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

No Summary

For today's broadcast, I turned off the lights. Blue sky outside, so very well lit in the studio all the same. Just less electric glow. More sun. Yellow sun blue sky and the nice grey drapings of a Saturday afternoon. Brewed some green tea. Let the bag steep just a tad too long. Saw a cute picture of a dog in Scotland bravely jumping over a bonnie wee brook (creek) this morning; dog jumped earlier this week. These sound selections come from those two experiences. - Syf

Playlist:

• Miro's Band, featuring Henri Enrique Miro - The Contemptibles March
• Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Shenandoah
• Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - Under Blue Canadian Skies
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - Brontosaurus
• Silla, featuring Kevin Qananiq-Mason - The Great Angakkuq
• Don Reno, Red Smiley, and the Tennessee Cutups - A Pretty Wreath For Mother's Grave
• Charlotte Day Wilson - Patchwork
• Pinebarren - Arbutus
• Dina Ögon - Gra Labyrint
• Dottie Myles, featuring Milton Herbert Orchestra - Gimme A Little Kiss
• The Bel Canto Singers - Pie Jesu
• Ruth Brown - Good-For-Nothing Joe
• The Yellow Sunshine Microdot Happiness Band - It Emanates For That Is Its Nature
• Joemy Wilson - Faeries' Lamentation
• Dan Mangan - My Dreams Are Getting Weirder
• Bob Hill and his Canadian Country Boys, featuring The Carignan Brothers - Mount Gabriel Reel
• Enya - Epona
• Nicola Miller - Seaweed
• Antonio Lauro, featuring Adam Goldman - Zulay
• Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers - The Yam
• Taylor Swift - Clara Bow
• Philip Johnson - I Am Wearing
• Annie Lennox - The Hurting Time
• Lingyuan Yang - Ritual Fire
• Brian Toner - Fishing In Heaven

Syf Sloane? More like SIP* Sloane. Because she sipped from hot milk with vanilla (called a "steamer" in barista parlance) throughout this whole show. Perhaps that can be tasted in the music she's selected. Syf calls this show "very thinky" and her mother calls it "meditative" - both feel quite apt. Syf's thinking has been moving along spiral-y trails and whorl tracks recently. Snail shells and the upturned hull of a ship, wooden ribs trying to remember when they were trees nuzzling the sky's chin. What shapes are you thinking along? *Wynter Laboucane came up with this joke, all credit due to her.

Playlist:

• Paul Bley Trio, featuring Nark Levinson (bass), Barry Altshul (drums), Paul Bley (piano) - Ramblin'
• Neil Young - Needle Of Death (Bert Jansch)
• Ennio Morricone - The Salo Haunted Suite
• Unknown (Male Vocal Quartette) - Onward Christian Soldiers
• Beverly Glenn-Copeland, featuring Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland - Middle Island Lament
• Bennett Mitchell - I'm Not Suffering
• Jimmie Osborne - Thank God For Victory In Korea
• Cold Camp - Intro
• Whole Lotta Beef - Car Toy
• Swamp Donkey - It Is Not The Water's Fault
• Jeff Tweedy - Parking Lot
• Harry Manx - Don't Forget To Miss Me
• T. Texas Tyler, The Man With A Million Friends - Cowboy's Prayer
• Neko Case - Baby, I'm Not (A Werewolf)
• The Motions - Green Chewing Gum Machine
• Itchy & The Nits - Fortune Teller
• Cold Camp - The Camp Anthem
• Fanny Brice - My Man
• Rosa Henderson, featuring Edgar Dowell - Chicago Monkey-Man Blues
• Ed Cherry - Lawns
• Jeanie Lang, featuring Paul Whitman & His Orchestra - Ragamuffin Romeo
• RANT - Happy Day
• Eugene Daignault - A Saint Malo, Beau Port De Mer
• Bob Hill and His Canadian Boys, featuring the Carignan Brothers - Reel Salle St. Andre

BODYCAM: footage is all around us these days, and isn't that strange? What is the worst possible thing that could happen when two cops respond to a domestic situation? Yeah. It's bad. And then the supernatural stuff happens. Woof.

Local director Brandon Christensen drops by to chat about his horror film BODYCAM, which you can catch MARCH 4 at the Globe Cinema, as part of OFF THE CUFF, from the Calgary Underground Film Festival!

Playlist:

• Way Ahead Trio - Six O'Clock Window Wiper
• Touched Fables - Harsh Rain
• Anita Ellis, featuring Joel Herron And His Orchestra, Ray Charles Singers - My Little Space Cadet
• Las Chicas Del Sol - Estar Contigo - Salsa
• Sun Ra - Ankhnation
• Rev. Dave and the Sin Eaters - Clouds Like Buffalo
• The Science of the Heart - BE LOVE
• Revolutionary Snake Ensemble - Son of Mr. Green Genes
• Cripple Clarence Lofton - You've Done Tore Your Playhouse Down
• The Proclaimers - (I'm Gonna) Burn Your Playhouse Down
• BeauSoleil - Grand Mallet
• Jerry Smith, featuring Fred Rose - The End Of The World
• Antibalas - La Ceiba
• Cathleen Mulvaney & Henry Schleb - Jackie Porcupine
• Mighty Sampson - Sunshowers
• W. H. Auden - Law Like Love; Casino
• Anne Murray, featuring Shelby Lynne - You Won't See Me
• Noah Franche-Nolan - A Triangle Is A Bird

Been reading Beowulf again, different translations, different versions, some all poetic text, others prose, still others illustrated. And that got me thinking about caves. If I were Grendel or his mother, I think I would stay in the cave, among the rusty swords and dinosaur bones. Consider the following how I think that would sound, a pleasant life lurking cave style:

Playlist:

• Virginia Grand Military Band, featuring J. P. Sousa, Loras J. Schissel - Transit of Venus March
• Anthony D'Alessandro - Sacred Ground
• Way Ahead Trio - Goo Gone The Snail
• Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka, Hiroshi Kanazu, & Toshiyuki Ueno - Dangerous Caves
• Elyot - Tomeholder
• Arid Landscapes - The Optimist
• Pauline Oliveros & The Deep Listening Band - Trog Arena
• Vess L. Ossman - A Bunch Of Rags
• King of Foxes - Dynamo
• S. H. Dudley, featuring Joseph Arthur - The Village Choir
• Hugo Blouin - La sauce
• Monica Lewis, featuring Jose Morand & His Orchestra - Made For Each Other
• Loud in the Pines - Tree Song
• Eileen Barton With The New Yorkers - If I Knew You Were Coming I'd've Baked A Cake
• Kevin Asher and The Barnburners - You Ain't Around
• Kathleen Edwards - Need A Ride
• Noeline Hofmann - One Hell Of A Woman
• Al Trace & His Silly Symphonists - I Wuv A Rabbit
• Grumpy - Bird Parts
• McGnarley's Rant - Catch-22
• New Model Army - Reload
• The Fall - White Lightning
• Tangle Eye, featuring Alan Lomax, Fred McDowell, Denise Gardner, Mattie Gardner, Ida Mae Towns, Lucille Powell - Heaven
• Dave Matthews Band - Lie In Our Graves
• Ultan O'Brien - Packie's Pandemonium

Tetragrammalocamotive, or call that sounds of thee industrial north, especially if you happen to be standing far south, build me a dial that spines, let me watch the smokestacks signal to the stars that angels are welcome here to listen and to play the piano with Monks, Thelonious and medieval.

Playlist:

• David Archibald - Step Up!
• Young Neighbours - You Are The Moon
• Jim Morrison - If The Writer Can Write
• The Sling Sisters - Chasing Whiskey With A Kiss
• Rev. J. P. Christopher, Ph.D. - Consonants (X)
• Bill Dowey - How Long Must This Go On
• Gilles Laval - Unsaved
• Bruce Callow - Cold War Hangover
• Wilted Perch - Aether of the Headless
• Great Lake Swimmers - The Fledgling Jay
• Stars - Sleep Tonight
• Bebel Gilberto - No Return
• Ariel Ulysses - 41:30 (Original Concept)
• Basil Kirchin - Heart of the North
• Lee Mason - The Hunter
• Dave Stryker - Cinema Paradiso (Main Theme)
• Gary Sill - Angel Descending (Var. 1)
• Robert Petway - Bertha Lee Blues
• Thelonius Monk with John Coltrane - Monk's Mood
• The Rawling Brothers - His Sheep Am I
• Open Eyes Elysia - Bound
• Christopher Sleightholm - I Believe In Nothing
• Iris DeMent - House Where Nobody Lives
• Big Joe Williams - Rootin' Ground Hog
• The Onlies - Cluck Old Hen
• King Solomon Hill - Whoopee Blues

“When I walk into my workshop, it’s like entering the gates of heaven.” - Rod Stewart, on his model railway layout.

"I play the guitar because it lets me dream aloud." - Michael Hedges

Playlist:

• River Tiber - Blues
• Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited - Conversations with my father.
• Don Ross - My Dad's Story
• Brad Miller & Leo Kulka - Engine No. 1926: Graham County Railroad
• Yusuf Mumin - Journey to the Ancient
• Hewson Grey - Small Town
• Vinton Wight - 4-6-4 No, 4003, Burlington
• Martinez/Roach - I Get Along Without You Very Well
• O. Winston Link Railway Productions - 3 Steam Trains, Passes E & W As We Hold At Dewey (Near Montvale, VA)
• Smokey AB - Coyotes
• Revolutionary Snake Ensemble - Xonk
• Oscar D. Skelton, featuring Scott Foster - Some General Questions
• Martin Denny - Exodus (Ernest Gold)
• Glen Hurlburt, featuring Greg McRitchie And His Orchestra - Cable Car Concerto
• Willi Carlisle - The Great Depression
• Hangman Pencil co. - The Pavement's Always Grey
• Mister D's Machine - Scene 2
• Canadian Brass - Sonata In Three Movements: Allegro (Henry Purcell 1659-1695)
• Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited - Bridge troll toll train.
• Canadian Brass - Sonata In Three Movements: Grave (Henry Purcell 1659-1695)
• Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited - This parking lot was a major rail terminal.
• Canadian Brass - Sonata In Three Movements: Presto (Henry Purcell 1659-1695)
• Loreena McKennitt - Sun, Moon and Stars