Snowy Gum Presents

For the Snowy Gum Season 3 finale, Dan & Jordan venture to the Blue Mountains to perform a house concert at the Peter Stutchbury designed 'Night Sky' home. Purpose built for late owner and astronomer Basil Borun and the perfect place for The Snowy lads to try out their first live podcast. After a swim in the Glenbrook Gauge the stage is set for Snowy's wildest exploration yet.

Care to start with some stillness?

Paul Watling from Dusken Lights surprised us this week as a qualified mediation teacher, leading us through the beautiful stillness. Paul discusses the question of authorship over his songs, and how he is instructed by ‘the fizz’ rather than the conceptual mind. Dive down deep with us and if you’re lucky, see a few fish glowing in the dark.

What do circles have to do with songwriting...? Everything.This week we are honoured, to have Sydney singer songwriter Georga Mulligan on Snowy Gum Presents. Off the back of her sophomore album ‘Unheaven’ Georgia shares a few songs, as Snowy tries to crack the ineffable code of her music and luckily…fails.  

Snowy Gum Presents: Love Again by Daniel Forsyth Thirteen long years, one big Mountain. Find out why it took Dan so long to release his latest single 'Love Again'. Snowy pull out all the tools to dismantle this one; Art Therapy Degrees, The IChing, Eckhart Tolle and even a trip to The Amazon for some traditional medicine.

Look at me, don't look at me...This week Sydney based artist Huck Hastings explores his relationship with the spotlight on Snowy Gum Presents.In his sun filled and intentional apartment, Huck shares some live songs as well as discussing his collaborations and forthcoming album with Hackey Sack. Come and listen to a mastermind in framing and hear Huck's unique experience and perspective on masculinity in an Australian landscape. Of course, it wouldn't be Snowy without an exclusive unreleased song 'Tommy's Funeral'.You heard it here first!

PREMIERE ALERT!! Maia Jelavic invites us into her painting studio in theheart of Marrickville, to premiere her new single 'Spanish Moss'. In the first episode of Season 3, we take a deeper dive intoMaia's process as she cooly sits on the couch surrounded by her artworks. Taking a drag from her cigarette or effortlessly plucking her parlour guitar, Maia shares some songs and stories from her forthcoming album. As well as herexperience as a NAS student & life as a painter, find out how Maia put it all on the 'backburner' for a while. Only to return with a new depth and love for her crafts.

At the beginning of the year, Dan & Jordan made a commitment to do a podcast every fortnight until the end of November... they made it. In celebration, the Snowy boys shot the final episode of Season Two underneath a Snowy Gum tree, where the Snowy Gum theme song comes to full fruition.

What’s that you say… a live studio audience? What did we expect when Harmony Byrne invited us to stay on her and her husband's farm, somewhere in the hills of Castlemaine. Turns out Harmony is full of surprises, including an appearance with the Teskey Brothers at Castlemaine folk festival, as well as her own rambunctious set. One thing that wasn’t a surprise was her generosity of spirit. Snowy get the real experience about as intimate as you can get it. In a mud hut, eating custard tarts and listening to the stories of a true artist.

In true Snowy Gum fashion, Dan & Jord find themselves by a river bank in Kyneton (regional Victoria) having a cuppa and a yarn with Jae Laffer. On the second day of their road trip finale extravaganza; Jae imparts some wisdom from his experience as the front man of The Panics, on being a father, and more recently his painting and solo recordings.

Snowy's hitting the road soon for a big finale, including some huge interview that we announce on this episode. To get us going we've made a playlist of some of our favs from the last few weeks. Here's the run sheet: Paul Kelly - All Those Smiling Faces Tia Blake - Wish I Was a Single Girl Again Dylan Ollivierre - Honesty Elsy Wameyo, Ywaya Tajiri - Conquer Casual Fan - Slip Menahan Street Band - Stepping Through Shadow Armlock - Ice Cold Evinha - Esperar Pra Ver Marika Hackman - No Caffeine Joyce Olong - DIIISAPPEAR Laura Marling - The Shadows Worlasi, Senkulive - Chant Vilde - Adoration, doubt & a healing wound Dwin, The Stoic - Time Is Money

What do you do when you don't feel like talking..? You reach into your bag of tricks, and pull out your finest batch of balm.

Step right up, step right up. We have a story to tell. So come into our tent, pull up a pillow and a chai, and hear what we have to say. And as always on Snowy Gum…not say.

On this week's episode Jordan takes a deep dive into Josh Pyke's catalogue, Dan shares some poems of his own as well as some classics. As they attempt to describe the ineffable through analogies of the ocean and much much more.

On this episode Dan and Jordan explore what attachment means to them, folk music and the experience of being an exterior being.

The totem of the Eel guides this episode from the sea, to the river and then back again. Jordan and Dan share what they've been listening to lately; using the Eel to guide them through their subconscious, and find clues as to where they are at in their process.

Whether it's a body being put down on the couch, or the end of a relationship. Snowy Gum explore and premiere Daniel Forsyth's upcoming release. Let me down gently, let me down gently, let me down gently.

In this episode Snowy Gum Premiere 'Halfway To Cooma' by Jordan Wilson and produced with Daniel Forsyth. If you have been following along, Jordan & Dan have tracked the progress of this song from it's original conception to the final recording. Hear the inspiration behind the song through the lens of an ever changing Australia.

Tesse opens up about what it was like on the road with Julia Jacklin, the intent behind his creative process as well as his experience in the church.

Snowy Gum extends it's first branch to multidisciplinary artist Tesse. With a new album in the can and two under his belt, Tesse stops by the Snowy studio to share some songs and talk a little bit about his process and journey so far. We are honoured to present our very first guest on Snowy Gum & grateful for the incredible vulnerability and presence that he brought to the room.

From the North to the South, Ebudæ unto KhartoumFrom the deep Sea of Clouds to the Island of the MoonCarry me on the waves to the lands I've never beenCarry me on the waves to the lands I've never seenWe can sail, we can sail with the Orinoco FlowWe can sail, we can sailSail away, sail away, sail away Orinoco Flow by Enya

On this episode we discover more about the ripples that Jack Johnson created, which led to two upstarts from Sydney think they could right out back with the big boys & girls.

This week Snowy Gum take some deep breaths to explore just how big Jack Johnson was for their early access to songwriting, and the ripples that reached all the way Down Under.

Will Jordan stop comparing every great artist to Jesus Christ? Will Dan keep calling every song a The Presidents of the United States of America song? Find out on Part Two of Saṃsāra & Nirvana.

Somewhere there is a temple and Jack Johnson (the songwriter not the boxer, though maybe the boxer too) is sitting in it. But how do we find this temple? First we have to go through Saṃsāra & Nirvana.

In this first two part special, Snowy Gum take on Bob Dylan. Dan & Jordan muse on what Bobby means to them, and share some of their favourite songs. WARNING - serious yearn core in this episode.

In this two part episode, Dan & Jordan explore what Bob Dylan means to them. From the man, the myth, but most importantly the songs!

This week Dan & Jordan go to see Nick Cave live in concert. Before though, they give themselves a task to come up with a question to submit to Nick's blog The Red Hand Files.

This week Jordan and Dan talk about Process and the inevitable interweaving's of life and art. Jordan shares a new song, and Dan opens up a session in logic to show you just where he is at in his recording process.

On this episode we take a deep dive into the work of Author Rachel Cusk, particularly her breakthrough novel Outline. Jordan explains how the book changed his life and Dan reveals his initial experiences with Rachel, as well as sharing a brand-new song…Twice!!!

Dan and Jord in the corner of pub talking everything from the importance of tools, the power of sauce and losing a parent.

First episode of the year, and welcome to Season 2! We talk, we sing, a dog humps Dan's leg, and our first guest couldn't make it because he's teaching somewhere in Eastern Europe.

What makes it work? When is it play? Is there a difference? Your hosts, Jordan Wilson and Daniel Forsyth, reveal a little of their relationship to the work of songwriting by giving you a peek behind the curtain of how the magic happens.

What is it that music fulfils that sport can't and what is it that sport fulfils that music can't? Jordon and Dan take a trip to Parramatta stadium to watch the footy over a couple of beers and have a chat about their relationship to music and sport. A twisting and turning conversation, just like a Snowy Gum.

This time Jordy takes Dan down a trip through his musical past to discover what makes him tick and what keeps him going.

Snowy Gum Presents is about... what we're not quite sure. But it has something to do with the land of song. On the first episode of Snowy Gum Presents Daniel Forsyth interviews Jordan Wilson about his life and career as they try to figure out where they are going, both literally and symbolically.