Benjamin Appl's Forbidden Fruit & Busby Marou's endless optimism

Singing forbidden fruit with Benjamin Appl, and live music from Rockhampton duo Busby Marou.

Rockhampton duo Busby Marou have been making music together for sixteen years. They say they’re better live but their fifth studio album, Blood Red, doesn’t sound too bad either. Combining Tom Busby’s singer-songwriter sensibilities and Jeremy Marou’s guitar chops and Torres Strait islander musical culture, their sound has a breezy optimism that they’ve worked hard to achieve, as they demonstrate live in The Music Show studio.

German-British baritone Benjamin Appl reinvents the German Romantic Liederabend – “evening of song” – for a new era with his Australian recital program entitled Nocturne. His latest album, Forbidden Fruit, contains another swathe of songs, and Benjamin joins Andy to talk about both, as well as his time as the last student of the legendary baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

Plus new music from Kate Pass's Kohesia Ensemble where Persian instrumentalists teaming up with jazz artists for Sand, Sea and Sky.