The A.M.

"And I thought, how lucky can I be? I mean, just how big of a feeling can I feel?" – Bernice, "Empty Cup"

Three more hours of ambient shoegaze daydreams, intercontinental electronic experiments, rare groove, jangle-pop and other eclectic sounds for a Monday morning.

Playlist:

• Seefeel - Industrious
• Eine Kleine China - Our Lady of Perpetual Motion
• Felsmann + Tiley - Planet Doubt
• YUF-O - Rebuild, Recharge
• Mindy Meng Wang, Tim Shiel - Hidden Qi 隐.气
• Anchorsong - New World
• Wau Wau Collectif - Thiante
• Monodrone - She Gets Me
• Various Artists, featuring ghstalt - Hum Tune
• Andy Bell - Indica (Pye Corner Audio Remix)
• The World Next Door - Only the Pink Dinosaur
• Lost Girls - Real Life
• Bernice - Empty Cup
• Paul Jacobs - Half Rich Loner
• Reymour - De ma Tour
• Vallens - Ingrid
• Massive Attack - Blue Lines
• Massive Attack - Be Thankful For What You've Got
• Adrian Younge - Rotten Roses
• Domenico +2 - Aeroporto 77
• Beat Sexü - Si tu
• Various Artists - Dirt Eaters (His Name is Alive)
• bdrmm - Is That What You Wanted to Hear?
• Bodywash - Reprise
• Crumb - BNR
• Chandra, featuring Motorists - Go Back
• Kue Varo - Just Don't Lie
• The Los Sundowns - Endless Bummer
• Janko Nilović - Maze of Sounds Alternate Take
• Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Montreal Main (The Buddha in the Palm)
• Patti Smith - Within You Without You
• Good Sad Happy Bad - Shades
• No False Suns - Waskasoo Trails
• LA Takedown - Night Skiing

A particularly mellow first hour, contemplative contemporary classical in the second (including a throwback to one of Jóhann Jóhannsson's early scores); and slow-building grandeur in the third. Three hours of low-key auditory escapism to start your week right.

Playlist:

• Emily A. Sprague - Woven
• Lisa Bella Donna - Two Spirit, One Life
• Chad VanGaalen - Earth From a Distance
• Mort Garson - Walk to the Other Side of the Island
• Future Museums - Leaving the Vessel
• Hannah Peel - Reaction Diffusion
• Everyday Dust - Traversé: The 11th Hour (Everyday Dust Vs. Dead Melodies)
• Sébastien Guérive - Bellatrix
• Jenny Hval - Sunbathing
• Burdy - Oolong Time
• Various Artists, featuring Sebatian Kamae - Up
• Group Listening - Wenn der sudwind weht
• Eve Parker Finley - Space Jam
• Bell Orchestre - VIII: Making Time
• Torngat - La Rouge
• Jóhann Jóhannsson - Banlol Norðursins
• Jóhann Jóhannsson - Pynnkudagur
• Monodrone - High Income Slums
• FOONYAP - Free and Easy Wandering
• Mahogany Frog - Floral Flotilla (Sail to Me My Love In Your...)
• Gruff Rhys - Loan Your Loneliness
• The Besnard Lakes - The Father of Time Wakes Up
• Mogwai - Midnight Flit
• Soko - Replaceable Heads
• Lael Neale - White Wings
• mara wild - red/blue
• Cheval Sombre - Time Waits For No One

Experimental analog synths, spy-themed shoegaze epics, and Nina Simone singing about the devil—an eclectic mix, but somehow it hangs together on this week's episode of The A.M.

Playlist:

• Andra Ljos - Elusive Paradise (In Palms with Spring)
• Yu Su - Gleam
• Surgeons Girl - Intimate Advance
• Alexandre Bazin - Dunes
• Katie Dey - Loving (Baths remix)
• Various Artists, featuring O'Haara - Grow Apart
• Shogonodo - Versatile
• Frederik Valentin - Butterfly
• Sunalta - Only
• Valerie Village - Alright
• NETRVNNER - Rosa Acicularis
• Adrian Younge - A Symphony for Sahara
• Sofia Kourtesis - La Perla
• William Doyle - Nothing at All
• Kue Varo - Animals
• Goat Girl - Once Again
• Nina Simone - Go to Hell
• Roy Ayers Ubiquity - I Am Your Mind
• Jorge Ben - Domingas
• Expwy - Cultivate a Classic Sky
• Mariah - Shinzo No Tobira
• Mong Tong - 717
• Florida BC - Salt Breaker Sand
• The Besnard Lakes - Blackstrap
• Moses Sumney - Self-Help Tape
• Winter - Violet Blue
• Cool Ghouls - The Way I Made You Cry
• Minotaurs - Pink Floyd
• The Dears - Onward and Downward
• Mia Doi Todd, featuring Tunde Adebimpe - Earthly Happiness
• PROPERTY - Lonely Love
• Devonian Gardens - Old Star

Don't let the polar vortex bring you as low as the temperature. From deep-house ambience to '70s soul, 2000s post rock and brand new sunshine pop, The A.M. is here to warm your frozen heart.

Playlist:

• Branches - Keep Going
• Reinhard Vanbergen - Carbon Delights
• Sam Gendel - Eternal Loop
• Joseph Shabason - The Fellowship
• The Hardy Tree - Harmony Hall
• Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi - White Out
• Larry Heard - Snowcaps
• Jesse Futerman, Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Luckey
• Mark McGuire - Music for Inline Skating pt. 1
• Yves Jarvis - For Props
• Eve Parker Finley - Blocks and Passes
• Goat Girl - Jazz (In the Supermarket)
• Dawn to Dawn - Meridian
• Prince Shima - Send a Beacon To The Future
• The Pointer Sisters - River Boulevard
• SAULT - Free
• Cornershop - Slingshot
• Jorge Elbrecht - Leaf Cycle
• Triptides - Moonlight Reflection
• Shane Ghostkeeper - Why Do I Hide?
• mara wild - For, Now
• No Joy - Everything New
• Military Genius - Focus
• Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Gateway to the North
• Do Make Say Think - The Landlord Is Dead
• No False Suns - Jubilee Me
• Calibro 35 - New York New York
• El Michels Affair - Glaciers of Ice
• Azymuth, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge - Apocaliptico

Guillaume Carlier joins to talk about Japanese gardens in Western Canada, on a very groggy Monday morning version of The AM.

Playlist:

• Daniel Avery, Alessandro Cortini - Illusion of Time
• John Fralick - Start
• Sunalta - Only
• Psychic Pollution - Margaret's Brain Adventure
• Mark Pritchard - Be Like Water
• Bing & Ruth - Badwater Psalm - Khotin Remix
• Yu Su - 1024
• Kelly Lee Owens - Flow
• Genevieve Artadi - Living Like I Know I'm Gonna Die
• Buildings and Food - Stretched to Our Thoughts
• Caribou - Home
• Lady Blackbird - Collage (Greg Foat Instrumental)
• Ghost Funk Orchestra - Toujours
• Kaytranada - Bus Ride
• Jori Hulkkonen - Dream Not of Today
• Shintaro Sakamoto - The Feeling of Love
• The Durutti Column - Sketch for Summer
• The Durutti Column - Sketch for Dawn (1)
• Causa Sui - Gabor's Path
• Nature Walk - Sun Bath
• Hiroki Tanaka - Inori
• Bibio - The Cranking House
• Winnie Richards - Atomic Veteran
• Sunglaciers - Annie
• Hiroshi Yoshimura - Teevee
• Various Artists, featuring Mac DeMarco - Waiting
• Real Numbers - Brighter Then
• Lab Coast - The Pointe of It All
• The Notwist - Where You Find Me
• Fred Thomas - Oval Beach
• Yves Jarvis - Semula
• Richard Reed Parry - Song of Wood

Your soundtrack to an optimistic morning.

Playlist:

• Haiku Salut - Pattern Thinking
• Inventions - The Warmer the Welcome
• Sunalta - Turn
• Matthew Cardinal - May 25th
• Rich Ruth - Memento Park
• Ryuichi Sakamoto - Venezia
• Various Artists, featuring Mariah - Shinzo No Tobira
• North Americans - American Dipper
• NETRVNNER - The Light of the Trees
• Lunar Lemur - Sniffing the Blister
• Suuns - Fiction
• Floor Cry - Wish That You Were Mine
• Badge Époque Ensemble - The Sound Where My Head Was
• Jane Weaver - The Revolution of Super Visions
• Bullion - Yawn
• The Brazda Brothers - The 20th Century
• The Brazda Brothers - Gemini
• Plants and Animals - Love That Boy
• Helena Deland - The Walk Home
• Kris Ellestad - Growing Out Sideways
• Peter Broderick - What Happened to Your Heart
• The Clientele - Orpheus Beach
• Winter - Say
• Broken Social Scene - Pacific Theme
• Jorge Elbrecht - This Time or Never
• Lambchop - Golden Lady
• L'Epee - Une Lune etrange
• Osees - Gong of Catastrophe
• Jaga Jazzist - Tomita (Edit)
• Boogarins - Inocência
• Sankt Otten - Dann doch lieber weisse Wände
• The World Next Door - Felt Knuckles
• BADBADNOTGOOD - Structure No. 3

Thought of the week: There are entire industries built on overpowering your own sense of where your attention is best placed. Recognize them as proof of the value of your attention, and treat it accordingly.

Playlist:

• Mary Lattimore - Pine Trees
• Chris Mazuera & tender spring - Fifteen Km
• Double Geography - A Drop of Water
• Puma & the Dolphin - Morning Plants
• Shabason, Krgovich & Harris - Sun in the Kitchen
• Domenique Dumont - Sunshine in 1929
• Zachary Gray & Ian Urbina - Transatlantic
• Buildings and Food - Swimming in Denton
• CRi - Proud
• Kelly Lee Owens - Jeanette
• Various Artists, featuring Viva Non - Isolate
• Himalayan Beach Ensemble, featuring Dillan Witherow - The Dawn Coloured Us In
• Khruangbin - Summer Madness
• Gitkin - Fools Gold
• Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Azymuth - Sumaré
• Badge Époque Ensemble, featuring James Baley - Unity (It's Up To You)
• Causa Sui - La Jolla
• Yves Jarvis - Epitome
• Hermitess - Phone Call
• The Besnard Lakes - Raindrops
• Deradoorian - Devil's Market
• Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra - (L'ete Indien) Indian Summer
• Skinshape - Arrogance is the Death of Men
• Various Artists, featuring Jennifer Castle - DL4 (Beverly Glenn Copeland cover)
• Widowspeak - Even True Love
• Kurt Vile - Pearls
• Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater
• Galaxius Mons - Soundtrack Superdove
• Carla Sagan - Make Believer

It's The AM's Funding Drive edition! And just because you missed it live doesn't mean you're too late. Head to http://cjsw.com/donate right now to show your support for independent, community-driven radio.

Playlist:

• Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Spine Is Quiet In The Center (Fools Remix)
• Ecotype - Order and Class
• Various Artists, featuring Matthew Cardinal - July 23rd
• The World Next Door - Goat Lore
• Rhoda & Dillan Witherow - Flashflood
• Ben Lukas Boysen - Clarion
• Discovery Zone - Blissful Morning Dream Interpretation Melody
• Inventions - Spirit Refinement Exploder
• White Poppy - Broken
• Ora Cogan - Kills
• Various Artists, featuring The Garrys - Ambrosia Salad
• Ela Orleans - The Season
• Patti Smith - Tarkovsky (The Second Stop is Jupiter)
• Ray Barbee - What's His Neck
• Zoon - Brokenhead
• Hair Control - Purple World
• Traffik Island - Go!
• Various Artists, featuring Psychic Pollution - Another Day
• Thanya Iyer - Bring Back That Which Is Kind To You
• Fiver - Show Me the Mark
• Orange Crate Art - Hippies Use Side Door

Embracing the wintry beauty of this Monday morning with a mix of crystalline tunes and soul-thawing warmth.

Playlist:

• Shelf Nunny - Flowers Bloom from Your Footprints
• Kelly Moran - Helix III
• Olafur Arnalds - Loom
• Autechre - Slip
• Teen Daze - Peaceful Groove
• Ryan Hemsworth - Hail
• Kelly Lee Owens - Wake-Up
• Thyana Iyer - I Just Lay Down My Head
• pesewa - The Path is New
• Gold Panda - Most Books That I've Never Read
• Sam Prekop - Never Met
• Arms and Sleepers - Your Head in the World
• Misha Panfilov Sound Combo - Few Layers For Smith
• Le Couleur - Vol d'après midi
• Shaani Cage - Mississippi
• Karavelo, Jazz Fiend Collective - Blair High School
• CAMÍNA - Fly Away
• Dan Deacon - Adriane in Wonderland
• Radiohead - Kid A
• Radiohead - Morning Bell
• The Analog Girl - Devotion
• Mint Field - Delicadeza
• The Garrys - Häxsabbaten
• Women - Bullfight
• Black Marble - Emma's House
• She-Devils - Where There's No One
• Jack Name - Do You Know Ida No?
• Allah-Las - On Our Way
• Nap Eyes, NNAMDÏ - Blood River
• nêhiyawak - Somnambulist
• A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Hey You're Mine
• Winter - Constellation
• caroline - Dark Blue
• Florida BC - Salt Breaker Sand

Thoughts on gratitude, some slightly wintry music, and the majesty of GY!BE's Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, 20 years on.

Playlist:

• Various Artists, featuring Christa Belle - City of Mountains
• Stilz, Ian Urbina - Dream Rain
• Various Artists, featuring Ryan Hemsworth - Nashville
• Proxima Psychoacoustics - Cholorophyl Sunset
• CRi - Friends in Secret
• Oneohtrix Point Never - Long Road Home
• Hainbach - Landstrasse 2020
• The World Next Door - An Elephant on Your Eyelid
• Various Artists, featuring Ishmael Ensemble - Search for Peace
• Flying Lotus - Thank U Malcolm
• Buildings and Food - Streetlights
• Gwenno - Theme from the Cinematologists
• Bananagun - Taking the Present for Granted (Traffik Island mix)
• North Americans - Rivers That You Cannot See
• Brainstory - Thank You
• Peter Broderick - Stop and Listen
• Bastien Keb, featuring Claudia Kane - All That Love in Your Heart
• Cindy Lee - Heavy Metal
• SUUNS, featuring Jerusalem In My Heart - Breathe
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Sleep
• Zoon - Brokenhead
• Various Artists - Sequel
• Deradoorian - Corsican Shores
• Raf Wilcot - Never the Bride
• The Notwist - Avalanche
• Various Artists, featuring Dark Time - Radiation
• Gunn-Truscinski Duo - Ocean City
• Dixie's Death Pool - Sunlight is Collecting On My Face
• Heliocentrics - The Uncertainty Principle
• Janko Nilovic, The Soul Surfers - Sweet Path
• Andrew Wasylyk - Awoke in the Early Days of a Better World