The A.M.

A Very AM Canada Day. 36 Cancon classics, or at least songs that should be, from Moccasin-gaze to astrological psych to conceptual electro-folk. And other genres that may or may not exist. Hope you dig it.

Playlist:

• Matthew Cardinal - Gymnopédie no. 1
• Tess Roby - Glimpse
• Teen Daze - Endless Light
• JOYFULTALK - Kill Scene
• Postnamers - Little Baby Flutter (Birdy, Bye Bye)
• Various Artists, featuring Laura Palmer - A Poem
• Moat Bells - Tiny Floating Things in the Air
• Proxima Psychoacoustics - Chlorophyl Sunset
• Buildings and Food - Streetlights
• Hermitess - Spell - Morgan Greenwood Remix
• Freak Heat Waves, featuring Cindy Lee - In a Moment Divine
• The Hylozoists - If Only Your Heart was a Major Sixth
• Torngat - You Could Be
• Do Make Say Think - Shlomo's Son
• No Birds - Music is Easy. There are Songs, and There are Dances. This Song is a Dance
• Thanya Iyer - Always, Be Together
• Ora Cogan - Cowgirl
• Caribou - She’s the One
• Les Sinners - J’aime une fille aux yeux d’or
• The Sparrows - Tomorrow’s Ship
• The Zodiac - Virgo - The Perpetual Perfectionist
• Bruce Haack - National Anthem to the Moon (The Stepkids Remix)
• Dreamsploitation - Our Future Salad Days
• Zoon - Brokenhead
• Witch Prophet - Aura
• Badge Époque Ensemble - Milk Spilt on Eternity
• Last Ex - Resurrection Drive Part 1
• Dirty Beaches - I Dream in Neon
• MISZCZYK, featuring Allumette - Pantin
• Bernardino Femminielli - Babylone Stra​ß​e
• Contraction - Pixieland
• Wayne McGhie and the Sounds of Joy - Dirty Funk
• Jackie Shane - Any Other Way
• Sandro Perri - Wrong About the Rain
• Ludovic Alarie - Je te laisse fermer mes yeux II
• Carl Didur - Cowboy and his Friend

With the year nearly half-over, this week's AM shares some favourite releases from Jan-June. Low-key jazz, ambient trombones, synth-laden dream pop, subdued post-rock—it's all pretty mellow (go figure) but also rich, inventive, grounding, and above all, worth a listen.

Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Hollie Kenniff - Salient
• Eluvium - Mass Lossless Interbeing
• Masahiro Takahashi - Sweltering Drive
• Kalia Vandever - We Wept In Turn
• Test Card - The Blank Code Re-Write
• Yves Malone - Smoke and Ash, Hand in Hand
• Nico Georis - Sundog
• Golden Ivy - Vithatten
• Faten Kanaan - Fin août, début septembre
• Lonnie Holley, featuring Michael Stipe - Oh Me, Oh My
• Valiska - Forgetting Another Year
• Ivan the Tolerable - Dew Damp
• Edena Gardens - Sombra del Mar
• Pedro Ricardo - A Marcha Que o Monte Parou
• mohs. - New Places
• Peter Zummo - Way Better Than I Expected
• Salami Rose Joe Louis - Akousmatikous
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Shin Ramyun
• Ryan Bourne - 100 Years
• Benoit Pioulard - The Void
• N NAO - Pangée
• Nabihah Iqbal - The World Couldn't See Us
• Lael Neale - Must Be Tears
• LT Leif - Quail’s Egg
• Zoon - A Language Disappears
• Arboria - Moon Garden
• Sunnsetter - Surely Everything's Alright
• ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT - The Sons and Daughters of Poor Eternal
• Bart - All Good Things
• The Ironsides - Ligurian Dream
• Spencer Cullum, featuring Yuma Abe - Kingdom Weather
• Decisive Pink - Haffmilch Holiday

This week's AM opens with ambient jazz and bouncy electronics in the first hour, indulges in soulful strings and exotic audio collages in hour two, and wraps up with a Sled Island spotlight. Cool sounds for what looks to be a cool week here in Calgary — hope you enjoy.

Playlist:

• Blue Lake - Bloom
• Julian Lage - Everything Helps
• Colin Stetson - The surface and the light
• Valiska - Learning to Say No
• Idlefon, featuring Kamyar Behbahani - Homecoming
• Khotin - Home World 303
• Gelbart - R.E.V.E.R.B.
• Cylindricon - Solid States
• Lo Five - Persistence of Love
• Maps - Witchy Feel - Over the Counter Mix
• The Ironsides - Changing Light
• Altin Gün - Dere Geliyor
• Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Treasure
• Harrison - Overhead
• Leland Whitty - Windows
• Monster Rally - Honey
• Monster Rally - Lava Flows
• Pearl & The Oysters - Joyful Science
• Whatitdo Archive Group - Ritual of Gods
• Portishead - Sour Times
• Lalo Schifrin - Agnus Dei
• Tynes - Kotal
• wihtikow - Ghul
• Michael Peter Olsen - Pronoia
• Eve Parker Finley - Space Jam
• Water From Your Eyes - “Quotations”
• Helado Negro - Tartamundo
• JayWood - God is a Reptile
• Ghost Woman - Jreaming
• Cola - Gossamer
• Sessa - Helena
• Empanadas Ilegales - Lamento de un Galax

This week's throwback is the late, great Astrud Gilberto, going back to 1972's Now for perfectly breezy pop. There's an accidental weather theme this week ("The Breeze", "The Mist", "Cloud Boat", "Cloud Suite"), but mostly it's your typical early morning eclecticism and mellow moods from your favourite Monday morning campus and community radio show.

Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Svaneborg Kardyb - Vejene
• Nico Georis - Thermals
• Various Artists, featuring Museum of No Art - Soften Yourself Into My Liquidness
• Nicolas Godin - Zaire 73
• Rooster37 - Given
• Teen Daze - One for Paradise - Ambient Mix
• Masahiro Takahashi - Cloud Boat
• BLVD NOIR - Rêve Éternal
• Hydroplane - The Love You Bring
• Bodywash - Dessents
• Loopsel - Skammen
• Beach House - Black Magic
• Dawn to Dawn - Anniversary
• Decisive Pink - Ode to Boy
• Rahill - Libra Sun
• Astrud Gilberto - Take It Easy My Brother Charlie
• Astrud Gilberto - Daybreak
• Y La Bamba, featuring Devendra Banhart - Hues
• Harrison - Around You
• JAUBI - Mosty
• Bart - The Breeze
• The Saxophones - The Mist
• Wayfinding - Belafonte’s Farewell
• Ramuntcho Matta - Wallaroo
• Uh Huh - Redemption Pause
• Pantha du Prince - Liquid Lights – Deakin of Animal Collective Remix
• Deep Throat Choir - Turning Around
• Hermitess - Artificial Stars
• Timmy Thomas - Why Can't we Live Together
• Kelpe - Monday Morning Before Work
• Kieran Hebden, William Tyler - Darkness, Darkness

UBI and UFOs accompany this week's selection of dreamy songs aimed at easing you into the first week of June. A couple of unexpected covers (Nick Drake, Trooper, and Beverly Glenn-Copeland) join experimental sounds from Ensemble 0 and Edena Gardens, offbeat R&B from Witch Prophet, Genevieve Artadi, and Salami Rose Joe Louis, ambient jazz from Felbm and Morgan Szymanski & Tommy Perman, and a couple dozen other eclectic selections to start your month on solid footing. Hope you enjoy the mix.

Playlist:

• Felbm - cycli infini (excerpt)
• Tommy Perman, Morgan Szymanski - Saraband for the Souls (Part Two)
• Rae Spoon - Ever New (Beverly Glenn-Copeland Cover)
• RAMZi - awakenin
• Kyle McEvoy, Richard Houghten, wowflower - Tomorrow’s Song
• Tynes - Ellie & Riley (Love Me)
• Various Artists, featuring Angst vor Greta - Remember Love
• SAINT-SAMUEL - In Technicolor
• Thought Bubble - Adjust Your Soul
• Voyage Futur - Kristal Riviera
• BLVD NOIR - Choisir Désir
• Lindstrøm - Syreen
• IKSRE, Shelf Nunny - Falling
• Witch Prophet - Dizzy
• Genevieve Artadi - I Know
• Salami Rose Joe Louis - Fireflies
• Mad Keys - Something Different
• A.C. Marias - Looks Like
• A.C. Marias - One of Our Girls Has Gone Missing
• Meltt - Another Quiet Sunday (Keep Moving On)
• N NAO - Fin du monde
• Sessa - Vento a Favor
• Ryan Bourne - Entropy
• Zoon - Niizh Manidoowig (2 Spirit)
• Bodywash - Patina
• The Besnard Lakes - We’re Here for a Good Time (Not a Long Time)
• The Clientele - Dying in May
• Helicon - Disobey
• Various Artists, featuring Aldous Harding & John Parish - Three Hours
• ensemble 0 - Jojoni 4
• Edena Gardens - Dreich
• Esmerine - Imaginary Pasts
• Benoit Pioulard - Eidetic

Happy election day, Alberta. Fear not—this week's AM doesn't dig into politics, for the most part. Instead, it's the usual reprieve from the outside world, a chance to steady yourself for the week to come with carefully curated doses of sound. Enjoy.

Playlist:

• WKO - In Visible Visions
• Brendan Eder Ensemble - 137 Riddle
• Valiska - Forgetting Another Year
• Golden Ivy - Vithatten
• Various Artists, featuring Malu & Blodel - Wo wir Gewesen Sind
• Asta Hiroki - Never Lose an Opportunity
• Cosmic Neighbourhood - Elf Trip
• Monroeville Music Center - Heaven for Misfits
• Ky - The Dancer
• Nathan Fake - Crystal Vision
• Anadol - Kiral​ı​k A​ş​k
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra - The Widow
• James Ellis Ford - I Never Wanted Anything
• H. Hawkline - It’s a Living
• N NAO - Nos endroits
• Monade - Das Kind
• Monade - A Few Steps More
• Uh Huh - Good, You
• Suuns - Edie’s Dream
• Ralph Heidel - HULO
• Nora Stanley and Benny Bock - Assembling
• Matthew Herbert - The Rider (Not the Horse)
• Misha Panfilov - On the Hook
• Avey Tare - The Musical
• Braids - Plath Heart
• Inventions - Calico
• Various Artists - Come On
• Spencer Cullum - Cold Damp Valley (Alt. Version)
• Yuma Abe - Dakishimete
• Bibi Club - Parasite
• The Pets - Lately in the Shade

Calgary may be in the midst of a smoke-filled Armageddon, but it's also the May long weekend, so, take your solace where you can get it. This week's episode (The AM's ninth anniversary, for what it's worth) alternates between blissful tunes and moments of anxiety, but hopefully lands on the right side of reassuring. Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Hollie Kenniff - Carve the Ruins
• Gilroy Mere - Ramblers' Dance
• Test Card - Into Through Exit Wormhole
• Various Artists, featuring Salamanda - Mockingbird
• Plaid - Perspex
• Joni Void - Tape
• Penguin Cafe - In Re Budd
• Harrison - Like When We Were Kids
• Sven Wunder - Easy Going
• Byard Lancaster - It’s Not Up to Us
• Peter Zummo - Way Better Than I Expected
• Leland Whitty - Awake
• DeadDeer - DayDreamer
• Rich Aucoin - Wav
• United Freedom Collective - Ale Woule
• Spencer Zahn, Dave Harrington, Jeremy Gustin - Cinema
• Laurie Spiegel - Patchwork
• Clark - Clutch Pearlers
• Fridge - Lost Time
• Sten Bergman - Sorti
• Alejandro Bravo - (There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me
• Piry E Seu Conjunto - Manhã De Sol
• Ryan Bourne - Dream Club
• Mega Bog - Don’t Doom Me, Now
• Bodywash - Ascents
• Pozi - Pest Control
• The WAEVE - Can I Call You
• Chairs - Sand
• Bike - Santa Cabeça
• Zoon - Awesiinh (A-Way-See)
• Crystal Eyes - From Me to You/From You to Me
• Alan Vega - Cry Fire

This week's episode opens its eyes to neo-classical strings and Satie-inspired piano, sets sail through Les Baxter exotica and international grooves, and indulges in Canadian art-pop and Parisian "darkgaze." What does all of that mean? Listen in and find out.

Playlist:

• Eluvium - Mass Lossless Interbeing
• Holger Czukay - Longing for Daydreams
• Tony Njoku - Lost Forever
• Alvaro Rojas - Music for 22
• Tim Hecker - Total Garbage
• Craven Faults - Severals
• Golden Ivy - Vandringslåt
• Marshall Watson - High Desert - Seahawks High Sky Remix
• Dreamsploitation - Flashback, Temporal Bliss, Flashback
• Quiet Winter - retrospectrum
• Ky - The Replacement
• Bernice - Barbara, It's Your Tree
• N NAO - Lac Léman
• Various Artists, featuring Dark Time - Raven Fades
• Avey Tare - Lips at Night
• Les Baxter - Quiet Village
• Les Baxter - Wheels
• Huw Marc Bennett - Y Gwydd
• Dina Ögon - Vi smälter
• Symphony Orchestra - Concerto
• Meiko Kaji - Onna Hagure Uta
• Mad Anthony - Rina
• Uma - Granada
• Estrella del Sol, featuring Mabe Fratti - Vera Traves de tus Ojos
• Salami Rose Joe Louis - Sugar Coating (Edit)
• PVA - Not (BBC Radio 1 Session)
• Nabihah Iqbal - Sunflower
• Sunglaciers - Best Years
• Laundromat - Gloss
• Pam Risourié - You Are the Sound
• No Joy - Hare Tarot Lies
• Uh Huh - Citrus Song
• Bodywash - Kind of Light

Rainy days hit different in spring—what could be gloomy feels brisk and refreshing, and you can practically feel the eagerness as the greenery drinks it all up. This week's AM is also a mix of overcast and refreshing, with spacy electronics and buzzing drone-pop, Floyd-inspired psychedelia and spiritual '70s soul-rock fusion. Drink it in and start your week hydrated, refreshed, and ready for whatever's on its way.

Playlist:

• Jogging House - Words
• Khotin - Lovely
• Test Card - The blank code re-write
• Lunar Lemur - There Is No Up
• Proxima Psychoacoustics - Convex Phase
• Ørdop Wolkenscheidt - The Road to Infinity
• Quiet Winter - We’ve Already Been Over This
• Fenella - A Young Girl of Medium Height
• Tynes - Kotal
• zeta ii reliculi - subspace
• Ashi Shonen - Fall Apart
• Postnamers - Arkaras at Midnight
• Get the Blessing - Not With Standing
• Charles Spearin - Unsolicited Advice
• Future Children - Do Watcha Want
• Shabason & Krgovich - Childhood McDonalds
• LT Leif - Taste of Elastic
• Spiritual Concept - Spiritual Sky
• Spiritual Concept - Let's Take It All
• Ghostkeeper - This Is How I Know You
• United Freedom Collective - Even the Very Wonder was Coloured
• Maya Ongaku - Nuska
• ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT - Lie Down in Roses Dear
• White Poppy - Rainbow
• William Tyler & The Impossible Truth - Gone Clear - Live
• Arboria - Cumulonimbus
• Spencer Cullum - Green Trees
• Blume - Times Change
• Badge Époque Ensemble - A Cloud I Dreamt
• Boys Age - What’s It Like Out Your Seaside
• Mac DeMarco - Victoria
• Dixie's Death Pool - Sunlight is Collecting On My Face

Learn about Boards of Canada's Calgary connection, hear the saddest into to an Orbital track that you're ever likely to hear, and listen to hazy songs to kick off May on the right note.

Playlist:

• Hollie Kenniff - Rest in Flight
• Manchester Collective, Hannah Peel - Neon 1: Shinjuku
• Valiska - Engulfed
• Balmorhea, featuring Sam Gendel, Clarice Jensen, Aisha Burns - Step Step Step
• Various Artists, featuring Isla Saturno - Puentes
• Hudson Mohawke - Lonely Days
• Tynes - Makar
• Oedipus Apartment Complex - The Blissful Sounds (Title Track)
• Wish Lash - The Radio Station
• Orbital - Halcyon and On and On
• United Freedom Collective - Space Intention
• Savath & Savalas - Te Quiero Pero Por Otro Lado
• Branko Mataja - Tebi Majko Misli Lete
• The Breathing Effect, Lionmilk - Cosmic Zoo
• Nabihah Iqbal - Closer Lover
• Boards of Canada - Roygbiv
• Boards of Canada - Open the Light
• Kösmonaut - Liquid Veil
• Blume - The Interview
• Sunnsetter - I Hear a Voice
• Charles Stepney - That’s the Way of the World
• Trees Speak - Sospetto
• Maya Ongaku - Nuska
• Stranger Still - Exile
• Bart - All Good Things
• Alabaster dePlume - Salty Road Dogs Victory Anthem
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Drag
• The 3 Clubmen - Aviatrix
• Uh Huh - Redemption Pause
• Ryan Bourne - Plastic on my Pillow
• Meltt - It Could Grow Anywhere