The A.M.

Halifax producer/DJ Cloverdale and Charles from the Oscill8 collective join in the third hour to talk about this Saturday's SYNC Sound + Image Conference, taking place at Studio Bell. That, plus a throwback to Orbital's genre-launching 1994 Glasto performance, and your usual mix of AM sounds to start the week on steady footing.

Thanks for listening — hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Asa Tone - Soft Fascination
• Steven Lambke, Jimmie Kilpatrick - Downtown Train
• Hug - Cow With Half Moon Parasol
• Casino Versus Japan - Durusey
• Socool, CommsBreakdown - Here Comes the Pink
• Mexican Summer Records, featuring No Joy ft. Morgan Greenwood - Bamboo
• Raf Wilcot - In-Between the Sun & Moon
• Isik Kural - Many Only Manolyas
• Juana Molina, Alejandro Franov - la más grande
• Kenny Ueda - Small Theatre
• Sagor & Swing - En kärlekssaga med ett nyckfullt slut
• Fujiya & Miyagi - 158
• Nabihah Iqbal - Heaven Can Wait
• Ana Palindrome - A Man A Cure
• HAIR CONTROL - Extracelestial
• Lammping - Those Silver Skies
• Orbital - Attached - Glastonbury 1994
• Montag - I Have Sound
• L'Eclair - Dunes
• Black Market Karma - Tools of the Small
• Hiro Ama - Cloud 9 - Live at Total Refreshment Centre
• Cloverdale - Dream Operator
• Pye Corner Audio, Andy Bell - Euphoria - Maps Remix
• Keanu Nelson - Ngayunya Kingkangku Wangkapayi
• The Sweet Enoughs, featuring Molly Lewis - Whistlin' By The Waves
• Badge Epoch - I Look Up To See My Only Sunshine
• Ghostkeeper - Love and Free Will

It's The AM's funding drive episode. Funding Drive runs all week — visit https://cjsw.com/donate to support independent radio and independent culture on CJSW's Brave new Airwaves.

Playlist:

• Kogane - you're alive, so act like it
• Rosenau & Sanborn - Harm
• Kibrom Birhane - Utopian
• CG Tears - Off With Their Heads
• Santo & Johnny - Sleepwalk
• Living Hour - Half Can
• Ayal Senior - Egg Yolk Slime
• John Haughey, Tarotplane - Previous Iterations
• Hanna Tuulikki, Tommy Perman - Sun Down (Common Pipistrelle & Soprano Pipistrelle)
• Allison de Groot, Rich Ruth - Sun Down (Common Pipistrelle & Soprano Pipistrelle)
• Flore Laurentienne - Régate
• Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, Frédéric D. Oberland - Squeal Of Swine خنخنة خنازير
• Various Artists, featuring L.T. Leif - Gentle Moon
• Test Card - A pleasant fiction
• Jung People - His Shining Fur is Said to Fill the Sky, Trees, and Sea with Light
• Zoon - One Too Many Nights
• Fugazi - Life and Limb
• Julie Doiron - Swan Pond
• Wally Clark - Let's Go Steady
• The Reverie Sound Revue - The A.M.
• Bjørn Torske - Gullfjellet
• Ora Cogan - All Is Full of Love
• Khotin - Merged Host
• Lalo Schifrin - Two Petals A Flower and a Young Girl
• Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Sunset Village

Alberta: Please vote in today's referendum if you haven't yet.

Everyone else listening in: Enjoy another three hours of offbeat easy listening, including Les Baxter going Lovecraftian, Chopin without the piano, various shades of dream pop and shoegaze, and other sounds to help find your footing on a Monday morning.

Playlist:

• MIZU - Overture
• Bibio, Dorian Concept - Pigeon Harp
• Hollie Kenniff - Come What May
• Wanderingaria - wring
• Resavoir - Stratosphere
• Telemakus, featuring Flying Lotus, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson - The Center Eye
• Aksak Maboul - Montagne
• Zachary Gray - Roundabout
• Prins Emanuel, Golden Ivy, Inre Kretsen Grupp - Tirzas Trägård
• Mount Maxwell - For You
• Gaspar Claus - Amour constrictor (Fugue)
• Mariusz Szypura - Nocturne Op. 72 No. 1
• The Album Leaf, featuring Spencer Zahn - Floating
• CG Tears - Night Arms Divider
• Steve Bates - Lettre d’amour à Fly Pan Am
• M. Geddes Gengras - Motore
• Corntuth - Align
• Les Baxter - Dunwich (Main Title)
• Les Baxter - Black Mass
• Darryl Kissick - The Beginning of the End
• Sam Wilson - Waxing Crescent
• Taylor Schultz - Grow II
• Allison de Groot, Rich Ruth - Bass Crust
• Dallas Good, Richard Reed Parry, featuring Neko Case - The Hole in the Wall
• Automatic - Shadowplay
• Petrels - Killing of the Divine King
• Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - A Heat Intolerable
• Yoo Doo Right - Sofort, Si Fort
• Dummy - Heaven's What You Make of It
• Lael Neale - Joan of Arc
• Bluffing - Sprain
• Couteau Papillon - Abysse
• Hammock, featuring The Flaming Lips - Chemicals Make You Small

A not-at-all Thanksgiving-themed episode on this holiday Monday. Instead, you get apocalyptic Axelrod, "doomed" Andy Boay, city pop from a 1980 Marvel vampire anime, music for wildflowers and weather systems, and other eclectic sounds to start your week on solid footing.

Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Plains Apparition - Migration
• Andy Bell, Masal - Soap and Water
• Kodama こだま - Two For Joy
• Pyramid Eyes - Snowflake
• BICEP - Lemonder
• Wilfred Kozub - Firefly Lagoon
• Dave Angel - Goddess
• Jeremiah Chiu - Doubles
• Odd Nosdam - Deepsimple
• Sanctums - Cicero
• Buildings and Food - Bus Stop
• Eucalyptus - Orb Palace
• astral RIDDIMS - Dogon Spaceforce
• Play Time - Open the Door, Joey
• Brainstory - The Watchers
• David Axelrod - The Warnings Part 3
• David Axelrod - The Signs Part 4
• Various Artists, Light in the Attic, featuring Seiji Yokoyama - Quincy Harker no Theme
• Socool - Origins
• Eleven76 - Someone's Always There
• Badge Époque Ensemble - A Cloud I Dreamt
• Andy Boay - Why Now?
• Peel Dream Magazine - Blind Faith
• Elephant Stone - Here Comes the Rising Sun
• Kali Horse - Cheap High
• Ghostkeeper - People of the Pines
• Gnoomes - Crangonyx
• M83 - Losing Ground
• Colliding Canyons - The Remover of Obstacles
• Sean Wolcott - Whispers in the Bamboo
• Misha Panfilov - Away We Drove

Of note: An unexpected early episode farewell to the great Canadian label Telephone Explosion; a throwback to the band that (supposedly) underpins The A.M.'s whole mood; autumnal shoegaze and jangle pop; and other mellow sounds to indulge in on an October morning.

Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians: Section I
• Allison de Groot, Rich Ruth - New Intervention
• John Beltran - Éire
• Jairus Sharif - Mawu
• Joseph Shabason - The Fellowship
• Hainbach - Inward Star
• Teen Daze - Want - Dream Mix
• Zachary Gray - Nightlights
• Emily A. Sprague - Garden of Charms
• Belbury Poly - Desert Moons
• Persica 3 - Cardinal
• Cindy Lee - Realistik Heaven
• Sunglaceries - Wait
• Jo Passed - Mother Night
• MISZCZYK, featuring Chandra - Bad Ride
• Pink Floyd - Remember a Day
• Pink Floyd - See-Saw
• Assaf Spector, Ori Kaplan, Iihu Melamed - Off Spring
• Beth Gibbons, Rustin Man - Romance
• The Brazda Brothers - 20th Century
• Haruomi Hosono - Ayurveda
• The Sea and Cake - The Argument
• Art D'Ecco - Video Life
• Bibi Club - J'arrive à la ville
• Vanishing Twin - Sugar Stone
• Mia Joy, featuring Peel Dream Magazine - Comet
• Haleiwa - Counting
• Helen - Linda's Head
• Starbelliedbug - crayola car
• Jonathan Personne - Derrière un sourire
• Hair Control, featuring Tea Fannie - Gold Reaps

The Honourable Eleanor Olszewski joins midway through the show to discuss the upcoming referendum in Alberta — please don't forget to vote on October 19 or in one of the advance ballots.

Otherwise, it's a steady mix of mid-tempo music for an autumn morning. Nearly all brand-new songs, with a couple exceptions. Hope you enjoy them, and have a fantastic week!

Playlist:

• Light Conductor - She Glitters the Dust
• Corntuth - Nightingale Waltz
• Deniz Cuylan - Bluffs
• Iker Munduate - Geltokiak
• Emily A. Sprague - Noon Liquid Ore
• Jeremiah Chiu - In Visibility
• Actress - Withending
• Zachary Gray - Needs/Wants
• Wilfred Kozub - Sunday Morning
• Husha Husha - Asleep In A Piano
• BITWASHERE - will he be as forgiving on judgement day?
• Balam - Plumeria Alba
• Dungen - Vidrig Vår
• Living Hour - Half Can - Demo Version
• Jason Dungan, Johan Carøe - Clouds
• Mandrake Handshake - The Tether / Modulo
• Full Moon Bummer - Raiders of the Dreamland
• The Clientele - An Hour Before the Light
• The Clientele - Saturday
• Jon Mckiel - Feeling Around
• Darryl Kissick - Five To Ten
• Trá Pháidín - Garbhóg
• Railcard - Unstable Neighbour
• Immersion - Breaking Free, Diversity, Evolution
• The Oscillation, featuring Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - La Alusión
• Merryn Jeann - Chocolate Cake, Nail Polish, Underwear (Why Can Everything Be Such A Big Deal)
• Miracle Fortress - Maybe Lately
• Crystal Eyes - Pretending to be People
• Blind Yeo - Colour Pillow / Kologo

This week's AM opens with Space Ghost's "Back from Reality," only appropriate as we go from the real world of unstructured weekend time into the strange shared fiction of the working week. Tune in for ambient electronics, vintage psychedelia, brand-new shoegaze and dream-pop, experimental jazz, and other sounds to tied you over until reality returns again.

Playlist:

• Space Ghost - Back From Reality
• Asa Tone - Jalur-Jalur
• Bonobo, featuring Arooj Aftab - Fire on the Water
• Grandbrothers - Famara Dust - Ben Lukas Boysen Rework
• BUNKR - Cruisen
• Sijya - Do I Know - Rachika Nayar Edit
• CG Tears - Off With Their Heads
• Zachary Gray - Suburbia
• Jonathan Fitoussi - Cosmology
• Jacana People, featuring Anna Phoebe - Koshi
• Postmodern Machine - Vialit
• Misha Panfilov - Full of Life
• Jon Mckiel - Guru
• Darryl Kissick - Eat the Rich
• Andy Boay - Child
• Persica 3 - That Life
• Brainticket - One Morning
• Brainticket - Feel the Wind Blow
• The Thorn - La Pernette
• Ayal Senior - Well of Seven
• Steven R. Smith - Returning to Everything
• Diles Que No Me Maten - Hiriku
• Group A.D. - Bird of Parallax
• Postnamers - How Low Hang the Gardens (Olenrath)
• Sanctums - Bless
• Anna Butterss - Ninths
• Bilal Nasser - Who We Used To Be
• Peggy Lee, Cole Schmidt - Removing clocks from a heated house
• K.C. Accidental - Silver Fish Eyelashes
• Pierre Desmarais - Virus

Moody music on a misty Monday morning — what could be cozier on the Labour Day long weekend? A couple surprises this week, including ambient jazz from Andrew WK, and a psychedelic epic from Frankie Valli's Four Seasons, but mostly it's your recommended mix of offbeat easy listening to start your week off right.

Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Living Hour - Magnet
• Fejká - Tape_X247 - Max Cooper Remix
• Andrew W.K. - Edge of Interior
• Akusmi - A Waking Dream (Edit)
• Calgaréal - Points de Fuite
• Danny Lubin-Laden - If I Told You
• Clark - Moons of Temper
• Conflux Coldwell - Time's Relentless Melt
• Sanctums - Star
• Odd Nosdam - Get You In - Belong Mix
• Yuutsu - Seeker
• Rebecca Flood - No Place in the Sun
• Honeybear - Old Fashioned Morphine
• Couteau Papillon - La mort de l'artiste
• Jonathan Personne - Lendemain
• SHOLTO, Phoebe Coco - Always
• Everything Is Recorded - No Ends No Beginnings
• The Four Seasons - American Crucifixion Resurrection
• The Four Seasons - Look Up Look Over
• Strawberry - I Miss My Mom
• Eleven76 - Incriminating Whisper
• Last Ex - Hotel Blues
• Andy Bell, Masal - Tower of Babylon
• Blind Yeo - Today / Tomorrow
• Sook-Yin Lee - Broken English (Moon King Mix)
• Feu Thérèse - Visage sous nylon
• Ciao Ciao Marigold, [12tone] - unknowing action
• Fling II - beem
• The American Analog Set - Come Home Baby Julie, Come Home
• Full Moon Bummer - Don't Wake Me
• Black Market Karma - Always Faithful

An ambient-leaning first hour, a throwback to a quarter-century-old glam rock musical, and an eclectic third hour that encompasses shoegaze, neo-classical, and oddball folk. In other words, it's another AM full of offbeat easy listening to end your August on a pleasant note.

Playlist:

• Light Conductor - Omenize
• Bibio, Dorian Concept - Lichen Trip
• Sun Drawing, Sea Level - Mornings at the Library
• Tenniscoats, Tape - River Together
• Altus - Cold Signal Index
• Palladian - Will-O'-Wisp - Arms and Sleepers Remix
• Easy Idiot - Credits Roll
• Hanna Tuulikki, Tommy Perman - Sun Down (Common Pipistrelle & Soprano Pipistrelle)
• Bullion - Applegene
• Test Card - Suite electrique
• Fiver - Elemental Progression
• Lambchop - Weakened
• Gilroy Mere - Walk a Line
• Jonathan Personne - La Terre est plate
• Klint, featuring Rachel Kitchlew - Intermezzo - Orchidea -
• Stephen Trask - The Origin of Love
• Stephen Trask - Midnight Radio
• Allah-Las - Vini da Gama
• Black Duck With Elena Setien - Sunshine Unlimited
• Fiver - Only In the Longing
• Immersion - What Is Lost Will Return
• Cornelius, featuring The Monochrome Set - You Make Me Cyborg
• No Joy - Süki & Amadeus
• Cloud Studies - Cloud Cartography - Extended
• sundayclub - Camera Shy
• Pøltergeist - Morning Star
• Sorrow - Epiphany
• Gaspar Claus - Désir des astres
• Final Fantasy - Ultimatum
• Raf Wilcot - Never the Bride

Mild technical difficulties can't get a good AM down. This week's episode starts with soul-nourishing sounds from Beverly Glenn-Copeland, wraps with the Durutti Column's most recent magic, and finds room in between for tropical getaways, art-rock detours, and kosmische expanses.

Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Light of the Heavens
• Fling II - ilia
• Elskavon - Mannequin
• Postmodern Machine - Pomme Pomme
• Hollie Kenniff, Kazuma Okabayashi - Whispering Winds
• Allison de Groot, Rich Ruth - Nervion
• Samuel Organ, Nailah Hunter, Joel Shearer - Albion
• M. Sage - Thunder Covered Brush
• Colliding Crayons - The Remover of Obstacles
• Boycalledcrow - zephyr
• Jon McKiel - Order
• Ghostkeeper - Balloon Moon
• Paint, featuring Discovery Zone - The Way You Look
• Octoduck - Crying Shame
• Horse Lords - Playing and Reality
• Ryan Hemsworth - A Display of Emotion
• Bobbyy, featuring Salami Rose Joe Louis - Lands Far Away
• Lael Neale - Slip Away
• Singer - Dial "M" for Mother
• Singer - Sister's Mane
• Dummy - Full Spectrum Dominance
• The Oscillation - Bring It On
• Tess Parks - Happy Birthday Forever
• Gnoomes - Shakshuka and Pie
• Giraffe - Hey! Cool It, Everybody
• Misha Panfilov - When I See You (It Feels Wonderful)
• Sophie Birch - Jaududdanya
• Ìxtahuele - Dance of the Temptress
• Allah-Las - Vini da Gama
• Apostle of Hustle - Kings & Queens
• Sandro Perri - Love is Real (2020)
• Women - Everyone Is So In Love With You
• Yoo Doo Right - Doldrums, Doldrums, Eviler Than the Devil
• The Durutti Column - Time Present and Time Past