The A.M.

As the nights get longer and sweater-weather chill enters the morning air, autumn vibes have invaded The AM. Boards of Canada, Broadcast, Cocteau Twins, and Yo La Tengo all making appearances in this week's episode, along with less expected, but still soothing, sounds for a Monday morning. Hope you enjoy.

Playlist:

• Hollie Kenniff - Surface
• Nala Sinephro - Continuum 3
• Azeda Booth - Be It
• Tristan Arp - Life After Humans
• Zachary Gray - Upon Avon
• Soft Operator - That's Just Your Heart Giving Up
• Boards of Canada - Nothing is Real
• Khotin - WEM Lagoon Jump
• Contagious Yawns - Golden Hour
• Harmony Kleinman - Take Flight
• NETRVNNER - Crystalline
• Prairiewolf - Saying Yes to Everything
• Beautify Junkyards - Somersault
• Broadcast - Corporeal
• Panurge - Land of Jade
• Die Welttraumforscher - Nordhaus (2023)
• Niningashi - Ameagari
• Niningashi - Restaurant
• Mac DeMarco - 20200820 Turn My TV On
• Tindersticks - Don't Walk, Run
• BADBADNOTGOOD - Celestial Hands
• Mo Dotti - Really Wish
• Clinic Stars - remain
• Cocteau Twins - Pandora (for Cindy)
• Bus People - Luck
• Habibi - In My Dreams
• Lederhosen Lucil - Two Vikings
• John Myrtle - Foggy
• Chad VanGaalen - Sing Me 2 Sleep
• Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All
• The Soundcarriers - Always
• Cindy Lee - To Heal This Wounded Heart

Take a deep breath with a neo-classical introduction, embrace the mystic might of Nat King Cole's Nature Boy in the 8:30 Throwback, and enjoy some dreamy jangle-pop in hour three. It's all part of the AM's ongoing quest to start your week with low-key beauty.

Playlist:

• Ben Morales Frost, Violeta Vicci - Forest Bathing
• Tom Kinsella - Back to Loneliness
• Yu Su - Avanera
• Buildings and Food - Outside My Window
• zeta ii reliculi - kobayashi maru
• Branches - Clouds
• Jon Hopkins, featuring Vylana - part ii - palace/illusion
• Madlib, Moonbyrd - Wild Sweet Beauty - Instrumental
• Shabaka, featuring Lianne La Havas - Kiss Me Before I Forget
• Maya Ongaku - Anoyo Drive
• Upupayāma - Fil Dağı
• Jungle By Night, featuring Pitou - Dive
• Yves Jarvis - Open Sesame
• Fievel is Glauque - As Above So Below
• Nat King Cole - Nature Boy
• Sam Cooke - Lonely Island
• Monster Rally - Floating Along a River
• SHOLTO - For the Love of Stripes
• Andy Shauf - Catch Your Eye
• Andre Ethier - Kids Are
• Eric Chenaux Trio - I've Always Said Love
• The Gabys - Cursed
• Penny Arcade - One More
• Lab Coast - The Pointe of It All
• Allah-Las - Mulberry Jam - Peaking Lights Dub
• The Clientele - Trains in the Night
• Kathy Heideman - The Earth Won't Hold Me
• Jennifer Castle - Blowing Kisses
• Cereus Bright - Seven Wonders
• Koushik - Coolin
• Thought Bubble - No Hiding
• Witch Victim - Horizon

Ushering in the autumn with a mix of hazy dream-pop (Grouper remixing Slowdive, Efrim Manuck's latest drone-pop project), synths, and post-rock, with a Bossa Nova detour courtesy of the late Sérgio Mendes. Plus, stick around for hour three and an interview with Tess Roby, who's starting an NMC residency this very morning.

Hope you enjoy it!

Playlist:

• Slowdive, featuring Grouper - kisses (sky ii)
• WE ARE WINTER'S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN - Uncloudy Day
• Omar S, AF13, Desire - Montana
• Suuns - Vanishing Point
• Von Spar, Eiko Ishibashi, Joe Talia, Tasuhisa Yamamoto - III
• Experimental Music Summer Camp - Moscat
• Tycho - DX Odyssey
• Zachary Gray - Suburbia
• Caribou - Come Find Me
• Ghostkeeper - Astum Ota
• Clinic Stars - Only Hinting
• Peel Dream Magazine - Recital
• Dorian Concept - Hide - Bibio Rework
• Abstract Crimewave - Flyga Fram
• Sergio Mendes - One Note Samba
• Sergio Mendes - She's a Carioca
• Tristan de Liège - Wanderer
• Naima Bock - Feed My Release
• Dana Gavanski - Reiteration
• Rich Aucoin - Future
• Dawn to Dawn - Yours to Know
• Mui Zyu - The Rules of What an Earthling Can Be
• Sleepkit - Peace of Nothing
• Panda Bear, Sonic Boom - Peligro (Danger)
• The Mercury Program - Fragile or Possibly Extinct
• No Birds - Triplets to Solids
• Shecky Formé - Untitled (002)

Back on the air after a month away, with sedate sounds for a holiday Monday. Thanks again to Syf and Emily R. for holding down the fort for the last four weeks.

This week: soul digressions, post-rock excursions, Nick Cave on joy, and the pleasure of getting lost.

Playlist:

• Sarah Neufeld, Richard Reed Parry, Rebecca Foon - Slow New Year
• Lyndsie Alguire - sandcastles
• Rikuto Fujimoto - New Dawn
• Hélène Vogelsinger - Elevation
• Boycalledcrow - Magic Medicine
• Dialect - Born Through
• Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Root Grow Emerge
• tender spring, featuring Joseph Shabason - You Have My Whole Heart
• Melinda Sullivan, Larry Goldings - Do You Like
• Ben Lukas Boysen - Quasar
• Sanctums - Year One
• Silje Nes - Crystals
• The Soundcarriers - What We Found
• Tess Parks - Koalas
• Guitaro - Chateau 100
• Dummy - Blue Dada
• Do Make Say Think - Say
• Duster - Isn't Over
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Joy
• Gregory Nieuwsma - The Pleasure of Getting Lost
• Misha Panfilov - Rhythm-O-Green
• Brendan Sound System - July
• Rotary Connection - The Sea and She
• Thee Sacred Souls - Live For You
• SAULT - Bitter Streets
• Terry Durham - Crystal Telephone
• Military Genius - Darkest Hour
• Ghostkeeper - Storm Chaser
• TOPS - Sunday Morning
• Electrelane - To the East

2024 has been a fantastic year for music so far. This week's episode takes a stroll through 30+ albums released in the first half of the year, from ambient to jazz and psychedelica—check out the rest of the list at https://theam.ca

It's also the last AM with Peter at the helm for the next month. Syf from Acheulean Age and Emily R from Greenhouse will be filling in for August, so you'll be in good hands. Enjoy and see you in September!

Playlist:

• Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu, Marta Sofia Honer - A Treasure Chest
• Ezra Feinberg, featuring Mary Lattimore - Get Some Rest
• Caméra - Matsutaké
• Osmanthus - Cutting and Layering
• Shabaka, featuring Moses Sumney - Insecurities
• Ayal Senior - Burnt Likshen
• Sam Gendel, Fabiano do Nascimento - Poeira
• Bilal Nasser - On the Surface
• Geotic - The Quarrel
• Buildings and Food - Flatland
• Easy Idiot - Theme for Feeling Drunk and Cool
• Temporal Waves - Cyclotron
• Organic Pulse Ensemble - Peace Piece
• Fuubutsushi - Distance Learner
• Circles Around the Sun, Mikaela Davis - Gloaming Way
• The Sorcerers - Bebaynetu
• Beth Gibbons - Floating on a Moment
• Project Gemini - Lost in the Woods (Paranoia)
• Loving - No Mast
• Luka Kuplowsky - How Can I Possibly Sleep When There is Music (a response to Ryōkan Taigu)
• Lau Ro - Lugar
• Unessential Oils - Overwhelmed and Unprepared
• OHMA - the wildflowers are upon us
• Cindy Lee - What's It Going to Take
• Yu Ching - Fly! Little Black Thing
• Retep Folo, Dorothy Moskowitz - Moon
• Bibi Club - Rue du Repos
• Jon McKiel - Hex
• Magic Fig - Distant Dream
• Molly Lewis, featuring Thee Sacred Souls - Crushed Velvet
• Jessica Pratt - Better Hate
• Eye of Newt - Bot for Teacher
• ROY - Cold Water In My Tea
• Psychic Temple - Fields of Grass / 9 Is the End (It's Over)

Another scorching week here in Calgary—hopefully it cools off in time for Folk Fest, but for now here's a mix of chill tunes, tropical sounds, and CFMF selections to see you through the last week of the heatwave.

Playlist:

• Skyminds - Agua Escondida
• Markus Floats - Introduction
• Hiro Ama - Roundabout
• Melinda Sullivan, Larry Goldings - Big Foot
• Ben Lukas Boysen - State 20
• Proxima Psychoacoustics - The Informant
• The Octopus Project - Grape Look
• Where's the Other - The Sum of All
• Castle If - Soft Tide
• Lilacs & Champagne - Rude Dream
• SML - Search Bar Hi Hat
• Monster Rally - Prickly Pears
• Titanic - Cielo Falso
• LT Leif - Cougar Darts
• Bernardino Femminielli - La foire aux lumières
• Beastie Boys - I Don't Know
• Helio Matheus - Meu Segredo
• Helio Matheus - Mais Kriola
• Polyphonic Exophilia - ABRA
• SAULT - Bitter Streets
• The Holydrug Couple - The Snail
• Robin Guthrie - La Perigrina
• Y La Bamba - Walk Along
• Etran De L'Aïr - Nak Deranine
• Luna Li - omnichord jam
• Laurence-Anne - Polymorphe
• Cowboy Junkies - Knives
• Ghost Woman - Street Meet
• Astral Swans - Under the Waves
• The Soundcarriers - Already Over
• wasmarkhere - Yeslek
• Rubber Oh, featuring Rozi Plain - Circles
• Jasper Byrne + Sonic - dream day
• Blume - Passes Me By

After a couple weeks of themed episodes, we're back with the normal AM you know and love. This week, a throwback to Shintaro Sakamoto's post-apocalyptic exotica, ambient jazz from Fuubutsushi and Sam Wilkes, dreamy sounds from Peel Dream Magazine and Dummy, and other cool sounds for a scorching-hot week.

Playlist:

• Drum & Lace, featuring Violeta Vicci, Ian Hultquist - Whalesong
• David Allred - Emotional Change Prompt
• Alex Henry Foster - Autumnal Processions
• Various Artists, featuring Corneil Nies - Paardekracht
• Rooster37 - No Particular Order
• Jay Holy - Tropic Sci
• Of Montreal - Sea Mines that Mr. Gone
• Tara Clerkin Trio - Marble Walls
• Fuubutsushi - Distance Learner
• Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib, Dylan Day - Standing in the Doorway
• Suuns - Doreen
• Jairus Mozee - 1968
• Hermanos Gutiérrez - Los Navegantes
• La Luz - Good Luck With Your Secret
• Habibi - My Moon
• Kairos Creature Club - Good Company
• Shintaro Sakamoto - Birth of the Super Cult
• Shintaro Sakamoto - This World Should Be More Wonderful
• Ryan Bourne - Many Creatures
• Les Chouettes - Salade Sauvage Deluxe Dressing Mix
• Rahill, featuring Beck - Fables
• Ulrich Schnauss - Along Deserted Streets
• Twink with Moths & Locusts and Heavy Friends - Love Ashore
• Shelley Duvall - He Needs Me
• MOONRIIVR - Bachelor Nation
• Peel Dream Magazine - Lie in the Gutter
• Dummy - Nullspace
• Hush Pup - Swimming
• Elephant Stone - Pilgrimage
• Church Chords - Recent Minerals
• Snake River - I'll Take You To Another Side
• Child Actress - Fruit Flies
• Nap Eyes - Demons

Sometimes you just have to embrace the twang. This week's episode is a bit of a Stampede special, embracing ambient country sounds, cosmic American music, and other lesser-travelled country roads.

Playlist:

• Jessica McMann - Akii
• Harold Budd - Afar
• SUSS - Flight
• Dean McPhee - Cosmos
• Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Rather Lovely Thing
• Sam Wilson - The Moon Song
• Bill MacKay, Ryley Walker - Pretty Weeds Revisited
• Friends of Dean Martinez - The Warmth of the Sun
• Daniel Lanois - Agave
• Canadian Not Canadian - Wheelspur Yard
• Steve Dawson & The Telescope 3 - Lily’s Resistor
• Yasmin Williams, Dobrotto - Nova to Ba
• Country Girl Kay - Canadian Waltz - Alternative Version
• Marisa Anderson - Deep Gap
• Jeffrey Silverstein - Theme from Western Sky Music
• Marc Ribot - Aurora En Pekin
• William Tyler - I’m Gonna Live Forever (If It Kills Me)
• Bobbie Gentry - Mississippi Delta
• Bobbie Gentry - Lazy Willie
• Dawn Landes - Wandering Eye
• Shane Ghostkeeper - Sunbeam
• ROY - Little More Time
• Lee Hazlewood - Hey Cowboy
• Royal City - Under a Hollow Tree
• Piero Umiliani - Mah Nà Cowboy
• Maggie and Terre Roche - If You Empty Out All Your Pockets You Could Not Make the Change
• Kathy Heideman - Stormy
• Elkhorn - Wilderness
• Rose City Band - Porch Boogie
• Sylvia Tyson - Sweet Agony
• Jennifer Castle - Way of the Crow
• Steven Lambke - Sorrow and Doubt
• Country Funk - Apart of Me
• Deadhorse - I'm a Lawyer
• One Hundred Dollars - Where the Sparrows Drop
• Link Wray - Fire and Brimstone

This week's episode: A mellow Monday morning spent meandering through the decades of Canadian music. More of a contemplative mood, but as someone else put it, Canada Day should be for reflection as much as celebration. Hopefully this sets the right tone for a bit of both.

Playlist:

• Hollie Kenniff, featuring Goldmund - Anything Wondrous is Endless
• Slow Attack Ensemble - Dance Four
• Matthew Cardinal - Jitters
• Buildings and Food - Coasting
• RAMZi - awakenin
• Yu Su, featuring Michelle Helene Mackenzie - Little Birds, Moonbath
• David Pritchard - Wax Wings
• Various Artists, featuring Laura Palmer - The Protagonist
• Nash the Slash - Islands
• Caribou - Barnowl
• Untrained Animals - The Next Question
• Bruce Cockburn - Islands in a Black Sky
• Sam Wilson - Into the Hollow
• Carl Didur - Close My Eyes
• The Hylozoists - Warning Against Judging a Christian Brother
• Caméra - Le Philtre
• Esmerine - Fractals for Any Tonality
• Torngat - Bordeaux Boredom
• Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis)
• Louise Forestier - J'pense que c'est l'temps
• Bernardino Femminielli - Plaisirs Américains
• The Zodiac - Cancer - The Moon Child
• Contraction - Claire fontaine
• Jean-Pierre Ferland - Au fond des choses le soleil emméne au soleil
• Kris Ellestad - Side We Seldom Show
• Terry Jacks - Concrete Sea
• Absolutely Free - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
• Julie & Dany - Jean-Talon Market Brass Version
• Hotel Josephine - Half Heartedly Gold
• Pierre Lalonde - Honey, Honey
• Bart - All Good Things
• Neil Young - Transformer Man - Unplugged
• Zoon, featuring Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Astum - Yonatan Gat Remix

The first AM of the summer—a throwback to Destroyer's poppier early albums, plus a mix of sunshiny psychedelia, laid-back electronics, air-conditioned dream pop and other offbeat sounds to ease you into the end of June. Hope you like it.

Playlist:

• Polypores - Reverie
• A Lily - Ħajti Kollha, Qalbi
• tender spring, featuring Joseph Shabason - You Have My Whole Heart
• Easy Idiot - One Day I’ll Own an Upright Piano
• Suki Sou - Velocity of Water
• Drum & Lace - Solstice
• Tancredi Fazzino - Reset
• Headache - Business Opportunities
• Von Lehbauer - An Endless Now
• Various Artists , featuring Felix Machtelinckx - The Riser
• Hermeto Pascoal - Música da Lagoa
• Ari Balouzian, Ben Marc, Trevor Estes - One Triangle and One Square
• Norio Meada & All-Stars - Donpan Bushi
• Matt Berry - Angi
• Ayal Senior - Shekel of Tyre
• Destroyer - Destroyer's the Temple
• Destroyer - The Way of Perpetual Roads
• Dana Gavanski - Song for Rachel (Maston Remix)
• Earth Girl Helen Brown - My A.I. (Baby Grandfather)
• Tindersticks - Nancy
• Eye of Newt - Bot for Teacher
• Jessica Pratt - Better Hate
• Sparky Bosque - About You
• Elephant's Memory - Crossroads of the Stepping Stones
• Rick White, The Sadies - Fly Away
• Novillero - Daydreams & Distractions
• The Proper Ornaments - Recalling
• Julie Doiron, Astral Swans - Last Night I Saw My Love
• Chad Van Gaalen - Where Are You (Hooray for Earth remix)
• Winter - Anything At All
• Blume - I Need You
• Galaxie 500 - Ceremony