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Weekly radio show on @cjsw.bsky.social hosted by @peterhemminger.com. Offbeat easy listening to start your week right. Live at cjsw.com every Monday morning from 7-10am MT, or stream past episodes at https://linktr.ee/the.am Based in Treaty 7.
Adrian Younge is worth mentioning here, too. Deeper collaborations, tighter genre focus, but still a career that seems built around working with as many of your idols as reasonably possible. JID is such an incredible project.
Electronic music is a genre that was started and shaped by women, so on International Women's Day, here are some Bandcamp recommendations for women making some of the best electronic music you can get today. π§΅
Working on next week's episode, and in honour of International Women's Day, here's a playlist of 75 songs from projects that entirely or prominently feature women. Mostly recent but some less so, starting off in dreamy ambient, folk, and neo-classical, but gradually drifts more towards rock & psych.
Working on next week's episode, and in honour of International Women's Day, here's a playlist of 75 songs from projects that entirely or prominently feature women. Mostly recent but some less so, starting off in dreamy ambient, folk, and neo-classical, but gradually drifts more towards rock & psych.
Has any musician collaborated with as many all-timers as Damon Albarn? Makes me wonder why more artists donβt take the same approach, it seems like itβd be a blast.
Februaryβs AM-approved new releases. Ft. Shane Parish, Fabiano do Nascimento, Lammping, Momoko Gill, The Golden Age of Wrestling, Maria BC, Nick Schofield and more. Give it a skim, then find βem on Bandcamp.
Apple Music: music.apple.com/ca/playlist/...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/3th...
Excellent project! Thanks for including @cjsw.bsky.social.
A pattern made of line drawings of vintage radios.
I'm happy to share a new project βΒ The Golden Age of Community Radio. It's a directory of awe-inspiring stations across the world that I discovered while promoting an album last year. It's also a resource for other musicians wanting to find new places to send their music. radio.surfacepressure.net
.Canadian ..Local (Calgary) Hour One: 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 Hayes Bradley - Dear Treasure - Yu Su Remix ..NUM - Blue Yakuza Jacuzzi - Jade Emperor's Peach Garden, Pt. 1 ..Bristol Manor - Life on Other Planets Hour Two: Fabiano Do Nascimento & Vittor Santos Orchestra - O Tempo (Foi O Meu Mestre) Mulatu Astatke - MunayΓ© (My Muna) Tamikrest - Adagh Oyantid .Population II - Magouilleux .Bibi Club - Les vagues Kourosh Yaghmaei - Akhm Nakon Kourosh Yaghmaei - Tavalode Yek Seda Dera Yidririm & Grup Simsek - Cool Hand Ali and Charif Megarbane - Bandar Batavia .Angine de Poitrine - Fabienk Hour Three: Annette Peacock - Solar System Salami Rose Joe Louis - Crow, Friendship, with Trio .Pick a Piper - Histerica Historica ft. Mabe Fratti 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 - Tanz das Kraut
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.
Listen: theam.ca/post/8100260...
Hour One: Luke Kokoszka - An Invitation to Desire ChloΓ© Antoniotti - Heimat Gustaf Ljunggren, Skuli 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 Hour Two: Adrian Younge - Portschute Cochemea - Pyramid of the Sun Nilza Costa - Ramunha ARTU & Akim Bamboo - Jaguar Jagun Sean Wolcott - Last Glow of the Peony Lantern The Olympians - Saraswati Puja ft. Indro Roy-Chowdhury The Chayns - Live with the Moon The Chayns - See It Through SOYUZ - Lingua Do Mundo Bruno Pernadas - Untitled (raindrops) Voka Gentle - Jude Law for Vogue (1995) Chocolat - Melanie Zacht Automaat - Standing Stoned Hour Three: Ginger Wizard - Styrax Ginger Beef - Golden Hour (feat. Brendan McGuigan) Made-Up - A Moment in Time Lammping ft. Marker Starling - Once in Sunlight Yamila - Diamonds Ora Cogan - Division Massive Attack - Paradise Circus Maria BC - Marathon P. Rosa - Bleeding Earth Peggy Lee & Cole Schmidt - It Will Come Back
Last time The AM was on the air (last week), there was no snow on the ground in Calgary and you could be forgiven for thinking it was already spring. Today thatβs obviously not the case.
But hopefully todayβs episode makes a frozen February morning a little more bearable: theam.ca/post/8093992...
Is there anything more soothing than @peterhemminger.com spinning @theam.ca on a Monday morning? Me thinks not.
Tools like Suno are (mostly) about wanting to consume something, not express something. Itβs a different impulse. People who want to create will still create.
Movietone, The American Analog Set, Softcult, Helicon & Al Lover, Yuutsu, Expwy, Ulrika Spacek, The Moon Birds, Would-Be-Goods, Got a Girl, Absolutely Free, and a Feist family day classic.
Stream the whole thing on @cjsw.bsky.social: cjsw.com/program/the-...
Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection, Luke Temple, Momoko Gill, Thanya Iyer, Whiling, Elyse Weinberg, Cheryl Lancastle, Stereolab, Lyke Rayne, The Sleeves, Cindy Lee...
Spotify playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/62R...
Featuring: Masahiro Takahashi, Bill Holt, Dreamsploitation, Contagious Yawns, The Album Leaf, Silje Nes, Tacoma Park, Natural Magic, Easy Idiot, Floral Image, Untrained Animals...
Apple Music playlist: music.apple.com/ca/playlist/...
This week 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.
Links: theam.ca/post/8087411...
Chuck Blazevic really is a phenomenal musician. For some reason I always forget about Slow Attack in favour of Youβll Never Get to Heaven and Dreamsploitation (which I coincidentally played on this morningβs show) when I think of his projects, but all three are excellent.
Jah Wobble & John Klein, Florence Adooni, Penza Penza, Panman Pat, JoΓ£o LeΓ£o, Edu Lobo, Wax MAchine, Skyminds, Tremendous Aron, King Khan, The Garrys, and La Luz.
Apple podcast link: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
...Sean Wolcott, No Birds, Bell Orchestre, Cassie Watson Francillon, Charles Stepney, L'Eclair, Slim Twig, Strawberry, Sleepkit...
Spotify playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/62R...
Featuring: Chad VanGaalen playing prepared piano, Shane Parish, Autechre, Elori Saxl & Henry Solomon, NTHNL, John Haughey & Tarotplane, Polmo Polpo, Bernard Grancher, Postnamers, Galaxius Mons...
Apple Music playlist: music.apple.com/ca/playlist/...
Here's yesterday's AM on @cjsw.bsky.social, in case you overslept and missed it or otherwise overlooked it. Ambient, psychedelic, harp jazz, four-track soul, imaginary soundtracks, and other spirit-soothing sounds await.
Listening links and track list: theam.ca/post/8082219...
Donβt mind me, Iβm just sidestepping the zeitgeist.
First Iβve listened to Sean Walcott, but Crystal Eyes Stalk at Midnight is a very solid mix of vintage horror soundtrack and Axelrod psych-jazz.
seanwolcott.bandcamp.com/album/crysta...
A couple more to consider:
Pullman β III: Warm, fuzzy post-rock
pullman.bandcamp.com/album/iii
Erik Hall βΒ Solo 3: Hypnotic neo-classical covers
erikhall.bandcamp.com/album/solo-t...
Jelena ΔiriΔ et al βΒ Tramuntana Tapes II: Low-key, ambient pop
modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/tramun...
John Haughey & Tarotplane - Errata
woodfordhalse.bandcamp.com/album/wf-98-...
Back to the collabs, and just released today: A bit like '90s halcyon beats filtered through '80s Rother/Roedelius kosmische production. Great stuff, however you describe it.
The Soft Pink Truth β Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?
thesoftpinktruth.bandcamp.com/album/can-su...
Matmos' Drew Daniel's take on chamber music, with a guest spot from Bill Orcutt. This one caught me off guardβa direction I wasn't expecting, pulled off with real sophistication.
Fabiano Do Nascimento & E Ruscha V - AquΓ‘ticos
music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/aqu-ti...
Fabiano also has a breezier Latin jazz album due this month, but this collab with LA producer Eddie Ruscha is a bit hazier. Still as melodic as you'd expect from the two, and wonderfully textured to boot.
HIfIklub & Alain Johannes - Mocomono
libraryoftheoccult.bandcamp.com/album/mocomono
January was a good month for collaborations. This one on Library of the Occult reminds me of early 2000s Constellation in the best sort of way, atmospheric guitar, haunted but in a way that lures you into its world.
Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick β Tragic Magic
marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/album/tragic...
Expansive, slow-moving harp and synth that is so very easy to get lost in. Gorgeous originals plus covers of Vangelis and (Roger) Eno.
Bandcamp Friday snuck up on me this month, but here are a few albums from January that are worth supporting: