The A.M.

Aiming for eclecticism this week, with some more experimental sounds alongside the AM's usual offbeat easy listening. A throwback to Rose McDowall's underappreciated Sorrow project, plus post-rock, art-pop, shoegaze, new age ambiance, and other treats for a gloomy Monday morning.

Playlist:

• Pat Metheny, Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint: III. Fast
• Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin - Chahar
• sub lumen - Mass
• Shrunken Elvis - K-House
• Yanaco - Beauty in Imperfection
• Prairiewolf - Wheel of Persuasion
• Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Old Melody
• Joseph Shabason, Nicholas Krgovich, Tenniscoats - Lose My Breath
• Sascha Liebrand, Wendy McGrath - The Creature
• Faten Kanaan - Afternoon
• Easy Idiot - The Tinkerer's Workshop
• Kutiman - Dreams in Aspamia
• Sebastian Lee Philipp, Michel Banabila - Through Global Frequency - Sebastian Lee Philipp
• Dreamsploitation - Candle on Libra
• Cindy Lee - Claim of Vanity
• Loaded Honey - Only Gonna Let You Down
• Go Kurosawa - Autowalk
• Sorrow - Soldier
• Sorrow - Nomadic Man
• Esmerine - La Penombre
• no birds - Riderless
• Oono Yuuki Band - ensui
• No Joy - Garbage Dream House
• Mansur Brown - Alone
• Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Regresar / Recordar - Edit
• William Carlos Whitten, Diana Crash - The Singer is the Origin of the Song, The Song is the Origin of the Singer
• Volunteers - Mother Nature's Blues
• This Is The Kit - This Is What You Did
• Scott Hardware - Costume Off
• Chad VanGaalen - Plant Attack
• JIM - Phoenix
• Emil de Waal, Gustaf Ljunggren - Marsh March
• Alanis Morissette - mania—resting in the fire

Laid-back sounds for a holiday Monday, featuring the on-air debut of Calgary band CG Tears, a throwback to Belgian jazz-prog legends Placebo, and a mix of hazy electronics, ambient jazz, dream-pop and art-rock to welcome in August.

Playlist:

• Ivan the Tolerable, Hawksmoor - Anise
• M. Sage, featuring Patrick Shiroishi - Tender of Land (Patrick's Version)
• Hans M. Jacobsen, Joseph Yorio - Letting go
• Blue Lake - Strand
• Golden Ivy - Vandringslåt
• Avi C. Engel - Tinderbox
• CG Tears - Night Arms Divider
• Miracle Fortress - Raw Spectacle - Pantha Du Prince Remix
• Dawn to Dawn - Ecology
• Sankt Otten - Doom Town
• Nimbes - Les Fleurs du Bal
• Skinshape, Pedro Mizutani - Sozin
• Akim Bamboo - Pot-pourri de Sambas
• Sven Wunder - Scenic Byway
• Mattias Uneback - I've been Waiting (Single Version)
• Unessential Oils - Nic at the Museum - Instrumental
• Placebo - Bolkwush
• Placebo - Balek
• Badge Époque Ensemble - Enormous Profit
• Mulatu Astatke - Nètsanèt
• múm - Mild at Heart
• Clementine March - After the Solstice
• Jonathan Richman - I Was Just a Piece of Frozen Sky Anyway
• Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18 - Deffro'r Dydd
• Immersion - Use It Don't Lose It
• Concealer - Horns and Crown
• Automatic - Mercury
• MALLED - Sun Bathed
• Beach Towels - Mick
• Abstract Crimewave, featuring Lykke Li - The Gambler - Yttling Jazz Remix
• Oranje, featuring Sophia Truscott - Styrofoam

Rainy day music for a drizzly Monday morning, Cozy ambience, cosmic jazz, distorted dream pop, and psychedelic daydreams all take their turn in a mix that's sometimes hopeful, sometimes wallowing, but also oddly pretty and at least a little comforting.

Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Moat Bells - Forest Pops
• Bartholomew - Terrarium
• Disiniblud - whole30 Fight Club
• Kennebec - Without Star or Compass - Nailah Hunter Remix
• Laurie Torres - Intérieurs - Jeremiah Chiu Remix
• Bitchin Bajas - Skylarking
• Cool LCD - Topography
• Zeta II Reticulli - teacozy 2
• Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Feel Heard
• Yetsuby - 4EVA
• The Circling Sun - Mizu
• El Michels Affair, featuring Shintaro Sakamoto - Indifference
• Fortunato Durutti Marinetti - Beware
• Nolan Potter - Mother's Sons
• Bart - Don't Push
• The Notwist - One Step Inside Doesn't Mean You Understand
• The Notwist - Pick up the Phone
• M83 - Artificial Infinity
• Duncan Lloyd - Swim
• Strawberry - It's a Long Walk Home
• No Joy - My Crud Princess
• Orange Crate Art - The Umbrella Man - Robin Guthrie Remix
• Cate Le Bon - Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)
• Ami Taf Ra, featuring Kamasi Washington - How I Became a Madman
• Efterklang, featuring Mabe Fratti - Ese Dia
• Timber Timbre - Holy Motors
• Jay Crocker - Porno is a Mustang
• Black Moth Super Rainbow - Sea of Hair
• Mike Lindsay, Philippe Cohen Solal - Become What You Are
• Possum - Leyline Riders

Globally minded psychedelia, a throwback to Dorothy Ashby's groovy spirit quest, ambient folk, and CFMF-inspired selections all share space in this morning's mix. Grounding sounds to start your week right, courtesy of The AM and CJSW.

Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Melos Kalpa - North Sands
• Schatterau - La fosse aux ours
• Morgan Szymanski, Tommy Perman - The Garden of Contemplation
• Darren Hayman - Parliament Hill
• Ethan Levy - Red Fox March
• The Hylozoists - The French Settle In
• Stelar Door - Sunshower Dance
• Julia Gjertsen, Gustav Davidsson - Into the Rain
• Håvard Volden - Small Lives
• The Dirty Sample - The New
• Hello Moth - misty whimsy
• Good Enough for Grandpa - Fresno Battle of the Bands 2004 Song Winner
• Charbonneau / Amato - BOC
• Gold Celeste - Rendezvous
• Gwenno - Y Gath
• Meggie Lennon - Connexion Astrale
• Robin Kester - An Hour Per Day
• Naima Bock - Rolling
• Pneumatic Tubes - Yellow Green and Gold
• Dorothy Ashby - Myself When Young
• Dorothy Ashby - Wax and Wane
• King Khan - For the Love of Bhava
• Kuunatic - Yellow Serpent
• The Natural Yogurt Band - Barbed Wire
• Yasmin Williams - Sunshowers
• Spiro - Yellow Noise
• Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, Antonio Sánchez - Whispers of Resilience
• The Worm - The Tower of the Eclipses
• Muncho - Michelle
• Karl Frog - What I've Plagiarised
• April March - I Do What I Do
• Sherpa the Tiger - Guitar Part
• Men I Trust - Eris (Wait)
• Klô Pelgag - Le sang des fruits rouges
• Jon McKiel - Still Life
• BADBADNOTGOOD - Six Degrees

Nicole Kobie joins to discuss The Long History of the Future, so the third hour of this week's AM takes a bit of a retro-futurist detour. Outside of that you have a tribute to the late Lalo Schifrin, and your usual AM mix of jangle-pop, ambient, jazz, post-rock, and experimental sounds, somehow cohering into a hopefully pleasant soundtrack to your Monday morning.

Playlist:

• Shrunken Elvis - An Old Outlet
• Blue Lake - Cut Paper
• oono yuuki band - Michi No Yurei
• Joseph Shabason, Nicholas Krgovich, Tenniscoats - Our Detour
• Jeremiah Chiu, Marta Sofia Honer - Speaking in Parallel
• Mari Kvien Brunvoll, Stein Urheim, Moskus - Agadeda
• Mog - Canon
• Tim Hecker - Icesynth
• Rival Consoles - Drum Song
• Various Artists, featuring Verticalpark - Arrival
• Ghost Cartridge, Mantrakid - Narshe Cliffs
• great area - Here's Something For Your Morning Commute
• The Reds Pinks and Purples - Slow Torture of an Hourly Wage
• Bibi Club - Le feu II
• Population II - Le thé est prêt
• Modern Nature - Source
• Lalo Schifrin - The Blues for Johann Sebastian
• Lalo Schifrin - Old Laces
• Trio Cajueiro - Lua Rosa
• Empanadas Ilegales - Bailecito de MORD
• Marco Benevento - These Days
• Orange Crate Art - The Umbrella Man
• Pocket Pavilions - Expo Transit System
• Monroeville Music Center - Preparatifs dans la Salle de Redaction
• The Organizing Committee - We Have Never Been Modern
• Mandrake Handshake - Time Goes Up
• Hong Kong in the 60s - Diaryland
• Biche - Le Code
• TOPS - Falling On My Sword
• wasmarkhere - Stay Right Here
• Tortoise - Oganesson - Broken Social Scene Remix
• Mansur Brown - Faded

A look back at some favourite songs from the first half of 2025, from neo-classical and jazz to psych-rock and dream-pop. Visit https://theam.ca for the full 130+ playlist, or enjoy this condensed version to start your week right.

Playlist:

• Black Taffy - Danses
• Viviane Audet - Barlicoco
• Jelena Ćirić, Snorri Hallgrímsson, Cécile Lacharme, Oliver Patrice Weder - Green Grass
• Violeta Vicci, Ben Morales Frost - Forest Bathing
• Hollie Kenniff, featuring Anna Phoebe - The Way of the Wind - Rework
• T. Gowdy - Courante
• The World Next Door - Velocity Field
• Gustaf Ljunggren, Emil de Waal - Bolde
• Memory Pearl, featuring Sam Prekop - Music Travel III
• Polypores - Lungs and Limbs
• The Baker Fields - Did He Ever See the Bluebells
• Buildings and Food - Park Province
• Hermitess - In That Country
• Felbm - Spring v
• Aaron Fisher, Rob Stephenson - Abyss of the Birds
• Immersion, SUSS - State of Motion
• Brown Fang - Light No Fires
• Kogane, Thomas White - porcelain frogs
• Ian Boddy, Harald Grosskopf - Diodengesang
• Jairus Sharif - Mawu
• Phi-Psonics - New Pyramid
• Ray Barbee - Unconscious Patterns
• Mess Esque - Light Showroom
• Anika - Oxygen
• Ora Cogan - The North
• Brown Spirits - Magenta Haze
• Heal Mura - More Pillows Than Heads
• Black Market Karma - Looper
• Full Moon Bummer - Travelling Plant
• Jonathan Personne - Nuage noir
• Loaded Honey - Lessons
• Persica 3 - Hold On
• BASIC - Dream City

A mostly all-Canadian edition of the AM this week. One or two songs are a stretch, I'll admit, but it's not officially Canada Day yet, so we'll have to allow it.

Have a lovely week, and enjoy the early morning tunes, wherever they happen to be from.

Playlist:

• Rosedeer - South Railway
• Two Bicycles - Run
• Proxima Psychoacoustics - Stretch Our Arms Wide
• Memory Pearl - Red and Brown Scene, 1961
• Syrinx - Better Deaf and Dumb from the First
• Jairus Sharif - Pre-Afterlife
• Moon Apple - Séance II - Earth Rabbit
• Prince Shima - Send a Beacon to the Future
• Project Pablo - Royal Plus
• Pender Street Steppers - Molto Bene
• Freak Heat Waves, featuring Cindy Lee - In a Moment Divine
• Ayal Senior - Harry Dean
• Glissandro 70 - Portugal Rua Rua
• Nash the Slash - Wolf
• Untrained Animals - Survive Outside
• Foxes in Fiction - Jimi Bleachball
• You'll Never Get to Heaven - You've Got the Sun
• Love Kills - Give Me Something I Can Love
• Guitaro - Truth Hertz
• Jane Siberry - One More Colour
• Fortunato Durutti Marinetti - A Perfect Pair
• US Girls - Firefly on the 4th of July
• Jackie Shane - You Are My Sunshine
• Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers - Malinda
• Wayne McGhie - Love is the Answer
• Mashmakhan - Days When We Are Free
• Rick White, The Sadies - Fly Away
• The High Dials - Diamonds in the Dark
• The Brazda Brothers - Gemini
• Extra Happy Ghost!!! - Mash-Up: Neither Being Nor Nothingness
• Makeout Videotape - Island Groovies
• Maylee Todd - Successive Mutations
• Tiger Trap - You're Sleeping
• Milk Toast - My Boyfriend Went to New York and He Didn't Invite Me
• Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - The Oldest Tree in the World
• Esmerine - Lullaby for Nola

One of the mellower openings to an AM in recent memory, but if you can slow yourself to the same wavelength, there's some lovely, grounding ambient jazz and electronics to kick things off.

Otherwise, there's always the option to skip ahead to the library grooves, psych-rock spaciness and jangling pop of the last hours, as we launch into summer in typically laid back AM style.

Playlist:

• The Second Hand Orchestra - Den blomstertid nu kommer
• Mary Halvorson - Eventidal
• Peace Flag Ensemble - Ley Lines
• David Zucchi - Away
• Jeremiah Chiu, Marta Sofia Honer - Mean Solar Time
• Polypores - Whorl
• Arrangement - Wash Out
• Zachary Gray - Trippin' (Soft Operator Remix)
• Nídia & Valentina - Estradas - Yu Su Version
• shn shn - Flow
• Pick a Piper - Certain Peace
• Rachel Kitchlew - Leopard Slug
• Organic Pulse Ensemble - Oppression is Nine Tenths of the Law
• Rabbath Electric Orchestra - Sevillana
• Carson Tworow, David Lavoie - Unbothered
• Magnéticos, featuring Brendan Eder Ensemble - Sunday
• Janko Nilović - Pop Impressions
• Janko Nilović - Ballet dans l'espace
• Ìxtahuele - House of the Gods
• ARTU - Forgiveness
• Full Moon Bummer - Lilacs on the Breeze
• Foxwarren - Wings
• The Electric Sea Gospel, featuring Golden Ivy - Night Falls Over Portimão
• Herbert & Momoko - Need to Run
• Portishead - Chase the Tear
• Black Market Karma - Soft & Heavy
• Mats Glenngård - Allt På Denna Runda Jord
• Contraction - Trois ou quatre
• Sakura - the end or the beginning idk (trentmoller remix)
• The Laughing Chimes - High Beams
• The Organ - Brother
• Sleepkit - Yo Gamma Gamma

A Sled Island spotlight, with just over half the tracks pulled from acts playing the festival this week. If you're still deciding what to see, hopefully this week's AM gives you some good options.

That, plus a (too small) tribute to two musical giants who died this week in Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, and your usual mix of morning sounds.

Playlist:

• Altus - Structures of Abundance
• Mary Lattimore - Sometimes He's In My Dreams
• Kara-Lis Coverdale - Coming Around
• Idlefon - Sweet Sungazings
• Kreggo, featuring Jairus Sharif, Daniele Patton - Sensor
• T. Gowdy - Déneigeuse
• Rival Consoles - Known Shape
• sub lumen - Passing
• Baths - Rafting Starlit Everglades
• Void Comp - Reflector
• Loaded Honey - In Your Arms
• Niecy Blues - The Architect
• Thanya Iyer - Where does that energy go?
• Babe Corner - I'm Like U
• Diamond Day - ...and Not Going - Sonic Boom Remix
• Makaya McCraven - Butterscotch
• Sly & the Family Stone - Time
• Sly & the Family Stone - Family Affair
• The Beach Boys - Busy Doin' Nothin'
• The Beach Boys - Friends
• Aladean Kheroufi - All the Same
• The Sorcerers - The Great Belt
• Strawberry - Nico Says
• Blume - In Heaven
• Spirit Hotel - Moon Eyes
• Bibi Club - Femme-Lady
• Bluffing - Familiar Circles
• SANAM - Harik
• Lucrecia Dalt - Divina
• Hermitess - Three Bells
• The Garrys - George Glass
• Richard Reed Parry - Song of Wood

Sunny summer mornings are for hazy psychedelia, Brazilian pop, and balmy library grooves. So that's where this week's AM goes, after a suitably spaced-out first hour of ambient and neo-classical sounds. Lots of new music, a throwback to UK producer Locust, and general good vibes to start your week right. Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Bell Orchestre - Havencrest Medley (End Credits)
• Kara-Lis Coverdale - The Placid Illusion
• Laurie Torres - Clessidra
• Her Motives Are Silent - Movement IV - Eclipse
• Sankt Otten - Geweint Wird Nur Zum Schluss
• buq - T3L
• The Album Leaf - Rhythm Resolve
• Robin Richards - Epoxy
• The Nielsen Valley - A Brook That No One Knows
• Satomimagae - Kabi
• White Poppy - Happy
• Nyron Higor - Maravilhamento
• Arthur Verocai - Na boca do sol
• Foxwarren - Strange
• Lionmilk - get high
• Memphis - Five Loops
• Lake Ruth - The Next Level
• Locust - No-One in the World
• Wayne Patrick Garrett - After Party
• Boys Age - Mind Control A
• Various Artists, featuring Yves Jarvis - All the Way Home
• Dissolve in Sepia, featuring Jaime Silveira - Salt Love
• Black Market Karma - Lagging Through the Soup of Yesterday
• Faith Healer - I'm a Dog
• Junk Drawer - Brown Sunshine
• Ulrika Spacek - Interesting Corners
• Cate Le Bon - Heaven Is No Feeling
• The Hologram People - Afternoon Sniper
• Calibro 35 - Pied De Poule
• Minhwi Lee - Borrowed Tongue
• New Chance, featuring Jennifer Castle - Something Human
• Legal Vertigo - At the Brasserie