Monday, December 31, 2012

Katharsis Dec. 30 '12, 2012 Retrospective Part I

Tonight I played some records (2012 releases) that caught my ear over the past year. I didn't have time for all of them so will continue next week. Download this week's show recording mp3

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Sunday, December 23, 2012

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Katharsis Dec. 16 '12 (Noro Live Set)

This week special musical guest Noro graced us with a live in-studio performance to promote an upcoming full-length release and live show.

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Sunday, December 9, 2012

Katharsis Dec. 9 '12

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Sunday, December 2, 2012

Katharsis Dec. 2 '12

No show last week (was home in bed recovering from gastroenteritis).

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Monday, November 26, 2012

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Sunday, October 28, 2012

Katharsis Oct. 28 '12

This week I was joined in the studio by Krzysztof Sujata aka (Valiska). He has helped organize what will be a fantastic night of soundscapes, drones and experimentation on Nov. 1 at Vern's Tavern. We played some music from the artists appearing on Thursday as well as something from Valiska's latest release and some other good stuff he has been into lately.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Katharsis Oct. 21 '12 - FUNDING DRIVE

Thanks to everyone who pledged during the show, and during the funding drive. Together we raised $1580 on the show and just over $213,000 during the course of the drive to help keep cjsw healthy and vibrant for another year. All money raised goes to capital costs and maintenance. Plans are in place to up our FM transmitter power to 20,000 Watts, to increase our online streaming capacity and podcasting, as well as to release a cjsw mobile app. If you haven't already, please make sure you pay your pledge. To make it easier, the cjsw office will be open for extended hours over the next few weeks. Head on over to cjsw.com for details.

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

2012 CJSW Funding Drive - Radio Science

It's that time of year again... CJSW's annual funding drive starts on Friday Oct. 19...

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Katharsis for Hedgehogs Oct. 14 '12

This week, another sublime showfill from Timothy Heck. Timothy's shows are always brilliantly put together, rich both in music and ideas.

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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Katharsis Oct. 7 '12 (Devin Friesen showfill)

This week, a fantastic showfill from Devin Friesen, host of the late great cjsw show Each One Teach One, regular FFWD magazine and tinymixtape.com contributor, and the man behind Bitter Fictions, a wonderful project of feedback-laced drones, guitar improvisations and occasional songs for looper pedals.

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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Katharsis Sept. 16 '12 (AM Static Live Set)

This week featured a live set by special musical guests AM Static, a relatively new Calgary folktronic duo who have a fundraising gig at The Area (1119 10 Ave SE) this Friday September 21st, the proceeds of which will be used to help press their new album. They will be supported by local acts Ryan Bourne, Hot Sweet Noise, and Isis Graham. Don't miss it.

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Katharsis Sept. 9 '12

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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Katharsis Sept. 2 '12 (Stan Molchanov showfill)

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A stellar showfill by Stan Molchanov, ex-host of Post-Everything.

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Sunday, August 26, 2012

Katharsis Aug. 26 '12 (Brendan Fraser & Kallen Law showfill)

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Another fantastic showfill by Brendan Fraser and Kallen Law. Well worth listening to.

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Katharsis Aug. 19 '12 - Brendan Fraser Showfill

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A fantastic showfill by Brendan Fraser, a good friend, an excellent musician (with a new release coming out), a talented carpenter, and a man who has given much of his time, energy, and creativity to cjsw in years gone by.

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Sunday, August 12, 2012

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Katharsis May 13 '12


A very special show tonight: Poor Man's Fantasy performed live in the studio in support of their new EP (Formless), and Mark Templeton phoned in from Edmonton to talk about his upcoming collaboration with Nicola Ratti and their performance on Friday May 18 at the National Music Centre (formerly Cantos Music Museum).

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Katharsis May 6 '12

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Katharsis for Hedgehogs Apr. 29 '12

Thanks to Timothy Heck for the wonderful showfill...

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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Katharsis Apr. 15 '12


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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Disappears - Replicate - Pre Language (Kranky)
Ceremony - Repeating the Circle - Zoo (Matador)
Wave Sleep Wave - Zip It - Wave Sleep Wave (Curb Cut)
Emma Ruth Rundle - Oslo, Part I - Electric Guitar I (Bandcamp)
Pelican - Ataraxia - Ataraxia/Taraxis (Southern Lord)
Jon Porras - Into the Black Mesa - Black Mesa (Thrill Jockey)
Josef van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch - The Sun of the Natural World is Pure Fire - Concerning the Entrance into Eternity (Important)
Spiritualized - Headin' for the Top Now - Sweet Heart Sweet Light (Double Six/Domino)
Oren Ambarchi - Knots - Audience Of One (Touch)
Derek Rogers - Sunset - Institutio Amet (Space Slave Editions)
Hey Mother Death - Black Monday - Hey Mother Death (Self-Released)
Farewell Poetry - As True as Troilus - Hoping for the Invisible to Ignite (Gizeh Records)
Felicia Atkinson with Sylvain Chauveau - How the Light - Roman Anglais (O Rosa)
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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Katharsis Apr. 8 '12

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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Dumb Angel - Elevator - Eight Moments Of Spring (Clamour)
Cheyenne Marie Mize - Back Around - We Don't Need (YepRoc)
Miss Emily Brown - Man on Wire - Wire Wood Wind (Self-Released)
Daughter - Youth - The Wild Youth (Glassnote)
Peter Broderick - Everything I Know - http://www.itstartshear.com (HUSH/Bella Union)
Poor Man's Fantasy - Egg - Drifter (Self-Released)
Machinefabriek - Mosaic - Colour Tones (Fang Bomb)
Eric Chenaux - However Wildly We Dream - Guitar & Voice (Constellation)
Paul Doffing - Train - Blossom Is You (Self-Released)
Mirroring - Drowning the Call - Foreign Body (Kranky)
Richard Ginns - On Lakes - Sea Changes (Slow Flow)
Ryan York - All Our Favourite Colors - Zipperlegs (Leaving Records)
Orcas - Standard Error - Orcas (Morr Music)
Seaworthy - A Favourite Path - Sequence 2 (Future Sequence)
Small Sur - South Dakota - Tones (Self-Released)
Tiny Ruins - Adelphi Apartments - Some Were Meant For Sea (Spunk Records)
Tyler Butler - Morana - Winter King (Self-Released)
Bvdub - Serenity - Serenity (Storming the Bases)
Mark van Hoen - Laughing Stars at Night - The Revenant Diary (Editions Mego)
Pjusk - Skifer - Tele (Glacial Movements)
Tim Hecker - Hatred of Music I - Ravedeath 1972 (Kranky)

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Monday, April 2, 2012

Katharsis Apr. 1 '12

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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Andrew Bird - Lusitania - Break It Yourself (Mom + Pop)
Isidore - Some Reverse Magic - Life Somewhere Else (Communicating Vessels)
The June Rise - Montauk, Summer Rain - Of Raging Water (Loud With Love)
Kishi Bashi - Manchester - 151a (Joyful Noise)
Gabriel & The Hounds - Who Will Fall on Knees - Kiss Full Of Teeth (Ernest Jennings Record Co.)
Gabriel & The Hounds - An Ending - Kiss Full Of Teeth (Ernest Jennings Record Co.)
Princeton - Louise - Remembrance Of Things To Come (Hit City)
Luik - Spleen - Owls (Snowstar Records)
Sharon Van Etten - Give Out - Tramp (Jagjagjuwar)
Cowboy Junkies - Angels in the Wilderness - The Wilderness (Latent/Razor & Tie)
Miss Emily Brown - Back to the Woods - Wire Wood Wind (Self-Released)
The Wooden Sky - Bald, Naked and Red - Every Child A Daughter, Every Moon A Sun (Black Box)
Gregory Alan Isakov - Master & a Hound - This Empty Northern Hemisphere (Suitcase Town)
New Multitudes (Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, and Yim Yames) - New Mulititudes - New Multitudes (Rounder)
Paul Stewart - Horse's Mouth - Permanence (Self-Released)
Silent Land Time Machine - Dealing with Doubt - I Am No Longer Alone With Myself And Can Only Artificially recall The Scary And Beautiful Feeling Of Solitude EP (Indian Queen)
Jenny Gillespie - Mariposa - Belita EP (Narooma)
Bushman's Revenge - 4E73 - A Little Bit Of Big Bonanza (Rune Grammofon)
Tindersticks - Goodbye Joe - The Something Rain (Constellation)
Denison Witmer - Life Before Aesthetics - The Ones Who Wait (Asthamtic Kitty)
Jüppala Kääpiö - Moosfluh - Animalia Corolla (Omnimemento)
Birds of Passage and Leonardo Rosado - Dear and Unfamiliar - Dear and Unfamiliar (Denovali)
Stefano Battaglia/Michele Rabbia - Antitona Libera - Pastorale (ECM)
Talk Talk - April 5th - The Colour of Spring (EMI)
1982 - 02:53 - Pintura (Hubro)
Áine O' Dwyer - Pedal Danse - Music for Church Cleaners (Fort Evil Fruit)
36 - Deluge - Lithea (Bandcamp)
David Sylvian - Where's Your Gravity? - A Victim Of Stars, 1982-2012 (EMI)

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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Katharsis Mar. 25 '12

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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Beaten By Them - Damp Sky 3 - People Start Listening (Logicpole)
Nils Frahm - Said and Done - La Blogotheque, Les Soirees De Poche, January 14, 2012 (La Blogotheque)
Aaron Martin (reworked by Nicola Ratti) - Reed Tunnel - Stitched in Fire (False Records)
Fennesz + Sakamoto - 0330 - Flumina (Touch Tone)
Maps and Diagrams - Groghe (Fort) - The Town Beneath the Sea (Nomadic Kids Republic)
Philip Jeck - Thirtieth/Pilot Reprise - An Ark for the Listener (Touch)
Mohammad - Malad Van - Spriti (Antifrost)
Mirroring - Cliffs - Foreign Body (Kranky)
Willamette - Images D'une Longueur de Cheveux - Always in Postscript (Own Records)
Windy and Carl - Nature of Memory - We Will Always Be (Kranky)
Christina Vantzou (remixed by Isan) - Homemade Mountains - No 1 Remixes (Kranky)
Oren Amabarchi - Salt - Audience of One (Touch)
Nils Quak - Pg. 4 - Elegy for Seaweed (Clothbound Recordings)
Leyland Kirby - The Arrow of Time - Eager to Tear Apart the Stars (History Always Favours the Winners)
Lawrence English - Figure's Lone Static - Kiri No Oto (Touch)
Kane Ikin - Short Wave Fade - Contrail (12K)
Praveen (w/ Benoît Pioulard) - King - 12 Lights (Ghostly International)
Princeton - To the Alps - Remembrance Of Things To Come (Hit City)
I Break Horses - Pulse - Hearts (Bella Union)
Royal Canoe - Caught in a Loop - Extended Play (Self-Released)
Bahamas - Never Again - Barchords (Brushfire)
Autistici - Vocal Chords - Amplified Presence (Home Normal)

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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Katharsis Mar. 18 '12

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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

National Skyline - Bloom - Bliss & Death (Adventure Broadcasting)
Southpacific - Built to Last - Constance (Turnbuckle)
Slowdive - Crazy for You - Pygmalion Demos (Creation)
Foreign Cinema - Velvet Sky - Palace Of Fine Junk b/w Velvet Sky 7" (Vibraphone)
A Place To Bury Strangers - So Far Away - Onwards to the Wall (Dead Oceans)
Jesu - Dead Eyes - Silver EP (Hydra Head)
Simon Scott - Radiances - Bunny (Miasmah)
School of Seven Bells - Lafaye - Ghostory (Vagrant/Ghostly)
Windy and Carl - Remember - We Will Always Be (Kranky)
Capsula - Under the Woods - In The Land Of Silver Souls (Krian)
Lee Randaldo - Angles - Between The Times & The Tides (Matador)
Bloody Knives - Stare Into Your Eyes - Blood (Bandcamp)
From The Mouth Of The Sun - Pools of Rust - Woven Tide (Experimedia)
Gareth Dickson - This is the Kiss - Quite A Way Away (12K)
RF & Lili De La Mora - Fences - Eleven Continents (Rowing at Sea)
Aus - Mayonaka No Sukima - Curveland (Moteer)
Dan Joseph - Trio II - Dreams of Seven (Dendroica Music)
Nicolas Bernier - Line (c) - Strings.Lines (Cronica)
Implex Grace - Capricia - Only Light to Clear Away (Distance Recordings)
Ensmeble, et. al. - Threnody (Goldmund cover) - Sounds of Others (Bandcamp)
Princeton - Holding Teeth - Remembrance Of Things To Come (Hit City)
Fourcolor - Bleach Black - As Pleat (12K)

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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Katharsis Mar. 11' 12

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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Archers of Loaf - Harnessed in Slums - Vee Vee (Merge)
Disappears - Joa - Pre-Language (Kranky)
Girls Against Boys - Disco 666 - House of GVB (Touch & Go)
Retribution Gospel Choir - I'm A Man - The Revolution EP (Sub Pop)
Chris Brokaw - King Ferdinand - Red Cities (Atavistic)
Logh - The Smoke Will Lead You Home - A Sunset Panorama (Hydrahead)
Office of Future Plans - Abandon - Office of Future Plans (Dischord)
Ilyas Ahmed - Skin in Circles - With Endless Fire (Immune)
Glenn Jones - The Great Pacific Northwest - The Wanting (Thrill Jockey)
Josephine - Two Headed River - You Are Perfect Today (Digitalis)
Egsun - The Ocean Near You - Worth Wasting Time (Somehow Ecstatic)
Ólafur Arnalds - Edalaus II - For Nihon (Unseen Music)
Praveen - Trapped - 12 Lights (Ghostly International)
Orcas - A Subtle Escape - Orcas (Morr Music)
Mirroring - Mine - Foreign Body (Kranky)
Low Roar - Patience - Low Roar (Tonequake)
Lowercase Noises - Migratory Patterns - Migratory Patterns (Self-Released)
Lanterns On The Lake - Tricks - Gracious Tide, Take Me Home (Bella Union)
Jacaszek - As Each Tucked String Tells - Glimmer (Ghostly International)
Dirty Three - Rain Song - Toward the Low Sun (Bella Union/Drag City)
Spartak - The Waves to the Rails - Verona (Low Point)


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Sunday, March 4, 2012

Katharsis Mar. 4 '12

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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Lambchop - Nice Without Mercy - Mr. M (Merge)
Bahamas - Lost in the Light - Barchords (Brushfire)
Tindersticks - Medicine - The Something Rain (Constellation/City Slang)
Eric Chenaux - Dull Lights (White or Grey) - Guitar and Voice (Constellation)
The Low Anthem - Maybe So - Smart Flesh - Outtakes (Nonesuch)
Laura Gibson - Milk-Heavy, Pollen-Eyed - La Grande (Barsuk)
Jessie Baylin - Yuma - Little Spark (Thirty Tigers)
Monty Adkins - Torn Mosaic - Fragile.Flicker.Fragment (Audiobulb)
Damien Jurado - Maraqopa - Maraqopa (Secretly Canadian)
Nils Frahm - Old Thought Felt (Erased Tapes)
Elfin Saddle - Boats - Devastates (Constellation)
Paper Beat Scissors - Rest Your Bones - Paper Beat Scissors (Forward)
Richard Ginns - Point Dunes - Sea Change (Slow Flow)
Dirty Three - Sometimes I Forget You've Gone - Toward the Low Sun (Bella Union)
The Nocturnes - London Town - Aokigahara (Bandcamp)
Thalassing - Ophion Resounds - Thalassing (Clay Pipe Music)
Josef van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch - Continuation of the Last Judgment - Concerning the Entrance to Eternity (Important)
Nick Jonah Davis - The Narrow Bridge - Of Time and Tides (Tompkins Square)
Gareth Dickson - Happy Easters - Quite A Way Away (12k)
Orcas - Carrion - Orcas (Morr Music)
Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters - Amoxicillin - Underrated Silences (Bureau)
School of Seven Bells - Reappear - Ghostory (Ghostly International)
Simon Bainton - Baroque Begins at Home - Sun Settings (Hibernate)


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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Katharsis Feb. 26 '12


Chris Reimer 1986-2012

Heartbreaking news


Chris was an amazing artist, and a great guy. He accomplished a lot in his 26 years and we can take heart in the fact that he was able to tour the world doing what he loved: playing awesome music with friends. He will be missed by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. Read more about him here

This week's show was a tribute to Chris. I first met him in 2005 when he played live on my show with Beneath These Idle Tides and again in 2006 with Azeda Booth. Over the years I saw him play a few times around town with Azeda Booth, with Women, and as a solo artist. I always enjoyed catching up with him at these and other local shows. He was very gracious, down-to-earth, and humble; a super guy.

I am privileged to have known him, however briefly/peripherally, and to have been impacted by his considerable musical talent.

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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Women - Eyesore - Public Strain (Flemish Eye)
Azeda Booth - Landscsape (with Grass) - Live on Katharsis Oct. 9 '06
Beneath These Idle Tides - Untitled - Live on Katharsis Aug. 8 '05
Chris Reimer - Benelux - Eye Spy (Flemish Eye Compilation) (Flemish Eye)
Esmerine - Why She Swallows Bullets and Stones - Aurora (Madrona Records)
Tiny Vipers - Dreamer - Life on Earth (Sub Pop)
Greg Haines - Snow Airport - Slumber Tides (Miasmah)
Peter Broderick - Asleep - http:\\www.itstartshear.com (HUSH/Bella Union)
Gareth Dickson - Noon - Quite a Way Away (12K)
Orcas - Arrow Drawn - Orcas (Morr Music)
A Whisper in the Noise - Sad, Sad Song - To Forget (Exile on Mainstream)
Sleepingdog - Horse Lullaby - With Our Heads in the Clouds and Our Hearts in the Fields (Gizeh Records)
Marsen Jules - Birkengeflüster - Golden (Genesungswerk)
Oren Ambarchi - Fractured Mirror (Ace Frehley cover) - Audience of One (Touch)
Mark Kozelek - Duk Koo Kim (10" version) - The Finally LP (Caldo Verde)
Ryan Teague - Shadow Play - Field Drawings (Village Green)
From The Mouth Of The Sun - The Crossing - Woven Tide (Experimedia)


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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Katharsis Feb. 19 '12


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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Sharon Van Etten - Kevin's - Tramp (Jagjagjuwar)
Loom - Wholesome - Epyllion (Self-Released)
Damien Jurado - Life Away from the Garden - Maraqopa (Secretly Canadian)
Cold Specks - Holland - Holland (Arts & Crafts)
Mark Lanegan Band - St. Louis Elegy - Blues Funeral (4AD)
Birds of Passage - Disaster of Dreams - Winter Lady (Denovali Records)
Damian Valles - Taxa - Skeleton Taxa (Drifting Falling)
Crooked Fingers - The Hatchet - Breaks In The Armor (Merge)
Piiptsjilling - Ferware (Worn Down) - Wurdskrieme (Experimedia)
The Field Register - Dreams - Miles Distant - Eastern Shore (Ships at Night)
Hammock - Sora - For Nihon (Unseen Music)
Shearwater - Insolence - Animal Joy (Sub Pop)
Lowercase Noises - Persistence - Migratory Patterns (Self-Released)
Colin Kenniff Featuring Hollie Kenniff - Wind and Distance - For Nihon (Unseen Music)
Peter Broderick - Colin - http://www.itstartshear.com (Bella Union/HUSH)
Andrew Bird - Desperation Breeds... - Break it Yourself (Mom+Pop/Bella Union)
Alog - Et Besøk - Unemployed (Rune Grammofon)
Amiina - Púsl - Puzzle (Sound of a Handshake)
1982 - 03:52 - Pintura (Hubro)
Beans - Moon - Inner Cosmosis (Foreverbad)
Beans - Earth - Inner Cosmosis (Foreverbad)


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Katharsis Feb. 12 '12


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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Marion Williams - The Day is Past and Gone - The Gospel Sound (Disc 2) (Columbia)
Tindersticks - A Night to Still - The Something Rain (City Slang/Constellation)
Mark van Hoen - Holy Me - The Revenant Diary (Editions Mego)
Xela - Recitation - Exorcism (Self-Released)
Clinker + Blake Carrington - Dust Flights, Mirror Softly and Moan - Iron: Dragon's Eye Sixth Anniversary (Dragon's Eye Recordings)
Windy & Carl - Fainting in the Presence of the Lord - We Will Always Be (Kranky)
Larkian & Yellow 6 - Sequences Inversees - Offtempo (Basses Frequences and three:four records)
Bry Webb - Get You Up in Peace - Provider (Idee Fixe)
Fennesz + Sakamoto - 0402 - Flumina (Touch)
Slow Six - This is Your Last Chance (Before I Sleep) - Private Times In Public Places (Western Vinyl)

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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Katharsis Feb. 5 '12


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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Mother Falcon - For Papa - Alhambra (Self-Released)
The Drift - Luminous Friend - The Blue Hour (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Shearwater - Run the Banner Down - Animal Joy (Sub Pop)
The Caretaker - Increasingly Absorbed in His Own World - Patience (After Sebald) (History Always Favours the Winners)
Songs of Green Pheasant - Deaf Sarah - Soft Wounds (Rusted Rail)
Woodpigeon - For Paulo (Acoustic) - For Paulo (Boompa)
Williamette - Always in Postscript - Always in Postscript (Own Records)
Xiu Xiu - The Oldness - Always (Polyvinyl)
Heidi Hazelton - Head Down - N/A (N/A)
Jannick Schou - We Are Safe in This Room with Cold Sunlight - Sequence2 (Futuresequence)
Burls - How Have You Been? - Burls EP (Bandcamp)
Birds of Passage - Hollow - Winter Lady (Denovali)
Scissors and Sellotape - I Say 'get used to it' - For the Tired and Ill at Ease (Fac-ture)
Damian Valles - Ascent of the Past - Skeleton Taxa (Drifting Falling)
Borealis - Skyhall - Sequence2 (Futuresequence)
Steve Hauschildt - The Impossible Flower - Tragedy & Geometry (Kranky)
Radere - Good Evening, Ghosts (Version) - I'll Make You Quiet (Futuresequence)
Swod - Largo - Drei (City Centre Offices)
Windy and Carl - Spires - We Will Always Be (Kranky)
Zvuku - Cold - Sequence2 (Futuresequence)
Sean McCann - Transplanted Heart - Sincere World (Amethyst Sunset)
Morgan Greenwood - 58936juiceboxe - Winter (Bandcamp)


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Monday, January 30, 2012

Katharsis Jan. 29 '12


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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Cass McCombs - The Same Thing - Humor Risk (Domino)
Sharon van Etten - Serpents - Tramps (Jagjaguwar)
Jessica Jalbert - O Evening Colors - Brother Loyola (Old Ugly)
Damien Jurado - Nothing is the News - Maraqopa (Secretly Canadian)
Scars & Scarves - Montserrat - Chimes At Midnight (Self-Released)
Jung People - To Leave A Home - Tenterhooks (Self-Released)
= (equals) - Garden Thief - Snow Battered Shine (Self-Released)
Dark Captain - 3 Years to Go - Dead Legs & Alibis (Loaf)
Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra - I Built Myself a Metal Bird - Kollaps Tradixionales (Constellation)
Aquarelle - A Strange Sweet Woe - Sung in Broken Symmetry (Students of Decay)
Fennesz - Liminal - Seven Stars (Touch)
Christopher Willits - Sun Body - Tiger Flower Circle Sun (Ghostly International)
Tycho - Melanie - Dive (Ghostly International)
Umber - Spark Mountain - Morning's Pass EP (Bandcamp)
Ilyas Ahmed - Now Sleeps - With Endless Fire (Immune)
The Nocturnes - The Cradle - Aokigahara (Bandcamp)
Emma Ruth Rundle - Goteborg - Electric Guitar 1 (Bandcamp)
Christina Vantzou + Loscil - And Instantly Take Effect (Loscil Remix) - No 1 Remixes (Kranky)
From the Mouth of the Sun - Like Shadows in an Empty Cathedral - Woven Tide (Experimedia)
Derek Rogers - Firm Implantation - The Exhaustion of Emotion (Bridgetown)
Danny Clay - Winter Veil - I Am A Poor Wayfaring Stranger (Heat Death Records)
Emmalee Crane - Pretty in Pink (Psychedelic Furs cover) - Pretty in Pink Single (The Streetlight Farm)


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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Katharsis Jan. 22 '12


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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Jon McKiel - Quils - Tonka War Cloud (Youth Club)

Dixie's Death Pool - Chuck Will's Widow - The Man With Flowering Hands (Drip Audio)

Doug Tielli - The Deepest End - Swan Sky Sea Squirrel (Blocks)

Bry Webb - Lowlife - Provider (Idee Fixe)

Loom - It is Love - Epyllion (Self-Released)

Laura Arkana met Peter Broderick - Het Vuiilnis - Lentemusiek (HUSH)

Laura Gibson - Crow/Swallow - La Grande (Barsuk)

Aaron Martin - Open Knife - Worried About The Fire (Experimedia)

Crooked Fingers - Our New Favourite - Breaks In The Armor (Merge)

Lanterns On The Lake - I Love You Sleepyhead - Gracious Tide Take Me Home (Bella Union)

Sandy Cassels - Championship Banners - Championship Banners b/w Otto Bauer 7" (Periphrasis)

Benoît Honoré Pioulard - A Land Which Has No End - Plays Thelma (Desire Path Recordings)

Threadbare Brother - Goodness - When the War is Over (Self-released)

Ryan Teague - Undone - Causeways (Sonic Pieces)

Trespassers William - Bells (Quiet version) - New Songs & Outtakes (Self-released)

Rue Royale - Crater - Guide to an Escape (Self-released)

Poor Man's Fantasy - Shoreline - Drifter (Desperate Living)

Richard Knox & Frederic D. Oberland - The Wreck of Hope - The Rustle of the Stars (Gizeh)

Julia Holter - Try to Make Yourself a Work of Art - Tradgedy (Leaving Records)

Naph & Chihei Hatakeyama - Age - Air (Whereabouts Records)

Bernice - Don't - What Was That (Self-Released)

The Boats - The Ballad of Achievement - Ballads of the Research Department (12k)

Amiina - In the Sun - Puzzle (Sound of a Handshake)

1982 - 6:02 - Pintura (Hubro)


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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Katharsis Jan. 15 '12 - Mark Templeton Interview


Tonight, a phone interview with Edmonton-based sound sculptor Mark Templeton. Mark played at the Epcor Centre on Thurs. Jan 19 as part of the Soundasaurus festival.


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(From Mark's web site:)

Canadian sound artist Mark Templeton utilizes acoustic instruments, found sounds and sampled material to construct textured, collage-like electronic compositions. Since the release of his critically acclaimed “Standing on a Hummingbird” in 2007, his sound has been called "pastoral," but also "painterly" in an attempt to describe how his sources are crumbled and reconstructed into new forms; a process further developed and realized on subsequent releases for Anticipate Recordings, Staalplaat and Sweat Lodge Guru.

Templeton's works have been commissioned by organizations of contemporary dance, film and audiovisual disciplines. His live performances have at times been accompanied by Edmonton-based experimental filmmaker aAron Munson's visuals. In 2009 this ongoing collaboration resulted in the release of M. Templeton & aA. Munson: Acre Loss on CD and DVD.

Templeton has performed at international festivals and alternative spaces such as MUTEK Festival (Montreal), Unsound Festival (Krakow), Eat This Festival (Utrecht), Galapagos (New York), Send + Receive Festival (Winnipeg), Half Die Festival (Rome), Café OTO (London) and Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival (Montreal).

Along with filmmaker/photographer Kyle Armstrong Mark presented EXTENSIONS - an audiovisual performance at the Epcor Centre. EXTENSIONS refering to McLuhan’s book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. The performance took place on Thursday, January 19th. The show was both aurally and visually arresting with moments of blissful pastoral beauty and gut-rumbling low frequency noise. Mark's wizardry with the tape loops and effects were mesmerizing and Kyle's visual imagery (looped/spliced/processed film footage etc.) was not just a beautiful visual accompaniment, but visually engaging, both conveying ideas and affecting emotions. The set totally lived up to my expectations. Hopefully it will be recorded for posterity and released in the future.

The interview starts at about the 43 minute mark of the recording and lasts for about 40 minutes. The rest of the show went as follows: The Drift - The Skull Hand Smiles/ May You Fare Well from "Blue Hour" (Temporary Residence Ltd.), Simon Scott - Betty from "Bunny" (Miasmah), Morgan Greenwood - Fur Unison from "Winter" (Bandcamp), Oneohtrix Point Never - Power of Persuasion from "Replica" (Mexican Summer/Software), The Caretaker - When the Dog Days Were Drawing to an End from "Patience (After Sebald)" (History Always Favours The Winners), Saito Koji - Music from "Music" (Resting Bell), Mark Templeton - Beginnings from "Sea Point" (Anticipate), Mark Templeton - Scotch Heart from "Scotch Heart" (Sweat Lodge Guru), [Mark Templeton Phone Interview], Nicola Ratti - Cathrina from "220 Tones" (Die Schachtel), Maps & Diagrams - Hide Yourself in Silence from "Lights Will Call On You" (Nomadic Kids Republic), Kreng - Petite Grimoire from "Grimoire" (Miasmah), Jacaszek - Evening Strains to be Time's Vast from "Glimmer" (Ghostly International), Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason - Saccades from "Solaris" (Bedroom Community), Grouper & Ilyas Ahmed - Flickering from "Visitor" (Social Music's Record and Tape Club), Two Bicycles - The Ocean (Part One) from "The Ocean" (Crash Symbols), and Poor Man's Fantasy - Riley Park from "Drifter" (Desperate Living).


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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Katharsis Jan. 8 '12


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The tracks: Tristan Perich - 1-Bit Symphony: Movement 1 from "1-Bit Symphony" (Cantaloupe Music), Au - Get Alive from "Both Lights" (Hometapes), Hubble - Nude Ghost from "Hubble Drums" (Northern Spy), Steve Hauschildt - Music for a Moiré Pattern from "Tragedy & Geometry" (Kranky), Bvdub - Nothing Like You from "Resistance is Beautiful" (Darla), Chris Watson - El Divisadero from "El Tren Fantasma" (Touch), Dan Joseph - Opening from "Dreams of Seven" (Dendroica Music), Danny Paul Grody - Skylark from "In Search of Light" (Students of Decay), Doug Tielli - When the Sky Opens from "Swan Sky Sea Squirrel" (Blocks), Loom - There is Blood in My Body from "Epyllion" (Self-Released), Kleefstra Pruiksma Kleefstra - De Dei Oarsom Beginne from "Deislieper" (Hibernate), Piiptsjilling - Wurch Ljocht (Tired Light) from "Wurdskrieme" (Experimedia), Lüüp - Spiraling from "Meadow Rituals" (Experimedia), Peter Broderick - He Was Inside That Building from "Music for Confluence" (Erased Tapes), Poor Man's Fantasy - Deer Run from "Drifter" (Desperate Living), Nils Frahm - Snippet from "Felt" (Erased Tapes), and Ekca Liena - Into the Wind from "Slow Music for Rapid Eye Movement" (Dead Pilot).


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Katharsis (for Hedgehogs) ------ Dec. 25 ' 11 & Jan. 1 '12


Many thanks to Timothy for the showfills. Here are the links to the show recordings for the Jan. 1 show (no recording for the Dec. 25 show): mp3 ogg

Unfortunately no track list. If requested I can try and procure them from Timothy.

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