The A.M.

This week's AM shares three hours of fall vibes, with a blend of ambient jazz, hazy psych-folk, and other sounds that mix melancholia and coziness in that uniquely autumnal way. For best results, serve with crunching leaves and hot cider.

Playlist:

• Violeta Vicci - Abstract Sky
• Max Richter - SLEEP: Tranquility Base (Kelly Lee Owens Remix)
• Various Artists, featuring Sun Rain - Fog Dance
• Joseph Shabason, featuring Thom Gill - Our Place
• Ecotype - Order and Class
• Josh Semans - Last Traces of Infrastructure
• Veryan - The Light Without Love
• Wild Beasts - Wanderlust - The Field Remix
• Leland Whitty - Windows
• Moondiver - Dominoes
• Tristan De Liège, Jambal - Reflections
• Daneil Villarreal, featuring Jeff Parker, Anna Butterss - Salute
• Enji - Taivshral
• Makushin - More Easily
• Circus Underwater - The Surface of the Water
• Faunts - Sleepwalker
• Azeda Booth - Well (refilled and set in sand)
• Fridge - Five Four Child Voice
• Caribou - Drumheller
• Yoko Ono - Have You Seen a Horizon Lately
• Blossom Dearie - Discover Who I Am
• Baby Cool - The Sea
• Les Chouettes - Salade Sauvage Deluxe Dressing Mix
• Apostle of Hustle - Kings & Queens
• Bart - Three By Noon
• YOCTO - L’Étau de Zálmoxis
• Various Artists, featuring Fenella - My Odyssey
• Chad Vangaalen - D-85 teardrop
• Lael Neale - I’ll Be Your Star
• Melenas - Bang
• Big Blood - 1000 Times

Beakerhead's Parker Chapple joins to discuss the 10th anniversary of the science + engineering + art festival. That plus classic Canadian post-rock, expansive folk tunes, new spins on Arthur Russell & Moondog, and more. Enjoy!

Playlist:

• Shy Layers - Midnight Marker
• Eric Cheng - Solarus
• OAKK - Sunrise Session v2
• Étamine - 3 Cycle Multi-Programme
• Pocket Pavilions - Expo Transit System
• diskJokke - Staying In
• Various Artists, featuring AuntBibby - M.C. Etcher
• Pantha du Prince - Liquid Lights
• edapollo - Oscillations
• Peter Broderick, ensemble 0 - Give It to the Sky
• Ghost Train Orchestra, Kronos Quartet, featuring Joan as Police Woman - Why Spend a Dark Night with You
• The Books - Smells Like Content
• The World Next Door - Amoeba Eyeliner
• Dosh - Wake Me Up When It’s Over
• Beans - Hollow Stars
• Fond of Tigers - Vitamin Meathawk
• Fabiano do Nascimento - Stranger Nights
• Slowly Rolling Camera - Flow
• Cortico - Swell
• Maybel - Long Road Ahead
• Dream Sitch - Sideways
• William Tyler & The Impossible Truth - Highway Anxiety / Radioactivity Live
• Futuropaco - Tirannia Velata
• Hysear Don Walker - Poo-Jo
• Ulrika Spacek - The Tier Drop
• Andrew Vivona - Don't Give In
• Olde Nightrifter - I’m a Stranger Here
• Shadow Folk - Contemplation
• Bry Webb - Thunder Bay

Rapid mood-swings in this week's AM — a mellow first hour and gloomy second hour give way to a post-Pride disco celebration in hour three. LGBTQ2S+ artists abound in this week's program, too, from Beverly Glenn-Copeland and ANHONI to a spotlight on the dark & beautiful sound of Coil.

Enjoy the long weekend!

Playlist:

• Polypores - Machine Elves
• Green-House - Castle Song
• Spectral Tambours - pattern_06
• Conic Rose - Gleisdreieck
• Hassle Hound - Sorbet Pool
• More Eaze - Gentle Pets
• RAMZi - megafauna
• Easy Idiot - Light
• Goodnight Girl - Electric Heart
• Time Wharp - ETGSS
• ANOHNI and the Johnsons - It Must Change
• Tristan De Liège, Jambal - Collisions of Light
• Alabaster DePlume, featuring Momoko Gill, MettaShiba - Did You Know
• Beverly Glenn-Copeland - The Ones Ahead
• Matthew Cardinal - Jitters
• Coil - The Dreamer Is Still Asleep
• Holy Wave, featuring Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - The Darkest Timeline
• Shn Shn - maladaptive daydreams
• Slowdive - alife
• Austra - Angel In Your Eyes
• Rupa - Aaj Shanibar
• Patrick Cowley - Megatron Man
• Kiki Gyan - Disco Dancer
• Unlimited Touch - I Hear Music in the Streets
• Maylee Todd - Pinball Number Count
• Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Brother Louie
• Chic - Everybody Dance

Music for the last Monday of August. A little summery, a little autumnal, and a lot of beauty in any case. Enjoy psychedelic sounds, cosmic synths, acoustic ballads, quantum-inspired folk, and more offbeat easy listening to start your week off right.

Playlist:

• Emeralds - Escape Wheel
• Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan - A Fresh Dawn for North Cheshire
• Early Fern - Gale Still Blowing
• Electric Enlightenment - Impression of the Divine Plateau
• Inner Flight - Explorer 3000
• Spume - Morning Dose
• Teen Daze - Palms
• Dougie Stu - Joy Ride - Jeff Parker Remix
• Monster Rally - Wavebreak
• Joy Orbison - In Drink
• Dominic Pierce - Ladders II
• Modern Nature - Cascade
• Ann Annie - Late Afternoon
• Bibio, featuring Óskar Guðjónsson - Sunbursting
• North Americans - Classic Water
• Ora Cogan, featuring Y La Bamba - Ways of Losing
• Carl Glacier - Is This Really Necessary
• The 6ths - All Dressed Up In Dreams
• The 6ths - In the City In the Rain
• Citron Citron - La nuit galope
• April March - Alfie Solomon’s Hush
• Moonfish - Nest of Giants
• YOCTO - Entre les mors
• Oranje - 104
• Automatic - Turn Away
• L'Rain - Pet Rock
• Pisces - Children Kiss Your Mother Goodnight
• Vanishing Twin - Marbles
• Ryan Driver - You Are Beside Me
• Margret - Bloodspot
• Pia Fraus - Regret Everything
• Fujiya & Miyagi - Conductor 71
• Fresh Snow - To a Sea
• Programm - Underneath
• Mogwai - Ether

There's a decidedly autumnal feel to this morning, which drifted into the music—but the main theme this week is cinema, with two soundtrack selections and an interview with Guillaume Carlier, director of the portrait of Calgary in 12 parts Everyone Altogether Now.

Hope you enjoy the early morning sounds.

Playlist:

• Dream House Quartet - Monk: Ellis Island
• Ludwig Goransson - Can You Hear the Music?
• Esmerine - Fractals for Any Tonality
• Tristan de Liège, Gregory Allison - Threads
• Rebecca Bruton, LCon - Hanbok
• Penguin Cafe - Temporary Shelter from the Storm
• BADBADNOTGOOD, Arthur Verocai - Love Proceeding (Macroblank Remix)
• Mark Webber - fiji
• Fabiano do Nascimento - Thrdwrld
• edapollo - Synesthesia
• French 79 - Graceful
• Stilz - Remember Me
• lesbianhorse - Observatory Dub
• Belbury Poly - The Path
• The Breathing effect - Carbon Capture
• Mort Garson - The Big Game Hunters See the Cheetah
• Dj Pnutz - Sunrise
• Yuutsu - Space
• to rococo rot - Telema
• to rococo rot - Prado
• Buildings and Food - Switchgrass to the Exosphere
• Brown Spirits - Seven 8ths of Madness
• Eine Kleine China - Lupus in Fabula (Live)
• Tony Allen & Adrian Younge - Oladipo
• Cindy - A Trumpet on the Hillside
• Helena Deland - Spring Bug
• Ponteix - Alamo
• Vinyl Williams - Petroglyph
• Soft Covers - The Real Housewives of Porpoise Spit
• Hydroplane - Stars (Twilight Mix)
• The Clientele - The Village Is Always on Fire
• Stelar Door - Sunshower Dance
• Thought Bubble - Indelible

Shelley Youngblut joins in the third hour to talk about Wordfest's upcoming Imaginarium. That, plus your usual assortment of psych-pop, synth-drivenn melodies, hypnotic post rock, and a selection from the soundtrack to Bob's Burgers, just because.

Playlist:

• X.Y.R. - Surf's Up
• Moon Apple - #sowhatnow
• Dawn to Dawn - Seventh Floor
• Freak Heat Waves, featuring Cindy Lee - In a Moment Divine
• Centre El Muusa - Moonlight Horses
• Ivan the Tolerable - String to Ball
• Minihi - Barometer
• Bell Orchestre - Open Organ
• Philip Glass - Mishima (Bob’s Burgers Arrangement)
• Jung People - Astral Projection
• Matthew A. Wilkinson - Hesperus is Phosphorus
• Moon Mullins - Starlight
• jellyskin - Punnet
• Ora Cogan - Katie Cruel
• Azamiah - Celesta
• Joni Void - Tape
• Ela Orleans - Something Higher
• Ela Orleans - “Yes, Of Course”
• wasmarkhere - Stay Right Here
• The Highest Order - Somewhere Out of the Way
• Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection - Could We, Canvey
• Robert Wyatt - A Last Straw
• Dana Gavanski - Waltz for a Spaniel
• The Movers - Give Five or More
• Rosinha de Valença - Summertime
• Daniel Villarreal, featuring Jeff Parker, Anna Butterss - Sunset Cliffs
• Pedro Ricardo - A Marcha Que o Monte Parou
• Yves Jarvis - For Props
• Eric Chenaux - Mynah Bird
• Badge Époque Ensemble - The Sound Where My Head Was
• Gal Gracen - Deep Prismatic Wave
• Michael Rother - Fortuna

As with most long weekends, I'm expecting/hoping most people slept through the first hour of the show—but I also think there was some particularly good music in that stretch, so hopefully you can re-listen soon. Experimental audio, neo-classical compositions, early synth works, and other pleasant sounds abound, plus motorik meanderings in the second hour and the dreamiest Springsteen cover to close out the episode. Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• mioriii - Under the Sun
• Yu Su - Manta y Menta
• Nina Keith, featuring Barrie & Qur'an Shaheed - Blow Up Yr Life (You Need To)
• Michael Peter Olsen - So Far So Good
• Suzanne Ciani - The Fifth Wave - Water Lullaby
• The Twelve Hour Foundation - Bypass Deluxe
• French 79 - Foix
• Étamine - Helicopter Takeoff at Night
• Eine Kleine China - Our Lady of Perpetual Motion (Live)
• Mansur Brown - Summer
• Harrison - Overhead
• Maps - Witchy Feel (Over The Counter Mix)
• FWY! - Anaheim Nightlife
• No False Suns - 1990 or So
• Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders - Star Power (Single Edit)
• Spectrum - Sweet Running Water
• Being Dead - Livin' Easy
• Beach Towels - Night Surf
• Lost Girls - Ruins
• hyenaedon - In Forthwick Feast
• New Order - Leave Me Alone
• Rio 18 - Gorffennaf
• Mac DeMarco - Portland
• Kogane, Park Bird - Posture
• Sora - rayeula (ii)
• Sun's Signature - Golden Air (Gwenno Remix)
• Operating Theatre - Spring is Coming with a Strawberry in the Mouth
• White Poppy - Pink Haze
• Zoon - A Language Disappears
• Slowdive - Skin in the Game
• Beach House - Holiday House
• Chromatics - I'm On Fire

Back on the air after three weeks away—and many thanks to Tyra and Adam for manning the boards in my absence. An alternately ambient and jazzy first hour, a throwback to 1970s Italian library music, and a dreamy, mostly electronic-leaning third hour to wrap up July on a soothing note. I enjoyed listening to it, here's hoping you do, too.

Playlist:

• Andrew Bird - Improvisation On A Familiar Theme
• Penguin Cafe - Might Be Something
• Blue Lake - Fur
• GoGo Penguin - Everything is Going to Be OK
• Alexandra Stréliski - The Breach
• Les Baxter - Ay, ay, ay
• Colin Stetson - Passage
• Kalia Vandever - Stillness in Hand
• Hollie Kenniff, Goldmund - The Midsummer Sea
• Saloli - Snake
• Sankt Otten - Sehnsucht nach der Party danach
• Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f
• Lunar Lemur - Interstellar Medium
• TEKE::TEKE - Me No Haya
• Huw Marc Bennett - Golau Hardd
• African Head Charge - Microdosing
• Untrained Animals - Cosmic Logic
• Chocolate Hills - Cracking Kraken
• Rully Djohan - Bubuj Bulan
• Arawak - Accadde A Bali
• Arawak - Accadde A Harlem
• Matthew Halsall - Water Street
• Rozi Plain - Painted the Room - MF Tomlinson Remix
• Vanishing Twin - Afternoon X
• Freak Heat Waves - Off My Mind
• Peel Dream Magazine - Harmony
• Various Artists, featuring Camille - Hazey Jane II
• Pia Fraus - Sunny Afternoon
• MISZCZYK - New for Old
• Hair Control - Road Song
• P:ano - Hollow Stars
• Tycho - Time to Run
• Yabra - Moonrise
• Rich Aucoin - Liminal
• Where's the Other - Relaxology

Playlist:

• Perez Prado - Voodoo Suite
• Martin Denny - Incense & Peppermints
• The Moog Machine - Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In
• Matt Berry - I Cannot Speak
• Cool Ghouls - Smoke & Fire
• Calexico - Rancho Azul
• Lee Hazelwood - Poet
• Resurrection Men - The Judge
• Arthur Gee - Plain Talk
• Arthur Brown - Take A Chance
• The Damned - Morning Bird
• Peace De Résistance - Alphabet Au Pair
• No False Suns - 1990 Or So
• Big Blood - Makes Me Wonder
• Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz - Run Away With Her
• French 79 - Heroes
• Cheb Hindi - A Moi La Liberte
• 20th Century Steel Band - Land of 1000 Dances
• Altin Gün - Doktor Civanim
• Dee D. Jackson - Red Flight
• Metro Area - Miura
• Working Men's Club - Valleys
• Jane Inc - 2120
• Solvent - My Radio
• Giorgio Moroder - From Here To Eternity
• Kebekelektrik - War Dance
• Modern Art - Hello Goodbye
• Freak Heat Waves - I'm Zapped
• Klaus Nomi - Nomi Song

Playlist:

• Elysian Spring - Blue Sands
• Dylan Henner - With Her First Steps She Walked to Me and She Was So Happy
• Dirty Beaches - Good Bye Edmonton
• Spivak - The Fucking Bed On The Floor
• Yumiko Morioka - Moon Road
• Josiah Steinbrick - Moonglow
• Sarah Davachi - Doubled Flutes
• Rachika Nayar - Memory As Miniatures
• Sofie Birch, John Carøe - Nangiyolo
• You'll Never Get to Heaven - Pink and Gold and Blue
• Slow Attack Enesmble - Rivers Turn To Waterfalls
• Sam Gendel, Sam Wilkes - TRACK ONE
• BADBADNOTGOOD - Beside April (Reprise)
• Jon Hassell - Clairvoyance
• Hydroplane - New Monotonic FM
• Black Marble - Brighter and Bigger
• Anthony Naples - Love Loop To Fade
• Against All Logic - Such A Bad Way
• Moonfish - Mahi Mahi
• Malory - Water In My Hands
• Rumskib - Dreampoppers Tribute
• Winter - Bad News
• Surfing - Moonlight
• Café Racer - Faces
• Beach Fossils - Numb
• Peel Dream Magazine - Life At The Movies
• Outer Limits Recordings - I Need My T.V.
• Twin Seas - Surf Wave
• Arverne - It's Only Right
• Grand Public - Assez Apparemment
• La Sécurité - Serpent
• Les Lunatiques - Toujours les mêmes faces
• Dumb - Civic Duty
• RNIE - Units
• VICTIME - Oui Merci
• Grim Streaker - Mind