1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast 2 00:00:10,573 --> 00:00:11,733 Speaker 1: from News Talks at b. 3 00:00:46,733 --> 00:00:49,893 Speaker 2: This is Polar Extremes. The song is called so what If? 4 00:00:49,933 --> 00:00:52,093 Speaker 2: I'm on the television and you stept with all one song. 5 00:00:52,293 --> 00:00:55,333 Speaker 2: Kind of interesting how it changed between the rhythms theory. 6 00:00:56,013 --> 00:00:59,173 Speaker 2: They've just released an album called Strange Vision Volume one. 7 00:00:59,813 --> 00:01:03,413 Speaker 2: Estelle Clifford has been listening to it. She's our music reverewan, 8 00:01:03,453 --> 00:01:05,213 Speaker 2: she's with us now, Kildra Stelle. 9 00:01:05,213 --> 00:01:08,093 Speaker 3: Oh Kouder morning, just bringing you something a little eclectic 10 00:01:08,133 --> 00:01:09,133 Speaker 3: and different today. 11 00:01:09,293 --> 00:01:10,653 Speaker 2: I think that's an understatement. 12 00:01:12,253 --> 00:01:12,733 Speaker 1: It's cool. 13 00:01:12,853 --> 00:01:15,413 Speaker 2: It's not, it's not. It's cool. Yeah, it's great. 14 00:01:16,053 --> 00:01:17,853 Speaker 3: I was going to say it's a scapism, but then 15 00:01:18,013 --> 00:01:20,333 Speaker 3: when you get into the lyrics and the storytelling, it's 16 00:01:20,333 --> 00:01:23,373 Speaker 3: actually very right on the nose of kind of how 17 00:01:23,413 --> 00:01:26,853 Speaker 3: the world is right now, and you know, commentary on 18 00:01:27,013 --> 00:01:28,853 Speaker 3: sort of where we're at that that song there, So 19 00:01:28,893 --> 00:01:31,133 Speaker 3: what If? On the television Actually my fav off the 20 00:01:31,133 --> 00:01:33,333 Speaker 3: whole album when you when it's got the opener, you 21 00:01:33,333 --> 00:01:34,813 Speaker 3: go right to the beginning of it's got this really 22 00:01:34,853 --> 00:01:37,493 Speaker 3: funky bass, it's quite spacey opener. 23 00:01:38,093 --> 00:01:39,853 Speaker 4: His vocals are really great on it. 24 00:01:39,973 --> 00:01:42,773 Speaker 3: And the really running scene throughout this entire album is 25 00:01:42,893 --> 00:01:46,413 Speaker 3: he's just an excellent musician, great musical little track that 26 00:01:46,453 --> 00:01:47,933 Speaker 3: you can just sink into. 27 00:01:48,493 --> 00:01:51,173 Speaker 4: Polar Extremes. The artist behind that is called Quaint. 28 00:01:51,173 --> 00:01:54,813 Speaker 3: He's very elusive, doesn't really have a huge social media 29 00:01:54,853 --> 00:01:58,453 Speaker 3: profile or anything, and from the press release it says 30 00:01:58,493 --> 00:02:04,813 Speaker 3: sci fi infused, postmodern, satirical apocalyptic beats. Oh okay, if 31 00:02:04,813 --> 00:02:06,693 Speaker 3: I'm going to make it a little more simplified, I 32 00:02:06,733 --> 00:02:10,013 Speaker 3: would think just imagine him performing in some of the 33 00:02:10,093 --> 00:02:13,933 Speaker 3: really cool grungey theaters of Wellington doing their underground kind 34 00:02:13,973 --> 00:02:18,093 Speaker 3: of performance sort of music. I think David Bowie Flight 35 00:02:18,133 --> 00:02:21,693 Speaker 3: to the Concords. Yeah, and then there's some weird, funny, 36 00:02:21,813 --> 00:02:24,213 Speaker 3: dark wit stuff that goes along with. 37 00:02:25,133 --> 00:02:26,293 Speaker 4: Sort of vaudeville slash. 38 00:02:26,293 --> 00:02:28,293 Speaker 3: It wouldn't be out of place at a steampunk event, 39 00:02:28,613 --> 00:02:30,773 Speaker 3: right right, Yeah, it kind of makes me think of that. 40 00:02:31,013 --> 00:02:35,773 Speaker 2: And yeah, it's it's just a one person, Yeah, yeah. 41 00:02:35,653 --> 00:02:37,933 Speaker 3: Quaint is just a single person, and I kind of 42 00:02:38,013 --> 00:02:40,173 Speaker 3: like that elusiveness. I think it draws you in a 43 00:02:40,173 --> 00:02:42,893 Speaker 3: little bit where you're like, who, what, why and how 44 00:02:43,013 --> 00:02:44,093 Speaker 3: is this getting put together? 45 00:02:44,253 --> 00:02:47,613 Speaker 2: But to hold Extremes is Quaint, which is one person, 46 00:02:47,733 --> 00:02:50,413 Speaker 2: so it's not ye yeah right, okay, okay, yeah, I 47 00:02:51,693 --> 00:02:52,213 Speaker 2: all morning. 48 00:02:52,773 --> 00:02:55,773 Speaker 3: Well there could be like maybe yeah right, so performing 49 00:02:55,813 --> 00:02:57,973 Speaker 3: tonight at Moon and Wellington. So maybe once you see 50 00:02:58,213 --> 00:03:01,533 Speaker 3: live shows, come back to us. Because this this album 51 00:03:01,533 --> 00:03:04,213 Speaker 3: actually came out in twenty nineteen, a very quiet digital 52 00:03:04,293 --> 00:03:09,173 Speaker 3: release like Posts and pre Pandemic rather, and then it 53 00:03:09,293 --> 00:03:12,893 Speaker 3: sort of just kind of disappeared like a trial and era. 54 00:03:13,013 --> 00:03:16,013 Speaker 3: But the songs have been getting put together again. Quite 55 00:03:16,093 --> 00:03:18,853 Speaker 3: has been performing, you know, in the Wellington underground scene 56 00:03:18,893 --> 00:03:21,453 Speaker 3: and other musical scene since the nineties, and so some 57 00:03:21,533 --> 00:03:25,533 Speaker 3: of this kind of like music and storytelling we're starting 58 00:03:25,653 --> 00:03:28,693 Speaker 3: their early two thousands, and then you hear these songs 59 00:03:28,733 --> 00:03:31,213 Speaker 3: that you're like, there's one called Consume and it just 60 00:03:31,253 --> 00:03:34,173 Speaker 3: basically repeats that lyric consume, Consume, consume, and you're like, 61 00:03:34,653 --> 00:03:37,853 Speaker 3: oh god, it speaks volumes for where we are as 62 00:03:37,853 --> 00:03:40,973 Speaker 3: a people sometimes, doesn't it where we just I mean, are. 63 00:03:40,853 --> 00:03:44,773 Speaker 4: We consuming things or are we just consuming all the resources? 64 00:03:45,293 --> 00:03:46,333 Speaker 4: You know, it's still. 65 00:03:46,213 --> 00:03:48,693 Speaker 3: Very poignant to what is happening in the world right 66 00:03:48,733 --> 00:03:54,533 Speaker 3: now and delivered in that very theatrical kind of music way, 67 00:03:54,693 --> 00:03:56,533 Speaker 3: and then you can just enjoy actually the layers of 68 00:03:56,613 --> 00:03:59,373 Speaker 3: music too, because it's very good and very very clever. 69 00:03:59,453 --> 00:04:01,693 Speaker 3: But again, I think if you think Flight of the Conchords, 70 00:04:02,853 --> 00:04:05,493 Speaker 3: but then this really pop funk, eclectic sort of sound 71 00:04:05,533 --> 00:04:10,093 Speaker 3: going on underneath, it's Yeah, it's really it's very cool. 72 00:04:10,173 --> 00:04:14,213 Speaker 3: Like I just really like what's going on here. One 73 00:04:14,253 --> 00:04:15,973 Speaker 3: of the songs you're going to play us out Worth 74 00:04:16,133 --> 00:04:18,853 Speaker 3: is Captain zodiax Dictionary. This is probably one of the 75 00:04:18,893 --> 00:04:22,533 Speaker 3: most fully crazy tracks on there, and there's just absolutely 76 00:04:22,573 --> 00:04:25,693 Speaker 3: everything going into it. Yeah, very character filter, you know 77 00:04:25,733 --> 00:04:31,333 Speaker 3: how there's sometimes that talky kind of storytelling within a track, yeah, 78 00:04:31,373 --> 00:04:33,333 Speaker 3: which again is where I point to, like the vaudeville 79 00:04:33,453 --> 00:04:36,133 Speaker 3: kind of performancey, sing, punky kind of thing. 80 00:04:36,693 --> 00:04:39,053 Speaker 4: But the music still really draws you in with the 81 00:04:39,133 --> 00:04:41,693 Speaker 4: layers of production. I think it's it's fun. 82 00:04:41,733 --> 00:04:44,853 Speaker 3: It's a little bit twisted and dark, but clever and 83 00:04:44,853 --> 00:04:47,413 Speaker 3: beautiful soundtracks sort of giving it. 84 00:04:47,373 --> 00:04:49,653 Speaker 4: Quite a fresh, funky kind of groove. 85 00:04:49,693 --> 00:04:51,613 Speaker 3: I think it really reminds me of working in the 86 00:04:51,613 --> 00:04:54,573 Speaker 3: theater scene in Wellington. Yeah, Like I'm pretty sure he's 87 00:04:54,573 --> 00:04:57,613 Speaker 3: Auckland based, but it just gives me that really e 88 00:04:57,653 --> 00:04:59,213 Speaker 3: collected sort of vibe from there. There's a song on 89 00:04:59,213 --> 00:05:00,493 Speaker 3: there actually too, if you want to track it down. 90 00:05:00,533 --> 00:05:02,133 Speaker 3: It's at the end of the album. It's called Harps 91 00:05:02,693 --> 00:05:04,733 Speaker 3: and there's every kind of sound in there excepta harp, 92 00:05:05,293 --> 00:05:08,973 Speaker 3: but it has some really great brass and Quaint says 93 00:05:08,973 --> 00:05:12,533 Speaker 3: it's one to unite the Chakras. Yeah, and each song 94 00:05:12,533 --> 00:05:14,493 Speaker 3: on the album has its little icon picture, and it's 95 00:05:14,493 --> 00:05:16,813 Speaker 3: a clock. It's a time clock, right, it's the apocalyptic 96 00:05:16,893 --> 00:05:19,813 Speaker 3: time clock. And each said all one has an icon picture, 97 00:05:19,813 --> 00:05:21,693 Speaker 3: and the one for Harps is a mushroom. So I 98 00:05:21,693 --> 00:05:23,493 Speaker 3: don't know if we've gone on some little random trip, 99 00:05:23,493 --> 00:05:24,773 Speaker 3: but I'm just going to put that out there that 100 00:05:24,773 --> 00:05:28,093 Speaker 3: I've enjoyed the visuals that go along with it. And 101 00:05:28,133 --> 00:05:29,933 Speaker 3: again I think if you get to see this live, 102 00:05:30,213 --> 00:05:32,133 Speaker 3: because now it's having a bigger release than it did, 103 00:05:32,293 --> 00:05:36,653 Speaker 3: and it's quiet little Heyday of twenty nineteen, apparently part 104 00:05:36,693 --> 00:05:39,173 Speaker 3: of a trilogy too, But again that's very mysterious as 105 00:05:39,173 --> 00:05:42,853 Speaker 3: to whether or not it will happen. Maybe if Polar 106 00:05:42,933 --> 00:05:46,533 Speaker 3: Extremes is inspired to write some more, we'll see, maybe 107 00:05:46,533 --> 00:05:49,253 Speaker 3: see how this sits with everyone. But if you're wanting, yeah, 108 00:05:49,373 --> 00:05:51,133 Speaker 3: just to change it up a little bit, but still 109 00:05:51,253 --> 00:05:53,453 Speaker 3: enjoys some really great music and production. 110 00:05:54,093 --> 00:05:55,373 Speaker 4: It's all in this album. 111 00:05:55,573 --> 00:05:59,733 Speaker 2: Sounds great, sounds really yea, yeah, it's quirky. 112 00:05:59,853 --> 00:06:03,093 Speaker 3: Let's go quirky and ecleectic and just go somewhere a 113 00:06:03,133 --> 00:06:03,733 Speaker 3: little different. 114 00:06:03,773 --> 00:06:04,613 Speaker 4: I think you'll enjoy it. 115 00:06:04,653 --> 00:06:05,973 Speaker 2: Okay, So what did you give it? 116 00:06:06,973 --> 00:06:07,493 Speaker 3: Him? 117 00:06:07,613 --> 00:06:09,053 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to give it a ten out of time. 118 00:06:09,893 --> 00:06:12,733 Speaker 3: I've really really sunk into this album over the last 119 00:06:12,733 --> 00:06:16,813 Speaker 3: few days and I'm enjoying. I'm enjoying this sort of 120 00:06:16,893 --> 00:06:17,893 Speaker 3: challenging me a little bit. 121 00:06:18,013 --> 00:06:20,573 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, cool, we'll have a bit more than 122 00:06:20,613 --> 00:06:22,573 Speaker 2: a couple of minutes. We'll listen to that. Captain Zobia 123 00:06:22,613 --> 00:06:26,093 Speaker 2: a ZODIACX Dictionary the one you recommend, Thank you, Estelle 124 00:06:26,133 --> 00:06:28,533 Speaker 2: and Steale. Clifford, our music reviewer, gives it ten out 125 00:06:28,573 --> 00:06:32,573 Speaker 2: of ten. That's Strange Vision Volume one by Polar Extremes. 126 00:06:32,973 --> 00:06:37,293 Speaker 2: Quaint is the artist behind Polar Extremes and Yeah, we'll 127 00:06:37,293 --> 00:06:38,733 Speaker 2: pay but more for you in a few minutes time. 128 00:06:38,813 --> 00:06:39,133 Speaker 2: Right now. 129 00:06:39,693 --> 00:06:42,813 Speaker 1: For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live 130 00:06:42,893 --> 00:06:45,693 Speaker 1: to news talks that'd be from nine am Saturday, or 131 00:06:45,773 --> 00:06:47,693 Speaker 1: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.