The A.M.

Scattered songs to start your December, from analog explorations of impossible concepts, to Nina Simone stretching Leonard Cohen melodies, to '90s guitar heroics. It's all part of waking up with the AM on CJSW.

Playlist:

• Hynta - Soak
• Fumerolles - Carbonifère
• Amor Muere - Can we provoke reciprocal reaction
• Offworld - Orientation
• Teitur, Aarhus Jazz Orchestra - Gmail Needs My Password Again
• Bilal Nasser - On the Surface
• Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Solid Foundations
• Bristol Manor - Thinking About You
• Chocolate Hills - Leaving Plymouth
• Inventions - Calico
• Buildings and Food - Amount of Melting
• Tenniscoats - Baibaba Bimba
• The Past - Thru a Confusing Zone
• Loving - Medicine
• Spencer Cullum - My Dear Life
• Bob Dylan - Wigwam
• Nina Simone - Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
• Nina Simone - Suzanne
• Opez - Social Roll
• Edena Gardens - Dawn Daydreamers
• The Royal Family - Chrysalis SIX-12
• L'Rain - 5 to 8 Hours a Day (WWwaG)
• Postnamers - Crowns
• Wurld Series - The Cloven Stone
• Faith Healer - Grind
• Women - Grey Skies
• The Brights - Everyone In Town
• Nap Eyes - Delirium and Persecution Paranoia
• Galaxie 500 - Here She Comes Now
• Wax Machine - Wild
• David Crosby - Wild Turkey\/Leather Winged Bat

A quiet first hour (even by AM standards) of nostalgic ambient sounds leads into a mix of psychedelic jazz, jazzy psychedelia, and Quebec prog in hour two, and jangly tunes, vintage swoons, and oddball indie in hour three.

Enjoy!

Playlist:

• Markus Floats - C (Featuring the Voice of Fred Moten)
• Tommy Perman - Six Million Rivets
• Omni Gardens - Lucky Rosemary
• Veryan - Nothing Lasts Forever
• Hollie Kenniff, Helios - By Firelight, On Autumn Nights
• Elskavon - All These Years
• Mount Maxwell - Sky Eye
• Bristol Manor - It’s Been So Long
• Flaner Klespoza - Tropikalne wiatry
• untrained animals - Suzanne Tripping Balls and Seeing God
• Yussef Dayes - Birds of Paradise
• Sven Wunder - Lunar Distance
• Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Lonnie Liston Smith, Adrian Younge - Dawn
• Leland Whitty - Silver Rain
• Pascal Comelade, The Limiñanas - Elvis has left the building
• Melody Fields, featuring Goat - Son of Man
• Contraction - Claire fontaine
• Contraction - Jos coeur (Fermeture)
• Doom Gong - DG-2
• Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Chaos Magic
• Walter Franco - Partir do alto / Animal sentimental
• MOONRIIVR - The Hypnotist
• Klara Kristin - La fille au rasoir
• Various Artists, featuring Vashti Bunyan & Devendra Banhart - How Could You Let Me Go
• Jolie Laide - Death of Money
• Allah-Las - Fontaine
• Centre El Muusa - Catching Stars
• Peter Matthew Bauer - Flowers
• Diamondtown - Gemini
• Astral Swans & Chad VanGaalen - Earth People
• En Attendant Ana - Anita
• Yocto - Station 01011
• Vinyl Williams - Love is a Sound

This week's AM explores various shades of psychedelia, from the folk-inflected to the Floydian, the delicate to the destructive. Hope you enjoy it.

(The psych mostly starts in the second hour, unless you count spiritual jazz and hazy beats, which... maybe you should)

Playlist:

• André 3000 - Ninety Three 'Til Infinity and Beyoncé
• Peace Flag Ensemble - Shamble On
• Fabiano de Nascimento, Sam Gendel - Foi Boto
• Azamiah - Conversations
• Niecy Blues - Analysis Paralysis
• Diamond Day - Noisemaker - No Joy Remix
• Mark Webber - Switchgrass
• Hannah Miette, featuring Rozi Plain - Let Me Know
• Applesauce Tears - The Flower Ouch Hour
• Spencer Zahn - High Touch
• Floating Points - Peroration Six
• Rooster37 - Lost in the Fog
• Monde UFO - Rectory
• Michael Nau - Tiny Flakes
• Rubber Band Gun - Kevin’s Dream (Werewolves Are Liars)
• The Royal Family - When I Was a Butterfly
• Astral Swans & Chad VanGaalen - Filler
• Koushik - Corner of Your Smile
• Koushik - Bright and Shining
• Symphony Orchestra - Know Thyself
• Large Plants - Wasted and Tired
• C Duncan - Just Like Clockwork
• Marta Del Grandi - Mata Hari
• Anika - Climb On Board
• Edena Gardens - Dusted
• Tonstartssbandht - Hey Bad
• The Besnard Lakes - Rides the Rails
• Deradoorian - Devil’s Market
• White Poppy - Melancholic Serenity
• April March, Staplin - Ton Rayon Vert
• NETRVNNER - Paper Bombs
• Hollow Ship - Utsuro Bune

Early-morning ambiance, trip-hop atmospherics, dream-pop beauties, and upbeat instrumentals—it's another set of musical mantras for Monday mornings to ease you into the week.

Playlist:

• M. Sage & Zander Raymond - It Is Isn't It
• Jessica McMann - The River Has Many Ways of Being - Bigfoot
• Mike Reed, Ben LaMar Gay, Marvin Tate, Bitchin Bajas - Floating With an Intimate Stranger
• Bex Burch, featuring Macie Stewary - Dawn Blessings
• Oliver Patrice Weder - I’d Like the Birds to Teach Me How to Fly
• Markus Floats - mdhvn
• Asa Tone - Inexplicable Notion (Location Specific)
• untrained animals - Japanese Protein
• AUTORHYTHM - Intercellular Communication
• Bristol Manor - Treading Water
• HOPE - Osmosis
• Silver Apples, Makoto Kawabata - Future Reminiscence
• Public Memory - Afterimage
• Badge Époque Ensemble - Goding of Think
• CFCF - Half Dreaming Reprise
• CFCF - You Hear Colours
• Mint Field - Nuevo Sol
• Seablite - Melancholy Molly
• Slowdive - Chained to a Cloud
• Sinthia - So Low
• Living Hour, featuring The Ophelias - Hard to Say Goodnight
• Levitation Room - Heaven
• ML Buch - Pan over the hill
• Laura Misch - Hide to Seek
• Jilk - Leave and Care Less
• Ginger Beef - Golden Hour
• Futuropaco - Cappe Bianche in Fiamme
• ce qui nous traverse - …et des éclairs
• Faith Healer - 2020
• Misha Panfilov - Alegria Em Movimento

After a first hour of soothing ambiance and offbeat easy listening™, this week's episode segues into spacious jazz and sparse melodies courtesy of Mark Hollis and Modern Nature (among others), and wraps with jangly jams and fuzzy guitars from Lush offshoot Ozean, White Poppy, Bibi Club, Marine Girls, and more.

Plus odd science news in place of the usual BBC. Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Alexandra Stréliski - Umbra
• Skyphone - Æteren
• Seahawks - Space Oracle - aus Remix
• Cate Brooks - Log On Log
• Apta - Submerge
• Schmlandinksy - pancake breakfast dreams
• Suzanne Ciani, Jonathan Fitoussi - Golden Apples of the Sun
• Teen Daze - Quiet City
• Arms and Sleepers, Richard Houghten - Tu No
• Kogane - Biology
• Phét Phét Phét - Windpocket People
• The Malombo Jazz Makers - Matshenyogo
• Sick Boss - Doctor Dawn
• Modern Nature - Murmuration
• Mark Hollis - The Watershed
• The Dayflowers - It’s the Morning
• The Dayflowers - Tropic Isle
• Wax Machine - River
• Bry Webb - I Can’t See You
• Maria Arnqvist - Purple Sails
• Diles Que No Me Maten - El Circo
• Marine Girls - A Place in the Sun
• Bibi Club - Le feu
• Ozean - Fall
• White Poppy - Happy
• The Brights - Enough of You
• Milk Toast - Shabby Chic
• Extraa - All Good
• YOCTO - Lance-Flamme Lance-Glace
• NETRVNNER - Phantom
• Tape Waves - Close Your Eyes
• Moon Duo - Lost in Light

It's the post-Funding Drive, pre-Halloween episode of the AM—a mix of a deep breath of recovery, and scattered spookiness building to an hour of Halloween-themed goodies.

Thanks again to everyone who helped CJSW reach its $200,000 goal last week, and here's to another year of offbeat sounds and independent culture at 90.9FM.

Playlist:

• Joseph Shabason - Friends
• Markus Floats - Death
• Pidgins - Data Driven
• Michael Peter Olsen - Terms of Desertion
• Lunar Lemur - Orion Bridge
• Land of Talk - Pwintiques
• Squarepusher - Midi Sans Frontieres (Avec Batterie)
• Rooster37 - Head Down
• Contagious Yawns - If You Could Be Doing Anything
• Oneohtrix Point Never - A Barely Lit Path
• Loving - Blue
• Tommy Guerrero - Reflections of Now
• SHEBAD - Open Yourself
• Ivan the Tolerable - Koestler
• BALTHVS - Like Coconut Water
• Holy Hive, featuring El Michels Affair, Fleet Foxes - The Shame
• Jenny Omnichord - Ghost Flyers in the Sky
• Jenny Omnichord - Skeletal Love Song
• Various Artists, featuring Dark Time - Raven Fades
• The Space Lady - Humdinger
• Orange Crate Art - Hula Girl on a Tropical Beach
• Black Market Karma, Tess Parks - The Sky Was All Diseased
• MISZCZYK, featuring Lætitia Sadier - In the Dark
• Bruno Martino - Dracula Cha Cha
• Scott Walker - The Seventh Seal
• Chance Halliday - Bury Me Deep
• Screaming Lord Sutch - Dracula’s Daughter
• Zacherley - Come With Me to Transylvania
• Todd Rollins & His Orchestra - The Boogie Man
• Serpent Power - Dr. Lovecraft's Asylum
• Chad VanGaalen - Monster
• The Vampire Sound Inc. - Necronomania
• Jóhann Jóhannson - Children of the New Dawn
• The Garrys - Häxsabbaten
• Cool Ghouls - Witch's Game

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Playlist:

• Hollie Kenniff - Shifting Winds
• Eluvium - Vibration Consensus Reality
• Freak Heat Waves, featuring Cindy Lee - In a Moment Divine
• Postnamers - Little Baby Flutter (Birdy, Bye Bye)
• Golden Ivy - Vithatten
• OHMA - Between All Things
• Khotin - lovely
• Joni Void - Tape
• Penguin Cafe - In Re Budd
• Glissandro 80 - Bolan Muppets
• Blue Lake - Bloom
• The Ironsides - Changing Light
• Beach Towels - Night Surf
• Carl Didur - Maybe Next Time (It’ll Be OK)
• lesbianhorse - Observatory Dub
• Dreamsploitation - Our Future Salad Days
• Whatitdo Archive Group - Ritual of Gods
• Contraction - Trois ou quatre
• Ryan Bourne - Dream Club
• Astrud Gilberto - Take It Easy My Brother Charlie
• Belbury Poly - The Path
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra - The Widow
• Harrison - Overhead
• Cortex - Troupeau bleu
• Huw Marc Bennett - Golau Hardd

It's Thanksgiving and I'm feeling grateful for the opportunity to share such eclectic sounds every Monday morning. From spiritual jazz to psych-rock to off-kilter synth pop and twisted Disney tunes, thanks for welcoming in the new week with The AM's offbeat easy listening.

Playlist:

• Mary Lattimore - Horses, Glossy on the Hill
• Liz Hanks - Meer (Haiku Salut Remix)
• Suzanne Ciani, Jonathan Fitoussi - Pinwheel
• Charbonneau / Amato - Evaporations
• Buildings and Food - Sea Cow
• Ryuichi Sakamoto - Self Portrait
• Vic Mars - The Obelisk
• Tetrix - When You Wish Upon a Star
• Rozi Plain - Agreeing for Two - sir Was remix
• Moon Apple - Making It Down
• Brainstory - Thank You
• Maya Ongaku - Melting
• Sam Wilkes - Own
• White Poppy - Time
• Ryan Bourne - Intro
• Women - Sag Harbor Bridge
• Women - Shaking Hand
• Fabiano do Nascimento - 3 Pontas
• ATA Records - Siren’s Sea
• Pearl & The Oysters - Space Coast
• Baby Cool - Ode to Mother Luna
• Matana Roberts - Unbeknownst
• Medicine Singers - Sanctuary
• TEKE::TEKE - Doppelganger
• Tony Allen & Adrian Younge - Ebun
• Bruno Pernadas - Spaceway 70
• Setting - Zoetropics
• Sinoia Caves - Through the Valley
• Pneumatic Tubes - Magic Meadow
• Colin Stetson - One Day In the Sun

Ushering in October with some occult vibes courtesy of satanstompingcaterpillars and Throbbing Gristle, trip-hop tunes from Portishead and Ghostkeeper, and more melancholy, moody, and otherwise magical music for misty Monday mornings.

Playlist:

• Alabaster DePlume - The Best Thing in the World
• Rich Hinman - Slow Drip
• The Album Leaf - Dust Collects
• wihtikow - glenora forlorn
• Contagious Yawns - No Body
• Lord of the Isles, featuring Ellen Renton - For a Burning World
• Ghost Train Orchestra, Kronos Quartet - Enough About Human Rights
• Ryuichi Sakamoto - Self Portrait
• Teen Daze - The Wind Surfer
• Atari Umma - Sonic Space
• Active Surplus - Cerulean Blue
• Sachiko Kanenobu - Blue Fish
• Jeffrey Silverstein - Clear Cut (Live Version)
• Astral Swans, featuring Jairus Sharif - Shine the Light Inside
• Two Lone Swordsmen - It’s Not the Worst (Lali Puna Remix)
• Void Comp - Just Eyes
• satanstompingcaterpillars - Colorfulnickels
• satanstompingcaterpillars - boatfriend
• Saloli - Snake
• Throbbing Gristle - Walkabout
• Vic Mars - Life Cycle
• Ryohei Shima - 冬のサナトリウム
• La Force - october
• Sargeant X Comrade - Wake Up
• Saya Gray - ?
• Portishead - The Rip
• Ghostkeeper - Oceans
• The Smile - Thin Thing
• Bart - All Good Things
• Virginia Astley - A Summer Long Since Passed
• Misha Panfilov - Sunbeam
• Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Murkit Gem
• Badge Époque Ensemble - Air, Light & Harmony
• London Odense Ensemble - Sojourner (Live)

Drifting from the meditative sounds of Spirituals and Will Samson (and, uh, the Chemical Brothers) in hour one to shoegaze and dream-pop courtesy of Yoo Doo Right, Fontaines DC and Ora Cogan in hour three—plus a throwback to some good ol' early 2000s Canadian post-rock, new Allah-Las and Cola, and other offbeat sounds for the last Monday of September.

Playlist:

• Spirituals - Seventies
• Will Samson - And Yet (Gold Panda Remix)
• Buildings and Food - Imprints of the Circle
• Kai Campos, CJ MIrra, featuring Allan Ginsberg - Bixby Canyon
• The Chemical Brothers, featuring Halo Maud - For That Beautiful Feeling
• Uh Huh, Lamping - In My Mind
• Dreampham - March of the Puppers
• Mark Webber - 2x rec
• Craven Faults - Odda Delf
• Cantrips - The Big Break
• The Orielles - Tableau 002
• Tara Clerkin Trio - The Turning Ground
• Steady Holiday - Newfound Oxygen
• Brightblack Morning Light - Gathered Years
• Precious Fathers - Prairie Train
• Precious Fathers - Snowshoes
• Fievel Is Glauque - Go Down Softly
• Abby Sage - The Florist
• The Breathing Effect - Ashore
• Yabra - Vulcan Nights
• Julie Byrne, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love’s Refrain
• Fontaines DC - Cello Song
• Allah-Las - Dust
• Fog Lake - Roswell
• Sunnsetter - Float in Circles
• Cindy - Wednesday
• Cola - Keys Down If You Stay
• Slowdive - Shanty
• Crystal Eyes - A Dream I Had
• Ora Cogan - Feel Life
• Yoo Doo Right - The Moral Compass of a Self-Driving Car