The A.M.

Quote of the week: “The problem is whether we are determined to go in the direction of compassion or not... If I lose my direction, I have to look for the North Star, and I go to the north. That does not mean I expect to arrive at the North Star. I just want to go in that direction.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

Playlist:

• Hannah Peel, Paraorchestra - We Are Part Mineral
• Nils Frahm - Brainwash
• Chad Van Gaalen - Mellowbell
• Pantha du Prince - Gymnopédie No. 3 (Pantha du Prince Rework)
• In The Well - Meadow Transient
• Kindly Spoken Thieves - Parvo
• Easy Idiot - Light
• Para Palabras - Shangri-La
• 10D3R - They React
• Tenda Senda - Rain Finally Fell
• Akusmi - Fleeting Future
• Jilk - March for Salt Over Gold
• Exek - ID’ed
• Various Artists, featuring GNDN - Not Exactly Right
• Correlations - Before the Heat
• Correlations - Safety Net
• Lætitia Sadier - New Moon
• Dummy - Tapestry Distortion
• Heaven For Real - Autumn of the Fighter
• Chocolat - Mélanie
• Beach House - Masquerade
• Black Flower - O Fogo
• Ghost Funk Orchestra - Asphalt Homeland
• José González - El Invento (Sofia Kourtesis Remix)
• Deantoni Parks - Virtual Self
• Destroyer - June
• gerry - Grimpy
• Sankt Otten - Angekommen in der lezten Reihe
• untrained animals - Only Fan of the Space Program
• Moon King - Roswell

This week's episode breathes in deep with meditative synths from Curved Light, Matthew Cardinal, and Charbonneau/Amato, digs into the ambient-adjacent sounds of Tape and the easy listening of Sven Wunder and Daniel Ögren, and describes tricky emotions with help from Alabaster dePlume, Body Double, and Gruff Rhys. Solid musical ground to steady yourself for the last week of March.

Playlist:

• Curved Light - Archives of Forgotten Images
• Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice - Stained Glass Sauna
• Matthew Cardinal - May 13th
• Charbonneau / Amato - All Rose
• Buildings and Food - Streetlights
• Korb - The Softest Machine
• Monster Rally - Phthalo Blue
• Alexandre Bazin - Four Steps I
• gerry - Tune2
• Cylindricon - Uniform
• UncleBibby - Hemispherectomy
• Bernard Grancher - Une femme qui l’attire (instrumental version)
• H A U N T E R, featuring Thanya Iyer - A Little Longer
• Bernice - Big Mato - Kalbells Remix
• Green-House - Produce Aisle
• Various Artists, featuring Body Double - Dot Dot Dot
• Tape - The Wild Palms
• Tape - Hotels
• Daniel Ögren - Rakkasjokk
• Applesauce Tears - Harpy
• Flanafi - why don’t you wait on the lawn
• Yves Jarvis - Bootstrap Jubilee
• Alabaster dePlume - I’m Good at Not Crying
• Sven Wunder - Mosaic
• Surprise Chef - The Positive and the Negative
• Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - B Side
• Gruff Rhys - People are Pissed
• Persica 3 - Faux Punk
• Sunglaciers - Stayed
• Loving - Growing Flowers by Candlelight
• Modern Nature - Performance
• Do Make Say Think - Her Eyes on the Horizon

Diana Sherlock joins at the 2:15 mark to talk about Calgary's Art Underground, the latest cultural mapping initiative from the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. That, plus Laraaji's inspirational laughter, a throwback to The Hardy Tree's nostalgic 2010 debut, and other sounds for the first day of spring.

Playlist:

• Field Works, featuring Stuart Hyatt & Laraaji - Station 10
• Luke Sanger - Efflorescence
• wihtikow - Footprints end
• Videodrones - Scorpio
• The Analog Girl - Wildlife Documentaries
• Cylindricon - Hologram
• Dogs versus Shadows - Dialects of the Hum
• Monroeville Music Center - Year Four, Term Two, Final Performance
• ecotype - Volcanic Winter
• Martinou - Thunder Road
• Kristine Leschper - Carina
• Jenny Hval - American Coffee
• Exek - Unseasonable Warmth
• Dada Plan - Helpless
• The Hardy Tree - Sunshine on a Warm Brick Wall
• The Hardy Tree - We Waltzed At The Victoria Theatre
• Sam Gendel, Antonia Cytrynowicz - Wondering, Waiting
• The Natural Yogurt Band - 57 Lashes of the Mallet
• Shadow Folk - Holiest of Days
• Papercuts - Lodger
• Dany Placard, Julie Doiron - Lying
• Johnny Zithers - Get a Little Love (From Me)
• Shecky Formé - Anabella
• OMBIIGIZI - The Once Child
• Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - So Many Things (To Feel Guilty About)
• Congotronics International - Where’s the One (Edit)
• Yoo Doo Right - Marché des vivants
• Blume - Do You Ever?

Quote of the week: “Meaning emerges from engagement with the world, not from abstract contemplation of it.”

― Iain McGilchrist, The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning

Sunny sounds from Los Bitchos, Kit Sebastian, and Ada, detours into moodier spaces from The Smile, Arthur Russell, the second Chandra Mixtape, and plenty more both new and old. Enjoy the daylight we've all saved, and happy Pi Day for those who celebrate such things.

Playlist:

• Lord of the Isles, featuring Ellen Renton - Inheritance
• Joseph Shabason, Vibrant Matter - Winterhaze
• untrained animals - Just the Arps
• Charbonneau / Amato - Steppe Noire
• Cool Maritime - Temporal Dryft
• wihtikow - Going East
• Crayon, featuring Bastien Brison - Ithinkso
• Eine Kleine China - Disko Bay
• Soccer96, featuring Salami Rose Joe Louis - Yesterday Knows Me
• Portico Quartet - Next Stop
• Ellis Island Sound - Streets in the Sky
• Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship - Have You Seen the Stars Tonite
• Arthur Russell - Come To Life
• Modern Nature - Brigade
• Blue Sky Black Death - Where the Sun Beats
• Blue Sky Black Death - Starry
• The Smile - The Smoke
• Lewsberg - The Corner
• Various Artists, featuring MISZCZYK ft. Marker Starling - The Leaves
• I Am A Coyote - Sweetheart
• Beach House - Illusion of Forever
• Painted Fruit - No Substance
• Did You Die - Shine So Real
• Crystal Eyes - 2,000 Years
• Los Bitchos - Change of Heart
• Kit Sebastian - Inertia
• Ada - 25 or 6 to 4
• Thanya Iyer - Daydreaming
• Eve Parker Finley - Toy Animal Contemplates Life
• Cate Le Bon - Remembering Me
• Maylee Todd - Grab Your Guts
• Animal Collective - Royal and Desire

Atmospheric sounds from Loscil and Earthen Sea, psych-tinged folk from Spencer Cullum and Alabaster DePlume, fuzzed-out guitars from Lorelle Meets the Obscure and Did You Die, and other soul-sating sounds for a Monday morning in March. Plus, Wordfest's Shelley Youngblut joins in the third hour to talk about ImagineOnAir's upcoming programming. Enjoy.

Playlist:

• Loscil - Fiction
• Earthen Sea - Rough Air
• ecotype - Inner Order
• Asta Hiroki - Entropy
• Kelpe - Monday Morning Before Work
• untrained animals - Only Fan of the Space Program
• Field Works - Station 5 Review – Nathan Fake Remix
• Andras - cp3
• Hubbabubbaklubb - Fjellet - Bjørn Torske Remix
• bsd.u - Po33 3
• Spencer Cullum - Road
• Alabaster dePlume - Who Is a Fool
• I Am A Coyote - Other Birds
• OMBIIGIZI - Ogiin
• La Luz - Oh, Blue
• Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Tales from a High Line
• Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Art for Free
• Did You Die - It’s The Way You
• Reptaliens - Jump
• Alvvays - Atop a Cake
• Gwenno - An Stevel Nowydh
• Destroyer - Eat the Wine, Drink the Bread
• Mice Parade - Eisa Dancers
• Blair Ellair - Roses in the Snow
• Exek - Sen Yen for 30 Minutes of Violin
• Dana Gavanski - Under the Sky
• The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Dahlias and Rain
• Beach House - Illusion of Forever
• The Ineffable - 8

Take a deep breath and submerge yourself in the oblique sounds of The AM, a three-hour respite from a chaotic world. This week is bookended by new music from Bitchin' Bajas and Orange Crate Art, finding room for vintage soul, modern pop experiments, jangling guitars, desert psych, and other offbeat albums old and new.

Playlist:

• Bitchin' Bajas - Quakenbrück
• Charbonneau / Amato - Light Memoir
• Joyfultalk - I’ve got that trans-dimensional feeling again
• HAAi - The Sun Made For A Soft Landing
• Eine Kleine China - Solar-Myth Approach
• DJ Food - The Ents Go to War
• Hiro Kone - Rukhsana
• Pneumatic Tubes - Joyous Lake
• Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Ever New (Reworked by Bon Over & Flock of Dimes)
• Ben Lukas Boysen - Lux
• Burial, Four Tet - Nova
• Field Works - Station 5
• Tawni Bias - Two Poodles One Cake
• Gloria Barnes - I Found Myself
• Gloria Barnes - Home
• Maylee Todd - Infinite Program
• L.T. Leif, APB - Grubby Ghost
• Widowspeak - While You Wait
• Cedric Noel - Headspace
• Ulrich Schnauss, Mark Peters - Hindsight is 20/20 - Count Two Four Version
• Carl Erdmann - Turritella Flats
• Reptaliens - Do You Know You Are Sleeping?
• Yves Jarvis - Prism Through Which I Perceive
• Shadow Folk - Stroll
• Cola - So Excited
• Sonic Youth - In & Out
• Black Country, New Road - Good Will Hunting
• Rubber Oh - Nothing
• Orange Crate Art - Wendy Underway

Happy long weekend! The holiday Monday made for a groggier-than-usual episode, but fortunately the music holds up even if the hosting is slightly off.

Playlist:

• Soulier - Stability
• Boards of Canada - Music is Math
• Bristol Manor - Machine Learning
• Soccer96 - Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds
• Cougher - Tokyo 2050
• Test Card - Nowhere to fall but off
• Apta - R
• Proxima Psychoacoustics - effects of light on sound
• Sankt Otten - Hymne der melancholischen Programmierer
• Untrained Animals - I Got Rocks
• Astrobal - Everybody Loves the Sunrise
• Spirit of the Beehive - Rapid & Complete Recovery
• Lee Paradise - Dreamin'
• Animal Collective - Walker
• Cate Le Bon - Harbour
• Sunglaciers - Draw Me In
• The Dears - There Is No Such Thing As Love
• Congotronics International - Beyond the 7th Bend
• The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Pour the Light In
• OMBIIGIZI - Zaagitoon
• Reptaliens - Don't Wait For Me
• Cœur-joie - Dimi l'étoile
• Medusa Phase - The Image Burned
• Parker Sprout - Clear
• Société Étrange - La Rue Principale de Grandrif
• Military Genius - L.M.G.D.
• Tanya Tagaq - Do Not Fear Love
• Darkside - Ecdysis!
• Exek - Beyond Currency
• Boris - Beyond Good and Evil
• Circuit des yeux - Vanishing

A Very A.M. Valentines: We've got weird love, true love, lighthearted love, love and happiness, and other facets of that many-splendored thing. A bit sentimental, a bit cheesy, but sometimes that's exactly what you need on a Monday morning.

Playlist:

• (exitpost) - Going
• Gidge - I Fell in Love
• Ben Lukas Boysen - Love
• Caribou - Your Love Will Set You Free
• Economics - Neon Love
• No False Suns - Who Loves You Most (For Joe)
• Broken Social Scene - Love and Mathematics
• White Poppy - Love Potion
• Devendra Banhart - Love Song (Helado Negro Remix)
• The San Sebastian Strings - Love Hasn't Any Windows
• Dorothy Ashby - The Look of Love
• D'Angelo - Really Love
• Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Love
• BADBADNOTGOOD - Fall In Love
• Al Green - Love and Happiness
• Jackie Shane - Send Me Some Lovin'
• Little Richard - The Commandments of Love
• Labi Siffre - It Must Be Love
• Ramsey Lewis - Love Song
• Karriem - I Love You
• Jonathan Richman - My Baby Love Love Loves Me
• Jom Comyn - I Need Love (Standard)
• The Pets - A Lighthearted Love Song
• Eric Chenaux - Love Don't Change
• Un Blonde - True Love
• Jim O'Rourke - All Your Love
• Tanukichan - Lazy Love
• The Limiñanas, featuring Peter Hook - Garden of Love
• Chad VanGaalen - Weird Love
• The Shangs - The Majik Love Machine
• Yo La Tengo - Somebody's In Love
• Margo Guryan - Love

From the foggy beginnings of Easy Idiot's dungeon-synth and Concretism's VHS-inspired synths, to the jangling guitars of The Reds, Pinks & Purples and Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, the first AM of February is here to wake you into a bright, sunshiny week.

Playlist:

• Easy Idiot - A Chance Meeting
• Concretism - Red, Green, Blue
• Chad VanGaalen - D-85 Teardrop
• Yutaka Hirasaka - Equal
• Bristol Manor - The Coming Winter
• lokey - Their More Isolated Locations G@90bpm
• Max Cooper - Everything
• Aesop Rock, Blockhead - Pigs (Blockhead Instrumental Mix)
• Garrett - Hang Glyde
• Maylee Todd - No Classification
• White Flowers - Portra (Jez Williams Remix)
• Cate Le Bon - Moderation
• Dana Gavanski - Indigo Highway
• Blair Ellair - Balcony Steps
• The Order of the 12 - Money Can't Buy
• Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir - Like a Ship
• Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir - Ever Since
• Voyagers of Icarie - Dreams are Luxuries (Mysteries Version)
• A.R. Kane - Haunting
• White Poppy - Hypnotized
• Shadow Folk - Samba Song
• The Asteroid No. 4 - Paint It Green
• The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Tell Me What's Real
• Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - The Way it Shatters
• Helvetia - Rocks on the Ramp
• Cedric Noel - A Hold on Losing
• Fog Lake - Strung Back Around
• Jo Passed - Repair
• Parker Sprout - Dark
• The Haiduks - Sometimes It Scares Me
• Yndi Halda - We Flood Empty Lakes

Saying goodbye to January with a mellow assortment of analog synths, Italian soundtrack groovers, folk beauties, psych-pop ponderings, and other eclectic sounds for a Monday morning.

Playlist:

• Dohnavur - Five to Return (Pulselovers Remix)
• Robin Hatch, featuring Joseph Shabason - The Standoff
• Leif - Hiding in Plain Sight
• Ian Boddy, Nigel Mullaney - First Steps
• Malcolm Neon - Y Cwsg
• Mercedes Benz - When You Come Home
• Eine Kleine China - Lupus in Fabula
• The Black Dog - Form, Function and Friction
• Oscill8 Collective (Various), featuring KillMidi - Ai
• Bonobo - Sapien
• Robert Wyatt - You You
• Modern Nature - Masque
• Shadow Folk - Contemplation
• Steve Gunn, featuring Mdou Moctar - Protection
• Cedric Noel - Nighttime (Skin)
• The Pastels - Leaving This Island (Jim O'Rourke Remix)
• The Pastels - Windy Hill (Cornelius Remix)
• Astral Swans - More Nothing Than Something
• American Cream Band - Nocturnal Precognition
• OMBIIGIZI - Cherry Coke
• Spencer Cullum, featuring Erin Rae - In a Mist
• Ryan Bourne - Black Hole
• Parker Sprout - Weather
• Los Days - Centuries of Fire
• Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - The Trip
• Badge Époque Ensemble - Undressed in Solitude
• Giuliano Sorgini - Mad Town
• BADBADNOTGOOD - Love Proceeding
• Makaya McCraven - Coppin' the Haven
• Monster Rally - Island Hopping
• Gas Lab - Mermaids
• Uyemi - Mindful
• Joan as Police Woman, Tony Allen, Dave Okumu - Masquerader