Acheulean Age

ALL CANADIAN SPECIAL opening with a moving, loving, honest tribute to the accordion, on the 197th anniversary of the day (May 23, 1829) the patent was first given to Cyrill Demian by Viennese officials who most certainly had no idea just how integral that weird boxy thing would become to expressing Canadian hyphenate identities through song and stories.

Playlist:

• Cameron Nickerson - Little Country Home
• Kelly Cliperton - Meet Me At The Railway
• Howells - The Pressure (Acoustic)
• Cryptozoologists - Someone Egged My Car
• Gene Kucherawy - Gene's Polka
• Harry Hibbs, featuring Johnny Burke and the Caribou Showband - Brennan On The Moor
• Emilia Volodymyrivna Ostapchuk (Andrusiw), featuring Michael Minsky, Herman Kropatschek, the Viennese Symphony Orchestra - White Cottage In The Orchard
• Ron - Polka Medley: Arbourg Polka, Accordion Polka, Southern Polka
• Female Beat - Walking the Meadows
• Andy De Jarlis and His Early Settlers - Wayne's Old Time Waltz
• Gaby Haas And His Barndance Gang - Barbary Polka
• Wilf Carter - Memories Of My Little Grey-Haired Mother In The West
• King Biscuit Boy, featuring Crowbar - Highway 61
• Tegan and Sara - Hang On To The Night
• Herbie Hancock , featuring Leonard Cohen, Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland, Vinnie Colaiuta, Lionel Loueke - The Jungle Line
• Quit Music - sometimes i don't
• Rolf Boon, featuring The University of Lethbridge Contemporary Music Ensemble - Waves For Two Synthesisers, Percussion, Guitar, and Saxophone
• Canadian Brass, featuring William McCauley - Staggering
• Status/Non-Status - Basket Weaving
• Jim Balfour and Friends, featuring Don Griffith (piano) - Still Vertical
• Whitehorse - Manitoba Death Star
• Diamondtown - Faded Lines
• Loreena McKennitt - The Bonny Swans (Live)
• Lucy Maud Montgomery, featuring Marsha Epic Harris - The Children's Garden
• The Joel Plaskett Emergency - True Patriot Love
• Nova Scotiables - Down Donegal's Stairs

I've been re reading books I loved as a kid, recently. Maybe it's to tap into my inner child. or to relive the glory days of being 6. Or the books are just good. That's always a possibility. I'm enjoying re reading these stories I either half-remember or don't recall at all. A few I remember differently. Currently, I've hit the 1960s/70s Dr. Who Novelisations streak, books that were old even when I was a child, and I am having the most lovely time going back into these. Novelisations of nostalgia. Nostalgisation. Today's tunes come from that place. Music I listened to while reading Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen by Gerry Davis, published by Target Books (not that Target), novel first published in 1978, TV serial broadcast 1967. Read along as we listen together, if you'd like!

Playlist:

• Duke Ellington , featuring The Ron Collier Orchestra - Aurora Borealis
• Maude Audet - Pas besoin d'se mentir
• Benji Crane - Mikayla
• Giorgos Zampetas - The Lemon Market
• The Cadillac Three - Legacy
• Thornetta Davis - Helpless
• Dominique Claire - If God Is A Woman
• Willi Carlisle - Sound and Fury
• Bill Bourne, Lester Quitzan, & Madagascar Slim - Scarecrow Murders
• Melvins - Hag Me
• Mike Tod - John The Revelator
• soa - One Day
• Mildred Bailey - Almost Like Being In Love
• Rush - Cygnus C-1
• Muddy Waters - Standing Around Crying
• The Animals - Cheatin'
• Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
• St. Arnaud - Pretend Like You Do
• Pablo Cruise - For Another Town
• Nature Walk - Sun Shiner
• Jerry Perkins, featuring Mal Hallett and His Orchestra - Dearly Beloved
• The White Stripes - Take, Take, Take
• Keturah - Nchiwewe (Ode To Willie Nelson)
• Frankie Carle - I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

Local poet Richard Harrison, Governor General's Award Winner for his book of poetry On Not Losing My Father's Ashes In The Flood joins Syf to discuss his new book of poetry, My Mother Joins The Resistance, published last month. Head to a bookstore on your CJSW Friends Card and pick up a copy NOW! (please)

Playlist:

• Meredith Bates - Book 1 - 3rd Incantation (Love)
• Female Beat, featuring Joan Evanchyshin (accordian), Valerie Feniuk (drums), Joyce Fedorowich (guitars & vocals) - Red Shawl Tango
• Kacey Musgraves, featuring Miranda Lambert - Horses and Divorces
• Astral Swans - True Love Leaves No Traces
• SquareHead - Home
• Kalsey Kulyk - Little Boy
• Ken Coyler's Skiffle Group - Downbound Train
• Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr - Home To Us
• St. Arnaud - Midwest Superstardom
• Loreena McKennitt - Bonny Portmore
• Tanya Tagaq - Summoning
• Flying Lotus - HORSE NUKE
• Elysia Biro - Running From Nothing
• Oscar Peterson Trio - Politics and Poker
• Lionel Richie, featuring Brenda Harvey-Richie - Penny Lover
• Tori Amos - In Times Of Dragons
• Black Mountain - Night Walks

Went for a walk without my headphones t'other day. Was early, north of seven in the morning. Couple of cars scurrying around my particular corner of suburbia. Their sounds barely registering. My dog and I wear bells when we walk, because the coyotes respect the bells, and avoid us. Coyotes don't enjoy the peals and tones. But they know that we do, so they let us well alone. We wear our music as armour. The stylish kind, fur lined. Cozy. Not too heavy. Light as sound.

Playlist:

• Audrey Ochoa - The Green Place
• Ora Cogan - Too Late
• Em Spel - Bird Or Snake
• Intermontane Superterrane - The Chickadee Song
• Miki Yamanaka - Trinkle Tinkle
• KNEECAP - AN RA
• Various Artists - Afifa El Hawa by Al Massrieen
• Ron - Kozak Nedley: Traditional Ukrainian Folk Dance
• Ron - Fox Trot Medley: So Long, It's Been Good To Know You / Till We Meet Again / Home, Sweet Home
• bugswallow - all critters
• The Stooges - Dirt
• Ralph Sutton - Cataract Rag
• Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Shabby Doll
• The Irish Rovers - Two Little Boys
• The Cameroon Choristers, featuring John F. Wilson - In Christ There Is No East Or West
• Jerry Garcia, David Grisham, and Tony Rice - Amazing Grace
• Teresa Brewer, featuring The Dixieland All Stars - Music! Music! Music! (Put Another Nickel In)
• Peaches - Take It
• DOOL - The Hand Of Creation
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk - You Did It You Did It
• The Cameroon Choristers - Njung Xylophone
• Ducks Ltd. - Train Full Of Gasoline
• Ian Van Der Wee - I See You Every Morning
• Sufjan Stevens - In The Devil's Territory
• Max Bruch, featuring Jascha Heifetz (violin), William Steinberg (conductor), Stanley Chaloupka (harp), RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra - First Movement: Introduction: Adagio Cantabile

PENULTIMATE DAY OF CUFF 2026!

Interviews:

FIFTEEN / QUINCE showing Saturday April 25 10:15pm, with Yossy and Jack Zagha, directors

BUFFET INFINITY showing Saturday, April 25 9pm, with Claire Theobald (actor/art director) and other special crew guests!

Both at the GLOBE CINEMA.

Tune on in, it's a blast!

Playlist:

• Doc Evans Ensemble - That Dada Strain
• Angine De Poitrine - Utzp
• Aterciopelados - Para Que No Digas Que No Pienso En Ti
• Tinariwen - Aba Malik
• Nyxothera - Butterfly Vines
• Rafaga - La Luna Y Tu
• RĂ©mi Bolduc - Reflexion Harmonique
• Gus Englehorn - Horse Hair Purse
• Amy Lou Keeler - A Maid I Am In Love
• Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - Impact / Awake
• Yellow Omm - Rodeo Gal V
• Earl Hines - Earl Hines Remembers...
• Dylan Jewers - Peggy Gordon
• RANT - Rosemarkie Man LIVE
• Melvins - P. G. X 3
• Ginetta's Vendetta - Blues For Pop-Pop (Holy Man)

CUFF IS UPON US!

This week's interviews:

BAGWORM, showing Saturday April 18 at 10:15pm (TONIGHT)

EVERY HEAVY THING, showing Sunday, April 19 at 9:15pm (TOMORROW)

Check out calgaryundergroundfilm.org, get your tickets, and I'll see you at the Globe!

Playlist:

• Alexander Claffy - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues (Live)
• bugswallow - Intro
• Port Authority - Gasworks
• Lala Lala - Wyoming Dirt
• One Leg One Eye - Sympathetic Invertebrate Ritual
• Gowan - Guerrilla Soldier
• Menno Versteeg - Bad Dog
• Paolo Di Carlo - The Lines
• Holly Clark - Losing My Mind
• Status/Non-Status - Bones
• Paul Anka, featuring Herb Alpert - Aldous (Instrumental)
• Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind
• Andy De Jarlis and His Early Settlers - Alph. Carriere's Favorite Jig
• CALYPSO ROSE - Police Band Jamming
• Keith Jarrett - Spheres (9th Movement)

CUFF IS UPON US!

Calgary Underground Film Festival, Globe Cinema, April 16-26, 2026.

TODAY, TWO INTERVIEWS!

Andrew David Lang & Val Duncan - Live Script Reading: Queen of the Vampire Penguins, Saturday April 25, 1pm

AND

Taratoa Stoppard -Mārama, Tuesday April 21, 9:45pm.

Playlist:

• Ishmael Ali - On Nights Of The Full Moon, He Dreamed Of Buffalo
• Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - testament
• fferlys - zina & zara
• Gordon Fury - the shooting of dan mcgrew
• Noah Zacharin - Been a long day
• Aaron Penton - In my head
• Roy Orbison - Up Town
• Big Harp - I'll write you love songs until I die
• Little Anthony & The Imperials - Tears On My Pillow
• Phranc - caped crusader
• His Holiness Pope John Paul II - The Glorious Mysteries: 1st Mystery "The Resurrection"
• Indigo Girls - Shed Your Skin (Live) (Cut)
• Blue Öyster Cult - I Love The Night
• Lazy Heffer - I Walk The Line
• Tex Williams & His Western Caravan - Brother, Drop Dead
• The Flaming Lips - Thank You Jack White (For The Fiber-Optic Jesus That You Gave Me)
• Knilly - Ram The Nationalists
• Will Ackerman, featuring Samite, Michael Manring, Marc Shulman, Gerry James, Jackline Rago - Hawk Circle
• Ultan O'Brien - Secret House In Fintra Beg
• Friendly Rich - Birds 1 - 39

Been noticing osprey nests a lot more recently, but I don't think the ospreys have migrated north yet, too early, they prefer to arrive in May. When I was in uni, I knew the ospreys would arrive right after my last final exam, or right when my last final paper was due. I'm noticing last year's osprey nests more now because I want to see the ospreys, so my brain is training my eyes to pick out evidence of osprean nature. I, like the rivers, am readying myself for spring, and her incoming guests.

Playlist:

• Johnny Smith, featuring Don Lamond (drums), Arnold Fishkin (bass), Perry Lopez (rhythm guitar) - I'll Remember April
• Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - Mirror Era
• Big Country - In A Big Country
• Anne Murray, featuring Amy Grant - Could I Have This Dance
• Nat Jaffe Trio, featuring Nat Jaffe (piano), Remo Palmieri (guitar), Leo Guarnieri (bass) - A Hundred Years From Today
• fferlys - good morning, mr. magpie
• The Sheepdogs - The Owl
• King Biscuit Boy with Crowbar - Biscuit's Boogie
• Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan
• Carter Felker - Francine
• Em Spel - The Poet
• Hellripper - The Art Of Resurrection
• Kenny Baker - Little Jazz
• Jay Coda Walker & Pete Johnson - Wicked Game
• The Red Hot Chili Pipers - Rory McLeod / Molly's Jig / The Famous Baravan
• Ian Wollman, featuring Derek Piotr - Twisty Fist / The Mouth That Eats The Nose
• The Polyjesters - Is She Really Going out With Him?
• Jeff Beck - Rock My Plimsoul
• Josh White, featuring Jacques Wolf - I Got A Head Like A Rock
• Leahy - The Call To Dance
• Hotfoot Quintet - These Old Blues
• Great Big Sea - Excursion Around The Bay
• Charley Crockett - Fastest Gun Alive
• Counting Crows - Sullivan Street

DISENTOMB THE BRAIN FUNCTION. SUMMON FRACTAL ANGELS OV OUR BETTER NATURES. EAT SMOKESTACKS & BURP OUT RAILWAYS. FIND A COMFORT IN THE RUMBLING EARTH. WHAT GROWS YOUNGER AS WE GROW OLDER SHOULD NOT BE CALLED ORE. INDUSTRY? NOT HERE. WE ONLY KNOW HOW TO GROW OLD FORMULAS FROM NEW BELIEFS. AND THAT? THAT IS PRETTY NEAT.

Playlist:

• Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - Disentomb The Brain Function
• The Ratskin Family Band - All You Fascists (Bound To Lose)
• City Ramblers Skiffle Group - 900 Miles
• Molly Johnson & Jim Cuddy - Long Time Running
• Tōth - Easy
• Norah Jones & Josh Homme - Somethin' Stupid
• Bitter Fictions - Garnet
• St. Arnaud - Karaoke Night
• Dorothea Baker - O Danny Boy
• Loreena McKennitt - She Moved Through The Fair
• Carter Faith - Fame Is A Gun
• Lloyd Price - Stagger Lee
• The Sheepdogs - Coming Home
• Dr. John, featuring Cold Grits - Loop Garoo
• John Coltrane - Om (Part I)
• Ghostkeeper - ...and our hurtful games shall come to a truce
• Ishmael Ali - Stars In My Pocket

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