The A.M.

Ringing in summer with songs like the season: Sometimes sunny, sometimes breezy, and sometimes gloomier than you'd hope.

Stay tuned in the third hour for a mini-Polaris Prize spotlight, with music from Zoon, Thanya Iyer, Yves Jarvis and Helena Deland.

Playlist:

• K.D.A.P. - The Slinfold Loop
• Various Artists, featuring Laura Palmer - The Protagonist
• Yann Tiersen - Poull Bojer
• Sarah Neufeld - With Love and Blindness
• Woo - Tonto
• Matthew Cardinal - May 25th
• Psychic Pollution - Listen
• Wish Lash - Cyberromantics
• Various Artists, featuring Phillipi & Rodrigo - Retrogrado
• Unknown Me - Aroma Oxygen
• Andre Ethier - Nature Compels Me
• MARINERO - Luz Del Faro
• The Limiñanas - Stoker the Smoker
• Anastatica - The Theory of Forms
• Psychic TV - Clouds Without Water
• Psychic TV - White Nights
• Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk - Solitary Falling
• Spencer Cullum - Dieterich Buxtehude
• Charles Rumback & Ryley Walker - Worn and Held
• Mega Bog - Weight of the Earth, on Paper
• Chandra - Between the Heart and the Mind
• CHAI - Donuts Mind If I Do
• La Luz - In the Country
• Devonian Gardens - Light Years
• Helena Deland - The Walk Home
• Thanya Iyer - I Forget to Drink Water (Balance)
• Yves Jarvis - Semula
• Zoon - Vibrant Colours
• Lab Coast - Pulp (Smudge)
• Jaga Jazzist - Apex (Live)

This week's episode starts with an ambient reset, drifts through anime soundtracks and spacey spoken word to new spins on old exotica, and wraps up with post-punk and psychedelic sounds. Cool sounds for hot days on The A.M.

Playlist:

• Sun Rain - Untitled 9
• Grooveclowd - Sunrise Over the Bight
• Tomaga - Mompfie Has to Pay
• NETRVNNER - Candlewax
• Flying Lotus - Crust
• Kelsey Lu & Yves Tumor, featuring Kelly Moran, Moses Boyd - let all the poisons that lurk in the mud seep out
• Joe Nora, featuring G Mills - Far Out
• João Donato, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge - Forever More
• The Avalanches - Two Hearts in 3/4 Time
• Elkka - Morning Fuzz
• Various Artists, featuring Soulwax, Chloe Sevigny - Heaven Scent
• Ìxtahuele - Bwawto
• Hailu Mergia & The Walias Band - Atmetalegnem Woi
• Monster Rally - Imaginary Palms
• Sven Wunder - Alla Prima
• Helado Negro - Sound and Vision
• Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Viscosity
• Willie Dunn - I Pity the Country
• Willy Mitchell and the Desert River Band - Birchbark Letter
• Kris Ellestad - Acorn
• Red Ribbon - Away from Here
• Juniore - Le jour d'apres
• Gruff Rhys - The Keep
• The Haiduks - Weeping Willow
• Modern Nature - Nature
• Orange Crate Art - Italian Transistor Organ Donation
• SUUNS - Watch You, Watch Me
• Century Egg - Cornered
• Uncanny Valley - Puppet
• Curses - Insomnia
• Blume - Wait for Me
• The Cush - Daydream Beach

Opening with the hushed sounds of Haiku Salut, closing with rock 'n' roll from Alberta's Chief 'n Council, a throwback to Inuit songwriter Willie Thrasher, and other new sounds and long-lost gems on this week's episode of The AM.

Playlist:

• Haiku Salut - Entering
• Izzy Johnson - Seeing
• Huxxli - Escape
• Sunshine Recorder - Morning Dew
• Dokkodo Sounds - Mt. Kita
• Vassilena Serafimova and Chloé - Driveway
• Psychic Pollution - Stuck Here
• loscil - Sol
• Nabihah Iqbal - Eden Piece
• Colleen - Implosion-Explosion
• wanderingaria - dives
• bsd.u - new leaf
• Crumb - Balloon
• MARINERO - Nuestra Victoria
• Anika - Change
• The Garrys - Get Thee to a Nunnery
• Hemi Hemingway - Burnin' Blue
• Willie Thrasher - Spirit Child
• The Chieftones - I Shouldn't Have Did What I Done
• Willie Thrasher - Wolves Don't Live by the Rules
• Ghostkeeper - ...And Our Hurtful Games Shall Come To a Truce
• Aquarian Blood - Time in the Rain
• Donovan - Mistaken Eternity
• Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band - Nymphea
• Anastatica - Lunar Tides
• Jorge Elbrecht - The Springtime Brigade
• Iceage - Drink Rain
• Wombo - Dreamsickle
• Bachelor - Anything at All
• Child Actress - Men Without Homes
• Yoo Doo Right - Marché des vivants
• Sei Still - Fortuna
• Causa Sui - La Jolla
• The United States Of America - Love Song for the Dead Ché
• Cass McCombs - The Open Door
• Acid Dad - BBQ
• Chief N' Council - You're Too Good to Us

In lieu of an episode description, here are two petitions to rename two Calgary schools named for architects/advocates of the residential schools system.

Also, look into who is running for school trustee in your ward and ask them where they stand on this issue.

https://www.change.org/p/board-of-trustees-rename-the-cbe-langevin-science-school-in-order-to-stop-honoring-racist-colonial-policies

https://www.change.org/p/calgary-catholic-school-district-trustrees-rename-bishop-grandin-high-school-in-calgary

Playlist:

• Concretism - Tesseract
• Monroeville Music Center - Il Pleut des Informations (ou Mass Media en Masse à Partir de Notre Cumulonimus Fiable)
• Mansur Brown - Kerene
• Burdy - Smush Jam
• The Breathing Effect - Idols
• TETRIX - Animals
• Masoyoshi Fujita - Cumulonimbus Dream
• The Relations - Reflections
• Sun Rain - Zenith
• Sarah Neufeld - Tumble Down the Undecided
• D Rothon - Memories of Earth
• Haha Sounds Collective, featuring Laetitia Sadier - Silk Rock
• Crumb - Gone
• Mark Mills - My Bad
• Nother, featuring Matilde Davoli - The Distance
• Francis Bebey - Divorce pygmée
• Francis Bebey - Tiers monde
• Dido - Mermaid
• Beautify Junkyards, featuring Belbury Poly - Painting Box
• Gal Gracen - Deep Prismatic Wave
• Zoon - Round the Bend
• Status / Non-Status - Find a Home
• The Notwist - Exit Strategy to Myself
• Nightshift - Piece Together
• Triptides - Hand of Time
• Le 1991, featuring Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - Si en Tu Voz
• Art d'Ecco - Bird of Prey
• Jorge Elbrecht - Fading Memory
• Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk - Narkomfin
• Fly Pan Am - Parkour 2

Rainy day music for the Victoria Day long weekend. This week's A.M. takes a long, meandering stroll through morning mists of ambient jazz and drifting synths, gazes at dreampop clouds, and splashes in psychedelic puddles along the way. Take a breath of cool morning air, and enjoy.

Playlist:

• Body San - Last Breath
• Fuubutsushi - Kodama
• Joseph Shabason - The Fellowship
• Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, featuring Moses Sumney - Soon It Will Be Fire
• Qaett - Home for a Dream
• User20200202 - Supernocturnal
• Sun Rain, Alaskan Tapes - Real People in Real Places - Reimagined
• Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk - Along Deserted Streets
• Absolutely Free - Bubble Wrap
• Daniel Avery - Hazel and Gold
• Szaio - Nauczyłaś Mnie
• Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz - Delicate Tracks
• Wish Lash - Tonopah
• No Joy - Fish - From Heaven
• My Bloody Valentine - if i am
• My Bloody Valentine - new you
• Art d'Ecco - Nothing Ever Changes
• Nevada Brown - Come Back Down
• Hair Control - Purple World
• El Michels Affair - Dhuaan
• Mdou Moctar - Bismilahi Atagah
• The Los Sundowns - Los Angeles
• Gloria - Night Biting
• Sunglaciers - Blood
• Low Hummer - Never Enough
• Dinosaur Jr. - I Ran Away
• Cherry Pickles - David (I Hope You Don't Mind)
• Chad VanGaalen - Water Brother
• Orange Crate Art - Cosmic Radiation Hootenanny
• Skodak - Pat Metheny explains why he's working with music robots

We spoke to author Dr. Leslie Kern about her latest book, Feminist City: A Field Guide, learning about Feminist Geography and learning what to ask the candidates for Calgary's upcoming municipal election. Make sure to tune in for her hour-long conversation with an actual expert in community building and civic engagement, Ward 7 councillor Druh Farrell, tomorrow at 7pm at wordfest.com.

That, plus your usual assortment of morning music, from lush electronics to '60s psychedelia to brand-new art-pop.

Playlist:

• Various Artists, featuring Felsmann + Tiley - Yin/Yang
• Hector Plimmer - Still Here (Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres Rework)
• Sébastien Guérive - Bellatrix
• Peter Broderick, featuring Mabe Fratti - All-Boy All-Girl
• GoGo Penguin - Kora (Cornelius Remix)
• yehno - We Can
• Monodrone - Grime on the Wall
• G Mills - Stuck in Edmonton
• Monster Rally - Gold
• The Breathing Effect - What We Do
• Sven Wunder - Prussian Blue
• a-souvenir - 43M
• wasmarkhere - I Am Gone
• Virna Lindt - Once
• Jeff Parker & The New Breed, featuring Ruby Parker - Soul Love
• Karate Boogaloo - Diamonds Are Forever
• Michel Legrand - Ask Yourself Why
• Sopwith Camel - Orange Peel
• Sopwith Camel - Fazon
• Gloria - You Had It All
• Nap Eyes - Thank You
• The Garrys - Rosalee
• White Poppy - Pink Haze
• The Cush - Beneath the Lines
• Lab Coast - Into Your Arms (The Lemonheads)
• Dry Cleaning - Leafy
• Courtney Barnett - Nameless, Faceless
• Alice Bell - Dogger Dan
• Dorothea Paas - Waves Rising
• Vinyl Williams - Beaming
• Nick Drake - Hazey Jane II
• Kensington Market - Coming Home Soon
• Andy Shauf - Dust Kids
• Chaz Bundick Meets the Mattson 2 - JBS

Opening with dreaminess from Loscil, closing with love from Ora Cogan, and making our way through girl-group garage-rock, the return of alt-rock veterans Dinosaur Jr, jangling pop, plant-worshipping electronics, and a whole lot more Monday morning glories. Enjoy this week's AM.

Playlist:

• Loscil - Vespera
• Tommy Tone - Dreams
• Async Ross - All That Remains
• Solotet - Rehumanization
• Daniel Aged - Not a Dream
• Green-House - Bird of Paradise
• a-souvenir - 29M
• Rival Consoles - Not Really
• yehno - Walk Alone
• Plankton Wat - Wind Mountain
• Charles Spearin - Unsolicited Advice
• The Limiñanas, featuring Laurent Garnier - Saul
• Misha Panfilov Sound Combo - Horizon
• Dawn to Dawn - A Colour Named By You
• Nicholas Krgovich - Lucklucky
• Female Species - Stop and Think It Over
• Female Species - You Need Me
• Triptides - Let It Go
• The Death of Pop - First Day of Six
• Tape Waves - Tired
• The Mind - In Advance of the Landing
• Lab Coast - She's So Young (The Pursuit of Happiness)
• Chad VanGaalen - Golden Pear
• Dinosaur Jr - And Me
• LAPêCHE - Salt and Sweet
• Cindy - Wrong Answer
• The Joy Formidable - Back to Nothing
• No Joy - Teenager - From Heaven
• Water From Your Eyes - "Quotations" - Single Version
• Fiver - June Like a Bug
• Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band - Elastic Band
• Nevada Brown - Drummin in the Woods
• Anika - Finger Pies
• Dark Time - Radiation
• Ora Cogan - All Is Full of Love

AM Affirmations 2021: Three hours of refuge from the world outside, a sonic shelter from the storms raging around us. These aren't just radio waves that your stereo is decoding. They're healing vibrations, carefully calibrated to erode away whatever worries have been weighing you down, at least for as long as this transmission lasts.

Thank you to all the artists who shared their positive messages for this week's episode.

Playlist:

• Yutaka Hirasaka, Laffey - A Deep Breath
• Shelf Nunny - Sanctuary
• Bibio - The Art of Living
• Joseph Shabason - A message from Joseph Shabason
• Shabason, Krgovich & Harris - Friday Afternoon
• Proxima Psychoacoustics - Always Choose Retry
• Teen Daze - Comfort
• Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - I Will Make Room For You
• Inventions - Outlook for the Future
• The Analog Girl - A Message from The Analog Girl
• The American Dollar - Simple Bliss
• Laraaji - We Shall be Lifted
• Blockhead - Cheer Up, You're Not Dead Yet
• Hermitess - A Message from Hermitess
• Gil Scott-Heron - I Think I'll Call It Morning
• Eddie Chacon - Pleasure, Joy and Happiness
• Un Blonde - Trust Your Judgement
• Charles Spearin - Marisa
• Badge Époque Ensemble - A Message from Badge Epoque Ensemble
• Moondog - I'm This, I'm That
• Andrew Vivona - Don't Give In
• El Perro Del Mar - Happiness Won Me Over
• Crystal Eyes - Peace Forever
• Thanya Iyer - A Message from Thanya Iyer
• Thanya Iyer - Bring Back That Which Is Kind To You
• Genevieve Artadi - Hope Song
• Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - Balcony Man
• Bill Callahan, Bonnie , featuring Ty Segall - Miracles
• Bernice - A Message from Bernice
• SAULT - Miracles
• lesbianhorse - You'll Feel Young, Healthy & Alive
• David Axelrod - Go For It
• Bill Holt's Dreamies - The Optimist
• Traffik Island - Bliss
• Peter Broderick - A Message from Peter Broderick
• Peter Broderick - Stop and Listen
• The Consonant C - For Jason
• Bernice - Infinite Love
• Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Life Is Just a Moment - Part 1
• The Fantastic Shadows - The Time for Peace is Now
• Zoon - A Message from Zoon
• Zoon - Vibrant Colours
• Clinton St. John - Sunlight, Good Light
• Julie Doiron - Glad to be Alive

Could it be? Has spring arrived at last? This week's AM opens with contentment courtesy of Reza Safinia's Santosha, ends with soothing vibes from from Iggy Pop and Dr. Lonnie Smith, and finds room for warmth and hope in between.

Playlist:

• Reza Safinia - Santosha
• Awe Kid - Eve
• Andy Stott, featuring Alison Skidmore - Don't Know How
• a-souvenir - 35M
• Yu Su, featuring Knopha - Xiu (宫廷 version)
• GoGo Penguin - F Maj Pixie (Rone Remix)
• The Breathing Effect - Lullaby
• AGATH CHRIST - Easy
• Azeda Booth - First Little Britches (Morgan Greenwood)
• Beautify Junkyards - Reverie
• Blackbird Belle - A Certain Zeal
• Yasmin Williams - Swift Breeze
• Monodrone - Lost and Faded
• Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz - Rumble Like a Stranger
• Neu! - Neuschnee
• Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk - Return to Burlington
• Scott Walker - It's Raining Today
• Scott Walker - 30 Century Man
• Dorothea Paas - Container
• Beach House - She's So Lovely
• Various Artists - Revival (Deerhunter)
• Dry Cleaning - Strong Feelings
• Nevada Brown - Far Away
• El Michels Affair - Silver Lining
• Norma Tanega - Illusion
• Shane Ghostkeeper - One More Name
• Porridge Radio - Lemonade
• Qlowski - A Woman
• Ought - The Weather Song
• Sugar Candy Mountain - Running From Fire
• Nap Eyes - Dark Creedence
• Dr. Lonnie Smith, featuring Iggy Pop - Why Can't We Live Together

The directors of CUFF selection Alien On Stage: The Documentary join to talk about the magic of an amateur theatre production of a sci-fi horror classic. Plus, the usual mix of dreamy soundscapes and half-asleep ramblings you've come to expect from The A.M.

Playlist:

• Various Artists, featuring Memori Yobidashi - Hang Dog
• Sam Gendel - Eternal Loop
• Burdy - Oolong Time
• Love Ape - Linndrum Hustle
• NETRVNNER - Yearn
• Daniel Avery - Endless Hours
• Cornelius - Forbidden Apple
• Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz - Run Away With Her
• Stiletti-Ana - Piilevä
• User20200202 - Here Comes Everyone
• No Joy - Kidder (From Heaven)
• Chad VanGaalen - Starlight
• Karate Boogaloo - Gonna Fly Now
• Paul McCartney, featuring Khruangbin - Pretty Boys
• Nightshift - Romantic Mud
• PROPERTY - Think Electric
• Fiver - Paid in Pride
• Do Make Say Think - As Far As the Eye Can See
• Reverie Sound Revue - Carefree Radio
• La Luz - Tale of My Lost Love
• Matt Berry - Summer Sun
• Cool Ghouls - Helpless Circumstance
• The Breathing Effect - Getting Darker Now
• Jeffrey Silverstein - Beginner's Mind
• New Order - Chosen Time
• New Order - Dreams Never End
• Chandra, featuring Blonde Elvis - Brass Tendon
• Ora Cogan - Sleeping
• Holy Fuck - The Pulse
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Cliffs Gaze / cliffs' gaze at empty water's rise / ASHES TO SEA or NEARER TO THEE