The A.M.

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

This week's episode serves as a semi-Sled Island spotlight, with music from a slew of artists who'll be in Calgary this week, including Michael Peter Olsen, Jeff Parker, Lael Neale, Tess Roby, WITCH, Malcolm Mooney, Juana Molina, Irreversible Entanglements, and more.

It's only a semi-spotlight, though, because there's also your usual AM mix of new and classic tunes for a new (and potentially classic) week. Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Kilometre Club, featuring Teset - Winterwood
• Michael Peter Olsen, featuring Mairi Chaimbeul - Murmurs
• Yoshiaki Ochi - Anywhere
• Fabiano do Nascimento, featuring Smaller Forces - Olhos D’água
• Chloé Antoniotti - Violette
• Andrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Blessing of the Banners
• Castle If - Drivin’ Easy
• Yuutsu - Clear
• Joshua Moshier, featuring Jeff Parker - Cancelled Plans
• Eine Kleine China - Chris De Berghain (Live)
• Jay Chakravorty - Grid Cells
• ASKO - si​̂​si​̂​kwan
• Los Days - Chasing the Day Moon
• Color Green - Fool’s Parade
• Clevelode - It Must Have Rained Last Night (Avenue of Trees)
• Yu Ching - You, An Illusion
• Lael Neale - For No One For Now
• Françoise Hardy - Comment te dire adieu
• Françoise Hardy - J’ai coupé le téléphone
• Dominique Dumont - Deux Paradis
• Bibi Club - Rue du Repos
• Ginger Beef, featuring Brendan McGuigan - Golden Hour
• Tess Roby - Catalyst
• Beak> - Hungry Are We
• WITCH - Up the Sky
• Juana Molina - Cosoco
• Malcolm Mooney, Sean Noonan - No Strings Attached
• Irreversible Entanglements - Open the Gates
• Calibro 35 - Gun Powder
• Aladean Kheroufi - Why Do You Call For Rain?
• Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Juice Cruise
• Vague Plot - Cyclic
• Nap Eyes - Ice Grass Underpass
• GospelbeacH - The End

A throwback to the Hidden Cameras' "gay church folk music", plus new and classic sounds ranging from ambient to poetry-infused folk, Slumberland Records jangle-pop, and the moody electronics of Suuns and Sleepkit. Enjoy another episode of The AM here on CJSW.

Playlist:

• Skyminds - Wasser
• Nick Schofield - Morning Doves
• Jane Penny - Stream
• The Golden Age of Wrestling, featuring Future Star - Labradorite
• Gastr Del Sol - The Seasons Reverse - live
• Ivan the Tolerable - Cedars
• SHOLTO - Never Going to End
• Roman Angelos - Regretful Echoes
• Patrick Holland - Left at the Table
• Cylindricon - Numbers & Letters
• Time Wharp - 10 Year Warranty
• Thanya Iyer - leave the room and face the waves
• Jeff Parker - Here Comes Ezra
• Daisy Rickman - Falling Through the Rising Sun
• Luka Kuplowsky - How Can I Possibly Sleep When There is Music (a response to Ryokan Taigu)
• Flaer - Sticks
• Mermaid Chunky - Céilî - Edit
• The Hidden Cameras - Breathe On It
• The Hidden Cameras - Boys of Melody
• Belle and Sebastian - Seeing Other People
• Lau Ro - Each Day
• Eric Chenaux Trio - Hello Eyes
• Parsnip - L.O.N.E.
• Lightheaded - Dawn Hush Lullaby
• Birdie - Laugh
• Motorists - Embers
• Heaven For Real - Energy Bar
• Bennett Mitchell - Mouse
• Psychic Temple - Cool Breeze Blow
• Hochzeitskapelle - We Dance
• Dreamwave - Hidden Sun
• Holy Wave, featuring Estrella del Sol - Happier
• SUUNS - The Breaks
• Sleepkit - Oxygen on the Autobahn

Kevin Jesuino joins in the third hour to discuss The Nature of Us, an upcoming performance integrating music and nature at Calgary's St. Patrick's Island.

That, plus your usual mix of laid-back sounds for a Monday morning, on the first AM of June.

Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Ezra Feinberg, featuring Mary Lattimore - Get Some Rest
• Hiro Ama - Everything is Going to Make Sense in the End
• OHMA - the wildflowers are upon us
• Proxima Psychoacoustics - The Darkroom
• Catching Flies - Snow Day - Rival Consoles Rework
• Ciel - Bamboo
• Mas Aya, featuring Lido Pimienta - Windless, Waveless
• Sanctums - Radiant Silver
• Alex Henry Foster, featuring Momoka Tobari - All of Our Past Future Lives
• Kamasi Washington - Interstellar Peace (The Last Stance)
• BADBADNOTGOOD - Ways of Seeing
• Godley & Creme - I Pity Inanimate Objects
• The Notwist - Magnificent Fall
• Crumb - The Bug
• Libra Rising - Day and Night
• Bullion, featuring Panda Bear - A City's Never
• Karen Marks - Cold Café
• Karen Marks - Won't Wear It For Long
• Dana Gavanski - Singular Coincidence
• Maia Friedman, Anand Wilder - Love is a Place
• Nightshift - Crystal Ball
• Unessential Oils - Overwhelmed and Unprepared
• Jess Ribeiro - Everything is Now
• Beth Gibbons - Tell Me Who You Are Today
• Caoilfhionn Rose - Josephine
• Sam Evian - Rollin’ In
• Cindy Lee - Golden Microphone
• Owies - Glue Moon
• Jolie Laide - Pacific Coast Highway
• Dump Babes - Citronette
• The Flowers Of Hell - Darklands
• Broadcast - Tears in the Typing Pool (Demo)

Just a regular ol' episode of The AM, the first in a few that isn't a showfill or anniversary. Enjoy a mix of brand-new tunes, lost classics, and international obscurities, from a groovy Devo cover to municipal planning-inspired analog electronics to thundering Canadian psych-rock.

Playlist:

• Helios, Hollie Kenniff - Wild Light
• Buildings and Food - Found Objects
• Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan - A Shared Sense of Purpose
• Group Listening - Old Reeds
• Libra Rising - Birds in Winter
• NETRVNNER - Veil (Reprise)
• Corker/Conboy - Kite
• Orange Crate Art - A Dazzling Ode to Sun, Sand, and Surf
• Tony Njoku - The Loops (Grief)
• Kessoncoda - X is closer to A
• Four Tet - Skater
• The Rare Sounds - Through Being Cool
• Abacothozi - Thema Maboneng
• BADBADNOTGOOD - Juan’s World
• Jeffrey Silverstein - Headcleaner
• Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes - Roc alpin
• Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes - Jusqu'à ce que la force de t'aimer me manque
• Project Gemini - Lost in the Woods (Paranoid)
• Magic Fig - Distant Dream
• Nap Eyes - Feline Wave Race
• La Sécurité - K9 Freaks Mix (Freak Heat Waves Remix)
• Blume - Go To Sleep
• Color Green - Four Leaf Clover
• Astral Swans, featuring Julie Doiron - The Coward
• Crystal Eyes - My Way
• The Cat's Miaow - Faded (original cassette version)
• Sachiko Kanenobu - Far Away from You
• Scott McMicken and the Ever-Expanding - Take Me Where I Ain’t
• Tindersticks - New World (Edit)
• Jon Mckiel - Concrete Sea
• Black Market Karma - Pier 57
• The Besnard Lakes - (Dizzy) Eagle

Celebrating 10 years of The AM with three strolls through the last decade, spotlighting songs from AMs past and the track that gave the show its title.

A warm thanks to everyone who's tuned in over the years to help start the week on the right note.

Playlist:

• Cosmo Sheldrake, featuring J.D. Eidse - 2014: I Threw a Rock Into the Sea
• Floating Points - 2015: For Marmish
• Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - 2016: Arthropoda
• Stilz, featuring Meteor - 2017: The Day I Lost You
• GoGo Penguin - 2018: Bardo
• Mary Lattimore - 2019: Their Faces Streaked with Light and Filled with Pity - Sin Fang x Memryloss Remix
• Loving - 2020: Growing Flowers By Candlelight
• Proxima Psychoacoustics - 2021: Teletype Repair
• Charbonneau / Amato - 2022: Light Memoir
• Khotin, featuring Tess Roby - 2023: Fountain, Growth
• Galaxius Mons, featuring Anna Elbon and YouYourself&I - 2014: Outweigh the Pillared Masts
• Jenny Hval - 2015: That Battle is Over
• Ultimate Painting - 2016: Monday Morning, Somewhere Central
• Hoops - 2017: La La La
• Astral Swans - 2018: What Are You Gonna Do With Yourself
• Peel Dream Magazine - 2019: Up and Up
• Inventions - 2020: Spirit Refinement Exploder
• Haiku Salut - 2021: All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
• Zacht Automaat - 2022: It Couldn't Happen Again
• Misha Panfilov - 2023: Cosmic Bliss
• The Notwist - 2014: Kong
• Boogarins - 2015: 6000 Dias (Ou Mantra Dos 20 Anos)
• Chocolat - 2016: Les Pyramides
• Cool Ghouls - 2017: Unionize
• Kikagaku Moyo - 2018: Orange Peel
• Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18 - 2019: Ymosodwyr Anweledig
• Zoon - 2020: Brokenhead
• Bell Orchestre - 2021: V: Movement
• Makaya McCraven - 2022: Dream Another
• Whatitdo Archive Group - 2023: Ritual of Gods
• Reverie Sound Revue - The AM

Milan Uyeno (of Motte and Bailey) is in the booth today, spinning together many different genres ranging from folktronica to breakcore to math rock and even a throwback to classic 00's indie rock to give you the eclectic morning that you never knew you needed.

Playlist:

• The Velvet Underground & Nico - Sunday Morning
• 1900 - Träkors
• Cindy Lee - Til Polarity's End
• Dorian Concept - Hide (Bibio Rework)
• Various Artists, featuring Tawni Bias - Floats Near Ceiling
• The Beatles - In My Life
• East of the Valley Blues - N'ajuster
• Tim Hecker - Paragon Point
• Osmanthus - When Winds Blow
• Jeremy Gignoux, featuring Jiajia Li - Quimsie
• Fennesz - Endless Summer
• Daniel Thorne - From Inside, Looking Out
• viñu-vinu - Music Brings Us Together
• Callum Beckford - Witch Hunt
• Telematic Visions - mid (lfo)
• Lemm - IroniA
• dokxid - take everything
• aphextwinsucks - I knew you'd no longer be here when the summer was over
• Aphex Twin - Girl/Boy Song
• Camp - Nocturne
• Squarepusher - Iambic 9 Poetry
• Fishmans - Weather Report
• The Postal Service - Brand New Colony
• Sylvan Esso - Dreamy Bruises
• Various Artists, featuring Adoption - Not Bad, Just Different
• Cate Le Bon - Yellow Blinds, Cream Shadows
• Oranje - 104
• Giraffes? Giraffes! - A Quick One, While She's Away
• Will Régnier - Lights Out
• Albert Ayler - Ghosts (Variation 1)