Thank God It's Free Range!

Interviews with Saskatchewan trio Black Tea (who play Osborne Taphouse on October 17th as part of their Get Steeped Tour), and with Dreejur (who plays send + receive on October 19th at the West End) and the debut broadcast of send + receive artist BINT mbareh's "chronicling the tunnel's eternal return to debt" which was commissioned for v.27 of the festival.

"chronicling the tunnel's eternal return to debt" conveys artist BINT Mbareh's research on Palestinian ways of knowing to Treaty 1 territory. In this work, sound is both communicative content and a medium of passage, transgressing colonial borders and discrete bodies as a wave.

The work is installed for close listening at Video Pool's Poolside Gallery (100 Arthur Street, second floor) Wednesday to Friday afternoons from 1:00-5:00pm. 

Bint Mbareh is a sound researcher with a focus on water in palestine. her interest in the physical parallel between the water wave and the sound wave leads her into questions of border dissolutions (between bodies, between states, between tenses), and into the possibility of being enveloped by the voice, by sounding communally similarly to being enveloped by a water body. she challenges settler colonial epistemology by taking seriously palestinian ways of knowing, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage as an instigator to political revolution.
This piece features:

Makharij al Hurouf Choir (the hive)
Yasamin Ghalehnoie (the poet)
Haseeba Hisham (the lamenter)
The Mediterranean sea (the final say)

An interview with Shad about his forthcoming album Start Anew, and a live session and conversation with Jared Adams ahead of the 5th year anniversary show for Tragic Nostalgia.

LOTS of fun stuff happening this weekend including Breakout West. I spoke to Edmonton artist Kaeley Jade who is in town for the festival and conference.

Nuit Blanche is NEXT SATURDAY! I talk to General Manager Kurt Kittlemier about all the goings-on, then I've got Austin, TX by way of the Netherlands artist Judy Blank discussing her fantastic album Big Mood, and finally Brandon and Jeff from Yukon Blonde talk about their new album Friendship & Rock 'n' Roll ahead of their Winnipeg show October 7th at Sidestage.

SUPER busy show as there's lots going on in and around the city these days. First up is a conversation with Canadian jazz legend Holly Cole who plays Club Regent NEXT Saturday, September 20th. We talk about her new album Dark Moon.

Then Semi Kumolu-Johnson stops by the station to talk about Shinerama, the annual campus fundraising efforts in support of Cystic Fibrosis. Shinerama takes place on the Fort Garry Campus on Thursday, September 18th.

The next day in Brandon is the start of a free, two-day, all-ages festival in celebration of modular synths. Brendon Ehinger joins me to talk about all that's going on as part of Prairie Wires Modular.

And finally, Carson McHone releases her new album Pentimento today on Merge and we talk about how the record came to be in advance of her appearance at Sidestage on September 16th opening for partner Daniel Romano.

R&B collective NADUH are in town next Friday to play at Sidestage with CEC and Larisa from the group joins me to talk about their latest record duh., how the group coalesced and what to expect at the show.

Joined by Prairie Comics Festival Artistic Director Sam Beiko to discuss the festival which happens September 5th and 6th at the Manitoba Museum, and by co-directors of The Nest, Julietta Singh and Chase Joynt to talk about the film in advance of its screenings at Cinematheque (including a Q&A with Singh on Thursday September 4 and Friday September 5).

Featuring an interview with Chrissy Spratt who plays the CCFM on September 5th in support of her new EP.

On the show tonight I talk to Break Out West's Executive Directory Michael Dawson ahead of the music festival and conference that returns to Winnipeg this September.

Then I'm joined by Deirdre Smith and Scott Garratt of Charlottetown, PEI band Strawberry, whose album Brokeheart Audio is currently in the running for the Slaight Family Polaris Heritage Prize. We talk about the pair's recollection of making the record, a bit about Deirdre's continued songwriting and more.

An interview and live session with Laura June Rose, a recent transplant to Winnipeg by way of Calgary and Vancouver. We get into what led her to the city and her musical background.