The A.M.

Does the late-March snow have you down? You're not alone. But at least we have music—mellower tracks for a little well-earned wallowing, and sunnier sounds to melt away some of the (hopefully not perma)frost. Featuring a couple of all-time favourite tracks, from Torngat and from the Chemical Brothers, plus a whole host of new music spanning ambient, jangle-pop, doom-folk, and beyond.

Hope you enjoy 'em.

Playlist:

• Haiku Salut, Meg Morley - Needle Drop
• Jamison Isaak - Fern's Forest
• Oowets - Sekai
• David Sylvain - Words With the Shaman - Part 3 (Awakening (Songs from the Treetops))
• Kronstad 23 - Menigheten
• worriedaboutsatan - Piece By Miserable Piece
• Glissandro 70 - Pad Tide
• Pan-American - Entrance to Afterlife
• Bill Orcutt, Mabe Fratti - El inicio es cuestion de suerte
• Ashi Shonen - Nous Écoutons
• HALFBY - Between Them - tiger bae Remix
• Ivor Cutler - There's a Hole in My Head
• Eiyn Sof - I Eat the Sky
• Ambre Ciel - Sometimes
• Ora Cogan - Outgrowing
• PJ Harvey - White Chalk
• Torngat - Minute by Minute
• Torngat - Bordeaux Boredom
• Jackson\Wilson Duo - Water Source
• Klint - Intermezzo - Exelsior -
• Shakey Graves - I Once Was an Ocean
• Astral Swans - What Are You Gonna Do With Yourself?
• Pye Corner Audio, featuring Andy Bell - Cycle
• The Chemical Brothers, featuring The Flaming Lips - The Golden Path
• Sunglaciers - Ballad for Eddy
• Yea-Ming and the Rumours - Paper Doll
• Being Dead - Goodnight
• Tara Clerkin Trio - Somewhere Good
• Index For Working Musik - Going to Heaven on the End of a String - Papal Version
• Bibi Club - George Sand
• The Leaf Library - Sun In My Room
• Carl Didur - The Great Uniter (Maybe Next Time)
• The Besnard Lakes - Chemin de la Baie - Ghost Mix

As March marches on, The AM is still here to help you find your bearings in a world that won't stop spinning. This week we're throwing back to Cornelius' 2001 album Point, listening to new releases ranging from Bill Callahan's introspective folk to Hanakiv's atmospheric piano, Shabaka's spiritual jazz, and Damaged Bug's damaged psych, and generally aiming to make your Monday morning more bearable.

Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Five Times the Stars, featuring Sun Rain - fabric
• Navet Confit - 6 8
• Masahiro Takahashi, featuring Dorothea Paas - Sky, Ocean, and Creatures
• Mammo - Very Near
• Burdy - Oolong Time
• Green-House - Dragline Silk
• Resavoir - Leaves
• Shabaka - Step Lightly
• Tristan Arp - Forking Paths
• 747 - Lost Lagoon
• Feathers - Old Black Hat with a Dandelion Flower
• Bill Callahan - Stepping Out For Air
• Luka Kuplowsky - Plant Life
• Lammping - No Consolation
• Cornelius - Tone Twilight Zone
• Cornelius - Bird Watching at Inner Forest
• The Raoul Santodomingo Experience - Penelope Cruiseship
• Damaged Bug - Over-Exposed
• Sleepkit - Fresh Face
• Baby Cool - Everything
• Knife Pleats - Distant Ships
• Hanakiv - Lõpulaul
• Andrew Wasylyk, featuring Saya from Tenniscoats - Hachi No Su
• Carla dal Forno - Going Out
• Marco Benevento, featuring Marianne Mirage - Turandot
• Fabiano do Nascimento, Vittor Santos Orchestra - Floresta Dos Sonhos
• Koushik - Be With
• The Experimental Pop Band - Narcotic Days
• Panurge - Ginny and the Flower Man
• Azeda Booth - This Town is Fixed
• Discovery Zone, John Moods - I Want You
• World Standard - Human Circle of Memory

You've survived Friday the 13th and the Ides of March, and your reward is... another Monday morning. Fortunately, the AM is here to fill these early morning hours with good vibrations and offbeat easy listening.

This week's throwback is to AM patron saints Stereolab, and the 30th anniversary of their Emperor Tomato Ketchup. That classic is surrounded by eclectic sounds, from synth-enhanced Ethio-jazz to ghostly shoegaze to new-age Kosmische. All with the express aim of starting your week on stable ground.

Enjoy!

Playlist:

• Bill Orcutt, Mabe Fratti - Almost Waking
• Alabaster dePlume - It's Only Now Once (Elbit Systems Windowpane)
• Kibrom Birhane - YEGEDEL MAMITU የገደል ማሚቱ
• Pacific Coliseum - Floating Petals
• The Besnard Lakes - Give Us Our Dominion - Ghost Mix
• Rosenau & Sanborn - Harm
• Polypores - Wrigglers
• Hiro Ama - Booster
• Underworld - Winjer
• Brendan Sound System - July
• Barnaby Bennett - Royal Laurel
• Various Artists, featuring Arooj Aftab, Beck - Lilac Wine
• The Orielles - Whenever (I May Not Feel So Close)
• Ora Cogan - The Smoke
• dagmar zuniga - Plenty for All the Masses
• Cindy - Procession
• Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection - Jackie Paints
• Stereolab - Cybele's Reverie
• Stereolab - Les Yper-Sound
• Raleigh - Syd
• Foxwarren - Strange - Dan the Automator Remix
• Monster Rally, featuring Henry Mancini - Flight to Capri
• The Notwist - The Turning
• Elastic Stars - Falls Back
• Tomo Katsurada, Misha Panfilov - Mostra
• Natural Magic - Galaxy Builder
• New Age Doom, H.R. - We're All the Same
• Sook-Yin Lee - Locked Boy
• Vinyl Williams, featuring Nailah Hunter - Soulgaze
• Memorials - Dropped Down the Well
• Dummy - Tapestry Distortion
• McCaslin Dahle - Henry Takes the 5th
• Psst Shh - Crass Video Mist
• Broken Social Scene - Hey Amanda

International Women's Day was yesterday, but it hardly seems fair that it only got 23 hours. So here's three more: another episode of All Femme AM, with 35 songs from women in music. Mostly recent, some less so, all just a glimpse of artistic catalogues well worth digging into.

Enjoy the show (and apologies for the excessive grogginess, the Monday after daylight savings is, without fail, a struggle).

Playlist:

• Violeta Vicci, Bruno Bavota - To the Stars
• Viviane Audet - Maria
• Mary Ocher - Approaching Singularity
• Gwenifer Raymond - Bonfire of the Billionaires
• Kara-Lis Coverdale - Flickers in the Air of Night
• Hannah Peel - Ecovocative
• Buildings and Food - Clear Skies (Mountain)
• Haiku Salut - I Dreamed I Was Awake for a Very Long Time
• Disiniblud - Disiniblud
• Wish Lash - Fast Boy
• Moon Apple - Pillar I - Mantra Force Majeure
• Cerys Hafana - Angel
• Castle If - Theme de Betz
• Garden Gate - A Dream Within a Dream
• Ela Orleans - The Season
• Chris Derksen - aabaakwad
• Rachel Kitchlew, featuring Dave Bardon, SHOLTO - Opium Lounge
• Brandee Younger - New Pinnacle
• Elisa Thorn - My Moon
• Deradoorian - Any Other World
• Magic Fig - Sensation Seeker
• Laura Cahen - Fusées
• Parisian Orgy - Jazz Song For Shrimp
• Momoko Gill - No Others
• Men I Trust - Burrow
• Marine Girls - Such a Thing
• Automatic - Black Box
• Victrix - A New Thing
• Bon Enfant - Minimum
• No Joy - Bits
• Rozi Plain, Melin Melyn - Fantastic Food (Re-Milled)
• Various Artists, featuring Beth Gibbons - Sunday Morning
• Samara Lubelski - Keeper of Beauty
• Sorrow - Emptiness
• Mess Esque - No Snow

A globe-trotting episode of The AM, with artists from Brazil, Lebanon, Germany, Mali, pre-revolution Iran and the Iranian diaspora, and unsurprising detours to the UK and Australia. The world is smaller than it seems, and music makes those distances even smaller.

Playlist:

• Eric Cheng - Finding Satoshi
• Glissandro 70 - Bolan Muppets (Dan Bodan Remix)
• Nick Schofield - Dream On
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - revenge body (denton, tx)
• Scholars of the Peak - Northbound Frequencies
• NUM - Blue
• Bristol Manor - Life on Other Planets
• Hayes Bradley, Yu Su - Dear Treasure - Yu Su Remix
• Yakuza Jacuzzi - Jade Emperor's Peach Garden, Pt. 1
• Monroeville Music Center - Somniculonia
• Fabiano do Nascimento, Vittor Santos Orchestra - O Tempo (Foi O Meu Mestre)
• Various Artists, featuring Mulatu Astatke - Munayé (My Muna)
• Tamikrest - Adagh Oyantid
• Population II - Magouilleux
• Bibi Club - Les vagues
• Kourosh Yaghmaei - Akhm Nakon
• Kourosh Yaghmaei - Tavalode Yek Seda
• Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Cool Hand
• Charif Megarbane, Ali - Bandar Batavia
• Angine de Poitrine - Fabienk
• Annette Peacock - Solar System
• Salami Rose Joe Louis, featuring Flanafi, Luke Titus - Crow, Friendship, with Trio
• Pick A Piper, featuring Mabe Fratti - Histérica Histórica
• Helado Negro - More
• River Tiber - Spirals
• Exek - You Have Been Blessed
• Military Genius - True Form
• The Smallest One - We're All Going Through It
• The Gabys - Ode
• Helicon, Al Lover - Goodbye Cool World
• Sankt Otten, featuring Klaus Fiehe - Tanz das Kraut

Last time The AM was on the air, there was no snow on the ground in Calgary and you could be forgiven for thinking it was already spring. Today that's obviously not the case. But hopefully today's episode makes a frozen February morning a little more bearable—especially the soul-warming grooves in the second hour.

Stay warm, stay connected, and stay tuned in to CJSW!

Playlist:

• Luke Kokoszka - An Invitation To Desire
• Chloé Antoniotti - Heimat
• Gustaf Ljunggren, Skúli Sverrisson - Nine Again
• Action & Tension & Space - Tellus
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - Stanley Park Ravers
• Rosenau & Sanborn - Walrus
• Eine Kleine China - Bent Fabric
• John Haughey, Tarotplane - Pulling the Cosmos Closer
• Her Motives Are Silent - It's OK (Instrumental)
• Boards of Canada - 5.9.78
• Adrian Younge - Portschute
• Cochemea - Pyramid of the Sun
• Nilza Costa - Ramunha
• ARTU, featuring Akim Bamboo - Jaguar Jagun
• Sean Wolcott - Last Glow of the Peony Lantern
• The Olympians, featuring Indro Roy-Chowdhury - Saraswati Puja
• The Chayns - Live with the Moon
• The Chayns - See It Through
• СОЮЗ (SOYUZ) - Lingua Do Mundo
• Bruno Pernadas - Untitled (raindrops)
• Voka Gentle - Jude Law for Vogue (1995)
• chocolat - Mélanie
• Zacht Automaat - Standing Stoned
• The Ginger Wizard - Styrax
• Ginger Beef, featuring Brendan McGuigan - Golden Hour
• Made-Up - A Moment in Time
• LAMMPING - Once in Sunlight
• Yamila - Diamonds
• Ora Cogan - Division
• Massive Attack - Paradise Circus
• Maria BC - Marathon
• P.rosa, Elijah Knutsen - Bleeding Earth
• Peggy Lee, Cole Schmidt - It Will Come Back

Happy Family Day (at least in Alberta). This week's episode starts with a selection of explicitly dreamy tunes before drifting through the typical AM sounds (not that dreamy is outside the standard AM purview). Hope you enjoy the mellow music, and that you find ways to stay cozy as the winter storm hits this week.

Playlist:

• Masahiro Takahashi - Dreamies
• Bill Holt - Program Ten Part Three
• Dreamsploitation - Major Seventh Gate
• Contagious Yawns - As If In a Dream
• The Album Leaf - Within Dreams
• Silje Nes - Recurring Dream
• Tacoma Park - Untied
• Natural Magic - Skyward Eye
• Easy Idiot - Don't Tell Mom
• Floral Image - The Dream - Minami Deutsch Remix
• Untrained Animals - Dream Disco
• Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection, featuring Erin Rae - Look at the Moon
• Luke Temple - Echo Park Donut
• Momoko Gill - Anyway, I'm Drowning
• Thanya Iyer - Let the Smoke Clear
• Whiling - House Cat
• Elyse Weinberg - Deed I Do
• Elyse Weinberg - Spirit of the Letter
• Cheryl Lancastle - Downtown Song
• Stereolab - Flashes in the Afternoon
• Lyke Rayne - Closing the Seam
• The Sleeves - Come On Man
• Cindy Lee - Wild One
• Movietone - Useless Landscape
• The American Analog Set - Diana Slowburner II
• Softcult - When a Flower Doesn't Grow
• Helicon, Al Lover - Tabula Rasa
• Yuutsu - Novelty
• Expwy - Sterilize the warden under cover of darkness
• Ulrika Spacek - Showroom Poetry
• The Moon Birds - I Am the Breeze
• Would-Be-Goods - Don't Come Crying to Me
• Got a Girl - Things Will Never Be the Same
• Absolutely Free - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
• Feist - It's Cool To Love Your Family

For this week's AM, we open with a contemplative Chad VanGaalen, closing with La Luz's psychedelia, and working through a range of sounds in between—from upbeat Talking Heads covers and Estonian garage rock to vintage four-track recordings and jazz-harp grooves.

Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Chad VanGaalen, Patrick Horner - Ocean Chord
• Shane Parish - Slip
• Autechre - Slip
• Elori Saxl, Henry Solomon - A Thousand Steps
• NTHNL - Awakenings, Part II
• John Haughey, Tarotplane - Previous Iterations
• Polmo Polpo - Dreaming...Again (2020)
• Bernard Grancher, featuring Allison Brice - I should feel confined
• Postnamers - Lethbridge is 666
• Galaxius Mons, featuring YlangYlang - The Earth Moved in Quarter Tone Silent Waves
• Sean Wolcott - Crystal Eyes Stalk at Midnight
• No Birds - Flowers
• Bell Orchestre - The Upwards March
• Cassie Watson Francillon - Constellation of Symptoms
• Charles Stepney - Notes From Dad
• Charles Stepney - No Credit For This
• L'Eclair, featuring Kay Yõko - Space Song
• Slim Twig - Fog of Sex (NSIS)
• Strawberry - Young
• Sleepkit - It's Incredible!
• Jah Wobble, Jon Klein - Fading Away
• Various Artists, featuring Florence Adooni - Crosseyed and Painless
• Penza Penza - Volcano Song
• Panman Pat - Chip Chip
• Joāo Leāo - Pode Ser
• Edu Lôbo - Viola Fora De Moda
• Wax Machine - Springtime
• Tremendous Aron - Upstairs at Ismail's
• Various Artists, featuring Skyminds - Whispering Palm
• River Flows Reverse - Demons
• King Khan, featuring The Gris Gris - Desert Mile instrumental
• The Garrys - Manitouna
• La Luz - News of the Universe - Extra! Extra! Version
• Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka, Hiroshi Kanazu, Toshiyuki Ueno - You've Come Far Nes
• Mort Garson - Ode to an African Violet
• Mort Garson - Plantasia
• Mort Garson - Symphony for a Spider Plant
• Mort Garson - Baby's Tears Blues
• Michael Boddicker - End Credits

Start your February on solid ground with hazy sounds, echoey shoegaze, folky electronics, and gems from years gone by. With new music from The Soft Pink Truth, classics from Beck and The Flaming Lips, Venezuelan psych, Welsh folktronica, and other sounds you didn't know you needed on a Monday morning.

Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• JB Dunckel - Melo Walk (Version for String Quartet)
• The Soft Pink Truth - Mere Survival Is Not Enough
• Green-House - Farewell, Little Island
• Kayla Painter - Anicca
• Dialect - Eusa
• Spirit & Form - Effective Honing
• Hannah Peel - Driving Swiss Jesus
• Cris Derksen - Planes
• Luka Kuplowsky - Temporary Words Mental Activity
• Demsky - Earth
• Teen Daze - Memory Fade
• verticalpark - Cathedral (AJL)
• Huw Marc Bennett - Cân y Gwartheg
• Setting - Heard a Bubble
• The American Analog Set - Kills Me / Make It Take It - Reprise
• Ozean - Scenic
• Ozean - Porcelain
• Love Kills - Give Me Something I Can Love
• Extra Happy Ghost!!! - Feeds Wolves Luck
• Bodywash - Kind of Light
• Melody's Echo Chamber - Memory's Underground
• Julie Doiron - Happy Lucky Girl
• Beck - Ramona
• The Flaming Lips - Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)
• Andrew Wasylyk, featuring Gruff Rhys - The Cold Collar
• Jana Horn - It's alright
• Ambre Ciel - eau miroir
• Jane Weaver - Hud a Llefrith
• Various Artists, featuring Grupo Espiga - Dama gentil
• The Summerlad - Set to Light
• Population II - Mariano (Jamais je ne t'oublierai)
• Plankton Wat - Tentacles

A wide-ranging Monday morning, with a throwback to a surprisingly silly early Jóhann Jóhannsson project, a hospital-themed electronic concept album, breezy Japanese pop, early 2000s Canadian post rock, and other hopefully somewhat coherent sounds to start your week right. Thanks for listening.

Playlist:

• Westerlund//Hagen - Liberation Bells
• Jelena Ćirić, Snorri Hallgrimsson, Cécile Lacharme, Oliver Patrice Weder - White Flag
• Stereo_IMG - The ICU
• Cristina Lord, Nick Norton - If It All Falls
• Chloé Antoniotti - Mana
• Fabiano do Nascimento, E Ruscha V - Solar
• Ayal Senior - Burnt Lokshen
• The World Next Door - Active Agitator
• Stelar Door - Parallel One
• Dialect - Ev'ry Portal Past
• Woo - Rosehips
• Hanakiv - Sunbeams
• Dumama - No Abiding City
• Phantom Orchid - Night wail
• Possum - Dance of the Eclipse
• Winged Wheel - Bird Spells
• Tess Parks - Life Is but a Dream
• Apparat Organ Quartet - Ondula Nova
• Apparat Organ Quartet - Global Capital
• The Orielles - To Undo the World Itself
• Mean Red Spiders - They Only Met Once
• Bibi Club - Washing Machine
• Spiral Wave Nomads - Sleepwalker
• Cavern of Anti-Matter - Automatic Morning
• Shutaro Noguchi and the Roadhouse Band - Melody
• Shintaro Sakamoto - On the Other Side of Time
• Monster Rally, featuring Sessa - Rosella
• João Gilberto - Âguas de Março
• Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection - Rowan Tree
• Bilders - Tetrapak
• ROY - Time to Get Rid of the Bombs
• Florida BC - Cults
• Sunglaciers - Blood