The A.M.

This morning turned out surprisingly bleak here in Calgary, so this week's AM has a mix of wintry sounds and more upbeat escapism. Start your week with chilly synths, icy reverb, and the warming rays of the occasional horn section, and stay warm out there.

Playlist:

• Daniel Santiago, Pedro Martins - Curupira Modernista
• Steve Gunn, David Moore - I
• Kelly Moran - Butterfly Phase
• Sun Rain - Penta 6
• Shabason, Krgovich, Sage - Don
• Garden Gate - Magic Lantern (Main Theme)
• Easy Idiot - Theme for Feeling Drunk & Cool
• Psychic Pollution - Vermillion Sun
• Alessandro Cortini, Baseck - Doggie Tattoo
• Étamine - Antiblue
• Torn Hawk - NC-17 School Supplies
• Thandii - The End of the World
• Helado Negro - Es Una Fantasia
• Dina Ögon - Firad
• Jeff Parker - After the Rain
• Eine Kleine China - User Illusion I (Live)
• Grace Jones - Walking in the Rain
• Grace Jones - I’ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango)
• Ghost Funk Orchestra - Achluo
• Leland Whitty, Alexander Sowinski - Pungle (Bonus Track)
• El Huervo - Play
• Khruangbin - May Ninth
• Ginger Beef - Dew
• Daisy Rickman - Signpost to the Stars
• At Mission Dolores - Before the Rain
• Fiver - Wallace Goes to Russia
• The Eastern Plain - Follow the Ghost
• Jessica Pratt - Life Is
• Jane Weaver - Perfect Storm
• Dana Gavanski - The Day Unfolds
• Beth Gibbons - Floating on a Moment
• Sinewave - Star Tripping
• The Holydrug Couple - Dreamy
• HOLY - and she breaks the day! A clarity

It's the long weekend—but The AM is still here live, sending you laid-back vibes to help set that anxiety aside. Except during a detour through Can's paranoid grooves and a few of the sounds they inspired, that is.

Happy Family Day, and have a fantastic week!

Playlist:

• Bilal Nasser - Yawn Into It
• Daedelus - A Considered Reply - Day 1
• yutaka hirasaka - overflowed
• Miyauchi Yuri - jiade
• Marly Lüske - Forest Belt
• Retep Folo, Dorothy Moskowitz - Moon
• Temporal Waves - Cortical Network Oscillations
• Various Artists, featuring Roman Flügel - Rules
• Stilz - Scarlet Lips
• Various Artists, featuring Charles Murphy - The Foot That’s Holding Me Down
• Will Régnier - Comme des traces oubliées
• The Hologram People - Isola Dei Morti Viventi [Main Theme]
• Tristan De Liége x Jambal - Uncertainties
• The Heliocentrics, The Gaslamp Killer - She’s Coming
• Can - Moonshake
• Can - I’m So Green
• Ivan the Tolerable - On Land
• Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band - Nymphea
• Badge Époque Ensemble - Undressed in Solitude
• Feist - Family
• Loving - To Turn
• Quién es Geronimo - Mi Casa
• Helena Deland - The Animals
• Molly Lewis - Silhouette
• Ciao Ciao Marigold - aglaonema pictum tricolor
• Stelar Door - Saw Hollow
• The Analog Girl - Phases
• Zoo Gazer - 浅滩备忘录 (Memo of Shoal)
• Landing - The Roots Below
• Sunglaciers - Cursed
• So Totally - Distinct Star

Playlist:

• Digital Hobo - We Just Be
• Jolie Laide - Pacific Coast Highway
• A Pact Between Strangers - Slow
• Bobby Bazini - Take it Out on Me
• Atley King - Unconditional
• Entrance - Italien Slides
• Jeremy Dutcher - Sakom
• Vulfmon, featuring Louie Zong - Ucla
• Deodato - Tahitti Hut
• Noriyo Ikeda - Summer Orange no Koi
• Dave Young Quartet - Waltz'in The Blues
• Sharon Minemoto - Bike Path (for Dean)
• Hutchinson Andrew Trio - All Of Me
• Jeremy Dutcher - Pomawsuwinuwok Wonakiyawolotuwok
• Greyboy - Fallo Giusto
• Diamond Cafe - When You Can't Resist
• Sharon Minemoto - Alexandra (for Natasha)
• George Benson - Oh! Darling
• The Love Unlimited Orchestra - Freeway Flyer
• Angela Ro Ro - Cheirando A Amor
• Sandra de Sá - Se Grile Não
• The Brothers Johnson - The Real Thing
• Ed Motta - Living Inside Myself
• Charles & Eddie - Love Is A Beautiful Thing
• Beau Williams - C'est La Vie
• The Fearless Flyers - Frecce Tricolori
• Shigeru Suzuki - コーラル・リーフ
• Brion Gysin - Kick (Disco Mix)
• Shalamar - Make That Move
• The Whispers - Up On Soul Train
• Kool & The Gang - Big Fun
• Alton McClain & Destiny - It Must Be Love
• Marina Lima - Pé Na Tabua
• Deodato - San Juan Sunset

Calgary-based media artist Laura Anzola joins in hour three to discuss her new installation Voices (go see it at EMMEDIA!). That plus your usual mix of neo-classical bliss, laid-back electronics, instrumental beats, psychedelic grooves, and other sounds selected to ease you into a new week.

Enjoy!

Playlist:

• Osmanthus - When Winds Blow
• Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu, Marta Sofia Honer - Écoute Au Loin
• Karl Hirzer - Cosmic Vertigo
• Green-House - Everything Is Okay
• Moshimoss - Minasoko
• Bradley Thomas Turner - Walking in New York
• Nalepa - Ladybugs
• Lunar Lemur - Get Off On Tragina
• Patrick Holland - Blue
• Jahmal Padmore - Denial
• Pachyman - Mi Sala
• Easy Idiot - Ratty Cemetery
• Circles Around The Sun, Mikaela Davis - After Sunrise
• Floral Portrait - Sunset Stroll
• Paulo Edson - Melodia
• ROY - Now You Know
• Fortunato Durutti Marinetti - The Movie of Your Life
• Rae Spoon - Strength from Within
• Rae Spoon - My Heart is a Piece of Garbage. Fight Seagulls! Fight!
• Minhwi Lee - Returning
• Kofi Flexxx - Fire
• Stelar Door - Flight of the Manumitter
• BADBADNOTGOOD - Take What’s Given
• Klaus Johann Grobe - Highway High
• La Sonora Mazuren - Son para Gozarlas
• Empanadas Ilegales - Luna Modular
• ddwy - Green Villa
• untrained animals - Suzanne Tripping Balls and Seeing God
• sunking - My Mind Is An Oven
• Adrian Younge - Heaven’s Found
• Niecy Blues - Cascade
• ANOHNI and the Johnsons - You Be Free

Former Constantines frontman and current solo artist Bry Webb calls in during hour three to discuss his new album and upcoming Calgary show. Before that, your usual mix of AM mellowness, from neo-classical bassoon and accordion, to gentle acoustic ditties, to "maritime jazz" and other unclassifiable sounds.

Enjoy!

Playlist:

• Frank Horvat, Sébastien Malette - Grasslands
• Emad Armoush's Duos, featuring Francois Houle - Ya Rayah
• Sam Gendel, Fabiano do Nascimento - Poeira
• Tuulikki Bartosik - London
• Plains Apparition, Light Blending In - Dewdrop Coming Back to You
• Gregory Uhlmann - Phosphene
• Joseph Shabason, Nicholas Krgovich, M. Sage - Gloria
• Hauschka - Detached
• sub lumen - Xenon Arc
• Melodien - Archive
• Easy Idiot - Relax With Me
• Molly Lewis, featuring Thee Sacred Souls - Crushed Velvet
• Greg Foat, Ayu Salawu - Cruising Home
• Cosmic Analog Ensemble - Maritime Jazz
• SHOLTO - Vampire
• Luiz Henrique - Jandira
• Luiz Henrique - Pra Não Deixar de Sambar
• Rural Tapes, featuring Steve Wynn - Bossa nova for the contrails of my tears
• Helena Deland - Bright Green Vibrant Gray
• MOONRIIVR - Flowers on the Fire Escape
• Gene Pitney - (1-2-3-4-5-6-7) Count the Days
• Loving - No Mast
• Popol Vuh - Morgengruß
• Rei Harakami - Bo Tequila
• Hannah Miette, featuring Rozi Plain - Let Me Know
• Bry Webb - Modern Mind
• Victrix - I Saw Me
• Jane Weaver - Perfect Storm
• Radiotr​ó​nica - Nodos
• Helado Negro - Best For You and Me
• Tess Roby - Just a Minute (Moon King Cover)
• Mega Bog - Ameleon

AM Gold Part 2: Looking back at the best (or at least most AM-appropriate) music of 2023. From ambient and jazz to shoegaze revivalists and hushed bedroom folk, it's an eclectic mix, but one worth diving into.

See the full list of AM Gold at wanderlines.ca

Playlist:

• Hynta - Soak
• Veryan - An Almost Echo
• Michael Peter Olsen - Terms of Desertion
• Josh Semans - Last Traces of Infrastructure
• Masahiro Takahashi - Cloud Boat
• Khotin, featuring Tess Roby - Fountain, Growth
• Lord of the Isles, Ellen Renton - For a Burning World
• Contagious Yawns - If You Could Be Doing Anything
• Freak Heat Waves, featuring Cindy Lee - In a Moment Divine
• Golden Ivy - Vithatten
• Blue Lake - Bloom
• M. Sage - River Turns Woodley (for Frogman)
• Skyphone - Arbonought
• Ensemble 0 - Jojoni 5
• Ora Cogan, featuring Y La Bamba - Ways of Losing
• L.T. Leif - Pass Back Through
• Bry Webb - I Can’t See You
• Wax Machine - River
• YouYourself&i - Kayak au Crépuscule
• Valiska - Forgetting Another Year
• Eluvium - Mass Lossless Interbeing
• Spencer Zahn - High Touch
• Edena Gardens - Forst
• Yussef Dayes - Raisins Under the Sun
• Blume - Cycles
• Holy Wave, featuring Estrella del Sol - Happier
• Melenas - Bang
• The Organizing Committee - As If Chasing Mice
• Slowdive - Chained to a Cloud

AM Gold (Part 1 of 2): A look back at some favourite releases from 2023, crossing genres and continents to find the best early-morning sounds. Hope you enjoy, and stay tuned for Part 2 next week.

(For the full list of 100 AM Gold albums, head to https://wanderlines.ca)

Playlist:

• Golden Brown - Chrysalis
• Nico Georis - Sundog
• Peace Flag Ensemble - Burner Phone
• Mike Reed - Floating With an Intimate Stranger
• Nashville Ambient Ensemble - Prism
• Ivan the Tolerable - An Apology
• Brendan Eder Ensemble - 137 Riddle
• Buildings and Food - Imprints of the Circle
• Test Card - Into Through Exit Wormhole
• Violeta Vicci - Abstract Sky
• Pedro Ricardo - Ode ao Gato
• Modern Cosmology - A Time to Blossom
• N NAO - Fin du monde
• ML Buch - Pan Over the Hill
• Marlene Ribeiro - You Do It
• Maya Ongaku - Nuska
• Markus Floats - mdhvn
• Hollie Kenniff - Momentary
• Hochzeitskapelle - Kuroganemochi
• NETRVNNER - Forecast
• Lael Neale - Faster Than the Medicine
• Baby Cool - Magic
• Yo La Tengo - Aselestine
• Ryan Bourne - 100 Years
• Misha Panfilov - Cosmic Bliss
• The Ironsides - A Return from Ashes
• Bristol Manor - It's Been So Long
• Pia Fraus - Sunny Afternoon
• Ulrika Spacek - Diskbänksrealism
• ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT - A Worker’s Graveyard (Poor Eternal)
• White Poppy - Time

Musical affirmations to start 2024 on solid footing. Aiming for, as the Pharoah Sanders album says, "wisdom through music." Hope your year is one of peace, love, and satisfaction.

Playlist:

• Bitchin' Bajas & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - You Will Soon Discover How Truly Fortunate You Really Are
• Michael Peter Olsen - So Far So Good
• GoGo Penguin - Everything Is Going to Be OK
• Proxima Psychoacoustics - Always Choose Retry
• Ray Barbee - Let's Persevere
• Carl Didur - Maybe Next Time (It'll Be OK)
• Contagious Yawns - Keep Yourself Together
• SUSS - Everything is So Beautiful
• Clarice Jensen - Joy
• Foonyap - Free and Easy Wandering
• Lonnie Holley - If We Get Lost They Will Find Us
• Pharoah Sanders - Love is Everywhere
• Akron/Family - Love, Love, Love (Everyone)
• Shira Small - My Life's All Right
• Moondog - Do Your Thing
• David Axelrod - Go For It
• Future Children - Do Whatcha Want
• Charles Spearin - Unsolicited Advice
• The Farm Band - Keep Your Head Up High
• Badge Époque Ensemble - The Greatest Joy
• SAULT - The Greatest Smile
• JOYFULTALK - Blissed For a Minute
• Ben LaMar Gay - We Gon Win
• The Besnard Lakes - We're Here for a Good Time (Not a Long Time)
• Nick Cave - Balcony Man
• Shabason & Krgovich - I Am So Happy With My Little Dog
• Sunnsetter - Surely Everything's Alright
• Yves Jarvis - Trust Your Judgement
• Lizette & Quevin - Grow Forever
• McCarthy - I Worked Myself Up From Nothing
• Thanya Iyer - Solace
• Four Tet - You Are Loved
• Angelo de Augustine - I Hope That All of Your Dreams Come True
• Eluvium - Happiness
• The Zombies - This Will Be Our Year

The last proper AM episode of 2023, easing you into the last full working week of the year. Stay tuned for A Very AM Christmas on Dec. 25, and AM Affirmations on Jan. 1, 2024, then a two-part AM Gold looking back at the best of 2023. Enjoy the holiday break and see you in the new year.

Playlist:

• Flore Laurentienne - Au couchant
• Slow Attack Enesmble - Dance Four
• Salamanda - In Parallel
• The Park, featuring Tommy Guerrero - Tokyo Blend
• Melodien - Ascending Moonshine
• Yu Su - Melaleuca (at night)
• Stegosarahs - Your Mistake Was a Hidden Intention
• Le Matos - The Kid
• Dj Pnutz - Sunrise
• Column - Aerolove
• Part Time - Black Moon Waltz / Quasar Cathedral
• Hochzeitskapelle, featuring Eddie Marcon - Kuroganemochi
• The Organizing Committee - As If Chasing Mice
• Röyksopp - Daddy’s Groove
• Laika - Almost Sleeping
• Laika - Starry Night
• Victrix - Do You Know
• Perfect Angels - The Meaning of Love
• Orbiting Human Circus - I Cover the Waterfront
• My Betsy - Shackypoo
• Gunn-Truscinski-Nace - On Lamp
• Chris Forsyth - Harmonious Dance (Bonus Track)
• Sunburned Hand Of The Man - The Most Relevant
• The Highest Order - Rainbow of Blues
• Cindy - A Trumpet on the Hillside
• Small Pleasures - Find a Way
• Ryan Bourne - Frenz
• La Palma - After All This Time
• Various Artists, featuring Peaking Lights - Hold On
• Wish - Unknowns

A more guitar-forward episode of the AM, particularly in the last half, with dreamy tunes from Lush, the Haiduks, the Amazing, Ultimate Painting and more. Plus the story of a Christmas weed, spacey digressions, and bright vibes for a dark winter day.

Playlist:

• Ólafur Arnalds - ekki hugsa
• Max Cooper - Pulse at the Centre of Being - Mor Elian Remix
• Richard Reed Parry, featuring Stuart Bogie, Andrew Barr - Hungover and Late
• Mount Maxwell - Sundogs
• Various Artists, featuring Hermeneia & Zaumne - In the Soil
• Lars Deutsch - Space Pop
• Kosmischer Läufer - Nordlicht
• Kraftwerk - Airwaves
• Stilz - Dream Rain
• Rich Aucoin - Pure
• Tristan De Liége x Jambal - The Great Wave
• ATA Records - Penthouse in Pernambuco
• The Budos Band - Crescent Blade
• Willie Bobo - Fried Neck Bones And Some Home Fries
• Rogér Fahker - For Free
• Raf Wilcot - Never the Bride
• Dada Plan - Breathe Again
• Dada Plan - Who’s the Thief???
• MOONRIIVR - Only the Lonely Know How
• Melenas - Dos Pasajeros
• La Luz - I Can’t Speak
• Bong Wish - Shapes
• Knife Pleats - Things I Hold
• Lab Coast - Cheerleader Coldfront (Guided By Voices Cover)
• siskiyou - Stop Trying (jubilant reprise)
• Various Artists, featuring Acetone - Plain As Your Eyes Can See
• Ultimate Painting - Ten Street
• Alice Phoebe Lou - Shelter
• Lush - I Have the Moon
• The Haiduks - I’m Still Here
• Sundays & Cybele - Waiting for You
• Population II - Beau baptême
• Futuropaco - Occhi Malvagi
• The Amazing - Picture You