Matt Latham is the creator and host of the Pick a Disc podcast, in which he sits down with a guest to chat about an album they want to talk about. Be it an all-time favourite or an album that the guest just can't stop listening to, it's a guaranteed positive talk about the music people love.

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Stephanie Arapian is an actor, writer, and producer who's always been drawn to stories that start with "What if?" Her work blends grounded drama with just enough reality-bending to ask big emotional questions, including her short film Rewind To Her, now expanding into a feature alongside several other projects in development. She's also the founder of The Centered Creator, a mindfulness space where she creates meditations and tools to help artists stay grounded while they build the work they believe in — including her upcoming course, Intro to Meditation for Creatives, launching in January.

As read by Meghann Wilhoite, music by pillar of garbage

Photo by Mark Timberlake on Unsplash

Ten years since her last solo album, trail-blazing flutist Meerenai Shim releases her fourth. The Audacity combines virtuosic flute performances and modern record production techniques in a delightful sonic package. Anchored by the evergreen "Vermont Counterpoint" by Steve Reich and augmented by newly commissioned works from The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker, Brent Miller, Janice Misurell-Mitchell, and Meghann Wilhoite, The Audacity is Meerenai's most cohesive project to date. When she designed the album cover, Meerenai happened to hand-write her name and it turns out that The Audacity is truly her signature recording project. Released by Aerocade Music.

Listen on for my interview with musician and hypnotherapist Lupe 8! Lupe takes us on her journey of self-discovery with stops in Argentina, Mexico, Germany, and England. She tells us how she got to music, left it, and came back again, and how she began her hypnotherapy practice and business, BEC8ME.

MOMMO G Insta
https://www.instagram.com/mommo.g/

Mafia Klub music video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGCngQMKEfg

MOMMO G's remix of "The Bright Frame of Love" by death of codes
https://dpillarrecords.bandcamp.com/track/bright-frame-mommo-g

Lupe's hypnotherapy BEC8ME Insta:
https://www.instagram.com/bec8me_/

The Unexpected Podcast by BEC8ME:
https://open.spotify.com/show/2Fu2WkmgE6gFXKcLwT3z4s?si=xdfFGCbzQ4GCNMFEppik9A

The BEC8ME website: https://www.bec8me.com/

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Enjoy this dramatic reading of "A Haunted House" by Virginia Woolf!

Music by pillar of garbage

Photo by Ján Jakub Naništa on Unsplash

In which I chat with superstar pianist Holly Roadfeldt about her new album Hommages, the dark tunnel of memorization, and the vital importance of collaborating with other artists—in live performances.

More about the album:

Pianist Holly Roadfeldt transports us to Eddie Van Halen's arena, behind Hayao Miyazaki's camera lens, within the frenetic energy of Frank Zappa, to Hildegard von Bingen's visions, above the monumental canvas of Jackson Pollock, and so on. Through Roadfeldt's poetic interpretations of Lanman's compelling vignettes, we recognize these piano miniatures are more than a sonic journey but provide us with the artistic inspiration and human connection we so often desire.

HOMMAGES, the new album from composer Anthony Joseph Lanman. The click of a metronome, haunting melodies, a wild flourish transcribed from a famous virtuoso guitarist, and seemingly random pitches repeated through a looper pedal on which other colors emerge. These are the expressions of vulnerability through sound heard in Anthony Joseph Lanman's HOMMAGES.

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Thank you Holly for joining me again on the podcast!