The A.M.

A bit of a jumbled episode, sure, but this week's AM still has plenty worth tuning into. New-to-the-show musicians include Michel Moulinie, Discodor, and Unessential Oils, alongside AM favourites from Teen Daze to Juana Molina to Kraftwerk. Wander from ambient electronics to Brazilian pop to doom-wop to oddball jazz. Does it all connect? No, but you can still trust in the ride.

Playlist:

• Lee Hazelwood - It's Monday Morning
• respectfulchild - beauty
• Michel Moulinie - Lente Course
• Steve Hauschildt - Arpeggiare
• Nick Schofield - Resonant World
• Buildings and Food - Flatland
• Soft Operator - Cluster B
• Teen Daze - Kilika
• lokey - AndWillContinuteToGrow
• Liila - appa wú wéi
• David Boulter - The Arboretum
• Roman Angelos - Motorbike Journey
• DISCODOR - Orange
• Glass Beams - Orb
• El Michels Affair - Pushing Rocks
• Joyce - Banana
• Joyce - Carnavalzinho
• Lau Ro - Lugar
• Juana Molina - Vive Solo
• Jon McKiel - The Fix
• Unessential Oils - Nic at the Museum
• Tommy Guerrero - Through the Mosaic
• The Garrys - Cakewalk
• Ghost Power - Grimalkin
• Ray Barbee - A Man’s Wisdom Gives Him Patience
• No False Suns - Divine Cadence
• Kraftwerk - Ohm Sweet Ohm
• Monroeville Music Center - Préparatifs dans la Salle de Rédaction
• Amy Aileen Wood - Hiccups
• Dun-Dun Band - No. 20 (Once Raw: The Aging G)

A meandering Monday morning, with a throwback to the one-and-only Moondog, a nod to late Quebecois singer-songwriter Jean-Pierre Ferland, and an hour of Cosmic American Music to wrap the show. That plus the usual strains of ambient electronics, meditative jazz, post-rock interludes, and other songs to start your week on solid footing.

Playlist:

• Små Vågor, Henrik von Euler - Bron Ut
• Tristan De Liège - Muted - Lehto Remix
• Bodywash - Kind of Light - Khotin Remix
• Salamanda - Sing Together
• Yu Ching - Fly! Little Black Thing
• Castle If - Nautical Miles
• Bristol Manor - Mirror Images
• My Kill Jack's On - Transpubliction
• Forest Swords - Night Sculpture
• Steve Lyman, featuring Ben Lukas Boysen - Pools
• Eiko Ishibashi - We’ll live through the long, long days and the longnights (And when our last hour comes we’ll go quietly)
• Charles Spearin - Portrait of the Artist as a Thursday
• Torngat - Afternoon Moon Pie
• Hintermass - Apple Tree
• Ellis Island Sound - Cuckoo Hill
• Moondog - What’s the Most Exciting Thing
• Moondog - Wine, Women and Song
• Paul Mauriat - Love is Blue
• Jean-Pierre Ferland - Le chat du café des artistes
• Samantha Savage Smith - ESGGallin
• Nolan Potter - Disarray
• Ryan Bourne - Pink Lite
• Chet Sounds - One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
• Ghost Woman - All the Time
• ROY - Little More Time
• Gun Outfit - Strange Insistence
• Ora Cogan - Cowgirl
• Psychic Temple - Doggie Paddlin’ Thru the Cosmic Consciousness
• Field Works - The sharp smell of cedar
• Fiver - Worship the Sun (Not the Golden Boy)
• John Hulbert - Sunrise
• Clinton St. John - Sunlight, Good Light

A throwback to an early 2000s post-rock debut, excursions into psych-folk and ambient country, and your usual genre-and-decade-spanning mix of offbeat easy listening—enjoy another three hours of mellow Monday mantras on The AM.

Playlist:

• Kindly Spoken Thieves - Lillian
• SUSS - Flight
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - The Chauffeur
• In The Well - Meadow Transient
• Zachary Gray - Tessellate!
• Greg Foat, Sokratis Votskos, Warren Hampshire, Ayo Salawu - Kiki’s Tavern (For Vasilis)
• Hiro Ama - Sunday
• Miyauchi Yuri - Yoti e
• Tommy Perman, Andrew Wasylyk - Communal Imagination
• Salami Rose Joe Louis, Flanafi - I Gotta Find Some New Friends
• Harmonia, featuring Vittoria Maccabruni & Michael Rother - Wave By Wave
• Black Moth Super Rainbow - Melting on the Meadow
• MISZCZYK, featuring Bile Sister - The Ecstatic Dance
• Dreamsploitation - Creating Love and Happiness out of the Noir - the Melancholy
• Miracle Fortress - Tracers
• Yuuf - Silky Spring
• Efterklang - Antitech
• Caméra - Rumeurs
• Year of Glad - Old Growth
• Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu, Marta Sofia Honer - Dizzy Ditty
• Sam Prekop - The New Last
• Project Gemini - Seven Seconds to Sunrise
• Jeffrey Silverstein - Gassed Up
• Woods - Lay With Luck
• Beth Gibbons - Reaching Out
• Melody's Echo Chamber - Endless Shore
• Felt - Under a Pale Light
• Knife Pleats - Constellation
• Ducks Ltd. - Harm's Way
• Lab Coast - Astronaut
• The Clientele - As Night Is Falling
• Summer Bruises - Fog

Special guest Vincenzo Natali (director of cult classic sci-fi flicks like Cube, Splice and Nothing) joins in the third hour to discuss his upcoming retrospective at the Calgary Underground Film Festival. Hear that conversation, plus your usual mix of ambient instrumentals, dream-pop ditties, and other early morning sounds, in this week's AM on CJSW.

Playlist:

• Tancredi Fazzino - Know Your Ways
• Temporal Waves - Luminous Objects
• Channelers - Middle Over Hill
• Laurent Dury - Pulse of Life
• 1900 - Radio Dada
• Bright Boy - Tremor
• Khotin - Alterac Acid
• Yetsuby - 물먹는하마
• The Utopia Strong - Miniature Citadels
• Circle Sky - lcm_1
• Cam​é​ra - Le Philtre
• OHMA - the essence of the divine herself
• E. Lundquist, featuring Gianni Brezzo - My Sun
• Sávila - Pocoapoco
• Ivan the Tolerable - The Thin Night
• Far East Family Band - Kokoro
• The Royal Family - I Am the Wind
• Ryan Bourne - Entropy
• ROY - I Ride The Highway
• Pan Amsterdam, Metronomy - Nice Town - Metronomy Remix
• Laetitia Sadier - Panser L’inacceptable
• Corridor - Mon Argent
• YOCTO - Hagio Agio
• TTSSFU - Baggage
• Marine Girls - Love to Know
• Sunglaciers - Waiting for Nothing
• Cindy Lee - What’s It Going to Take
• Jeff Parker and The New Breed, featuring Ruby Parker - Soul Love

Tune into hour three for a mini-tribute to the Solar Eclipse (which is as close as I'll get to seeing one for the next few decades, most likely). Plus unexpected new music from Cindy Lee, a throwback to Sandro Perri, alphabetical ambiance from Kilometre Club, and other sounds for a sunny Monday morning in Calgary.

Playlist:

• Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka - You've Come Far NES
• Kelly Moran - Dancer Polynomials
• Anne Nikitin, Hannah Peel - A Royal Statement
• Michael Peter Olsen - So Far So Good
• Gregory Allison - Veritas (Tristan de Liège Rework)
• Kilometre Club, featuring Hollie Kenniff - Airliner
• Jilk - Kayla Asleep
• Shabason, Krgovich, Sage - Joe
• Zeta II Reticulli - teacozy 3
• Apta - Emerge (The Hardy Tree Remix)
• Mort Garson - Concerto for Philodendron & Pothos
• Kamasi Washington, featuring André 3000 - Dream State
• Khruangbin - Fifteen Fifty-Three
• Glass Beams - Mahal
• Mort Garson - Plantasia
• Valebol - La Pulpa
• Mort Garson - Symphony for a Spider Plant
• Sandro Perri - Family Tree
• Sandro Perri - Love is Real
• Raf Wilcot - Slither
• Loving - On My Way to You
• Penny Arcade - Jona
• Julia Holter - Sun Girl
• Michael Boddicker - Buckaroo Bonzai End Credits
• The Sun Ra Quartet, featuring John Gilmore - When There Is No Sun
• Shana Cleveland - Invisible When the Sun Leaves
• Jacco Gardner - Eclipse
• Possum - Dance of the Eclipse
• Daisy Rickman - Golden Seeds
• Cindy Lee - Government Cheque
• A. Savage - Black Holes, the Stars and You
• Alena Spanger - Ines
• Bibi Club - Parc de Beauvoir
• La Force - Outrun the Sun
• Halo Maud, featuring Greg Saunier - You Float
• Astral Swans, featuring Jairus Sharif - Shine the Light Inside

No pranks, no jokes, just a serene start to April 2024. Three hours of offbeat easy listening, with a throwback to Tangerine Dream, new music from Kiasmos, Fuubutsushi, and TEKE::TEKE, international oddities, and other sounds to start the day/week/month on the right foot.

Playlist:

• Fuubutsushi - Tenel Ka (First Crush)
• OHMA - mama’s knee
• Hochzeitskapelle - Silver Rider
• Buildings and Food - sky-d
• Test Card - Super 8 Sunset
• sub lumen - Pick Pop Sci
• Plains Apparitions, Light Blending In - Outside the Universe
• Four Tet - So Blue
• POSTNAMERS - Mirthpeal and Roses
• The Hillside Project - Sparkler Dims - Josh Semans Rework
• Kiasmos - Flown
• Bilal Nasser - Say Nothing
• Six Organs Of Admittance - New Year’s Song
• Claudio Rocchi - Tutti insieme
• Libra Rising - Over the Fields
• Jungle By Night - The Green in Your Dreams
• Tangerine Dream - No Man’s Land
• Morricone Youth, Devon Jon Goldberg - Method Acting
• Kifu Mitsuhashi & Kiyoshi Yamaya - Hohai-Bushi
• TEKE::TEKE - Bankrobber
• Various Artists, featuring Guess What - Stickle Bricks
• The Analog Girl - Zodiac
• Klaus Johann Grobe - Better Do
• Sunglaciers - Cursed
• Corridor - Mourir Demain
• Coco - Mythological Man
• Patti Whipp - Walkin’
• Dolce - Lögnen
• Cedric Noel - Sessions
• Bill MacKay - Powder Mill Park
• Eric Chenaux Trio - This Ain’t Life

Trying my best to find the beauty in the wintry weather, exploring glacial sounds in the third hour of this week's AM. Before that, still a bit chilly, with icy synth-pop, interstellar electronics, and a little bit of warm-blooded jazz just to keep things balanced.

Hope you enjoy it!

Playlist:

• Seahawks, Woo - Omotion
• Sunalta - Only
• Rob Mitchelson - Mood Ultraviolet
• Group Listening - Hills End
• Violeta Vicci - Orbital - Turze Hyperfocus Remix
• Aagtive & Classy Vampire - Unnerving Discovery
• Qwalia - Omega
• Sean Ono Lennon - Thinking of M
• Will Régnier - Not a Real Place
• Nathan Salsburg, James Elkington - Buffalo Stance
• Tara Clerkin Trio - The Turning Ground
• Oan Kim, featuring Gabi Hartmann - Lush
• Timber Timbre - Holy Motors
• Yea-Ming and the Rumours - I Can’t Have It All
• Lali Puna - Faking the Books
• Lali Puna - Grin and Bear
• The Organizing Committee - Primordial Egg
• Tess Roby - Ballad 5
• Discovery Zone - All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go
• Clément Froissart, Domenique Dumont - A Silent Thunder
• The Declining Winter - Song of the Moor Fire
• Geotic - The Lime of Stars
• Ulrich Schnauss, Jonas Munk - Along Deserted Streets
• Twink with Moths & Locusts and Heavy Friends - Love Ashore
• Death and Vanilla - Transparent Things
• The Reds, Pinks & Purples - What's Going On With Ordinary People
• The Radiation Flowers - Never Fade
• El Perro Del Mar - Wipe Me Off This Earth
• SUUNS - Watch You, Watch Me

Taking inspiration from The Holdovers, the second hour of this week's AM digs into '60s and '70s singer-songwriter fare—and the music it inspired. And, of course, your usual mix of Monday morning sounds, from ambient electronics to soul-jazz excursions, folk-rock ditties and unclassifiable but soul-soothing sounds.

Playlist:

• Nick Schofield - On Air
• Geotic - The Going
• Benny Benji - After the Farmer’s Wife
• Rooster37 - Champagne of Life
• Morgan Greenwood - Pomegranate
• El Perro Del Mar - The Truth the Dead Know
• Drum & Lace - Sisters
• Michael Vincent Waller - For Pauline - Yu Su Remix
• 1900 - Den minsta av segrar
• Folke Nikanor - E4an två mil
• The Hylozoists - The Crippled Giant
• Mark Orton - Candlepin Bowling
• Baby Rose, Badbadnotgood - One Last Dance
• Fortunato Durutti Marinetti - The Flowers
• Leonard Cohen - Sing Another Song Boys
• The Brazda Brothers - Gemini
• Jim O'Rourke - Friends With Benefits
• Jim O'Rourke - Last Year
• Loving - The Light In You
• Karen Dalton - Right, Wrong Or Ready
• Margo Guryan - Why Do I Cry
• Bill Fay Group - Just a Moon
• Yuma Abe - Fuyo Goe
• Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Frank Rosaly - Destejer
• WITCH - Message from WITCH
• Ethnic Heritage Ensemble - The Whole World
• Jahari Massamba Unit (Madlib & Kariem Riggins) - Stomping Gamay
• Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band - Mellification
• Gal Gracen - Winds of Solace, Pillars of Sand
• N NAO - Pangée
• Ora Cogan - Is Anything Wrong
• Fila Brazillia - Sugarplum Hairnet
• Osmanthus - Bloom

The first two hours of this week's AM dip in and out of neo-classical, experimental jazz, and other instrumental sounds. Hour three shakes off the drowsiness for some dream-pop, shoegaze, and a Deftones cover for good measure.

Hope the Daylight Savings didn't hit you too hard this morning, and enjoy the extra sunshine.

Playlist:

• nubo, featuring Rebekah Reid - For Our Hearts
• Moshimoss - Unknown Souls
• Joseph Shabason - Aytche
• Sagor & Swing - Vals På Vingar
• GODTET - Struck Bamboo Pipes
• Akusmi - Oblique (Extended)
• Markus Floats - Death
• Bristol Manor - Personal Gains
• Gidge - The Fells
• gum.mp3, featuring 48thSt + Harrison - Mars and Its Moons
• Nalepa - It Ought to Be
• Hana Stretton - Captain’s Flat
• Awenda Provincial Park - quarrel, my love
• Shahzad Ismaily, Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer - Sajni
• Labelle - L’homme félin
• Haiku Salut - Bleak and Beautiful (All Things)
• Haiku Salut - Foreign Pollen
• Buildings & Food - Swimming in Denton
• Erika Angell - Never Tried to Run
• Bell Orchestre - Icicles / Bicycles
• Peter Belec, Jeff Roy - Stardust
• L.A. Takedown - They Move and They Shine (Live at Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA, 3/30/23)
• wasmarkhere - I Am Gone
• Whitelands - Now Here’s the Weather
• No Joy - Teenager - From Heaven
• Pure X - Easy
• La Luz - Strange World
• Pick A Piper, featuring Mabe Fratti - Pavesa
• Exploded View - Gone Tomorrow
• Sleepkit - Memory Candle

In honour of her upcoming solo debut, this week we throw back to Beth Gibbons' beautiful 2002 collaboration with Rustin Man, Out of Season—warm and wintry in equal measure, so it's perfect for another grey day.

Plus '70s Dutch prog, new jazz-infused sounds from Prefuse 73 and Madlib, an unexpected Bill Withers cover, and other low-key sounds for a gloomy Monday morning.

Playlist:

• Musebots & Arne Eigenfeldt - To Believe the World
• Group Listening - New Brighton
• India Gailey, featuring Thanya Iyer - Where I can be as big as the Sun
• Otto Benson - Apogamy
• Prefuse 73 - A Lord Without Jewels
• Madlib, Karriem Riggins - Anointed Soul
• Rooster37 - Lost in the Fog
• Minor Sine Project - Old But New
• Moat Bells - Waverhouse Lies
• Hidden Orchestra - Skylarks
• Lætitia Sadier - Don't Forget You're Mine
• Bibi Club - L’île aux bleuets
• Tara Jane O'Neil - Curling
• Steven R. Smith - Olive
• ROY - Spoons for the World
• Beth Gibbons, Rustin Man - Romance
• Beth Gibbons, Rustin Man - Tom the Model
• Paranoid London, featuring Bobby Gillespie - People (Ah Yeah)
• The Natural Yogurt Band - Life Forms
• Crystal Canyon - Pulsars and Magnetars
• Crystal Eyes - I Still Believe in Love (pt. 1 & 2)
• Mikaela Davis, Circles Around the Sun - Gloaming Way
• Finch - Unspoken is the Word
• Dog Unit - Consistent Effort
• Retep Folo, Dorothy Moskowitz - Running Time
• Fortunato Durutti Marinetti - Smash Your Head Against the Wall
• Mac DeMarco - Gualala
• Radiotrónica, GUTINHO - Perdidos en Andrómeda
• Symphony Orchestra - Unthink the Thinkable
• Victrix - Do You Know?
• Bullion - Heartbreak Road