Katharsis Dec. 18 '11 (The Week Before Chrismas Edition)

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The tracks: Idaho - Santa Claus is Weird from "Levitate" (Idahomusic), Benoît Pioulard - Nod from "Lasted" (Kranky), Antonymes - Snow on Snow from "Festive Greetings from Hibernate & Home Normal" (Hibernate & Home Normal), Two People in a Room - Holiday on Air Force One from "Two People in a Room" (Home Normal), The Boats - Once in a Royal Boats City from "Festive Greetings from Hibernate & Home Normal" (Hibernate & Home Normal), Clem Leek - Away in America from "Festive Greetings from Hibernate & Home Normal" (Hibernate & Home Normal), Devin Underwood + Marcus Fischer - Snow on the Streets from "Correspond" (Distance Recordings), Esmerine - Snow Day for Lhasa from "La Lechuza" (Constellation), Rivulets - This Christmas from "Stray Songs: 2000-2010" (Self-Released), Sufjan Stevens - That Was the Worst Christmas Ever from "Songs for Christmas, Vol. III" (Asthmatic Kitty), Don Peris - A Hymn for Christmas (unreleased), Hauschka - Wonder from "Snowflakes & Car Wrecks" (FatCat), Helios - Isoline from "Songs About Snow" (Unseen Records), Fjordne - Snow Angels from "The Last 3 Days of Time" (Dynamophone), Foxes in Fiction - Snow Angels from "Swung From the Branches" (Moodgadget), Lisa Germano - Snow from "Magic Neighbor" (Young God), Kele Goodwin - Snow from "Hymns" (HUSH), Anna Rose Carter + Christopher Bailey - Go Tell it on the Mountain from "Festive Greetings from Hibernate & Home Normal" (Hibernate & Home Normal), Konntinent w/ Leyli - Snowfall (Doris Day cover) from "Festive Greetings from Hibernate & Home Normal" (Hibernate & Home Normal) Wil Bolton - Coventry Carol from "Festive Greetings from Hibernate & Home Normal" (Hibernate & Home Normal), Offthesky - O Holy Night from "Festive Greetings from Hibernate & Home Normal" (Hibernate & Home Normal), Kate Bush - Snowflake from "50 Words for Snow" (Fish People), Beaten By Them - Damp Sky 3 from "People Start Listening" (Logicpole), Jesu - Christmas (Pale Sketcher Remix) from "Christmas EP" (Avalanche), Jasper TX & Anduin - ...Walking in Snow from "The Bending of Light" (SMTG), Saycet - Daddy Walks Under the Snow from "Through the Window" (MVS Records).

Timothy Heck will be filling in for the next two weeks (Christmas Day and New Years Day). Should be fantastic - do tune in.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! I'll be back January 8.

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Katharsis Dec. 11 '11

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The tracks: Russian Circles - 309 from "Empros" (Sargent House), Daniel Thomas Freeman - The Devil Would Steal Your Joy from "The Beauty of Doubting Yourself" (Home Normal), David Tagg - Return of the Light from "Return of the Light" (Taâlem), Lawrence English - October 1 - The Hunting Life from "The Peregrine" (Experimedia), Deaf Center - The Day I Would Never Have from "Owl Splinters" (Type), Pimmon - Passing Never To Be Held from "The Oancome Orbit" (Room40), Beaten By Them - Damp Sky 4 from "People Start Listening" (Logicpole), Loom - Grown from "Epyllion" (Self-Released), Matthew A. Wilkinson - Western Land from "Namers" (Self-Released), Hurricane Bells - Flowers in the Dirt from "Tides And Tales" (Invisible), Itsnotyouitsme - The Fate of the World Rests in the Hands of a Tiny Animal from "Everybody's Pain Is Magnificent" (New Amsterdam), King's Daughters and Sons - Lorelei from "If Then Not When" (Chemikal Underground), Bry Webb - Zebra from "Provider" (Idee Fixe), Ferriswheel - Dusty Gentle Creature from "Un Peu Au Nord Et Sans Distorsion" (4th Avenue), Denison Witmer - Light On My Face from "The Ones Who Wait" (Mono vs. Stereo), Nils Frahm - Pause from "Felt" (Erased Tapes), Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Track 1 from "Conversations with Myself" (Shining Skull), Laura Arkana met Peter Broderick - De Mooiste Tijd Van Het Jaar from "Lentemusiek" (HUSH), Swod - Insel from "Drei", (City Center Offices), Threadbare, Brother - Down in the Coals from "When the War is Through" (Self-Released), and Clem Leek - The Diary I Never Kept from "Lifenotes" (Drifting Falling).

Sorry about the unreliability of the stream recordings lately. Hopefully we can get it sorted out.

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Katharsis Dec. 4 '11

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The tracks: Cass McCombs - Robin Egg Blue from "Humor Risk" (Domino), Clouds Echo in Blue - The Sound at the End of the World from "Clouds Echo in Blue" (Self-Released), Bry Webb - Undertaker from "Provider" (Idee Fixe), Penny Blacks - Homefire Ashes from "Harbour" (Self-Released), Lullaby for the Working Class - Inherent Song from "Song" (Bar/None Records), Indoor Voices - They Said from "Nevers" (Self-Released), Low - Laser Beam from "Live at Eindoven EP" (Chairkickers Union), Ólöf Arnalds - With Tomorrow/I'm On Fire (medley of Gene Clark/Bruce Springsteen covers) from "Ólöf Sings" (One Little Indian), Taylor Deupree + Marcus Fischer - In a Place of Such Graceful Shapes from "12k Promo 002" (12K), Royal City - They Came Down from "Royal City 1999-2004" (Asthmatic Kitty), Great Aunt Ida - Your Window from "Nuclearize Me" (Dead House Plant), M. Mucci - Returning is Always Best from "The Secret is Knowing When to Close Your Eyes" (Private Chronology), King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Your Own Spell from "Diamond Mine" (Domino), Matt Elliott - Dust Flesh and Bones from "The Broken Man" (Ici d'ailleurs), Offthesky - Now We're Nowhere from "The Beautiful Nowhere" (Hibernate), King's Daughters and Sons - Sleeping Colony from "If Then Not When" (Chemical Underground), Charles-Eric Charrier - 6I from "Silver" (Experimedia), Piiptsjilling - Utsakke Bui from "Wurdskrieme" (Experimedia), Dixie's Death Pool - Sunlight Is Collecting On My Face from "The Man With Flowering Hands" (Drip Audio), Infinite Light Ltd. - The Sophic Putrefaction from "Infinite Light Ltd." (Denovali), Bitter Fictions - Glacial (YYC) from "Looper Pedal Blues" (Shaking Box), Higuma - Burning Colors from "Pacific Fog Dreams" (Root Strata), Fourcolor - Iris (Familiar) from "As Pleat" (12K), The Riderless - Old House Hung-up from "Atelier Gild" (King Haxi), and Field Rotation - Regenzeit I from "Regenzeit 10 inch" (Denovali).

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Katharsis Nov. 27 '11

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The tracks: Crooked Fingers - Your Apocalypse from "Breaks In The Armor" (Merge), Indoor Voices - If I Die from "Nevers" (Self-Released), Dixie's Death Pool - Sky Woman's Directive from "The Man With Flowering Hands" (Drip Audio), Piiptsjilling (Jan & Romke Kleefstra, Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek), and Mariska Baars (Soccer Committee)) - Unkrûd ('Ill Weeds') from "Wurdskrieme ('Cry of Words') (Experimedia), David Grubbs - To Know a Veil from "Strade Trasparenti Original Soundtrack" (Staubgold), Psychic Pollution - PPamb00 Track 3 (amb3 0111-) from "PPamb00and01" (Self-Released), Bitter Fictions - Rung from "Looper Pedal Blues" (Shaking Box), Disappears - New Fast from "Guider" (Kranky), Efrim Manuel Manuck - Heaven's Engine is a Dusty Ol' Bellows from "Plays "High Gospel"" (Constellation), Ghosts I've Met - Slanted Light from "From A Spark" (Yer Bird), Threadbare, Brother - Try to Make You Understand from "When the War is Through" (Self-Released), Small Sur - How I Love You from "Tones" (Bandcamp), Bonnie Prince Billy - Black Captain from "Wolfroy Goes To Town" (Drag City), Ed Cooke - St. Augustine (with Stephen Lewis) from Spirit House (Rural Colours), Ox - Tuco Pt. 69, from "tuCo" (Cosmic Dave's), Grouper - A Lie from "A I A : Dream Loss" (Yellowelectric), Peter Broderick and Machinefabriek - Session III (Angelige Noaten) from "Mort Aux Vaches" (Mort Aux Vaches), Marcus Fischer - Cascadia Obscura from "12k Promo 002" (12K), Lawrence English - December 24 - Frost's Bitter Grip from "The Peregrine" (Experimedia), Tim Hecker - Sketch 9 from "Dropped Pianos" (Kranky), Itsnotyouitsme - Will the Water Save Us Now? from "Everybody's Pain Is Magnificent" (New Amsterdam), and Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason - Unbreakable Silence from "Solaris" (Bedroom Community).

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Katharsis Nov. 20 '11

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The tracks: Wilco - One Sunday Morning from The Whole Love (Anti-), Royal City - Postcards from Royal City 1999-2004 (Asthmatic Kitty), Atlas Sound - Doldrums from Parallax (4AD), Frederick Squire - All Things Past Serve to Guide You On Your Way from Sings Shenandoah and Other Popular Songs (Blue Fog), Ólöf Arnalds - She Belongs to Me (Bob Dylan cover) from Ólöf Sings (One Little Indian, Black Eagle Child - A Different River from Lobelia (Preservation), Christina Vantzou - And Instantly Take Effect from No1 (Kranky), Cella Chest - This House from Cella Chest (Nostomania), Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society - The Grey Sea and the Long Black Land from We Don't Look Back For Very Long (Hidden Shoal), Mr. Gnome - Winter from Madness In Miniature (El Marko), Braids - Peach Wedding from Braids/Purity Ring 7" (Fat Possum), Danny Paul Grody - Union from In Search of Light (Students of Decay), Great Aunt Ida - Noonday Sun from Nuclearize Me (Dead House Plant), Jesse Sparhawk - When in the Heights from Or Kestrel (Bandcamp), Owen - The Armoire from Ghost Town (Polyvinyl), Oliveray - Dreamer (Tiny Vipers cover) from Wonders (Cote Labo), Our Broken Garden - Nightsong from Golden Sea (Bella Union), Tape & Bill Wells - Fugue 3 from Fugue (Immune), W.W. Lowman - Gnawsh from Kumquat Way (Atavistic), The Luyas - Worth Mentioning from To Beautiful To Work (Dead Oceans), Tokyo Bloodworm - People Do It to Each Other from Palestine (Moteer), Two Bicycles - Exiled from The Ocean (Crash Symbols), and Tycho - Epigram from Dive (Ghostly International).

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Katharsis Nov. 13 '11

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Sorry for the late start. After the cjsw pudding ID, the tracks were: Charles-Eric Charrier - 9 Moving, Denison Witmer - Cursing, Danny Paul Grody - Orbits, Bonny Prince Billy - New Whaling, Ox - Love Theme From A 70's Movie, M. Mucci - Having to Leave is the Hardest Part, Kammerflimmer Kollektief - A Different Kind of Thermal, Dark Captain - Long Distance Driver, Mazzy Star - Common Burn, Pieta Brown - How Much of My Love, Marissa Nadler - The River (Bruce Springsteen cover), Oliveray - You Don't Love, Oliveray - Piano in the Pond!, Richard Ginns - Riverbank, Rue Royale - Knocked Back to the Start, Tiny Ruins - Pigeon Knows, The Middle East - Months, Tim Hecker - Sketch 2, Rhys Chatham - Outdoor Spell, itsnotyouitsme - It might be time to leave this place and go mingle with our heroes, Aaron Martin - Blue Light, Scissors and Sellotape (interpreting Aaron Martin) - Blue Light (Fluoro Mix), and Danny Norbury (interpreting Aaron Martin) - Wires and Glass.

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Katharsis Nov. 6 '11

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The tracks: The Barr Brothers - Give the Devil Back His Heart, [the] Caseworker - Little Good it Did You, Charalambides - Desecrated, Hammock - Sinking Inside Yourself, Fennesz - Shift, Antonymes meets Slow Dancing Society - As if Viewed from a Distance, Tim Hecker - Dropped Pianos Sketch 5, James Blackshaw - Holly, Crooked Fingers - Heavy Hours, Kinder Scout - Epilogue, Illuha - Aikou, Jacaszek - What Wind-Walks Up Above!, F.S. Blumm/Lucrecia Dalt - Quizas, Perhaps, Quizas, FareWell Poetry - All In The Full, Indomitable Light Of Hope (Part II), Glenn Jones - My Charlotte Blue Notebook, Goldmund - Amazing Grace, Broken Harbour - The Ballad of Dave Bowman Part 2, Jannick Schou - Act of Shimmering, Nils Frahm - Old Thought, and Peter Broderick - Eyes Closed and Travelling.

Sorry about the unreliability of the stream recordings lately. Hopefully we can get it sorted out.

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Katharsis Oct. 30 '11

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The tracks: A Winged Victory for the Sullen - We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced for the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year, Lüüp - Cream Sky, Raleigh - Savant, Infinite Light Ltd. - Vision of God in a Cowbarn, Charalambides - Wanted to Talk, Jefre Sei Getsu Ledesma - Untitled II, Lawrence English - The Peregrine Side B (January 30 - Grey Lunar Sea, Febraury 10 - the Roar Ceasing, March 16 - Heavy Breath of Silence, April 4 - And He Sleeps), Dark Captain - Fade, Tim Hecker - Sketch 1, My Cat is an Alien - Untitled 3, Atlas Sound - Praying Man, Charles-Eric Charrier - 21 Echoes Short, 16 Horsepower - American Wheeze (Radio session recording from 1995, originally appeared on V/A - Radio Asylum Vol. 1, deleted), Barn Owl - Midnight Tide, Evan Caminiti - Reflections in Puddles, Jacaszek - Goldengrove, Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason - Simulacra II, Benoît Honoré Pioulard - Calder, and Christina Vantzou - Adversary.

Sorry about the glitchyness in the streams lately. Hopefully we can get it sorted out.

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CJSW 2011 Funding Drive

It's here again; my annual funding drive show is Sunday October 23 from 8pm-midnight and the funding drive only goes until Friday. The theme this year is cjsw 90.9fm Call of the Dial! (with artwork by Dirty Donny)

For one week every year we take a break from being the best radio station anywhere, and ask you, our listeners, to help us out.

All the money raised during our annual Funding Drive campaign goes towards our capital budget (like it always does), paying for everything from upgrading our web servers (we're really trying to keep ahead of the exponential growth in the number of people trying to listen online), to maintaining our 4000 watt fm broadcast tower, to our CD players (commercial grade cd players and parts are becoming harder to source), our headphones, and all the other costs associated with running a radio station. For more info on the why's of funding drive please read this.

Operators are standing by to take your calls. If you would like to donate on my show but won't be able to listen (too busy, on the other side of the world, etc.), we'd be happy to accept your pledge online.

As in previous years, there is a great variety of pledge incentives. I have compiled some virtual (downloadable) funding drive compilations. For each paid $25 pledge amount you a get an emailed link to the zip file (ex. $25 = one zip file of your choice, $100 = all 4). I will be able to offer some additional cd's, LP's, or other goodies as incentives for pledges over $75. I have set a bunch of great cd's and vinyl records aside (at least I think they're great... for example Experimedia was very generous to us this year). For those of you outside of Calgary, the station will mail your pledge incentives to you.

Feel free to donate early and donate often; it all goes to the same worthy cause: keeping cjsw in good financial shape and on the air for another year. Certain incentives do tend to go fast (ex. women's t-shirts) so if you want to ensure the best selection feel free not to wait for my show on Sunday.

Thanks very much for your support!

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Katharsis for Hedgehogs Oct. 16, 2011

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A wonderful showfill tonight from Timothy Heck. Be sure to listen next week for the annual funding drive show. Timothy will be helping me out.

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Katharsis Oct. 9 '11

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The tracks: Apparat - Ash/Black Veil, I Break Horses - Hearts, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Beautiful Thunderbolt (Moon Gazing in Your Skull), Nils Frahm - More, Lanterns on the Lake, Keep on Trying, Idaho - Reminder, Federico Durand - Mi pequeño mundo de papel, Contact (performing Jordan Nobles) - Stasis, Anja Garbarek - The Diver, Clogs - Ukifune, Unkle - Chaos (ft. Atlantique Khan vocals and Mark Hollis piano), James Yorkston - Us Late Travellers, Fennesz + Sakamoto - 0328, Allinson Brown - Piano (ft. Mark Hollis piano), Miles Davis - In a Silent Way, Talk Talk - Eden, Chihei Hatakeyama - Alchemy, Zelienople - Moss Man, Sleeping Dog - He Loved to See the World Through His Camera, and Clouds Echo in Blue - The Sound at the End of the World.

As mentioned, much of this show was inspired by the news that Ba Da Bing records is re-releasing Talk Talk's "Spirit of Eden" and Mark Hollis' self-titled solo record on 180g vinyl. Read more about it here, and learn more about the incredible story of Talk Talk/Hollis' last recordings here.

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Katharsis Oct. 2 '11

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The tracks: Wilco - I Might, Disappears - Free As I Want, Wooden Shjips - Black Smoke Rise, Moon Duo - Fallout, Swervedriver - Son of Mustang Ford (1989 Demo), Mohammad - Tectónica, Daniel Thomas Freeman - Staring Into Black Water, Daniel Thomas Freeman - Staring Into the Light, Ambrose Field & John Potter - Je vous pri, Alva Noto - Xerrox Monophaser 2, Steinbrüchel - N-Variations-05, Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose - Introduction, Clem Leek - Home Outside, and Julia Kent - Missed.

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Katharsis Sept. 25 '11

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The tracks: Muscox - Lutonian Knights I, Guitar - José, Dalot - A Letter, Bellows - Handcut #8 (untitled), Félicia Atkinson - Green & Grey, I'm A Tree - No Move, Bedhead - Inhume, The Besnard Lakes - Winter Never Comes (The Corner), Viva Voce - A Viking Love Song, M. Mucci - Selmun Bay, Lowercase Noises - Farewell, Greg MacPherson - Lost at Sea, Infinite Light Ltd. - The Bullet Sent to Kill Me is Already on its Way, Charles-Eric Charrier - Rumi Des Sables, Bill Orcutt - How the Thing Sings, - Glenn Jones - A Snapshot of Mom, Scotland 1957, Kinder Scout - Second Half, James Blackshaw - Boo, Forever, and John Fahey - Requiem for John Hurt.

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Katharsis Sept. 18 '11

Was under the weather this week. Fortunatly Myke agreed to fill in for me and did a fantastic show. Have a listen here: mp3 ogg

I don't have a track list but I know he played some beautiful music by James Blackshaw, Tarentel, Wyrd Visions, Mt. Eerie, Barnowl and the Infinite String Ensemble, Steinbruchel, Stars ogf the Lid, and an amazing track off of Bruce Cockburn's (1969) debut album.

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Katharsis Sept. 11 '11

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The tracks: Dalot - The Blue Car, Minamo and Lawrence English - Luminous, Apparat - A Bang in the Void, Guitar - Reggae Days, bvdub - We Said Forever, A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Symphony Pathetique, Gemma Hayes - Sorrow Be Gone, Fennesz + Sakamoto - 0327, Jumpel - Madrid, Maps & Diagrams - Drake's Departure, Pete Swanson - Cocktail Champion, Leyland Kirby - No Longer Distance Than Death, Our Broken Garden - Warriors of Love, Spartak - Tweezer, Jasper TX - White Birds, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Witch Head Nebula, Soccer Committee - 3rd Cross Festival (live) Track 5, Two Bicycles - Visions, and Thalassing - Thalassing.

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Katharsis Sept. 4 '11

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The tracks: Marissa Nadler - Mr. John Lee Revisited, Mathieu Charbonneau, Andre Ethier, Rebecca Foon - The Sunset and the Rainbow, Barn Owl & the Infinite Strings Ensemble - Foghorns, Richard Buckner - Ponder, Benjamin Dauer - Crown of Sparks, Christian Kjellvander - Freighter Boat Blue, Julia Kent - Guarding the Invitations, David Tagg - Harmonic Exchange, Idaho - What Was That?, Lotte Kestner - To Be the One (Idaho cover), Grouper - Water People, Stephan Mathieu - A Static Place (Original Mix), Our Broken Garden - Seven Wild Horses, Damian Valles - The Waves That Destroy, Laura Barrett, Mark Hamilton, Cadence Weapon - The Humble Fawn, Fink - Yesterday Was Hard on All of Us, Guy Gelem - Sixth Tide, Olga Goreas, Shadrack Kabango, Jace Lasek - Sunblood, Noveller - Blue, Kyst - Seasons/All is Different, Gianna Lauren - Cardigan, Spartak - Morning Prayer, and Ryan Teague - Loophole (Fig. 1).

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Katharsis Aug. 28 '11

There was supposed to be a showfill tonight, but...

apparently he forgot. So there was some prerecorded music. Hopefully it was better than last week.

I will be back next week.

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Katharsis Aug. 21 '11

Due to a scheduling mix-up (a miscommunication on my part) there was no Katharsis tonight and no showfill (sorry)...

To fill the time there was 2 hrs. of prerecorded 70's prog rock (how unfortunate).

I will hopefully have a proper showfill next week.

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Katharsis Aug. 14 '11

Great news! We have the tentative go ahead to start sharing the show recordings again. I'll start with this week's. If you'd like me to upload previous weeks as well let me know via the comment box or email. Thanks for your patience.

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The tracks: Idaho - Impaler, The Banjo Consorsium - Tuesday Cracker, Fjordne - Awakening, Epic45 - Summer Message, Films - Light, Gemma Hayes - Ruin, Gold Panda - Like Totally, Good Night and Good Morning - Sleep Green, Hallock Hill - Fossil, Sun Kil Moon - Gentle Moon, Nick Jonah Davis - Mari Christina, Nick Rivera - Happy Song is a Happy Song, Tara Jane O'Neil & Nikaido Kazumi - Nursery, Two Bicycles - Window #4, Two People in a Room - Holiday on Air Force One, A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Steep Hill of Vicodin Tears, Aidan Baker - Remembered Time, Sue Garner & Rick Brown - Absorbed, Bellows (Giuseppe Ielasi & Nicola Ratti) - Untitled #8, Barn Owl & the Infinite Strings Ensemble - Condensation, Fields Awake - Oh It Turns, Andrew Hargreaves - Trained By Kindness, and Benjamin Dauer - Transient Pool.

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Katharsis Aug. 7 '11

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The tracks: Songs:Ohia - The Body Burned Away, Ryan Teague - White Nights, Early Day Miners - The Purest Red, Harris Newman - Driving All Night with Only My Mind, She Keeps Bees - Make You My Moon, Des Ark - Two Hearts Are Better Than One, Saito Koji - Count, 3ofmillions - Her Subtlety In My Subconscious, KlumpesAhmad - Her Lovers and My Letterhead, Keith Fullerton Whitman - Multiples Track 5 (Untitled), Adrian Klumpes - Alone, Thalassing - Three Arcs, Tarentel - Harmonics (live @ the Jazz House, Berkeley CA, July 24 '04), Rafael Anton Irisarri - Distance, Devin Underwood + Marcus Fischer - Wind, Ed Cooke - The Stolen Mirror, Biosphere - Oi-1, Fink - Who Says, Esmerine - A Dog River, Fridge - Tone Guitar and Drum Noise, Tonstartssbandht - Hymn Eola, and Fourcolor - Ecru Diver.

Show recording available upon request.

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Katharsis July 31 '11

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The tracks: Bodies of Water - One Hand Loves the Other, Idaho - Structure, The Wooden Birds - Warm to the Blade, Vetiver - Can't You Tell, Sam Phillips - Happy Mediums, Daniel Isaiah - Ogygia, Christian Kjellvander - The Truth, The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh, Offthesky - Tired of Sleep, Marissa Nadler - Wind Up Doll, Marconi Union - Losing the Light, Lüüp - Horse Heart, Guy Gelem - Sixth Tide, Federico Durand - Atardecer En Las Montañas, Fennesz - Shift, Bvdub - & Ian Hawgood - Nothing You Want Will Ever Come True, Barn Owl - Devotion I, Alexandre Navarro - Likaah, Amman Abbassi - Bismillah, Beggin Your Pardon Miss Joan - Fos efistà tin skóros (Light draws the moth), Black Eagle Child - Paper Delivery, and Chihei Hatakeyama - Spilth.

Show recording available upon request.

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Katharsis July 24 '11

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The tracks: 13 & God - Et Tu, Holzkopf - Keep Me Up At Night, Amon Tobin - Journeyman, Implex Grace - Capricia, Emanuele Errante - Later Earlier, Loscil - Cheekye, World's End Girlfriend - Unfinished Finale Shed, Ólöf Arnalds (feat. Björk) - Surrender (Radio Edit), Kreng - Balkop, Lilium - Miles Away, Grouper - Dragging the Streets (first heart tone), Ian Boddy & Parallel Worlds - Hidden, Blanck Mass - Raw Deal, Two Bicycles - Moon Colours, Christine Fellows - Marr Lake, Maps & Diagrams - Secrets of the Shore, Noveller - Tuesday Before Poland, Phonophani - Nold, Cheer - Unvarnished, Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek - Session III (Angelige Noaten), and Ryan Teague - Reprise.

Show recording available upon request.

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Katharsis July 17 '11

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The tracks: Frederick Squire - Every Dollar Bill Could Kill Me, The Wooden Birds - Long Time To Lose It, David Bazan - Strange Negotiations, Thighs - Walking Out on the Call of Townhouses, Christian Kjellvander - Bad Hurtn, Snailhouse - In the Beginning, David Tagg - The Embracer, Jasper TX - Weight of Days, Matt Christensen - Now You Have Won/I'm the One, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - The Honeybees in My Heart, Esmerine + Patrick Watson - Snow Day for Lhasa, Fourcolor - Snow Petal, Dustin O"Halloran - Opus 38, Kris Ellestad - Niko, Teruyuki Nobuchiko - Water Ring, Andrew Hargreaves - With Some Liberties, Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Rustin Man, Charles-Eric Charrier - Daye d'été, He Can Jog - Three Sketches, Alice Lewis & Frederic D. Oberland - Johnny Guitar, Jóhann Jóhannsson - They Being Dead Yet Speaketh, and Jannick Schou - 19.17.

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Katharsis July 10 '11

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The tracks: King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Bubble, Ida - Kora, Dale Morningstar + Chad Ross + Sophie Trudeau - Simple Things, The Riderless - Life Internal, Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose - Younger, Jim Guthrie + Sarah Harmer + Bry Webb - Long House, Senking - Run, The Sea and Cake - Inn Keeping, Gardens & Villa - Chemtrails, Bodies of Water - My Hip Won't Let Me, Viva Voce - No Ship Coming In, Vetiver - Soft Glass, The Alps - Instant Light, Tara Jane O'Neil & Nikaido Kazumi - Kaheeloud, Carousell - Artery, Esmerine - Sprouts, Dakota Suite & Emanuele Errante - No Greater Pain, Kris Ellestad - Shame, Efrim Manuel Menuck - Heaven's Engine is a Dusty Ol' Bellows, Federico Durand - Los Niños Escriben Poemas En Tiras De Papel Rojo, Fink - Warm Shadow, Idaho - A Million Reasons, and Kangding Ray - La Belle.

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Katharsis July 3 '11

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The tracks: Sean McCann - Floating Abbey, Cadence Weapon + Laura Barrett + Mark Hamilton - Ohkoomii, Andre Ethier + Rebecca Foon + Matthieu Charbonneau - The Sunset & The Rainbow, Bry Webb + Jim Guthrie + Sarah Harmer - Long Time, Olga Goreas + Shadrach Kabango + Jace Lasek - Sunblood, Should - Awake at Night, The Green Kingdom - Wetlands, Noveller - Glacial Wave, Marrissa Nadler - Daisy Where Did You Go?, Matthew Cooper - Camille and the Ocean, Idaho - The Setting Sun, M. Ostermeier - Retreating Night, Lotte Kestner - Black Metallic (Catherine Wheel cover), Marsen Jules - A Moment of Grace, Jenny Hval - How Gentle, Myrmyr - Hot Snow-2, Myrmyr - Hot Snow-3, Daniel Knox - Slowly, Yellow 6 & David Newlyn - Miniature 6, and Mark Templeton - Mort Aux Vaches.

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Katharsis June 26 '11

This was a very special week. First up, Halifax-based singer/songwriter Gianna Lauren graced us with a beautiful live in-studio performance (thanks Gianna!). DJ trainee cam took over the rest of the show for his final week on Katharsis. All the best Cam in your radio future!

The tracks: Gianna Lauren - Become What You Can't Be (live in studio), Gianna Lauren - Stand Still (live in studio), Gianna Lauren - Morning After (live in studio), Gianna Lauren - Cardigan (live in studio), Gianna Lauren - Hold Your Horses, Burning Hell - Report Card, Flogging Molly - The Heart of the Sea, City and Colour - We Found Each Other in the Dark, Stabilo - Don't Be So Cold, The Dudes - Good Intentions, Kings of Leon - Fans, The Beautiful Girls - I Thought About You, The Fratellis - Flathead, Gorillaz - 5/4, The Trews - Hope and Ruin, State Radio - Riddle in Londontown, Michael Bernard Fitgerald - Change the World, Sarah Harmer - Silver Road, The Temper Trap - Soldier On, K-OS - Hallelujah, KO - Good Man, Bad Man, The Arkells - I'm Not the Sun, Swimming with Dolphins - Water Colours, The Fray - Elanor Rigby, Minus the Bear - Into the Mirror, and Counting Crows - A Murder of Crows (acoustic).

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Katharsis June 19, 11

This week, DJ Trainee Cam took over the first hour...

The tracks: Kirby - The Good Fight, Daniel Wesley - Outlaw, The Decemberists - This Is Why We Fight, The Luyas - Too Beautiful to Work, Blind Pilot - Go On, Say It, The Kooks - Luby Loo, Teenage Kids - Lose Your Head, John Jenkins - 50 Dollars, Right On Yukon - Never Learned to Love, Death Cab for Cutie - Door Unlocked and Open, The Doves - Caught By the River, Sweet Thing - We're on Fire Tonight, Jay Malinowski - Songs Never Sung, Echo - The Hush Sound, Flow - Cage the Elephant, Castanets - Down the Line Love, Snailhouse - Valley of Tears, Gianna Lauren - We Were Displaced, Doug Paisley - Come Here My Love, Sarah Vahn - Deafened, Ryan Teague - Singular, Cass McCombs - The Lonely Doll, Chris Bathgate - Salt Year, Cam Penner - Driftwood (Reprise), Vetiver - Worse for Wear, The Phoenix Foundation - Wonton, Boris - Aileron, and Des Arc - FTW y'all.

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Katharsis June 12 '11

Still getting caught up...

The tracks: Amon Tobin - Lost & Found, Phonophani - Vuku, Rene Hell - Chamber Force, Jóhann Jóhannsson - Freedom from Want and Fear, Sleepingdog - Polish Love Song, Aidan Baker - Substantiated, Richard Moult - Part II, Richard Skelton - Ford, Lüüp - Cream Sky (Hummingbird remix one), Simon Bainton - Warm Peninsula, Simon Bainton - Sun Settings Pt. I, Strië - Fading Away, Kangding Ray - Leavalia Scheme, Murcof - Reflejo, Vladislav Delay Quartet - Presentiment, Taylor Deupree - Live:Brisbane, Nicola Ratti, Untitled #1, AGF + Craig Armstrong - Sleep, Úrsula - Capítulo Siete, and Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ionoscan.

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Katharsis June 5 '11

Yet another old playlist...

The tracks: Efrim Manuel Menuck - I Am No Longer A Motherless Child, Dead Meadow - Hard People/Hard Times, EMA - The Grey Ship, Clinton St. John - Hillock On A Devil's Shore, Implodes - White Window, Thurston Moore - Space, Senking - Run, City Centre - After Hours, David Bazan - Don't Change, Ilyas Ahmed - Ignored the End, Jennifer Castle - Powers, Snailhouse - Apple, Pan American - Leftalone (2ème), Raleigh - Without Wings, Samantha Savage Smith - Devilman, Thao & Mirah - Hallelujah, Bombino - Adounia (Life), Kurt Vile - Peeping Tomboy, Lawrence English + Stephen Vitiello - Christening the Blackbird, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - John Taylor's Month Away, Loscil - Black Tusk, Matt Christensen - Simple Lives Mean Nothing, and Peter Wright - Evil Earth Hum.

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Katharsis May 29 '11

This week my DJ trainee, Cam, contributed some musical selections...

The tracks: Guster - On the Ocean, TV on the Radio - Keep Your Heart, John Butler Trio - Losing You, Matt Pond - Spring Fawn, Chad vanGaalen - Sara, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald - Velvet Man, Thao and Mirah - Little Cup, Clock Opera - Belongings, AU - RR vs. D, Chris Bathgate - Poor Eliza, Bonnie Prince Billie and the Cairo Gang - Island Brothers, Cass McCombs - Memory's Stain, Bladwellmusic - Outlet, Winter Light - Nattvardsgästerna, Prefuse 73 - The Only Way to Find, bvdub - The Past Disappears, Hauschka - No Sleep, M. Ostermeier - Ngth, Dreissk - Disappearance, John Praw - Vokaler, Desolate - Pain, and Lüüp (remixed by Field Rotation) - Spiraling.

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Katharsis May 22 '11

Yet more housekeeping...

The tracks: Alela Diane - Of Many Colors, Bill Callahan - Baby's Breath, Okkervil River - The Rise, Cam Penner - Gypsy Woman, Fleet Foxes - The Shrine/An Argument, Loscil - Stave Peak, Marrisa Nadler - Mr. John Lee Revisited, Raleigh - Murderer, The Middle East - Very Many, Jennifer Castle - Way of the Crow, Trespassers William - Flicker, The Riderless - Blues with a Flower, Robbie Basho - Rocky Mountain Raga, James Blackshaw - Cross, Alexander Tucker - Craters, Kris Ellestad - Niko, Black Eagle Child - Porch Screens, Matt Christensen - Lazy Angel, Noveller - Almost Alright, Charles-Eric Charrier - Spider, David Newlyn - Clarity, and Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Reverso.

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Katharsis May 15 '11

Still catching up...

The tracks: Prefuse 73 - The Only Guitar to Die Alone, Senking - Rachel, Fourcolor - Quiet Gray 1, Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Naona, Sleepingdog - Polish Love Song, Shaula - Haze Which Wanders in the Beautiful Sea, Emmanuel Witzthum - With Strings Version 1, ww.lowman - Lakegirl, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - The First Time I Saw Your Face I Thought It Was A Dying Star, Tim Hecker - In the Fog II, Implodes - Experiential Report, Efrim Manuel Menuck - August Four Year of Our Lord Blues, Devin Underwood + Marcus Fischer - Crystal Radio, EMA - Kind Heart (Robert Johnson cover), Sarin Smoke - Russian Waterfall, and Low - Witches.

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Katharsis May 1 '11

Still catching up...

The tracks: Hauschka - Subconscious, Wires Under Tension - Mnemonics in Motion, Heinali - Icarus, Antonymes - The Door Towards the Dream, Prefuse 73 - Hand to Hold, John Praw - The Rookie, ALily - Kaiser and Bowser, Gold Panda - Drone, Stina - Dim, Rene Hell - Adagio for String Portrait, Tape & Bill Wells - Fugue 1, Tim Hecker - Studio Suicide, 1980, Sleepingdog - Kitten Plays the Harmony Rocket, Mountains - January 17, Mark McGuire - Skies, Matthew Cooper - Reprieve, Lüüp - See You In Me, Kris Ellestad - August 8th 2008, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Your Own Spell, Shearwater - Missing Islands, and Lawrence English + Stephen Vitiello - Exposed in Relief.

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Katharsis April 24 '11

I'm still trying to get caught up...

The tracks: Cam Penner - Driftwood, Damien Jurado - Go First, David Bazan - Eating Paper, Dodos - Don't Stop, Banjo or Freakout - Dear Me, Belong - Very Careful, John Praw - Bomullspinnar, Broken Water - Kansas, Deaf Center - Close Forever Watching, Emphemetry - After Catalunya, Ekkehard Ehlers & Paul Wirkus - Guma, Max Richter - Erik Sleeping, Black Eagle Child - I Forgot, David Grubbs - You Could Look It Up, Lillium - Whitewashed, Antonymes - Doubt, Clouwbeck - Oxide, Duke Garwood - God's in my Shoes, The Riderless - Sojourn/Grace Note, Bill Callahan - One Fine Morning, Bombino - Ahoulaguine Akaline (I Greet My Country), Beggin' Your Pardon Miss Joan - At Dawn, Danielson - Hosanna in the Forest, and Six Organs of Admittance - Poppies.

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Katharsis April 17 '11

Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been busy...

The tracks: Bibio - Saint Christopher, Belong - Come See, Pantha Du Prince - Stick to my Side (Walls Version), Tim Hecker - No Drums, Sleepingdog - Horse Lullaby, Thomas Fehlman - Titan, Rene Hell - Juliard Op. 66, Mark Fell - Multistability 6-A, Tristan Perich - 1-Bit Symphony: Movement 1, Colin Stetson - The Righteous Wrath of an Honorable Man, Minamo - Live in Tokyo, April 11, 2010, Stephan Mathieu - Schwarzschild Radius (original mix), Lüüp - Spiraling, The Luyas - Canary, Strië - Fragments of the Past, Kyle Bobby Dunn - Canyon Meadows, Low - Especially Me, Wye Oak - Plains, Matthew Cooper - Into Dust, The Riderless - A Loud Sound Long Continued, and Grouper - Wind Return.

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Katharsis Apr. 10 '11

As per cjsw request there will be no new links to download the show recordings until further notice. Sorry folks...

The tracks: Wire - Red Barked Trees, Moon Duo - Fallout, Bitter Fictions - Backwards History, Eleventh Dream Day - Sonic Reactor, The Constantines - Why I Didn't Like August 93 (Elevator to Hell cover), The Black Angels - Science Killer, Disappears - Not Romantic, Pillowdiver - Fifteen, Banjo of Freakout - I Don't Want to Start Over Again, Radiohead - Little By Little, Sonic Youth - Dans Les Bois/M. Rabier, May McDonough - Church on Sunday, Timber Timbre - Lonesome Hunter, Chad VanGaalen - Beehives, David Tagg - Wolf Suite I, Sleepingdog - Untitled Ballad of You and Me, The Middle East - Ninth Avenue Reverie, Mark Kozelek - Australian Winter, Devin Underwood + Marcus Fischer - Crystal Radio, Popol Vue - Spirit of Peace (20+ min. version), and Goldmund - Motion.

Hopefully we can reinstate sharing of the show recordings again soon. I see it as an invaluable service to both followers/listeners of the show and the artists/labels whose work I feature on the show.

If you feel strongly about this new policy let cjsw know.

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Katharsis Apr. 3 '11

As per cjsw request there will be no new links to download the show recordings until further notice. Sorry folks...

The tracks: Au vs. Masanka Sankayi - Two Labors, Au - Ida Walked Away, Bill Callahan - Baby's Breath, Bombino - Assalam Felawan (Peace to You), Akron/Family - Light Emerges, Andrew Hargreaves - Handwritten Notes, Six Organs of Admittance - S/Word and Leviathan, Matthew Barlow - For a Season, Dan Arborise - Around in Circles, Federico Durand - El éxtasis de las flores pequeñas, Emanuele Errante - Later Earlier, Fond of Tigers - Upheaval, Duke Garwood - Larry, Ilyas Ahmed - Some of None, Tape - In Valleys, Sidi Touré - Haallah, Carousell - Owl Lanterns, Julianna Barwick - Vow, Jacaszek - Elegia, Nicola Ratti - Nordich, and Higuma - Moraine.

Hopefully we can reinstate sharing of the show recordings again soon. I see it as an invaluable service to both followers/listeners of the show and the artists/labels whose work I feature on the show.

If you feel strongly about this new policy let cjsw know.

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Katharsis Mar. 27 '11

As per cjsw request there will be no new links to download the show recordings until further notice. Sorry folks...

The tracks: The Low Anthem - Love and Altar, A Hawk and a Hacksaw - Lajtha Lassú, Julianna Barwick - Bob in Your Gait, King Creosote - Twin Tub Twin, Christine Fellows - Un Canadien Errant, Animal Collective vs. Kasai Allstars - Quick as White, Animal Collective (Deakin) - Country Report, Monolake - Reconnect, Bvdub - Towers Rise to the Sky, Federico Durand - Atardecer en las montañas, Low - Nightingale, Epic45 - The Village is Asleep, Benoit Pioulard - Drowsy, MOSS (Molly Berg, Olivia Block, Steve Roden, Stephen Vitiello) - Live 09-18-2010, Higuma - Solstice, Kurt Vile - Baby's Arms, Banjo or Freakout - Fully Enjoy, The Luyas - Moodslayer, Wye Oak - Fish, Sonic Youth - Jean-Baptiste et Laetitia, and Aidan Knight - The Sun.

Hopefully we can reinstate sharing of the show recordings again soon. I see it as an invaluable service to both followers/listeners of the show and the artists/labels whose work I feature on the show.

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Katharsis Mar. 20 '11

As per cjsw request there will be no new links to download the show recordings until further notice. Sorry folks...

The tracks: Tujiko Noriko + Lawrence English + John Chantler - Hyouga, Scott Tuma - True History, Six Organs of Admittance - Hold But Let Go, Timmy Straw - Victorville, Émilie Proulx – Si tu penses à moi, Peter Broderick - Pause, Janus - I Am Not (Blank): III. Not, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Celladoor, Ensemble - Valse Des Objets Trouvés, Cuong Vu 4-Tet - Something (George Harrison cover), The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Dimension, Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Welk, John Tchicai with Strings - Formalism, Polar Bear - Finding Our Feet, His Name Is Alive - Juba Lee Brown, Tarentel - Harmonics (live at the Jazz House, Bercley CA, July 24 '04), Food - Chimaera, Erik Truffaz - Dead Sea Stories, The Inhabitants - Threes, Tim Hecker - In the Air III, and Arve Henriksen - Glacier Descent.

Hopefully we can reinstate sharing of the show recordings again soon. I see it as an invaluable service to both followers/listeners of the show and the artists/labels whose work I feature on the show.

If you feel strongly about this new policy let cjsw know.

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Katharsis Mar. 13 '11

As per cjsw request there will be no new links to download the show recordings until further notice. Sorry folks...

The tracks: The Low Anthem - Wire, Sylvie Proulx - Light Motif (by Roland Dyens), Mark Kozelek - Third and Seneca, Tiny Vipers - Eyes Like Ours, Ryan Francesconi - Parallel Lights, David Grubbs - Eyeglasses of Kentucky, Danny Paul Grody - Natural West, Luxury Pond (Dan Goldman) - River, Jenny Hval - Golden Locks, Radiohead - Codex, Anreas Martin - Untitled, Emanuele Errante - Counterclockwise, A Setting Sun - Sun Hammer Pounding, Duke Garwood - Gengis, Colin Stetson - Clothed in the Skin of the Dead, Rhys Chatham - My Lady of the Loire, Morphine - Down Love's Tributaries, Belong - Common Era, Barn Owl & the Infinite String Ensemble - Condensation, M. Ostermeier - Central, Marsen Jules - Panoptique, Nico Muhly - Mothertongue: I. Archive, and Olafur Arnalds - 3055.

Hopefully we can reinstate sharing of the show recordings again soon. I see it as an invaluable service to both followers/listeners of the show and the artists/labels whose work I feature on the show.

If you feel strongly about this new policy let cjsw know.

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Katharsis Mar. 6 '11

As per cjsw request there will be no new links to download the show recordings until further notice. Sorry folks...

The tracks: Banjo or Freakout - Go Ahead, SubtractivLAD - Boy, Rachel Goodrich - Popsicles, Arms & Sleepers - Rire Jaune, Jenny Hval - Milk of Marrow, Lawrence English + Stephen Viteillo - Christening the Blackbird, Six Organs of Admittance - Brilliant Blue Sea Between Us, Snowblink - Ambergris*, Rafael Anton Irisarri - Moments Descend on My Windowpane, Trespassers William - Tomorrow on the Runway (Innocence Mission cover), Jay Crocker - Beaver Hat Man, Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - L'aventure, Bersarin Quartet - The Deep and Lovely Quiet (rework of a SubtractivLAD track), Penelope (Sarah Kirkland Snider + Shara Worden + Signal) - Nausicaa, Johann Johannsson - Fordlandia, King Creosote - And the Racket They Made, The Green Kingdom - Bonfire (tec), Loch Lomond - Alice Left with Stockings and Earrings*, Beggin Your Pardon Miss Joan - Poppies, Damian Valles - Rural Routes, Deaf Center - Fiction Dawn, and Carinthia - Come Now, Let Us Leave.

* Forgot to mention these tracks during my announcements (sorry).

Hopefully we can reinstate sharing of the show recordings again soon. I see it as an invaluable service to both followers/listeners of the show and the artists/labels whose work I feature on the show.

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Katharsis Feb. 27 '11

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The tracks: Akron/Family - Fuji II (Single Pane) & Canopy (two tracks from Akron/Family II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT), Christine Fellows - Février, Sarah Greene - In the Nighttime, Alicia Hanson - In Armies, Dolorean - How is it, Les Jupes - This Place Owes Us, Twilight Singers - Never Seen No Devil, Herion - Two Minutes to Sunrise, Kurt Vile - Society is My Friend, Wye Oak - Holy Holy, Nils Frahm - Ambre, Erik Truffaz - Let Me Go! (Sophie Hunger guest vocals), *AR - Rise, Ass - One Piece Concept, Christian Naujoks - Maladies, Erik Enocksson - II. Non Lupi, Christopher Hipgrave - Strange Attractor, Félicia Atkinson - Lakes and Losses, Fieldhead - An Arrow (Anneke Kampman guest vocals), Grouper - Vessel, Heather Woods Broderick - Left, and Solo Andata - A Ballet of Hands.

The links to the archived show recordings should be good for up to a month from the show date. If the links expire just let me know via comment and I'll re-upload them.

Unfortunately the cost of using free file sharing sites such as mediafire is possible exposure to questionable advertising in the form of nasty pop-ups (sorry). Prior to visiting the download links above I highly recommend installing and using pop-up, flash and ad-blocking extensions in your web browser on top of solid antivirus/internet security protection. Doing so hides/blocks all of that garbage.

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Katharsis Feb. 20 '11

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The tracks: Colin Stetson (w/ Shara Worden) - Lord I Just Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, Ensemble - Before Night, Gareth Davis & Machinefabriek - Grower (Part I) [Rutger Zuydervelt is actually from Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, not Berlin (sorry)], Pixel - +40° 42 24.12 -73° 59 51.18, Felix - Back in Style (Port Royal remix), Gold Panda - Snow & Taxis, Radiohead - Bloom, Foxes in Fiction - Memory Pools, Films - Water Horse, Janus - Drawings for Meyoko, The Green Kingdom - Radiance Reflected (The Boats remix), Tim Hecker - In the Fog I, Xela & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love is a Voice, Good Stuff House - Untitled (2), Akira Rabelais - As Fingers Trace Around the Rim of a Colourless Sky, Beggin' Your Pardon Miss Joan - I Am the Messenger, Sidi Touré - Bera Nay Wassa [Honor Goes Straight To His Heart], Donato Epiro - Il Primo Cerchio (from the split LP with Black Eagle Child on Blackest Rainbow), and Bitter Fictions - Slip Away.

The links to the archived show recordings should be good for up to a month from the show date. If the links expire just let me know via comment and I'll re-upload them.

Unfortunately the cost of using free file sharing sites such as mediafire is possible exposure to questionable advertising in the form of nasty pop-ups (sorry). Prior to visiting the download links above I highly recommend installing and using pop-up, flash and ad-blocking extensions in your web browser on top of solid antivirus/internet security protection. Doing so hides/blocks all of that crap.

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CJSW Listener Survey

In an effort to better serve our listeners, CJSW is currently undertaking a comprehensive listener survey.

No matter if you are a new listener, a lapsed or infrequent listener or a devoutly regular listener, we want to hear from you. What are your favourite programs? (hopefully Katharsis is one) What do you like? What do you dislike? How can we do better? Please head on over to the cjsw listener survey site and let us know.

The survey runs until midnight, March 4, 2011. There are incentives for filling out a survey but the main incentive should be improved programming.

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Katharsis Feb. 13 '11

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The tracks: Efterklang - Horseback Tenors, Patrick Watson - Hommage, Bell Monks - Hear the Bells, [The] Caseworker - The Kick, Bedhead - Bedside Table, The Dyeing Merchants - Tides, Maps & Diagrams - Drake's Departure, Machinefabriek - Kreupelhout, Braids - Lammicken, Konntinent - Down with Candy, Calla - Pulverized, Jüppala Kääpiö - Souffle, Noveller - Redgrave, The Veils - Iodine and Iron, Jay Crocker - I've Just Destroyed the World, Snowblink - Bulb for Later, Émilie Proulx - Les États, Crato - 30.6.1881, Lhasa - Bells, The Young Scamels - Be Not Afeard, Wires.Under.Tension - Сказал, Сказала, The Twilight Singers - Be Invited, and The Fun Years - Cornelia Amygdaloid.

The links to the archived show recordings should be good for up to a month from the show date. If the links expire just let me know via comment and I'll re-upload them.

Unfortunately the cost of using free file sharing sites such as mediafire is possible exposure to questionable advertising in the form of nasty pop-ups (sorry). Prior to visiting the download links above I highly recommend installing and using pop-up, flash and ad-blocking extensions in your web browser on top of solid antivirus/internet security protection. Doing so hides/blocks all of that crap.

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Katharsis Feb. 6 '11

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The tracks: Exploding Star Orchestra - Three Blocks of Light, Inhabitants - Whistling Pass, Erik Truffaz - The Secret of the Dead Sea, Herion - Oxg, Dakota Suite & Emanuele Errante - The North Green Down VI, Donato Epiro - Loro Della Linfa Io Del Sangue, Good Weather for an Airstrike - Motions, Foxes in Fiction - 15 Ativan (Song for Erika), Sarin Smoke - Single Stepping the Death Trail, Doug Burr - Topeka, Deaf Center - New Beginning (Tidal Darkness), Timmy Straw - Chariot for Eric, Kyle Bobby Dunn - Runge's Last Stand, Ensemble - Imprints, Tim Hecker - In the Fog III, Fabio Orsi - Please Could You Hide That Ghost Noise, and Oval - Salamanca.

The links to the archived show recordings should be good for up to a month from the show date. If the links expire just let me know via comment and I'll re-upload them.

Unfortunately the cost of using free file sharing sites such as mediafire is possible exposure to questionable advertising in the form of nasty pop-ups (sorry). Prior to visiting the download links above I highly recommend installing and using pop-up, flash and ad-blocking extensions in your web browser on top of solid antivirus/internet security protection. Doing so hides/blocks all of that crap.

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Katharsis Jan. 30 '11

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The tracks: Radian - Chimera, Mogwai - Rano Pano, Sonic Youth - Escapades, Disappears - New Fast, Friendo - Pass Times, Bitter Fictions - In Absence, Weekend - Veil, Damian Valles - Antumbra, Fabio Orsi - Tropfen, Lavinia - Destroy Yourself, Ø (Mika Vainio) - Heijastuva, A Setting Sun - Raspberry, Bell Monks - Solace, Orcas (Rafael Anton-Irisarri & Benoît Pioulard) - Until Then (Broadcast cover), Benoît Pioulard - Shoals, Talk Talk - I Believe in You, Spheruleus - Frost, Herion - Cab, *AR - Return, Snowblink - Stand Where A Fruit Tree Drops The Things It Does Not Need, Black Eagle Child - Canoeing, and Frederick Squire - What's That Over There A Dead Rainbow?.

The links to the archived show recordings should be good for up to a month from the show date. If the links expire just let me know via comment and I'll re-upload them.

Unfortunately the cost of using free file sharing sites such as mediafire is possible exposure to questionable advertising in the form of nasty pop-ups (sorry). Prior to visiting the download links above I highly recommend installing and using pop-up, flash and ad-blocking extensions in your web browser on top of solid antivirus/internet security protection. Doing so hides/blocks all of that crap.

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Katharsis Jan. 23' 11

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The tracks: Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Where You End & I Begin, Theologian - Unfamiliar Skies, Tim Hecker - Hatred of Music I, Noveller - Fades, BvDub - The Past Disappears, Murcof - Cometa, Bass Communion - Litany 1-403-1204, Jacaszek - Tren IV, Richard Skelton - Voice of the Book, The Green Kingdom - Thoughts and Bells (3:07 am dub), Low - Shame, The Young Scamels - In Virtue Than In Vengeance, Supersilent - 11.2, Soul Whirling Somewhere - God in Heaven, Seaworthy & Matt Rosner - Termeil Lake, Rivulets - Can't I Wonder (solo), Richard A Ingram - The Consolamentum, and Rob Theakston - I Am Waiting For You To Stop Being Mad At Me (Offthesky Reconstruction).

The links to the archived show recordings should be good for up to a month from the show date. If the links expire just let me know via comment and I'll re-upload them.

Unfortunately the cost of using free file sharing sites such as mediafire is possible exposure to questionable advertising in the form of nasty pop-ups (sorry). Prior to visiting the download links above I highly recommend installing and using pop-up, flash and ad-blocking extensions in your web browser on top of solid antivirus/internet security protection. Doing so hides/blocks all of that crap.

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Katharsis Jan. 16 '11

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The tracks: David Daniell + Douglas McCombs - The Deshabille, PM Glimm - The Sun Is Asleep (Maybe You Should Be Too), Savoy Grand - Glen A Larson, The Dyeing Merchants - In Dreams, Eluvium - Crash Deconstructed, Odessa Chen - The Weight, Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto with Ensemble Modern - Broken Line 2, Johan G Winther - Chasing Kingdoms, Timbre - Like Spinning Plates (Radiohead cover), Zelienople - Chase Scene, Konntinent - Wire Cutter Heart, Nils Frahm - Corn, Harold Budd + Ruben Garcia + Daniel Lentz - La Muchacha de los Sueños Dorados, Lokai - Volver, Ian Hawgood - Piece For Wind Chimes, Grand Valley State University - Zinc (Terry Riley's In C remixed by Zoe Keating), Witxes - Six Pears, Antony and the Johnsons - Flétta (duet with Björk), Janus - Keymaster, Dan Arborise - Paths, Hauschka & Stefan Schneider - Common Exposure, and Juta - Protection (Massive Attack cover).

The links to the archived show recordings should be good for up to a month from the show date. If the links expire just let me know via comment and I'll re-upload them.

Unfortunately the cost of using free file sharing sites such as mediafire is possible exposure to questionable advertising in the form of nasty pop-ups (sorry). Prior to visiting the download links above I highly recommend installing and using pop-up, flash and ad-blocking extensions in your web browser on top of solid antivirus/internet security protection. Doing so hides/blocks all of that crap.

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Katharsis Jan. 9 '11

"Ear-Grabbers" of 2010 - Part III (Part II with Timothy Heck)
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Unfortunately, Victoria-based artist & world-traveler Peter Glimm (who was planning to perform songs from his new record "NightShade") had to postpone his visit due to a family emergency. Hopefully we will be able to reschedule later in the year.

Instead I carried on with part III of my look back at 2010, highlighting some more of the music that caught my ear. I was joined again by Timothy Heck (longtime cjsw programmer and host of the sorely-missed Music For Hedgehogs program) who contributed some of his favourites.

The tracks: Frederick Squire - You Sing Low and We Will Sing High, Damien Jurado - Kansas City, Warpaint - Set Your Arms Down, Marilyn Crispell & David Rothenberg - Invocation, Zazie Von Einem Anderen Stern - Regentropfen, Pan American - From Here, Sylvain Chauveau - The Unbroken Line, The Knife in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock) - Annie's Box, Namlook - Pearl XXVI, Balmorhea - Palestrina, The Legendary Tigerman - Hey Sister Ray, Grinderman - Fire Boy, The Barr Brothers - Deacon's Son, Yann Tiersen - Palestine (Yann Tiersen remix), Drivan - Som En Laderlapp, Rocky Votolato - Sparklers, Chris Brokaw & Geoff Farina - In the Evening (Leroy Carr cover), Hans Abrahamsen - Canon 2A: Lustig spielend, aber nicht zu lustig, immer ein bißchen melancholisch, Oval - Kastell, Murralin Lane - All We Hear Are Birds, and Memory Screen - Kathmandu.

The links to the archived show recordings should be good for up to a month from the show date. If the links expire just let me know via comment and I'll re-upload them.

Unfortunately the cost of using free file sharing sites such as mediafire is possible exposure to questionable advertising in the form of nasty pop-ups (sorry). Prior to visiting the download links above I highly recommend installing and using pop-up, flash and ad-blocking extensions in your web browser on top of solid antivirus/internet security protection. Doing so hides/blocks all of that crap.

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Katharsis Jan. 2 '11

"Ear-Grabbers" of 2010 - Part II (Part I with Timothy Heck)
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As per last week I continued my look back at 2010 and highlighted some of the music that caught my ear. This week I invited Timothy Heck (longtime cjsw programmer and host of the sorely-missed Music For Hedgehogs program) to join me and contribute some of his favourites.

The tracks: The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio, Clogs - Three-Two, David Karsten Daniels - Each Summer Sound, D.A.A.U. - Into the Wild, Lilium - Amsterdam-Paris, Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Waltz (A Lonely Crowd), Gregory & the Hawk - Geysir Nationale, Joanna Newsom - Baby Birch, CocoRosie - Grey Oceans, Arlt - Je voudrais être mariée, F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm - Lich-Teil, Wildbird & Peacedrums - The Drop, Enzo Avitabile in Napoletana - Libberazione, Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose - Younger, Victoire - A Song for Mick Kelly, Aranis - Lullaby, Nicolas Bernier - Line(B), and Bertrand Belin - Hypernuit.

Happy New Year!

The links to the archived show recordings should be good for up to a month from the show date. If the links expire just let me know via comment and I'll re-upload them.

Unfortunately the cost of using free file sharing sites such as mediafire is possible exposure to questionable advertising in the form of nasty pop-ups (sorry). Prior to visiting the download links above I highly recommend installing and using pop-up, flash and ad-blocking extensions in your web browser on top of solid antivirus/internet security protection. Doing so hides/blocks all of that crap.

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Katharsis Dec. 26 '10

"Ear-grabbers of 2010" Part I
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This week I started my look back at 2010 and highlighted some of the music that caught my ear. Some releases were highly anticipated and delivered on their promise and some were wonderful discoveries.

The tracks: Heart Failure Research Unit - Under the Line, Kenseth Thibideau - Black Hole, Kyst - Bicycles, Mimicking Birds - The Loop, Efterklang - The Soft Beating, Disappears - Little Ghost, Women - Eyesore, Michael Santos - Hollowing Out, Jefre Cantu-Ladesma - Stained Glass Body, Noveller - Almost Alright, Jon Mueller - Remembered, Yellow Swans - Foiled, Offthesky - Fear of Flora, Mark Templeton - Broken & Remade, Richard A. Ingram - The Melioramentum, Danny Paul Grody - Hungry/Haunted, Ryan Fransesconi - Lost Years, Wil Bolton - Nylon, Rothko - Wake to Tomorrow, Woodworkings - Former Daughters of the American Revolution, Taishi Kamiya - Air, Federico Durand - Mi Pequeno Mundo De Papel, and No More Shapes - New Years (Yves').

The links to the archived show recordings should be good for up to a month from the show date. If the links expire just let me know via comment and I'll re-upload them.

Unfortunately the cost of using free file sharing sites such as mediafire is possible exposure to questionable advertising in the form of nasty pop-ups (sorry). Prior to visiting the download links above I highly recommend installing and using pop-up, flash and ad-blocking extensions in your web browser on top of solid antivirus/internet security protection. Doing so hides/blocks all of that crap.

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