Katharsis July 28 '08

The recording for this week's show can be found here

Extra heavily weighted towards ambient/psychedelic music this week. Dim the lights and strap on the cans. Feel free to zone out.

Artists played (plus error corrections and interesting tidbits): Fax (vocals by Florencia Ruiz), Klimek, Pivot, Azeda Booth, Bitcrush (from Enarc), Fax (aka Rubén Tamayo not Ricardo Tamayo; whoops), Women, Belong, Christopher Bissonnette (Same Places - Slow Version), Lawrence English, Yellow Swans, Aidan Baker & Jakob Thiesen, Dixie's Death Pool (Lee Hutzulak now lives in Vancouver, but some of Scarlet Lake was recorded while he still lived in Victoria), Twine (Endormie - check out the video here), Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson, and Tim Hecker.

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Katharsis July 21 '08

Hooray! The recording worked this week (get it here)...

Katharsis begins around the 6 min. mark on the recording. Artists played: Calexico*, Tanya Tagaq, The Middle East, The Luyas, Torngat*, A Hawk & A Hacksaw*, Andrew Bird*, The Neighborhood Council, One Little Plane, The Consonant C*, Lotte Kestner, Great Lake Swimmers*, James Yorkston (he's Scottish not Irish and Paul Webb from Talk Talk produced his Year of the Leopard cd, not Mark Hollis; yikes, sorry!), Woodpigeon*, Neil Halstead, Tindersticks, Lucid 44, Bonnie Prince Billy, James Blackshaw (from London, not Leeds; ey-yi-yi...), and Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh. My memory was obviously misfiring this night.

* Artists appearing at this year's Calgary Folk Music Festival (this week)

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Emberexi

In the absence of recent show recordings I have a link to some fantastic mixes by an old friend…

Some longtime listeners or local scenesters may remember Joel Danielson from his involvement with the l’hiver events here in Calgary, or his work with many local bands such as Red Not Evil, Woodpigeon, Francis Cheer, or his own Bumblebee project. Joel also dj trained on Katharsis and went on to host his own late night show on cjsw for a time. Over the last while he has been working away on a series of mixes as a creative outlet while he prepares for a relocation to China. I’ll let him describe it:

some of you may know about this project, some may not yet... anyway here's the news:

i've completed a second series of mixes for the emberexi moniker i began to use about three years ago for my music compilation and djing.the first series, "pain vs progress" was an attempt at creating emotional moments that seem to fit with significant milestones throughout the process from life to death. each of the 12 mini-mixtapes in that series had a unique title beginning with a letter of the alphabet, from A to L, and the titles tell the life story:

- a child is born
- birthday cake
- chills and high fever
- daddy was your first word
- every second wind knocked out
- friends move away so chase them
- get on a plane to somewhere
- hurry home before dark
- internal bleeding
- journal entries
- know the enemy
- last will and testament

the second series is called "amphibiography" and contains 14 mixes with titles beginning with letters M through Z, picking up where the previous series ended.

- morning has barely broken
- natural disposition
- oneiric discourse
- panic / boredom
- quality is of an intentional order *
- reflections of a watered silk
- science of signs
- textuality ***
- une sorte de curiosité
- visages et figures ***
- words instead of fingers
- xiang ***
- yet glottic
- zone of language

* 33 minute dj mixset
*** cd-length dj mixsets

amphibiography seemed a fitting title for the second series, because it picks up the life story, moving beyond the death of the first series into a new plane of existence. just as amphibians exist both on land and water, so we as humans with spirits live not only on earth, but also in a spiritual realm. living beyond our senses, running parallel with the divine, is a mystery i wanted to continue exploring in the second series.

interestingly, the word "amphibiography" showed up in an online thesis paper by a student who studied roland barthes and semiotics, which is the field of study of symbols and meaning. the titles are bits of text either taken from the essay, or from quotes of roland barthes himself. the study of symbols is very much a part of my every day learning in design, communication, music and culture, and the way we interpret things visually relates very strongly to the meaning and direction of a spiritual life.

so there's the story.

http://emberexi.org

please feel free to share this link with anyone you know who might be interested in a boatload of great electronic music i have been digging up for years. there's so much great stuff out there.

disclaimer - none of the music was produced by me (except for two tracks produced under my "bumblebee" moniker, one in "friends move away so chase them", and one in "reflections of a watered silk").

ps - emberexi is an anagram of "bee mixer".

enjoy.

+

joel

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Katharsis July 14 '08

The automated recording failed again (sorry)...

and I haven't been able to figure out the problem yet (something is making wget cut out). For those keeping track, this week I played: Elliott Brood, The Ramblin' Ambassadors, Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir, Quest for Fire, The Walkmen, Eef Barzelay, Fleet Foxes, Amiina, Bill Hetherington & The Asian Tigers, Iron & Wine, SJ Esau, The Notwist, Jan Jelinek, Twine, Azeda Booth, Colophon, Yellow 6, Jasper TX, and Jesu.

I'll do my best to get the recording working again.

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Katharsis July 7 '08

Unfortunately something interrupted the recording after the first half hour...

All that was captured this week was Eric’s Trip (end of Aubrey’s Shindig leftover), Wooden Shijps, The Black Angels, Indian Jewellery, Deerhunter, Beach House, and Frightened Rabbit (chopped off). It's a shame too as the rest of the show featured Erik Enocksen, Holler Wild Rose, Slaraffenland, Swell, Damien Jurado, Seaworthy, Grizzly Bear (remixed by Efterklang), Colleen, Chieko Mori, Tara Jane O'Neil & Daniel Littleton, James Blackshaw, Adrian Klumpes, Voice of the Seven Woods, and Sam Phillips.

Hopefully next week's show will be available for download in its' entirety.

If the link expires just leave a comment and I'll re-upload.

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Katharsis June 30 '08

Have a listen.

Sled Island was amazing and I am still recovering; hence a particularly mellow set tonight: Adem, Clinton St. John, Tanya Donelly, Joan of Arc, RF & Lili De La Mora, Vlor, Triosk Meets Jan Jelinek, Arve Henriksen, Dixies’s Death Pool, Eric Chenaux, Dosh, High Places, The Bird Ensemble, Trespassers William, Gregor Samsa, Eluvium, Solo Andata, Chihei Hatakeyama, Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto, Fleet Foxes, and Emmylou Harris.

If the link expires just leave a comment and I'll re-upload.

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