The A.M.

Spring has arrived and this week's AM basks in sunnier sounds than recent weeks, with jangling pop, glowing psychedelia, and dreamy girl-group-influenced sounds—after your usual AM mix of ambient synths and meditative mantras to start your Monday off right. Hope you enjoy it

Playlist:

• Jill Fraser - I Stand Amazed
• Micro Moon - Border
• Ian Boddy, Harald Grosskopf - Diodengesang
• Moat Bells - Snails on glass
• Andrea Cichecki - Choosing Paths
• buq - T3L
• Natural Information Society, Bitchin Bajas - Clock No Clock
• Ashi Shonen - Breakout
• Pacific Coliseum - Hatsudai
• Made-Up - Moods
• Men I Trust - I Don't Like Music
• L.T. Leif - Own Blood
• Jenny Hval - To be a rose
• Black Moth Super Rainbow - Open the Fucking Fantasy
• Salami Rose Joe Louis, featuring Luke Titus, Flanafi - Dribs and drags
• Cat's Eyes - I'm Not Stupid
• Cat's Eyes - The Best Person I Know
• Rachel Kitchlew, featuring SHOLTO, David Bardon - Mammone
• El Michels Affair - Kodak
• Adrian Younge - A Musica Na Minha Fantasia
• Lightning Bug - The Lotus Eaters
• Absolutely Free - Earth II
• Persica 3 - Hold On
• Bon Enfant - Sous-marine
• Astrobal - L'abeille pourpre
• Futuropaco - La Banda Piu Pericolosa
• Chocolat - Gobleki Tepe
• The Limiñanas - J'adore le monde
• Matt Berry - Why On Fire?
• Flo & Eddie - I Been Born Again
• Jon McKiel - Mourning Dove
• Andy Bell - Space Station Mantra

A bit of a melancholy AM as we get closer to spring. Sometimes you need to just lie low a bit before the bloom can come. Hope you enjoy it—and see you when the seasons have officially changed.

Playlist:

• Altus - Transmission Erosion
• Peter Gagliardi - Kerberos
• Cate Brooks - Living Data
• Max Cooper - The Missing Piece
• Celia Hollander - Air/Earth
• Ashi Shonen - Flashing Lights
• Silver Y - Rest Home
• Daniel Brandt - Steady
• T. Gowdy - Courante
• Joseph Shabason, Spencer Zahn, Vibrant Matter, Thom Gill - a river a museum
• The Music Liberation Front Sweden - Watson's Telescope
• Yo La Tengo - End Credits
• POSTNAMERS - Father Alphabet
• Ora Cogan - Lucile
• Fuubutsushi - Harmony of Irrelevant Facts
• Roy Ayers - Love
• Roy Ayers - The Fuzz
• Nyron Higor - Ciranda
• Monde UFO - Samba 9
• Easy Souls - Sleepy Creek
• Andre Ethier - Caterpillars 2
• ROY - Can You Really Own Anything
• Scott Walker - The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime)
• Deradoorian - Digital Gravestone
• Rick White and The Sadies - Here In My Body
• All Seeing Dolls - Blossoms In Her Mind
• Holy Void - In The End I Am Nothing Anyways
• Panda Bear - Anywhere but Here
• Sam Cohen, featuring Makaya McCraven - Sunrise
• BASIC - Dream City
• K.C. Accidental - Residential Love Song

In honour of International Women's Day this past weekend, it's another episode of All Femme AM, three hours of music from some of The AM's favourite female artists. As always, it's a chance to ease your way into the week with modular synths, psychedelic pop, and other hazy sounds to make Monday mornings a bit more bearable. Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Loula Yorke - Staying with the Trouble
• The Hardy Tree - August 1975
• Laurie Torres - Golden t-shirts
• Buildings and Food - Outside My Window
• Yu Su - Menta Y Menta
• Anna Phoebe - Horizons (Hinako Omori Remix)
• Hannah Peel - Reaction Diffusion
• Moon Apple - Pillar IV - Mantra Major Force
• Discovery Zone - Supernatural - Extended
• Yetsuby - Fly
• Haiku Salut - Carousel
• Stegosarahs - Sudden State
• Ichiko Aoba - Coloratura
• Beth Gibbons - Reaching Out
• Broadcast - Papercuts
• Broadcast - Where Youth And Laughter Go
• Tess Parks - Surround
• Eiyn Sof - Horses, My Horses
• Rachika Nayar - Years and Years
• Lucrecia Dalt, featuring Mabe Fratti - cosa rara - en la playa
• Virginia Astley - With my eyes wide open
• Hermitess - Phone Call
• Habibi - My Moon
• Hana Vave - The Expedition
• Samara Lubelski - The Boy Who Bought the Cosmos
• Pearl and the Oysters - Think of Rain
• Castle If - Djinn's Promise
• Vanishing Twin - Language Is a City (Let Me Out!) - Live
• Living Hour - Tous les garçons et les filles
• Pumpegris - Føkk det

Welcome to March! It's a gloomy Monday in Calgary, but the sounds on The AM are cozy as always. Enjoy a throwback to Yo La Tengo, new music from Thanya Iyer and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, and a third-hour wander through sample-heavy sounds on this week's episode.

Playlist:

• Nick Storring - Roxa I
• Daskal - Hsin-Yi
• Matt McBane - Buoy
• Hiro Ama - Music for Peace and Harmony (flywheel remix)
• Laurie Torres - Feux fuyants
• Hollie Kenniff, featuring Anna Phoebe - The Way of the Wind - Rework
• Cool LCD - Infinity Fog
• Joni Void - Cloud Level (with Ytamo)
• T. Gowdy - Blest Age!
• Various Artists, featuring Modern Living - Snow Bird
• Yasmin Williams - Guitka
• Elliot Galvin, featuring Shabaka Hutchings - Gold Bright
• Dirty Three - Ever Since
• No Birds - Triplets to Solids
• Yo La Tengo - Our Way to Fall
• Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All
• Alabaster DePlume - Invincibility
• Thanya Iyer - Low Tides
• Kaitlyn Aurealia Smith - What's Between Us
• Dissolve in Sepia - Bleu
• Contagious Yawns - Ideas into Insects
• lesbianhorse - You'll Feel Young, Healthy & Alive
• Dreamsploitation - Flashback, Temporal Bliss, Flashback
• Traffik Island - Ulla Dulla
• The Go! Team - Get It Together
• Peanut Butter Wolf, The Free Design - Umbrellas
• Milkweed - Exile of the Sons of Uisliu
• Schmlandinksy - Market Parkour
• L.T. Leif & APB - Hewmidoo
• Fog Lake - Catacombs
• Loving - She Refused to Say
• Steven Lambke - Turn the Planet Over

Ending February with some new discoveries, new releases from old favourites, and a throwback to the 30th anniversary of Tricky's solo debut. Expect trip-hop vibes, cathartic electronics, jazz-funk odysseys, and dream-pop classics—all selected to start your week on solid footing.

Playlist:

• Apta - Awash
• Tim Hecker - Joyride Alternate
• Brown Fang - Light No Fires
• Zachary Gray - Trippin' (FC Commitments Remix)
• Hollie Kenniff, featuring Helios - For Forever - Rework
• Gustaf Ljunggren, Emil de Waal - Bolde
• Group Listening - Tell Everyone Everything
• Hania Rani - Thin Line - Live at Studio 1, Warsaw
• BLVD NOIR - Leslie's Piano
• Yasmine Hamdan - Hon هون
• Dead Bandit - Pink
• Loma - Arrythmia
• Bristol Manor - Dusk Begins
• Sounds of New Soma - Nahpunkt
• Tricky - Overcome
• Tricky - Ponderosa
• Markus Floats - Death
• Moses Sumney - Neither/Nor
• A.R. Kane - Sugarwings
• Mercedes Benz - When You Come Home
• Chris Reimer - Hongdi
• Psychic TV - The Orchids
• POSTNAMERS - The Withdrawing
• Lael Neale - Tell Me How To Be Here
• Nathan Damp - Gudge
• Zoon - Brave New World (Without You)
• Jonathan Personne - Zoé sur la montagne
• Polyglots - Transmission Radio Silencieuse
• Alain Bellaïche - Sea Fluorescent
• Heal Mura - More Pillows Than Heads
• Untrained Animals - Endless Trains

Happy long weekend. Here's hoping you slept through this week's episode and are listening to it at a comfortable remove, but either way, I hope you enjoy a fairly eclectic episode—any playlist that can include post-punk, proto-rap, ambient harp, and anti-capitalist library music is one worth indulging in.

Thanks for sharing these sounds on a cold Monday morning!

Playlist:

• Jeff Greinke - The Great Butterfly Migration
• Memory Pearl - Astral Travel
• Rich Ruth, Lockeland Strings - Blue Shell
• Camilla Sparksss - My Way My Love Remix by William Basinski and Gary Wright
• Moon Apple - Séance I - Water Snake
• Kaunsel - Shade Farmer
• ASKO - wâkôhtowin
• Mary Lattimore, Walt McClements - Nest of Earrings
• Makaya McCraven - Holy Lands
• The Worm - Grass Grows Pt. 1
• June McDoom - Emerald River Dance
• N Nao - Château d'eau
• Victrix - I Saw Me
• Destroyer, featuring Fiver - Bologna
• Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
• Gil Scott-Heron - When You Are Who You Are
• Cymande - I Wanna Know
• Yves Jarvis - All Cylinders
• Ivan the Tolerable - Confessionals
• Blume - Dusk's Overture
• Bernardino Femminielli - L'entrée des artistes
• Halo Maud - Pesnopoïka
• Futuropaco - Crollo Capitalista
• Ki! - Kawkab el-Sharq
• Population II - Le thé est prêt
• Preoccupations - Focus
• Horsegirl - Information Content
• MALLED - She is Teal
• Pia Fraus - Across the Street
• Stereolab - Tempter
• SUUNS - Fish on a String

Love is in the air! Love is everywhere! With a throwback to a Pharoah Sanders classic and an array of lovesick songs in the third hour, this week's AM counts as a semi-Valentines episode for those who celebrate such things—and also includes plenty of new ambient, electronic and spiritual jazz selections for those who don't. Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Nico Georis - Who Knows the Path
• I Am Robot and Proud - Lines in a Grid
• Test Card - There are years in October
• Khotin - Dwellberry
• Mark McGuire - South For The Winter
• Matthew Cardinal - Lover's Loop 1
• Yu Su, featuring Michelle Helene Mackenzie - Little Birds, Moonbath
• N Nao - Fleuron
• Kaitlyn Aurealia Smith - Into Your Eyes
• Buildings and Food - Streetlights
• FLOCKS - Now Transient
• Heal Mura - Thong Len
• Jairus Sharif - Mawu
• JOYFULTALK - Blissed For a Minute
• Organic Pulse Ensemble - Rings on the Surface
• Brown Spirits - Winter Solstice
• Pharoah Sanders - Love is Everywhere - Live in Paris (1975)
• The Natural Yogurt Band, The Oracle - Messages
• Flying Lotus - Let Me Cook (Instrumental)
• Yuma Abe - That Feels Good
• Jonah Yano - Romance ESL
• SUUNS - Peace and Love
• Robert Wyatt - Love
• Extra Happy Ghost!!! - True Love Leaves No Traces
• ANOHNI and the Johnsons - I'm in Love
• Kris Ellestad - The Book of Love
• Eric Chenaux - Love Don't Change
• The Fireman - Is This Love?
• Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Easy Love
• Air - Love
• Economics - neon love
• Circle Research - Look of Love
• BADBADNOTGOOD - Fall In Love
• D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Really Love
• Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka, Hiroshi Kanazu and Toshiyuki Ueno - You've Come Far NES
• Mort Garson - Concerto for Philodendron & Pothos
• Mort Garson - Plantasia
• Mort Garson - Symphony for a Spider Plant
• Mort Garson - Baby's Tears Blues
• Mort Garson - Ode to an African Violet
• Michael Boddicker - End Credits Theme

Your guide to a good morning: start off cosmic, with electronic experiments and soul-jazz explorations for the new new age. Let things come into focus through patient post-rock crescendos. Then the day begins with psych-pop, indie rock, and other eclectic jams. If it's working, don't change the formula.

Hope you enjoy it, and see you again in February.

Playlist:

• Memory Pearl, featuring Sam Prekop and Mortiz Fasbender - Music Travel III
• Moon Apple - Pillar IV - Mantra Major Force
• Dissolve in Sepia - Heart of the Ocean
• Prepared - Modul Vier III
• Peace Flag Ensemble - Hot Mic
• Alabaster DePlume - Oh My Actual Days
• Justin Walter - Steps
• Wayne Patrick Garrett - Something About Us
• Yasu Cub - Cold, Cold Night
• Applesauce Tears - A Celebration with Genever
• Rich Aucoin - Moog
• Avi C. Engel - Cocoon
• Minor Conflict - Margate Sands
• The Innocence Mission - Orange of the Westering Sun
• Human Pyramids - Moving Home
• Ellis Island Sound - Mombassadorf
• Bell Orchestre - Nuevo
• Bell Orchestre - Throw It on a Fire
• Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra La La La Band - Horses in the Sky
• Mogwai - Pale Vegan Hip Pain
• Laura Cahen - Je Reste
• Feed LA - Früh
• Mary Ocher - I Am the Occupation
• Omertà - Au Commencement
• Robert Ascroft - Where Did You Go
• Blackwater Holylight - All I Need
• Bluffing - Nature
• Cliché Toupee - Farsh
• Soft Location - Let the Moon Get Into It
• MALLED - Stirrings
• Holy Void - Salvation

Apologies for the hard-to-hear introduction: The mic was muted and was fixed after that.

An eclectic one this week, starting with healing sounds from Singular Balance, moving through a throwback to Chad VanGaalen's Flemish Eye debut, sharing a mini-tribute to the great David Lynch, and wrapping with a pair of instrumental protest songs. Complex moods for a complex day—hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Singular Balance - Healing
• Ryan Lottermoser - Butterfly of the Night No. 4
• Kilometre Club, featuring Hollie Kenniff - Airliner - shn shn Remix
• Mary Ocher - Love is Not a Place
• Moshimoss - Ocean in the Palm
• Test Card - Summer vanishes once a holiday
• EYE - La Mort de la Maîtresse
• Arrangement - New Life
• T. Gowdy - Strewn
• Ex-Easter Island Head - Norther
• Philip Clemo - Maze
• Marshall Allen, featuring Neneh Cherry - New Dawn
• T2 - J.L.T.
• Zacht Automaat - Standing Stoned
• Echolalia - Blood Moon
• Chad VanGaalen - Graduated Assassin
• Chad VanGaalen - Human Totem
• Eiko Ishibashi - Coma
• Ada Lea - Come On, Baby! Be a Good Girl for the Camera
• The Space Lady - I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night
• Chrystabell, David Lynch - The Answers to the Questions
• Julee Cruise - Falling
• Lou Reed - This Magic Moment
• David Lynch - Wishin' Well
• Jonnine - As You Sleep By My Feet
• Joni Void, featuring Sook-Yin Lee - Vertigo
• Various Artists, featuring Harmonische-23 - B33
• Bristol Manor - Shadows & Form
• SUSS - This Land is Your Land
• Bill Frisell - We Shall Overcome

This week's episode has a (slightly misguided) hour-long spotlight on sounds from 1984 to celebrate CJSW's 1985 FM debut—but what better way to celebrate an amateur campus and community station than with a minor flub and great music. Happy anniversary, CJSW!

Playlist:

• Masayoshi Fujita, featuring Moor Mother - Our Mother's Lights
• Zeta II Reticulli - Teacozy 1
• Veryan - One Universal Breath
• Various Artists , A Person Disguised As People, featuring Moat Bells - Psych FM8E
• Kiasmos - Sisteron
• Various Artists, Catch & Release Records, featuring Laura Palmer - A Poem
• Kush K - being soft is your biggest asset
• Stelar Door - Saw Hollow
• Angell & Crane - Swingjugend
• This Mortal Coil - The Last Ray
• Cocteau Twins - Pepper-Tree
• Felt - Spanish House
• Various Artists, featuring Illegitimate Sons of Christ - In One Move
• New Order - Thieves Like Us
• Leonard Cohen - The Law
• Ohama - Part In Peace
• Ohama - Of Whales
• Haroumi Hosono - Androgena
• Holger Czukay - The Photo Song
• Michael Rother - Flammende Herzen
• Organic Pulse Ensemble - Passing Phase
• Badge Époque Ensemble - Lujon
• Polyphonic Exophilia - Staring at the Sun
• Jack Erin Brown - Code Grey
• SAULT - Signs
• Bobby Hughes Combination - Olympic Girls
• Vinyl Williams - Pure Imagination
• Gum Country - Brain Song
• Sleepkit - Human Rhythm
• Art d'Ecco - The Traveller