Monday May 31st

Holy crap! What a show. We had tons of guests today! If I had known so many people were coming in, I would have made hors d'oeuvres. Fried eggs and bacon on crackers, or something.

The music we heard:

Mulatu Astatke // The Way to Nice
Charles Spearin // Ondine**
Black Keys // Black Mud
Sam Cooke // (Ain't That) Good News
Brad Mehldau // Capriccio**
Anat Cohen // What a Little Moonlight Can Do
Timber TImbre // Lay Down in the Tall Grass**
Montag // Plus Grand Que
Jaga Jazzist // Oslo Skyline**
Beach House // Zebra
Broken Social Scene // World Sick
Phosphorescent // Hej, Me I'm Light**
Spirituals // Are you Devo? (Sweet Remix)**
Walter Schreifels // She Is to Me
Islands // The Arm
Manitoba// Kid, You'll Move Mountains
Momo //
Woods // Til the Sun Rips
Idlers // Merchants; Wonderwars
Calloused and Cavalier // Cobwebs
Bent By Elephants // Breaks (instrumental)**; Victor
Pearly Gate Music // Navy Blues
Pocahaunted // UFO**

**Denote favorites...

People We Met:

The Idlers: This ten-piece band from St. John's, Newfoundland, brought tales of traversing the road in a pickle-colored 15-passenger van, about how big Canada is (there is a lot of Canada, apparently,) and of playing for groups of high school students who've perfected acting bored but burst into total chaos when the sweet sounds of ska hit their ears... The Idlers can be tracked at idlers.ca; check out their totally entertaining blog at that site; and see them live at Dickens' Pub tomorrow night (Tuesday, June 1st) and the Palomino on June 17th.

Derek and Distance from Music in the Park: These dudes partake in organizing the Music in the Park festival every year, check it out in Riley Park on June 27th. You can find out more at thehousecoffee.ca.

Marilyn Potts, Director, the Midnapore Cycles: St Mary's University College is back with another interesting piece of theatre, occurring in the style of a medieval cycle play, wherein the audience follows the actors place-to-place in a specifically sited production. Check it out at http://themidnaporecycle.com/. Performances start June 10th and run til June 13th.

Talk to all y'all next week--

Love
Dane

More volcanoes

Though it has nothing to do with the show, it has everything to do with the blog. Mt. St Helens - all these pictures are worth seeing, and they are glorious, sizeable and high quality, but this one's the icing on the cake:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/mount_st_helens_30_years_ago.html#photo37

I am absent this week as am in Toronto, so thank you to Nathan for covering. I will be back next week with something that will sweeten yr back-to-sleep dreams, or make you wanna jump out of bed and attack the week; either way it will be better than ambrosia salad.

Dane

MAy 17th and Peter Schryvers interview

Today we heard:

Alice Coltranne // Journey into Satchidananda
Arboreal Quartet // Theme; Lucky
Max Roach // Garvey's Ghost
Roy Haynes // Quiet Fire
Bud Shank & Clare Fisher // Misty
Polar Bear // Peepers
Radio Dept. // The Video Dept.
Tortoise // TNT Takemura Remix
Kate Nash // Do-Wah-Doo
Sally Saltmann // Book Song
Emma McKenna // Happiness**
Alberta Cross // Theif & the Heartbreaker**
Le Husky // Le Monde Est Rouge
T-Love // On My Mind
heRajiKa tracks // I Believe
Final Fantasy // This Lamb Sells Condos**
Olive Oil // Pianity
Marvin Gaye // Ain't That Peculiar
Let Me Play Guitar // Beauty
Youthless // Golden Age
Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson // To Sit Down or to Follow, So I Follow
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros // 40 Day Dream
Digable Planets // Dog It
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings // I Learned the Hard Way
Flying Lotus // And the World Laughs With You
Most Serene Republic // Vessels of a Donor Look
Bonnie Prince Billy & the Cairo Gang // The Sounds are Always Begging

This morning I spoke with Peter Schryvers, community planner with the Belline Planning Group, a standing committee of the Beltline community association. He can be reached at communityplanner@beltline.ca. The group meets every 2nd Tuesday to discuss issues related to planning policy in the Beltline, including park space, streetscape and transit. Drop him a line if you want to do something about something!

Talk to all y'all next week.

Dane

Appendix A & B

A couple of notes on yesterday's playlist:



Here's the interview with Gonjasufi that was discussed on air:
http://pitchfork.com/news/38024-rising-gonjasufi/

Here is the link to Spirituals' page, where you can listen:
http://www.myspace.com/tylertadlockspirituals

Monday, May 10th

Hey all-

Today we had a guest co-host on the show named Nathan who selected several tracks, most notably the jazz in the middle and some of the funk at the end. It was great to have somebody in the booth so that I didn't back myself into any corners on air.

Today we heard:

Tortoise // Seneca**
Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass // Meeting Along the Edges**
Department of Eagles // Sailing by Night; Noam Chomsky Spring Break 2002; the Piano in the Bathtub
David Byrne + Brian Eno // Regiment
Rafter // A-Frame
Polar Bear // Want to Believe Everything
Oliver Nelson // Hoedown
Tony Williams Lifetime // Big Nick
Sidney Poitier // The Philosopher Kings
Willie Bobo // Fried Neck Bones & Some Home Fries
Holy Fuck // 1MD; Red Lights**
Deadly Snakes // Gore Veil
Bill Callahan // My Friend
Coeur de Pirate // Ensemble**
Richard Thompson // Sights & Sounds of Londontown**
Laura Veirs // Ether Sings**
Clues // Perfect Fit**
The Abramson Singers // Take a Camera**
The Veils // Sit Down by the Fire**
Gonjasufi // Change
Dead Prez // Happiness
Sound Directions // Wanda VIdal
Detroit Sex Machines // The Stretch
Ogyatanaa Show Band // Disco Africa
Caribou // Odessa**
Spirituals // Wanderings**
Battles // Race In**
Parlovr // Pen to Paper **

**Denotes this week's favourites... they are unlimited!

Til next Monday.

Dana

I think we may hear:

This is Holy Fuck's video for the song "Latin America" off their new album, Latin. What does this have to do with Latin America? Not sure. We'll hear something off this album, though, Monday morning.