey Sister / A Little DropSide BYill Lull / Land Our Mother / Dreamtime DancingKURDISH - Roma SerhildanSide BDaye Xatir Dixwazim /Gonul AcarEy Nazike / Ibrahim AyzitBingol Sewti / Sevim AkhasDe rabe Serxwe / Dursun AcarSere Malan / GucanNenni Nenni / Cemal Acar

Elena presents Fairtrade Narcotics live from Studio 3 at 3CR. The band play songs from their recently released album, Recession Pop, and chat with Elena in the studio.

Molly presents a selection of songs as the weather turns gray.Tracks played:Barramundi / This Mortal CoilElegy / Various Artists What About Botox? / XLR U SRSTiquetonne / SpikeWe Float (Live at 3CR) / Georgia Knight (PJ Harvey Cover)Whitehorse / fiancée Shelter / Hilary WoodsSubtraction / FerriesThe Blue Dog / Golden Syrup Piss Crystal / Germ Lattice Disappear / SpikeFate / Boy Harsher A World of Your Own / time for dreams

Waffle IronGirl and Brendan Bonsack are joined by guest Carolyn D'Cruz, talking Marx and Derrida, memory, history, ghosts and democracy, and playing some classic tunes in between! Carolyn is a "recovering academic", and author of Democracy in difference: Debating key terms of gender, sexuality, race and identity.Tracks played:Timeless Land / Yothu YindiComing in from the Cold / Bob MarleyDemocracy / Leonard CohenGhost Riders / Johnny CashMississippi Goddamn (live in NYC 1964) / Nina SimoneHistory Repeating / Propellerheads, featuring Shirley BasseyGuided by Angels / Amyl and the SniffersThe Revolution will not be Televised / Gill Scott Heron

Joe Malignaggi (Music Matters, Music Sans Frontieres) presents a collection of music written for, about and by mothers.Tracks played:Mother - Coloured Stone; Beautiful World [2010]Every Day My Mother's Voice - Paul Kelly & Dan Sultan; Single [2019]Mother's Loving - The Krui3ers; Rebel Child [2022]*Mother - Emma Donovan & The Putbacks; Dawn [2014]*Mother - Bonander; Things We Don't Talk About [2021]*Mother - Ganna; Utopia [2025]*Mother - SELKI; The Tipi Mix [2016]*Mother Earth - Black Jesus Experience; Migration [2014]*
Γλύκηα Μάτερ Sweet Mother - ΚΡΙΣΤΕΛΛΑ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ Christella Demetriou; Σαπφώ, Καβάφης Sappho, Kavafy [2006]Mother's Love - HSAR PWEH; Visible 9 [2014]*This Mother Thing - Claire Tonti; Matrescence [2023]
Mamma - Kerryn Fields; Single [2019]*
Mother Mother Remix by Feiertag - Fat Freddy's Drop; BLACKBIRD RETURNS [2023]*
 *available at Bandcamp.com

Antimony presents a chilled hour (the "Ketamine playlist"), maybe for meditating, maybe journaling, or maybe staring into the distance...Tracks played: Prince Rama / Love In Kontrol Prince Rama / Receive The Galaxy Folk / Violet Mary Lattimore / It Feels Like Floating Matthew David / O'cean Dream Symphony Ghostwriters / Slow Blue In Horizontal Woo / Waterdrum Mega Bog / Darmok Mum / Green Grass Of Tunnel The Galaxy Folk / Is There Out There Prince Rama / Bahia