The A.M.

Pascal-Alex Vincent joins at the half-hour mark to talk about his new documentary on director Satoshi Kon, playing at this week's CUFF.Docs film festival. That, plus your usual mix of synthesized sounds, jangly guitars and reverberated melodies for a Monday morning.

Playlist:

• You'll Never Get to Heaven - Pink and Gold and Blue
• Elektra Monet - Opal
• Robin Hatch, featuring Nick Thorburn - Mockingbird
• Concretism - Of Frisbees and Pylons
• Oscill8 Collective (Various), featuring KillMiDi - Ai
• Cylindricon - Glass Landscape
• Rollmottle - Prophet Motive
• Michael Rother, Vittoria Maccabruni - Edgy Smiles
• Zenjungle & Valiska - Way Out (Closure)
• Jeffrey Silverstein - Beginner's Mind
• Acetone - Vibrato
• Hayden Pedigo - Something Absolute
• Tonstartssbandht - Falloff
• The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - The Triumph of Our Tired Eyes
• Big Thief - Time Escaping
• Central Heat Exchange - Help Me Understand
• Scott Hardware - Summer (single edit)
• Absolutely Free - Are They Signs
• Garcia Peoples - Cold Dice
• Sam Evian - Dream Free
• Beach House - Through Me
• Floor Cry - End Credits
• Chime School - Wait Your Turn
• Astral Swans - The Wind in a Mindless Universe
• Traffik Island - New Leaf
• Suicide - Sweetheart
• Deep Throat Choir - Uvas
• Holy Wave - I'm Not Living in the Past Anymore
• Hot Garbage - Shadowmaster
• CIVIC TV - Anatomy of Boredom

Bringing an eclectic mix this week, with a dreamy first hour, a throwback to Belbury Poly's parallel-dimension nostalgia, and synth-pop indulgences to kick of the third hour. Searching for the right sounds for a grey mid-November morning, and hopefully hitting the mark more often than not. Enjoy.

Playlist:

• Proxima Psychoacoustics - Full Heart
• Message To Bears, Will Samson - Indri
• Ralph Heidel - Haut
• sub lumen - 770
• Shabason, Krgovich & Harris - First Thing in the Morning
• Ana Roxanne - Camille
• Jenny Hval - Jupiter (Edit)
• Stoned Autopilot - Lovefields (Greg Foat Remix)
• Tenda Senda - Q&A
• Yuutsu - Sparkle
• Absolutely Free - Remaining Light
• Beach House - Once Twice Melody
• Pearl and the Oysters - Evening Sun
• Louis Prince - The Number Thirteen
• Andy Shauf - Television Blue
• Dana Gavanski - Letting Go
• Belbury Poly - Owls And Flowers
• Belbury Poly - The New Mobility
• Fontän - Svett
• Nosdam + Rayon - From Nowhere to North
• American Cream Band - Under the Dark Moon
• Winter, featuring Nailah Hunter - Lua
• Dawn to Dawn - Care
• FOONYAP - Woolf and Plath (Tomas Morante Remix)
• LUMP - We Cannot Resist
• LCD Soundsystem - Never as Tired as When I'm Waking Up
• Cindy Lee - Left Hand Path
• Bart - Three By Noon
• Moses Sumney - Bystanders in Space
• BADBADNOTGOOD - City of Mirrors
• Brendan Eder Ensemble - Please Explain
• Nous - Into Nousness

Lisa from Calgary's Loft 112 joins to discuss their city-building project Cards For Community. Plus your usual mix of dreamy tunes, shoegaze drones, spacy electronics and more.

Playlist:

• Tristan Arp - Photosynthesis
• Kid Koala - Mountain View
• Peter Talisman - Ley U Down
• Easy Idiot - The World of Nîd
• Rich Ruth - Haynes Manor
• Pool Boy - Moderate Winds (Khotin Remix)
• Moat Bells - Blips in Space
• TRBLMKR - Transmission
• Jaga Jazzist - The Shrine (Peter Eldh Remix)
• Ross From Friends - Run
• José González - Head On
• American Cream Band - Close to Home
• Spiritualized - Always Together With You
• Les Rallizes Dénudés - Enter the Mirror
• My Bloody Valentine - Blown a Wish
• My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep
• You'll Never Get Into Heaven - Dust
• Astral Swans - I Was Awake for a While
• Mega Bog - Before a Black Tea
• Eddy Bailes & the Cadillacs - Dark Side of the Moon
• The Garrys - Ambrosia Salad
• G.S. Schray - Duskers, Decloaked
• Charles Spearin - Onomatopoeia
• Central Heat Exchange - Tulips at my Bedside
• DUCKS LTD. - Sudden Leering Hope
• Vailhalen - Tiny Frequencies
• Innovations - Seabird
• Black Marble - Bodies
• Civic TV - Numb
• Sunglaciers - Twin Evil Twin
• Various Artists, featuring Fontaines DC - The Black Angel's Death Song

New day, new week, new month... Start them all off on the right note with this week's AM. Classic kosmische from Cluster, a throwback to Broadcast's earliest days, one of the AM's most ambient first hours to date, and plenty of jangly pick-me-ups by the time we hit the third hour. Enjoy!

Playlist:

• Cluster - Zum Wohl
• Lunar Lemur - Alpha Particle Emission
• Light Conductor - The Rooms are Turning Inside Out
• Inventions - Springworlds
• Drummachinemike - The Way Out
• Cylindricon - Numbers & Letters
• Future Museums - Sunset Hysteria
• Deradoorian - Peyote Rain
• Untrained Animals - Love Alone Again Or
• Yutaka Hirasaka - Promise
• Arms and Sleepers - C'etait un rendez-vous
• Helado Negro - There Must Be a Song Like You
• Maston with L'eclair - Swiss Franc
• Elastic Stars - TiME
• Broadcast - The Book Lovers
• Broadcast - The World Backwards
• Cate Le Bon - Running Away
• Habibi - Call Our Own
• The Garrys - Fallen Woman
• Andy Shauf - Call
• Rozi Plain - Silent Fan
• Dean Wareham - The Past Is Our Plaything
• Tops - Waiting
• La Luz - Down the Street
• Ryan Bourne - Wasted World
• Dummy - Fissured Ceramics
• Smoke Bellow - Hannan
• Jom Comyn - Love Like the Ocean
• koleżanka - The Mountain
• Possum - Moonjuice
• William Doyle - An Apparition (Without Event)

Playlist:

• Gilroy Mere - The Green Line
• Susumu Yokota - Blue Sky and Yellow Sunflower
• Massimo Amato - Blue Petals
• Golden Grey - Maroonish Teal
• The World Next Door - Only the Pink Dinosaur
• Deaddeer - Pink Mountains
• The Books - The Lemon of Pink I
• Cornelius - Mellow Yellow Feel
• Stereolab - International Colouring Contest
• wasmarkhere - Precious Jade
• Charles Spearin - When Tigers Used to Smoke
• Strings & Timpani - Escargot
• The Avalanches - Colours
• Les Rallizes Dénudés - White Awakening (Version 2)
• Andre Ethier, featuring Joseph Shabason - Nature Compels Me
• Zoon - Vibrant Colours
• Women - Black Rice
• Kikagaku Moyo - Orange Peel
• No Joy - Four - From Heaven
• Jackie Mittoo and the Soul Vendors - Love is Blue
• Minnie Riperton, Rotary Connection - I Am the Black Gold of the Sun
• Amon Düül II - You're Not Alone

In case you're in need of a breather, we're happy to offer the mellowest AM in recent memory, with meditative bliss from SiP/Prezzano, The Hardy Tree, Dummy, and many others, plus a rare vocal treat from the Vince Guaraldi Trio, a throwback to the late Alan Hawkshaw's KPM works, spooky psychedelica from Large Plants, and maybe a small ramble about Calgary's municipal election, just because.

Playlist:

• The Hardy Tree - Stagdale in the Snow
• SiP​/​Prezzano - Pygmalion
• E Ruscha V - Endless Sunday
• K-LONE - Yelli
• sub lumen - Stndrd
• KDAP - Shadow Rescues
• Stelar Door - Lost and Found
• American Cream Band - Releasing Spiders
• Teen Daze - Hidden Worlds
• Vince Guaraldi Trio - Little Birdie
• Various Artists, featuring Olix ft. Hirokee - Siesta
• ZOD1AC - Rebirth
• Karavelo - Drifting
• Moat Bells - Brunch Wave
• Alan Hawkshaw , Alan Parker - Coast to Coast
• Alan Hawkshaw , Alan Parker - Lazy Evening Blues
• L.A. Takedown - Heatwave
• Jim Guthrie - Out of Our Hands
• Fresh Snow - To a Sea
• Large Plants - The Death of Pliny
• Vanishing Twin - Wider Than Itself
• koleżanka - The Mountain
• Dummy - Atonal Poem
• L'Rain - Two Face
• Ghostkeeper - Transam Sister (Live at CJSW)
• LOW - All Night
• Absolutely Free - Epilogue (After Touch)
• The Garrys - Hwy 11 Tumbleweed
• Trees - Murdoch

Enclosed in this episode: a tribute to the late Jazz Butcher; new sounds from longtime favourites like Tonstartssbandht, Joyfultalk, and Absolutely Free; classic psych rock from Italy and South Korea; and plenty of only-slightly-tired rambling from yr host. Happy Monday.

Playlist:

• The UFO Club - Neither Work Nor Leisure
• Joyfultalk - Last Trance for Future Worlds
• Drummachinemike - Terms and Conditions
• Peter Talisman - Dance of the Equinox
• Cylindricon - Glass Landscape
• Palmbomen II - Positive Sketch
• Andra Ljos - Cleanse the Souls
• Sunalta - Turn
• NETRVNNER - Real Talk
• Spectacular Diagnostics - Skywriting
• Traffik Island - All the Money in the World
• Andy Shauf - Jaywalker
• Central Heat Exchange - Directly
• Le Orme - I Miei Sogni
• Absolutely Free - How To Paint Clouds
• Maston with L'eclair - Les Monstres
• The Jazz Butcher - Hysteria
• The Jazz Butcher - Pineapple Tuesday
• DUCKS LTD. - Fit to Burst
• Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18, featuring BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Y Bywyd Llonydd
• Mega Bog - Crumb Back
• Astral Swans, featuring L.T. Leif - Sympathy for the Stupid
• Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band - Mother's Rope
• Tonstartssbandht - Pass Away
• Jang Hyun - Pushing Through the Fog
• William Doyle - The Unanswered Why
• Deradoorian - Violet Minded
• Malajube - Casablanca
• Mint Julep - A Rising Sun
• BADBADNOTGOOD - Love Proceeding
• Destroyer - Sky's Grey
• Hayden Pedigo - Tints of Morning
• Charles Spearin - Rutting Season

Art-pop, experimental compositions, world-influenced psychedelia, and sounds that split the difference between sinister and sunny—that's what you get for the first week of October.

Playlist:

• Juliana Barwick - Nebula
• Jason Sharp - Unwinding Surrender
• Yes/And - Ugly Orange
• Concretism - One Thousand Stripes Per Second
• AVI - Outcast
• Sam Wilkes - Pretty
• Sean La'Brooy - Triplet Falls
• Karavelo - Drifting
• Daedelus, Joshua Idehen, featuring Miguel Atwood​-​Ferguson - Standing In My Own Way
• ZOD1AC - The Girl in the Mirror
• Various Artists, featuring Aron Caceres - Wistful
• Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, featuring Marcos Valle - A Gente Volta Amanha (instrumental)
• L'Rain - Teeth Suck
• Liars - From What the Never Was
• Helado Negro - La Naranja
• Military Genius - Not Tonite
• Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Octopus Project - Spiracle
• The Octopus Project, Black Moth Super Rainbow - Elq Milq
• No False Suns - Jubilee Me
• SUUNS - C-Thru
• Cold Beat - Leaves and Branches
• Dummy - Final Weapon
• koleżanka - Words for No One
• Hélène Barbier - Palissade
• Corridor - Et Hop
• Habibi - Somewhere They Can't Find Us
• Preoccupations - Solace
• Minotaurs - Weird Waves
• Possum - Gala at the Universe City
• Witch - You Better Know
• Pleasure Prevention - Snake People
• Jane Weaver - Don't Tell Me I'm Wrong

You know it's a fairly diverse episode when you start off with the band behind the world's most relaxing song (supposedly) and make your way to Deerhoof's frenetic spin on La Bamba vibes, but some mornings demand multiple moods. Immerse yourself in the many sounds of this week's AM.

Playlist:

• Marconi Union - Strata
• sub lumen - Scotsman's Hill
• Moat Bells - Gentle Hippo
• Future Museums - The Myth is The Myth
• Ulrich Schnauss, Mark Peters - Circular Time
• untrained animals - Survive Outside
• Light Conductor - Splitting Light (Radio Edit)
• The Analog Girl - Devotion
• Peter Talisman - We Have to Leave This Town Because I Have Done Something Unforgivable
• Matilde Davoli - Sine
• Various Artists, featuring Konteks - Quarteto
• Various Artists, featuring Michael Stipe - Sunday Morning
• Charles Spearin - My Heart Is An Appaloosa In Canter
• Mega Bog - Maybe You Died
• Jose Gonzalez - Visions
• Maston with L'eclair - The Doors are Opening
• Brain Eno, John Cale - Lay My Love
• Brian Eno, John Cale - Spinning Away
• Black Marble - Preoccupation
• Possum - Moonjuice
• Crystal Eyes - Already Gone
• Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band - Holy Scroller
• Motorists - Vainglorious
• The Garrys - Bury Me With My Money
• Anika - Wait for Something
• Black Mold - Uke Puke
• Akron/Family - Gone Beyond
• Raf Wilcot - Never the Bride
• Julie Doiron - You Gave Me the Key
• Deerhoof - Scarcity is Manufactured
• High Five - The Longest Year
• Golden Brown - Fruiting Bodies
• LOW - Days Like These

This week's AM features a too-short conversation with Ian Williams, author of Disorientation: Being Black in the World (mostly because there's so much to go into on that book and topic), and a fair amount of moody, spacey, cheesy, psychedelic, ambient, experimental, jangly tunes to distract you on Canadian federal election day.

Playlist:

• Tristan Arp - From The Seams
• Suryummy - Fail Night
• Soccer96 - Perfect Dystopia
• SPACE AFRIKA - Preparing the Perfect Response
• IKSRE - Rapids
• Simbiyez Wilson - Warrior
• Stelar Door - Sunshower Dance
• AVI - Do Nothin Wrong
• Low - I Can Wait
• Andrew Rothschild - Suede (Arms and Sleepers Remix)
• imagiro, Charlie - Boardwalk
• Various Artists, featuring Horiizon - Ebb & Flow
• Tonstartssbandht - What Has Happened
• Radiohead - If You Say the Word
• Clinic - I Can't Stand the Rain
• SUUNS - Timebender
• Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band - Tomb of the Patriarchs
• Circulatory System - Lovely Universe
• Circulatory System - Your Parades
• Water From Your Eyes - When Your Around
• The Verve - A Man Called Sun
• Astral Swans, featuring Julie Doiron - Spiral
• koleżanka - Vegan Sushi
• Hélène Barbier - Lightly
• El Michels Affair - Masterclass
• SAULT - Fear
• Cold Beat - SOS
• Various Artists, featuring Helado Negro - Sound and Vision
• The Luvmenauts - Cruiseship Enterprise
• She-Devils - The World Laughs
• The Soundcarriers - Uncertainty
• Blume - Still Believe
• The Pink Elephants - Star Streaming