Monday, December 20, 2010

Katharsis Dec. 19 '10


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The tracks: Rachel's - Technology is Killing Music, The Young Scamels - A Thousand-Thousand, The Young Scamels - A Solemn Air, Morgan Packard - Although, His Name Is Alive - November Cotton Flower, Senking - Low Flow, Food - Becalmed, Supersilent - 10.8, Rachel Grimes - Starwhite, Hauschka - Konseiji, Frank Bretschneider - Multimath Duplex, Polycopter, Memory, Imobogodom - Unseen Ticket, Hessein - Deep in the Mountains, Greie Gut Fracktion - China Memories, Ibreathefur - Nylon Light Bleed, Hammock - Cruel Sparks, Phillip Jeck - Chime Chime (Re-Nung), and Raudive - Sienna.

Merry Christmas!

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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Monday, December 13, 2010

Katharsis Dec. 12 '10


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The tracks: Eyn Sof - Quantum Physics, Kloster - Morning Song, Kele Goodwin - Snow, Jonsi - Hengilas, Bardo Pond - Sleeping, The Luyas - Tiny Head, New Channel - Wonder What the World Was, Victoire - Like a Miracle, Alva Noto - Early Winter (for Phil Niblock), Brave Timbers - Hold Onto My Words, Ghost and Tape - Sister, Marcus Fischer - Wind and Wake, Pjusk - Skumring, Murralin Lane - Our House Is On The Wall, Silje Nes - Hello Luminance, Aloon Aluna - Endless Days, The Fun Years - Little Vapours, Wreaths - Through Winter on Foot, The Green Kingdom - Autumn Eyes, Tomasz Bednarczyk - I See You, Portrait of David - Lake, Blue Water White Death - Song for the Greater Jihad, Clogs - Beating Stick, and Brian McBride - Meledrames Telegraphies (in B Major 7th Part I).

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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Sunday, December 5, 2010

Katharsis Dec. 5 '10


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The tracks: Wooden Wand - Servant to Blues, Gareth Dickson - Electro-Harmonix, Fieldhead - Opened Window, His Name Is Alive - The Eclipse, Antony and the Johnsons - Swanlights, Church of the Very Bright Lights - Jerk Chicken, Landing - Coming Down, Dean McPhee - Sky Burial, Broken Water - Heal, Deerhunter - Earthquake, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Loving Love, Jessica Bailiff - Failing Yesterday, Effi Briest - Nights, Ethernet - Majestic, Kurt Vile & the Violators - The Hunchback (EP version), Yann Tiersen - Till the End, The Sight Below - New Dawn Fades (Joy Division cover featuring Jesy Fortino of Tiny Vipers on vocals), Benoît Pioulard - Maginot, M. Ostermeier - Hedge Game, Low & Springheel Jack - Hand So Small, Peter Broderick - With A Key, Supersilent - 10.6, Pan American - Amulls.

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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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Katharsis Nov. 28 '10


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The tracks: Jordan Klassen - St. Brigid Feast Day, Matmos (remixing the Rachel's) - The Precise Temperature of Darkness, Victoire - A Song for Mick Kelly, Taylor Deupree - Shoals, Susumu Yokota - Sprouting Symphony, Swod - Sekunden, Andrew Thomas - Light On Sea (From Above the World So High), Whisperer - Shimmer, Bvdub - Nothing From No One, Concern - Truth and Distance, Fieldhead - Riser, Grouper - Pale Through, Tanner Menard - Chemical Secrets and Golden Flowers, David Wenngren - Unreal, and Sophie Hutchings - Sunlight Zone.

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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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Katharsis Nov. 21 '10


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The tracks: David Grubbs - Storm Sequence, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Stained Glass Body, M. Ostermeier - Deepr, Barn Owl - Cavern Hymn, Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides - A School Burnt Down, The Fun Years - And They Think My Name is Dequan, Wereju - Not Who I Thought I Was, Woodworkings - For Those Found, Philip Jeck - Thirtieth/Pilot Reprise, Brian Eno (w/ Jon Hopkins & Leo Abrahams) - Invisible, Circle Bros - Sure 2, Marcus Fischer - Shape to Shore, Concern - Young Birth, Charlemagne Palestine - Strumming for Strings, Le Lendemain - Le Fleuve, Brian McBride - Girl Nap, Ludovico Einaudi - Svanire, Supersilent - 10, Aloon Aluna - Dinosaur Scales, and Hearts No Static - Hovering (Part I).

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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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Katharsis Nov. 14 '10


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The tracks: Ninca Leece - The Beast, 65daysofstatic - Pacify, Dub Tractor - Higher Hopes, Massive Attack - Fatalism (Ryuichi Sakamoto & Yukihiro Takahashi Remix), Scissors and Sellotape - Chapter 6, Silje Nes - Rewind, Ólöf Arnalds - Crazy Car, Sufjan Stevens - Futile Devices, Kloster - Though These Are Troubled Times, Hauschka - Early in the Park, Jordan Klassen - For Jessica, Aidan Knight - Fighting Against Your Lungs, Church of the Very Bright Lights - Talk, Dean McPhee - Brown Bear, Brian McBride - Several Tries (In an Unelevated Style), Brave Timbers - Two Sisters, Jónsi – Tornado, Loscil - Erit, Benoît Pioulard - Tie, Ian D Hawgood - No Clouds, ibreatheFUR - Things Have Changed Places, Nils Frahm - Unter (Machinefabriek Remix), and Concern - Heartsink.

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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Monday, November 8, 2010

Katharsis Nov. 7 '10


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Pretty mellow tonight: Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Tiny Holes In This World, [Bleu] - Didaskalla, David Lang - Heroin, Emanuel Errante - Megaride, Destroyer (featuring Tim Hecker) - Archer on the Beach, Brian Eno - Written, Forgotten, E and I - An Inch of Air, Richard A Ingram - De Montfort, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Mirrors Death, Mark Templeton - Horizon, Namlook - Pearl XXIV, Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire. Richard Skelton - Riftmusic No. 1, Mountains - Map Table, Rameses III - Cloud Kings, Barn Owl - Flatlands, Hammock - South, and Imbogodom - Calibos.

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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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Katharsis Oct. 31 '10 (Halloween)


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Dark rock/roots, murder ballads and other sundry material suitable for All Hallows' Eve: Woven Hand - Animalitos (Ain't No Sunshine), Black Heart Procession - A Truth Quietly Told, Lucid 44 - Motion, Tarentel - We're the Only Ghosts Here, Tindersticks - El Diablo En El Ojo, Damien Jurado - Butcher's Boy, Mark Lanegan - I'll Take Care of You, Timber Timbre - I Get Low, Chad van Gaalen - You're Gonna Kill Me In My Sleep, The Cape May - A Butcher's Son, Dirac - This Is Your 4am Wake-up Call, Ral Partha Vogelbacher - New Happy Fawn, Boduf Songs - Decapitation Blues, Shipping News - Bad Eve, Tarentel - Ghost Weight, Blue Water White Death - Death For Christmas, Max Richter - Shadow Journal, Pjusk - Byge, and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Death Is Not The End.

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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Saturday, October 30, 2010

CJSW 2010 Funding Drive


This year's annual funding drive is now officially over.

Thanks so much for your support! We managed to raise $1145 during my funding drive show and broke the $70000 mark. If you missed it feel free to listen to the show recording in mp3 or ogg format.

As of 7pm Fri. Oct. 29 the pledge total was at approximately $182000. Although the funding drive is officially over you can still donate on line.

On top of all kinds of great new pledge incentives, I made some virtual mix compilations (electronic/IDM, rock, neo-classical/experimental, and quiet/dreamy pop & folk, etc. - typical Katharsis fare), tracks released in the past year that have caught my ear. For each paid $25 pledge amount you a get an emailed link to a zip file containing the music files to download. (ex. $25 = one zip file of your choice, $200 = all 8)

If you have not yet paid your pledge please do by 12pm Nov. 19 so that you can have your name included for the various grand prize draws. Certain incentives do tend to go fast (ex. women's t-shirts) so if you want to ensure the best selection don't wait.

CJSW is a non-profit organization that strives to provide diverse programming. Our schedule spans awarding winning news and spoken word, local musicians and artistic endeavors, multicultural programming and any style of music you can imagine.

The station receives roughly half of its funding from an undergraduate student levy at the University of Calgary. This levy pays for the day-to-day operation of the station, but to cover the capital expenditures, some of the surprise costs, or upgrading equipment, we need to have a little extra money available. This is where the CJSW Funding Drive comes in…

The very first CJSW Funding Drive took place to help us buy the necessary equipment to become a full FM station, and ever since it has been our only source of funds for capital expenditures. It has allowed us to pay for the upgrading of our production facilities, including the purchase of new production boards and computers, and increase our web presence and streaming capabilities. As we prepare for new advances in radio in the next few years, your generous donations provide the means by which we are able to continue our quest to be one of the finest campus/community radio stations anywhere.

The Funding Drive takes place in the last week of October, where we suspend our regular programming and ask for listener support in the form of cash/credit/debit donations and subscriptions in exchange for another year of outstanding radio and great CJSW swag.

This is a big year for us. The biggest news since the last Funding Drive is that CJSW moved into our new offices and studios. If you are able feel free to come up during the Funding Drive to see the fantastic space that was built thanks to your generous support over the years!

Your support has also helped CJSW expand its presence in the community! Our coverage leading up to the now just passed municipal election was an excellent resource for Calgarians and featured recorded interviews with almost all mayoral and aldermanic candidates. CJSW has completed a tower study to increase our wattage and relocate our tower over the next year. We are also actively expanding our website, offering more podcasts and improving the listening options on-line.

CJSW continues to be everywhere - supporting Calgary's many festivals and community events. We help local bands by having them play live sessions on the radio and mailing out new records to radio stations across Canada. Listen to CJSW 90.9 FM and check out www.cjsw.com every day during the drive to find out about all the great swag and fun events we have. Our goal this year is to raise $200,000.

Thanks very much for your support!

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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Katharsis Oct. 17 '10



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This week: Church of the Very Bright Lights - Washes Over, Women - Heat Distraction, Swans - Eden Prison, Shannon Wright - Dim Reader, White Hills - We Will Rise, Woven Hand - Wheatstraw, Yellow Swans - Sovereign, Nicolas Bernier - Line (A), Aaron Martin & Machinefabriek - Cello Drowning, Hauschka - Snow, The Black Heart Procession - Drugs (Eluvium Remix), The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - The Morning After, VOICEsVOICEs - Flulyk, The Third Eye Foundation - Pareidolia, Raudive - Over, Arvo Pärt - Für Alina, Blue Water White Death - Nerd Future, Rafael Anton Irisarri - A Great Northern Sigh.

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.

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Katharsis Oct. 10 '10 (Canadian Thanksgiving Sunday)


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This week: Wheat - Slow Fade, Skating Club - G.T.I., Eric Bachman - Carrboro Woman, Denison Witmer - Breathe in This Life, Don Peris - Pennsylvania, The Magnolia Electric Co. - Just Be Simple, Sun Kil Moon - Church of the Pines, This Invitation - Unforeseen Clouds, Honeybear - The Dogs, Lee Hutzulak - The Uncertainty Principal, Dean Roberts - Letter to Monday, RF - On the Bus That I Had Chosen, Thanksgiving - Rich (Homeless), Ólöf Arnalds - Madrid, Antony and the Johnsons - Pressing On, Hauschka - Mount Hood, Philip Selway - The Ties That Bind Us, Mice Parade - Tokyo Late Night, Sven Weisemann - Xine VI-Harbor Lights, Silje Nes - Silver > Blue, Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides - Sucker, Matmos & So Percussion - Flame, Black to Comm - Trapz, Memory Screen - Untitled, and Minamo + Lawrence English - Glimmer.

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.

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Sunday, October 3, 2010

Katharsis Oct. 3 '10


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This week: Triple Burner - The Pulse of Parc Ex, Bill Orcutt - Too Late to Fly, M. Mucci - A Day Like Any Other, James Blackshaw - Part 3, M. Mucci - April L'oochi Pt. 2, Evan van Reekum - Forget Me Not Creek, Benoît Pioulard - Sault, Boduf Songs - The Giant Umbilical Cord That Connects Your Brain to the Centre of the Universe, Tiny Vipers - Shipwreck, Yellow6 - Eighteen Days, Seaworthy & Matt Rosner - Termeil Lake, Women - Bells, The White Birch - Breathe, The Ivytree - The Book of Job, Shearwater - Hidden Lakes, Silje Nes - Levitation, Sam Prekop - Knitting Needles, Sophie Hutchings - After Most, Ólafur Arnalds - Kjurrt, Piano Magic - Snowfall Soon, Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides - Haremi, Fabio Orsi - But Memory Had Sons, and Olan Mill - An Obedient Ear.

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.

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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Katharsis Sept. 26 '10


Tonight Memory Screen played live on Katharsis. Download the mp3 or ogg full show recording.

They were in to promote their upcoming CD release Sept. 30 at the Marquee Room. Memory Screen is an exciting new local 'post-rock' (for lack of a better term) project headed up by uber-talented Calgary musician Mark Webber. For his live shows he's assembled an impressive group of players: Alex Kurth - guitar (Lint, Monkey, etc.), Henry Hsieh - Bass (Monkey, Beja Floer, etc.), Jeff Macleod - percussion (The Cape May, Pale Air Singers, etc.), and Clea Anaïs - Cello (The Consonant C, Thighs, Dojo Workhorse, Woodpigeon, Brock Geiger, etc.) During their relatively short incarnation they have already created quite a bit of buzz around town with their dynamic and super-tight live show.

The show went like this: Christopher Bissonnette - Travelling Light, Tim Hecker - Arctic Lover's Rock (Part 2) + The Work of Art in the Age of Cultural Overproduction, Mark Templeton - Broken & Remade, Arden - Grafted Guitars of Unopened Train Doors, Ian D. Hawgood - No Clouds, Memory Screen (live in studio performance) - Mt. Kuro, Traqq, NLF, and Cycles (all from the free download only full-length album Memory Screen), M. Ostermeier - Continuity, live interview with Memory Screen, Fond of Tigers - Vitamin Meathawk (featuring Sandro Perri on vocals), The Drift - Uncanny Valley, Do Make Say Think - Fredericia, A Silver Mt. Zion - This Gentle Hearts Like Shot Bird's Fallen, Fennesz/Danielle/Buck - Heat From Light, Yankee Yankee - The Sea II, Honeybear - Bottom Over Top, M. Mucci - April L'oochi Pt. 2, and This Invitation - Burning Telegraph.

Many thanks to Memory Screen for the great live set and to Kat Cardiff for teching the performance. If you can make the show on Thurs. I highly recommend you do so. With Mark relocating to Montreal shortly this will be his last gig with these players for quite a while.

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.

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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Katharsis Sept. 19 '10


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This week: Ten Kens - Style Wars, Black Angels - Phosphene Dreams, The Dead Science - Girl with the Unseen Hand, Gianna Lauren - Stowaway, Great Aunt Ida - March, Peter Broderick - Guilt's Tune, Venice is Sinking - The Grey Line, This Invitation - Merced River, Yankee Yankee - Cracks III, Steve Reich - Phase Patterns, Tarentel - A Cloud No Bigger Than A Man's Hand, Oneohtrix Point Never - Nil Admirari & Describing Bodies, Country + Western - Drowning in a Swimming Lake, Thee More Shallows - Cloisterphobia, Depatterning - Uranium City, SK, Radian - Kinetakt, and Oval - Dynamo.

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.

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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Katharsis Sept. 12 '10


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This week: M. Mucci - Small Triumphs, James Blackshaw - Part 4, Richard Osborn - A Dream of Distant Summer, Danny Paul Grody - Night Blooms, Norberto Lobo - Unravel, Gareth Dickson - Technology, Bvdub - No One Will Ever Find You Here, Sunslide - Fieldpiano 5, Goldmund - Jones Beach Dunes, His Name Is Alive - Tell Me Why You Want to See Me, Helios - South Tree, Hummingbird - The Little Green Box, Minamo + Lawrence English - Headlights, Entertainment for the Braindead - Sirens #2, David Karsten Daniels & Fight the Big Bull - All Things Are Current Found, Wildbird & Peacedrums - Bleed Like There Was No Other Flood, Nils Frahm - Unter, Namlook - Pearl XXXI, Paolo Angeli + Nanni Angeli - Linee, Federico Durand - El Mundo Secreto De La Montaña, DM Stith - Lacuna C, Richard Skelton - River Song, and Hildur Guðnadóttir - Iridescence.

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.

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Katharsis Sept. 5 '10


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This week: Eric Chenaux - Voice, Shannon Stephens - Army of 7:00, Gianna Lauren - Be Nice, Boris with Michio Kurihara - Rainbow, Bad Rabbit - Sea Green Sea, Ulaan Khol - Untitled III, Swans - Jim, The Black Angels - Bad Vibrations, Women - China Steps, Zelienople - Moss Man, Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Unkerich, Fennesz/Daniell/Buck - Antonia, Zs - Gentleman Amateur, Greie Gut Fraktion - Grossgrunbesitzer, Information - Sufficient Sunlight, Konntinent - 44 55 33, Michael Santos - Magenta Dayline, Mark van Hoen - Beautiful, On - Something That Has Form and Something That Does Not, Max Richter - Journey 1, and James Blackshaw - Part 8.

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.

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Katharsis Aug. 29 '10


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(I'm back.) This week: Doug Burr - Topeka, Band of Horses - Infinite Arms, David Karsten Daniels - Each Summer Sound, Au - Prelude + the Waltz, Damien Jurado - Pear, His Name is Alive - Darker Than Blue, M. Ostermeier - Compelling Memories Both Correct, Derri Daugherty - I Still Believe (The Call cover; RIP Michael Been), Nina Nastasia - One Way Out, Eric Chenaux - Lavallière #2, F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm - Writing Letters to Myself, Bobby & Blumm - Take a Sip (No. 2), Melodium - German Voice, Moshimoss - Lullaby for a Lonely Promontory, Namlook - Pearl XIX, Noveller - Fades, Max Richter - Infra 6, Mark Templeton - Horizon + Drowning in Memories, Sven Weisemann - Xine III Aeron, Mountains - Blown Glass Typewriter, Nils Frahm & Anne Muller - Duktus, Fjordne - Wood, Cluster, Akira Kosemura - Look, Clogs - Loev Song, Hildur Guðnadóttir - Self, and Minamo - When Unwelt Melts.

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.

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Katharsis for Hedgehogs Aug. 8, 15 & 22 '10


Many thanks to Timothy Heck for filling in in my absence; impeccable music selections (as always...)


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Aug. 8 mp3 or ogg
Aug. 15 mp3 or ogg
Aug. 22 mp3 or ogg

No track list (you'll have to listen closely to the recordings).

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.

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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Katharsis Aug. 1 '10


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This week: John Hornak - Hlavna Stanica, 3ofmillions - Her Subtlety in My Subconscious, Erik Enocksson - Non Strigis, Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Under Land and Over Sea, Kris Ellestad - Won't You Let Your Hair Down, Coco Rosie - Grey Oceans, Sunslide - Fieldpiano 1, It Kills - Old Song, Damian Valles - A Bow Echo, D.A.A.U. - A Matter of Time, Ólafur Arnalds - Þú ert jörðin, Sergei Rachmaninov - Ektenia, Saffron Slumber - Cascades III, To Rococo Rot - Seele, School of Seven Bells - Dust Devil, Baths - Rain Smell, Emancipator - All Through the Night, Proem - Enough Conflict - Koen Park - Entertainment for the Braindead: Colours (Washed with Pastels Mix by Ian Hawgood), Christopher Willits - Free Singing Strawberries for Children, Michael Santos - Alphaville, Ambrose Field & John Potter - Being Dufay, and Nest - Amrath.

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.

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Katharsis July 25 '10


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This week: Morphine - Lilah, South Pacific - Reverbium, Fuqugi - Hibiscus, Alan Sparhawk - Sagrado Corazón de Jesú (second Attempt), 1 Mile North - East Coast Harbor, Adam Franklin & the Bolts of Melody - She's Closer Than I've Ever Been, Jesu & Fog - Dum Dum (Idaho cover), Idaho - Dum Dum, Twin Sister - Galaxy Plateau, BJ Nilsen - Gradient, Effi Briest - X, Noveller - Kites Calm Desert Fires, Radian - Git Cut Derivat, Rene Hell - IV 18:54, Saycet - Fireflies, M. Ostermeier - Overtone, Proem - Kalimba Jam, Tomasz Bednarczyk - Sad Man on the Train, DM Stith - Around the Lion Legs (Slow Dance version), Max Richter - Infra 1, Sunslide - Fieldpiano 3, and the Wind-up Bird - Voice & Sine Wave.

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.

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Katharsis July 18 '10


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This week: The Wilderness of Manitoba - Reveries en Couleurs, Hammock - You Lost the Starlight in Your Eyes, Praveen & Benoît - Chiaroscuro, Hummingbird - Florian, Marsen Jules - The Sound of One Lip Kissing, Zelienople - The Light No One Knows, Noveller - St. Powers, Konntinent - Dry Eyed, Coldstream - Passing Place, Christopher Hipgrave - Go with the Loops, Max Richter - Infra 2, Federico Durand - Mi Pequeño Mundo de Papel, Le Lindemain - Narbonne, F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm - Lenz, Nest - Wheatstone, Melodium - Guitar Theme, Nicola Ratti - Dream #2, Oval - Kasko, Savvas Ysatis & Taylor Deupree - Clouds, September Collective - Nachthorn, and Taylor Deupree - Rusted Oak.

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 it.

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Monday, July 12, 2010

Katharsis July 11 '10


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This week: The Wilderness of Manitoba - Orono Park, Jim Guthrie - Nighttime/Anytime (it's alright), Nina Nastasia - You Can Take Your Time, Reuben Bullock - Paper Trail, Pernice Brothers - The End of Faith, Radar Brothers - People, Fleet Foxes - English House, Ulaan Khol (Steven R. Smith) - III (Untitled Track 6), Ryan Bourne - Many Creatures, Arcade Fire - The Suburbs, Hoquiam (Damien & Drake Jurado) - Party Fell, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & the Cairo Gang - Where Wind Blows, The Tallest Man on Earth - A Lion's Heart, Chris Brokaw & Geoff Farina - Stagger Lee, Chris Brokaw & Geoff Farina - Oh Death, Silje Nes - Brown, Coco Rosie - Gallows, Amiina - Over & Again, Bobby & Blumm - The Quiet, Heather Woods Broderick - Back Room, Wildbirds & Peacedrums - The Lake, VoicesVoices - Out from Under, Trentemøller - Sycamore Feeling, Radian - Subcolors, Oval - Homesick, To Rococo Rot - Forwardness, Zs - Concert Black, and Nils Frahm & Anne Müller - Journey for a Traveller.

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-up.

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Monday, July 5, 2010

Katharsis July 4 '10


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This week: James Blackshaw - Transient Life in Twilight, Keith Fullerton Whitman - Variations for Oud & Synthesizer 2, Colleen - Blue Sands, Woodworkings - Connected Through Lines, Loscil - Showers of Ink, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Phases of the Moon, Goldmund - Image-Autumn-Womb (Keith Kenniff aka Helios), F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm - Sugar Coated Fennel Seeds, Hauschka - Heimat, Federico Durand - Pudú, tu nombre es Tobías?, Chihei Hatakeyama - Calm, Anomalous Disturbances - Moksha, Felicia Atkinson - The Alps, Richard Skelton - Noon Hill Wood, Stars of the Lid - Fratres (live recording of an Arvo Pärt composition), The Dylan Group - Sandcastles... and To Her Legs She Smiled (Bundy K. Brown rework), This Quiet Army - Melted Land on Ashen Canvas, and aMute - Hit my Country.

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-up.

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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Katharsis June 27 '10


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This week: Tim Hecker - Introducing Carl Cox, Oval - Kastell, Machinefabriek - Go On, Kurt Vile - Losing Momentum (for Jim Jarmusch), Konntinent - Numeral, Minamo - Be Born, Nicola Ratti - ...And Fireworks, Anja Garbarek - The Gown, Bass Communion - Litany 1-403-1204, Jacaszek - Powoli, Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Bleed Like There Was No Other Flood, Valgeir Sigurðsson - Past Tundra, The Abbasi Brothers - The Sound of Silence, Twin Sister - The Other Side of Your Face, DM Stith - In My Dreams, I Watch TV (Braid of Voices remix by Ensemble), AGF - Alone in the Woods (The Fox, The Skunk, and The Rabbit), The Knife (in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock) - The Height of Summer, Saycet - Her Movie, Matmos & So Percussion - Water, Emiliana Torrini - Beggar's Prayer, Mi & L'au - Spartan Dance, McKisko - Undertow (from Brisbane, Australia not the UK; sorry), Lotte Kestner - Nurse (forgot to announce this one), Norberto Lobo - Samantra, Doug Burr - ...All Our Lives and And When We Awoke.

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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Katharsis Favourite Releases from 2009

Now, with some distance from last year, I present my 'short' list of favourite releases from 2009:

I have actually been sitting on this list since the new year and had intended to add short descriptions/reviews of each of these (reviews for some were published in BeatRoute last year) but I just haven't had the time and sadly probably won't for a long time. Some googling will lead you to much better reviews of these than I could ever write and these records are deserving of the highest calibre of writing to describe them.

For now my cryptic genre codes will have to suffice as a description (a lot of these terms have become so ambiguous they are now meaningless to most; sorry):

a = ambient instrumental (acoustic and/or electronic), e = electronic (uptempo), g = glitch (electronic), n = neo-classical, p = post-rock, i = indie-rock/pop, f = folk

A Broken Consort - Box of Birch (a,n)
A Broken Consort - Crow Autumn Part Two (a,n)
Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol II (a,n)
Ametsub - The Nothings Of The North (a,g,e)
Animal Hospital - Memory (a,n,p,f)
Balmorhea - All Is Wild, All Is Silent Remixes (Vinyl) (a,n)
Barzin - Notes to An Absent Lover (i)
Bell Orchestre - As Seen Through Windows (a)
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle (i)
Clouwbeck - Wolfrahm (a,n)
Dakota Suite - The Night Just Keeps Coming In (a)
David Bazan - Curse Your Branches (i)
DM Stith - Heavy Ghost (i,a)
Early Day Miners - The Treatment (i)
Evan Miller - Transfigurations on Lap-Steel Guitar (a,f)
Felix - You Are the One I Pick (i)
Fjordne - The Setting Sun (a,g)
Forest Tate Fraser - The Fall EP (i,f)
Fuqugi - Gransofa + Nightingale (a,p)
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (i)
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Through The Devil Softly (i,f)
Ilyas Ahmed - Goner (a,i,f)
James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game (a,n,f)
Jasper TX - Singing Stones (a,e)
Jasper TX & Anduin - The Bending Of Light (a)
Jonathan Kane - Jet Ear Party (i,p)
Jon-Rae Fletcher - Oh Maria (i,f)
Klumpes Ahmad - In Bed We Trust (a,g)
Knots - The Blistering Sun, the Pale Moon, Hahahaha (i)
Kreng - L'Autopsie Phe´nome´nale De Dieu (a,g,n)
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy (i)
Laura Gibson - Beasts Of Seasons (f)
Lisa Germano - Magic Neighbor (i,f)
Lusine - A Certain Distance (e)
Mark Eitzel - Klamath (i)
Mark Templeton & Aaron Munson - Acre Loss (a,p)
Mirah - (A)Spera (i)
Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem (i)
Mountains - Choral (a)
Nancy Elizabeth - Wrought Iron (i,f)
Nels Cline - Coward (a)
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - White Lunar (a,n,f)
Pale Air Singers - Pale Air Singers (i)
Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek - Blank Grey Canvas Sky (a)
Pillowdiver - Sleeping Pills (a,p)
Pixel - The Drive (a,g)
Rachel Grimes - Book of Leaves (a,n)
Rameses III - I Could Not Love you More Vinyl (a)
Riceboy Sleeps - Riceboy Sleeps (a)
Seaworthy - 1897 (a,f)
Shannon Stephens - The Breadwinner (a,i,f)
Shannon Wright - Honeybee Girls (i,f)
Sholi - Sholi (i)
Steven R Smith - Cities (a,f)
Tara Jane O'Neil - A Ways Away (a,i,f)
The Antlers - Hospice (i)
The Green Kingdom - Twig and Twine (a)
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country (a)
Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre (i,f)
Tiny Vipers - Life on Earth (a,i,f)
Tomasz Bednarczyk - Let's Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow (a)
Tsukimono - Heart Attack Money (a,g)
Various - Dark Was The Night (i)
Vetiver - Tight Knit (a,i,f)
Vic Chesnutt - At the Cut (i,f)
Viva Voce - Rose City (i)
Volcano Choir - Unmap (a,i,p)
Wye Oak - The Knot (i)
Years - Years (a,g,f)
Zelienople - Give it Up (a,i,p)

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Monday, June 21, 2010

Katharsis June 20 '10 (Mark Templeton Interview)


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This week: A conversation with Anticipate recording artist Mark Templeton. Mark is playing a concert in Calgary this Friday June 25 at the Local Library.

The program unfolded as follows: Indian Jewelry - Excessive Moonlight, Nicolaus - Inner (C&C Fade), Ben Frost - Hibakusja, Klive - Sweaty Psalms, Oval - Hmmm, 36 - Siren, Olafur Arnalds - Tunglid, Jasper TX - Morning After, Mark Templeton - Beginnings, Live Interview with Mark Templeton, Mark Templeton - Safely into March, Klimek - For Zofia Klimek and Gregory Crewdson, Alva Noto, T3 (For Dieter Rams), Tsukimono - Complex Salts of Platina, Alexandre Navarro - Mystical Lane, and Mark Templeton - Drama Section. If you live in the area don't miss the performance on Friday.



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Monday, June 14, 2010

Katharsis June 13 '10


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This week: Damien Jurado - The Falling Snow, Band of Horses - Evening Kitchen, Peter Broderick - You Are My Sunshine, Ed Harcourt - Fears of a Father, Heart Failure Research Unit - I Felt Alone, Lilium - One Bear with Me, Michael Gira - No Words/No Thoughts, Nina Nastasia - Outlaster, Balmorhea - Palestrina, Murder By Death - White Noise, Woven Hand - Behind Your Breath, Zelienople - Parts Are Lost, White Hills - Let the Right One In, Tiny Vipers - Forest On Fire, Broken Water - Kamilche House, Jack Rose - Tree In the Valley, Kurt Vile - The Finder, Kaki King - Sloan Shore, Jasper TX - Some Things Broken, Some Things Lost, and Pleq - Don't Cry My Dear.

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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Katharsis June 6 '10


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This week: The American Analog Set - You Own Me, In Tall Buildings - Flemishing, Tom Brosseau - Youth Decay, Damien Jurado - Kansas City, Veda Hille (w/ Nick Krgovich) - Bedlam!, The Acorn - On the Line, Trespassers William - Rainbow Connection, The Alps - Black Mountain, CocoRosie - Trinity's Crying, Grouper - Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping, Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Silver Chords, Peter Broderick - Part I from "Three Film Score Intakes", Mark Templeton - Safely Into March, Marsen Jules - Yara 02, D.A.A.U. - Out of the Woods, Christian Prommer - Sandcastles (Dennis Ferrer cover), Murcof - Sangre, Polar Bear - The Love Didn't Go Anywhere, Ruxpin - Now I Turn to You, Hammock - Andalusia, and, Ametsub - Old Obscurity.

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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Katharsis for Hedgehogs May 30 '10


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Thanks again to Timothy Heck for another wonderful showfill. Have a listen to his exquisite selections of new and old music from across the globe.

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Katharsis for Hedgehogs May 23 '10


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Thanks to Timothy Heck for a wonderful showfill. Have a listen to his exquisite selections of new and old music from across the globe.

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Monday, May 31, 2010

Katharsis May 16 '10


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This week: Horse Feathers - Starving Robins, In Tall Buildings - The Way to a Monster's Lair, Inlets - Bells & Whistles, The National - England, Paper Beats Scissors - Be Patient, A Weather - Fond, Offthesky - Hand Held Lightly, Mark Eitzel - There's Someone Waiting, Matt Pond PA - Winter Fawn, Gareth Dickson - Noon, Hoquiam - On the Beach, Clinton St. John - Building Their Nests, Damien Jurado - Rachel & Cali, Bobby & Blumm - Seascape, Danny Paul Grody - Four Years, Sylvain Chaveau - The Unbroken Line, Lilium - Believer, The White Birch - Silent Love, Woven Hand - Truth (New Order Cover), Shearwater - A Hush, Francesco Tristano - Andover (Based on Overand by Autechre), Akira Rabelais - 1382 Wyclif Gen. II. 7 And Spiride In To The Face Of Hym An Entre Of Breth Of Lijf., Ambrose Field & John Potter - Presque Quelque Chose, Federico Durand - Los Alerces Del Patio, The Sales Department - Rain or Snow, and Hammock - Breathturn.

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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Katharsis May 9 '10


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This week: The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio, The Clogs - Last Song, The Morning Benders - All Day Day Light, Ryan Bourne - Plastic on My Pillow, Dosh - Nevermet (featuring vocals by Andrew Bird), Lab Coast - Rather Been Alone, Kammerflimmer Kollektief - There's a Crack in Everything, The Alps - Le Voyage, Wooden Shjips - I Hear the Vibrations (E-Z Version), Kid Kongo & the Monkey Birds - Late Night Scurry, Broken Water - Heal, Aiden Baker & Jakob Thiesen - You Leave Me, UNKLE - Natural Selection (featuring the Black Angels), Viva Voce - Devotion, Holy F*ck - Silva & Grimes, Lali Puna - Everything is Always, Holiday for Strings - Calling Out, Dub Tractor - I Don't Get it Anymore, Information - This Low Rise City, Byetone - Land, Mark van Hoen - She's Selda, CocoRosie - RIP Burn Face, Lusine - Baffle, and Ruxpin - My Tricycle Can Float from Planet to Planet.

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Katharsis May 2 '10



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This week: Mark Lannegan - On Jesus' Program, Timber Timbre - Demon Host, Jerk with a Bomb - Among Thieves - The For Carnation - Snoother, Kepler - The Elegant Recline, The Surf the Sundried - Summer Snow, Woven Hand - Slota Prow-Full Armor, Jasper TX & Anduin - Like the Foot Prints of an Invisible Man, Low - Don't Understand, Zelienople - Pretty Baby, Oren Ambarchi - Fever, A Warm Poison, Stars of the Lid - F*cked Up (3:57am), Felicia Atkinson - Roman Anglais, Belong - I'm Too Sleepy... Shall We Swim?, The Fun Years - Auto Show Day of the Dead, Piano Magic - Wrong Turn (featuring Alan Sparhawk & Vashti Bunyan on vocals), and Animal Hospital - A Safe Place.

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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Katharsis Apr. 25 '10

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This week: 65daysofstatic - Antique Hyper Mall, Kid606 - Die Rumpled Ego, Rhys Chatham - Scrying in Smoke, Radio Massacre International - Aeon, Near the Parenthesis - Settle In, Hammock - You Lost the Starlight in Your Eyes, Manual - Drowned in Light, Manual - Empty Inside, RxRy - Edvrd Rvrfy Guitr, Sylvain Chauveau - Complexity of the Simple, Matthew Herbert - Berlin, McKisko - How We Are, Mi & L'au - Ten Kingdoms, Mark van Hoen - I Need Silence, The Sight Below - Fervent, The Seven Fields of Aphelion - Wildflower Wood, Frog Eyes - Lear, In the Park, Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose - Glocken, The White Birch - Your Spain, Wye Oak - I Hope You Die, and Bonobo - Animals.

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Katharsis Apr. 18 '10

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This week: Danny Paul Grody - Route 1, Lanterna - Seasons, Damian Valles - Ground Truth, The Field Register - Dream-Miles Distant, Greg MacPherson - Visitor, J. Tillman - Wild Honey Never Stolen, Evening Hymns - History Books, Horse Feathers - Thistled Spring, Jessica Bailiff - For You, Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Stripped to RM, Kid606 - Periled Emu God, Tim Hecker - Borderlands, Fridge - Cut Up Piano & Xylophone (sorry forgot to back announce this one), Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (excerpt remixed by 18x18), Keith Fullerton Whitman - Multiples Track 5, The Rachel's - Systems/Layers, Heather Woods Broderick - Something Other Than, Clogs - On the Edge, Max Richter - Found Song for P., and Eluvium - Leaves Eclipse the Light.

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Sunday, April 11, 2010

Katharsis Apr. 11 '10

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This week: Aarktica - Onward! (Yellow 6 remix), Bonobo - Black Sands, Dosh - Gare De Lyon, Emancipator - Siren, The Album Leaf - There is a Wind, Another Electronic Musician - Fields and Axioms, Jaga Jazzist - Toccato, Lucky Dragons - Open Melody, Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Change Your Life, DJ Kose - Bodenweich, Loscil - Fern and Robin, Off the Sky - Light Like, Praveen & Benoit - 1991, No More Shapes - If Only My Chin Had Eyes, Inhabitants - Pacific Central, Lokai - Salvador, Dragon Turtle - Hometime, Tiny Vipers - The Downward, Lisa Bozikovic - Flitting Fire, Clea Anais - Winter, The Clogs - I Used to Do, and Greg Macpherson - Travelling Style.

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Friday, April 9, 2010

Katharsis for Hedgehogs Apr. 4 '10

A fantastic showfill provided by Timothy Heck of the much-missed Music For Hedgehogs program heard on Sunday nights several years ago. Download mp3 or ogg format

Timothy played: Javid Afsari Rad, Taken By Trees - To Lose Someone, Marisa Sannia - Melagranada Ruja, Pierre Hamon - Al Leanazig Isabel, ONJ;Irene Jacob - Del Mondo, Troublemakers - Get Misunderstood, Simone White - Victoria Anne, Sha's Banryu - 012, David Sylvian - Random Acts (Dai Fujikawa remix), Jon Balke - Chapter I Scintilla, Elle Belga - Cada día, Erik Enocksson - The Joy Of D H Lawrence, Felicia Atkinson with Sylvain Chauveau - Aberdeen, Marianne Faithfull - So Sad, Akira Kosemura - April, David Åhlén - Spirit Fall, Jæ - Pain Relievers, Sylvain Chauveau - The Unbroken Line, Guido Morini - Track 16, Enzo Avitabile - Liberation, Zsuzsanna Varkonyi & Franck, dematteis - Lej-lej, Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain - Satisfaction, and Holly Throsby - Would You. Thanks again Timothy!

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Friday, April 2, 2010

Katharsis Mar. 28 '10

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This week: Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose - Introduction, East Van Strings - Selma, Balmorhea - Steerage and the Lamp, Clogs - To Hugo, My Brightest Diamond - Of Fear and Wonder (I Found a Universe)(Alfred Brown Remix), CocoRosie - Grey Oceans, Clogs - Colony Theme, Eluvium - Cease to Know, Heinali & Matt Finney - Years, This Immortal Coil - Red Queen, Aarktica - I Am (The Ice) (Sky Burial Remix by Rameses III), Sylvain Chauveau - A Cloud of Dust, David Sylvian - Manafon, Alva Noto - Argonaut Version, Alva Noto - Sonolumi (For Camera Lucida), Aidan Baker - Liminoid (Part IV), Dragon Turtle - Hourglass, and Azeda Booth - Brown Sun.

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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Katharsis Mar. 21 '10

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This week: Michelle McAdory - Whirl, Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Spookin' the Horse, No More Shapes - New Years (Yves'), Inhabitants - Journey of the Loach, Dirac - Bantu, Holiday for Strings - Favorite Flavor, Lali Puna - Safe Tomorrow, Dub Tractor - That Won't Heal By Itself, Caribou - Bowls, Pantha Du Prince - Welt Am Draht, Ripperton - L'Ardo, Four Tet - Plastic People, Bonobo - We Could Forever, .Tape. - Franky Rendered (Do Remix), The Moving Dawn Orchestra - Summer: Keep Still, The Green Kingdom - Orange Saturday Morning, Loscil - Endless Falls, Kyle Bobby Dunn - Empty Gazing, and Bitcrush - Of Embers.

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Monday, March 15, 2010

Katharsis Mar. 14 '10

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It was SOCAN monitoring this week (I hope you all get paid): Yo La Tengo - Sleeping Pill, Ghosts of the Land - A Man and His Camel, The Drift - Golden Sands, The Inhabitants - A Part of You, The Tindersticks - Hubbards Hills, Woven Hand - Ain't No Sunshine (Bill Withers cover), Retribution Gospel Choir - The Poor Man's Daughter, The Besnard Lakes - Light Up the Night, The Summerlad - Marathon Man, Machinefabriek - j'esper ca, Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose - Boreas Borealis, Lisa Bozikovic - The Letting Go, Beach House - Real Love, Luxury Pond - Caving In, Ilyas Ahmed - As Another, Kaki King - Everything Has an End Even Sadness, Danny Paul Grody - Eve, Spain - Do You See the Light, Lorrie Matheson - The Lust, The Flesh, The Eyes and the Pride of Life (spot on Mike Roe/77's cover), Jay Crocker - Paper Thin, Sea of Is - Dear Ephemeron, and David Karsten Daniels - Evensong.

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Monday, March 8, 2010

Katharsis Mar. 7 '10 - First Sunday Evening Show

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First show in the new Sunday night time slot (8-10pm) and I thought it went fairly well: Alva Noto - Xerrox Monophaser 2, Loscil - The Making of Grief Point (featuring spoken word from Dan Bejar), Aiden Baker - Liminoid (Part I), Balmorhea - Constellations, Clogs - Veil Waltz, Seaworthy - Ammunition 2, Max Richter - The Twins (Prague), Marsen Jules - Birkengeflüster, Richard Skelton - Lowe, Danny Paul Grody - Fountain, Eluvium - Weird Creatures, SubtractiveLAD - Summer in Your Mouth, Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose - Younger, RF & Lili De La Mora - Cherry Park, Joanna Newsom - In California, Snowblink - Rut & Nuzzle, RF - Internal Notes 5, Peter Broderick - And It's All Right, Efterklang - Natural Tune, Shearwater - Hidden Lakes, Jónsi - Grow Till Tall, and Fenn O'Berg - Part I.

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Katharsis Feb. 22 '10 - Last Monday Night Show

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Yes, it's official; as part of the cjsw schedule revamp Katharsis is moving to Sunday evenings from 8-10pm. I've been on Monday nights for a long time so it's a big change for me but I'm looking forward to it (getting to bed at a decent time after my show will be nice). Similar to Monday nights, Sunday nights are down-time for a lot of people; a chance to relax and prepare for the oncoming week. I think it's a well-suited time slot for Katharsis. In preparation for this last Monday night show I was reviewing my music logs from some of my first shows in late 2000/early 2001 and was inspired to play some old favourites (garnished with some new stuff): Mark Templeton - Sleep in Front of, Idaho - Staring at the Sky (the first song ever played on Katharsis; it still gives me chills), Nina Nastasia - Superstar, P:ano - New Son, Velour 100 - Dolphin Grey, Loscil - Charlie, Ida - Late Blues, Songs:Ohia - The Body Burned Away, Lullaby for the Working Class - Inherent Song, American Music Club - What Godzilla Said to God When His Name Wasn't Found in the Book of Life, Buffalo Tom - Taillights Fade, Goldmund - Threnody, Mark Kozelek - Mistress, Kepler - Loose Ground, David Grubbs - An Optimist Declines, Smog - Rock Bottom Riser, Joanna Newsom, Baby Birch, RF - Of Detachment, Jon Rae Fletcher - City Lights, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Oh My Lord, Canyon Country - Honey & Gold, Tarentel - Wheel Within A Wheel, and National Skyline - A Night at the Drug Store. Hope you follow me to Sunday nights...

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Katharsis Feb. 15 '10

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This week: Years - The Assasination of Dow Jones, James Blackshaw - Death of V, Mount Eerie - Appetite, Rocky Votolato - Sparklers, Sir Richard Bishop - Provenance Unknown, The Mountain Goats - Matthew 25:21, The Durutti Column - Quatro, Teruyuki Nobuchika - Nocturne, Olaf Arnalds - Moldin, Clea Anais - Winter, Shelley Short - Time Machine/Submarine, Rauelsson - Liebre, Maymay - The Fall, McKisko - Jackson Curse, Colleen - Golden Morning Breaks, Julien Neto - Questionable Things, The Knife/Mt. Sims/Planning to Rock - Annie's Box (Alt. Vocal), Ambrose Field and John Potter - La Dolce Vista, Balmorhea - Palestrina, Slow Six - Because Together We Resonate, Clogs - Three-Two, Richard Skelton - Pariah, SubtractivLAD - Once the Stars Have Been Washed from the Sky, Mark Templeton - Beginnings (featuring Mitchell Akiyama), Akira Kosemura - Guitar & Tyme (2 tracks), and Chihei Hatakeyama - Haze from the River.

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Katharsis Feb. 8 '10

An excellent showfill from Craig Soby. Download mp3 or ogg format

I took the night off to go see Do Make Say Think, a long-time favourite. Honestly, their latest album didn't do much for me. Live they seem to be just as solid as ever but not really breaking new ground musically. Their live show has become a bit rote which is kind of sad. The exceptions were their opening guises as Charles Spearan's Happiness Project (Charles Spearan's novel "science project" - music not only inspired by interviews of his neighbours but that actually mimics the cadence and inflection of the interview voice recordings) and Years, Ohad Benchetrit's solo project. Benchetrit started off solo acoustic, with some great Fayhey-esq instrumental folk from his album of last year (one of my favourites of the year) but eventually brought his DMST-bandmates out to provide the highlight set of the evening for me.

As always Craig did a fantastic showfill in my absence.

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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Katharsis Feb. 1 '10

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This week: Pantha Du Prince - The Splendour, Four Tet - Circling, Brock Van Wey (aka Bvdub) - I Knew Happiness Once, Thomas Fehlmann - In the Wind, Near the Parenthesis - Not Here, Not Tonight, SubtractiveLAD - The Deep and Lovely Quiet, Mark Templeton - Telepathy, BJ Nilsen - The Invisible City, NQ - Autobahnkreuz München Nord, The Knife with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock - Colouring of Pigeons, Ambrose Field & John Potter - Je vous pri, Zelienople - Clarity, Oren Ambarchi - Iron Waves (remix of Paul Duncan's Parasail), Konntinent - Collo & Orro, Nicola Ratti - White Morning, Eluvium - Making Up Minds, My Brightest Diamond - If I Were Queen (DM Stith remix), Minamo - Helical Scenery, and Sufjan Stevens - Postlude: Critical Mass.

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Katharsis Jan. 25 '10

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This week: Beach House - ???, Tyondai Braxton - J. City, Tristeza - Tension Futura, Woodsman - Spirit Stone, The Mercury Program - The Church of Cause & Effect, The American Dollar - Schipol, Tannhäuser - Temporal, Russian Circles - When the Mountain Comes to Muhammad, Yasushi Yoshida - Chair Father, September Collective - Nasat, Dalot - Above the Rooftops, Four Tet - Angel Echoes, Guitar - Exoticon, Heinali - Minotaur, Lusine - Baffle, Murcof - I.IV, Scissors and Sellotape - Chapter 6, Triola - Schildergasse, Manrico Montero & Alexandre Navarro - Montero+Navarro Remix by Segue from the bootleg remix of Tangencies Part.2 (Manrico Montero Betweenness album - track 7) and Awaken (Arcane album, Awaken - track 6), Teruyuki Nobuchika - Hypnotique, and Black to Comm - Forst.

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Katharsis Jan. 18 '10

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This week: The Arcade Fire - Haiti, Retribution Gospel Choir - Bless Us All, Idaho - Skyscrape, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Kollapz Tradixional (Thee Olde Dirty Flag), Shearwater - Landscape at Speed, Efterklang - Alike, The Besnard Lakes - Albatross, Bitcrush - Of Embers, Headlights - Wisconsin Beaches, Rosie Thomas - Songbird (Fleetwood Mac cover), Damien Jurado - Big Let Down, Ox - Unknown Legend, Kurt Vile - Blackberry Song, Curtis Harvey - Words, Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek - Rain, Tindersticks - Falling Down a Mountain, John Tchicai With Strings - Solemn, Solo Andata - Dawn Chorus, Chihei Hatakeyama - Outside of Tochka, Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose - Boreas Borealis, Dub Tractor - It All Went Wrong, Arms & Sleepers - From the Inland Sea, Juozas Milasius - So Light, Woodsman - Shutterlag, and Muskox - Stat Cam.

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Katharsis Jan. 11 '10

(Was away this week) Listen to the show recording in mp3 or ogg.


Thanks to Lindsay from Sweetheart of the Radio for covering the first hour and Stan from Post-Everything for covering the second. You'll have to listen to the recording to hear what they played.

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Friday, February 5, 2010

Katharsis Jan. 04 '10 - Ear-grabbers of 2009 Part 2

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2009 in review part 2: Shannon Stephens - The Most Delicious Hours, Barzin - Stayed too Long in this Place, Grizzly Bear - Foreground, Brock Geiger - Skin, Clea Anais Foofat (& Brock Geiger) - This Bell, Pale Air Singers - Convict Escapes, Ilyas Ahmed - Some of None, Animal Hospital - A Safe Place, Lhasa (R.I.P.) - I'm Going In, Tiny Vipers - Slow Motion, Mount Eerie - Wind Speaks, Antony with Bryce Dressner - I Was Young When I Left Home (Bob Dylan cover), Jordan Klassen - Hot Ashes, Molina & Johnson - 34 Blues, Curtis Harvey - Medicine, Seaworthy - Ammunition 2, Thighs - Tigers, David Bazan - Lost My Shape, Church of the Very Bright Lights - Crow's Feet on a Table in a Strip Mall, Zelienople - Can't Stop, Mark Templeton & Aaron Munson - It's OK to Fall, Mountains - Choral, Riceboy Sleeps - Howl, Bass Communion - Litany 1-403-1204, and Anders Parker - Canadian Heart.

In keeping with tradition, I intended to publish a comprehensive list of albums that caught my ear in 2009 (there were at least 50 or so) but as I wrote in a previous post business and laziness (mostly way too busy and then just plain lazy when not busy) prevented me from doing so in a timely manner. Perhaps for Chinese New Year...


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Katharsis Dec. 28 '09 - Ear-grabbers of 2009 Part 1

Sorry for the lack of posts. Been way to busy/lazy. Download the show recording in mp3 or ogg.

This was the first of my 2009 in review shows. Timothy Heck, host of one of the much-missed radio program Music For Hedgehogs and occasional guest host of Katharsis joined me to run through some stand-outs from last year: Jack Rose (R.I.P.) - Box of Pine, AA Tigre - El primer último dia, Tara Jane O'Neil - Dig In, Fjordne - ???, Vetiver - At Forest Edge, The Story of Modern Farming - Sidespring, DM Stith - Thanksgiving Moon, Lisa Ekdahl - Give Me That Slow Knowing Smile, Jasper TX & Anduin - A Beam of Light Bends Back Upon Itself, Laura Gibson - Glory, Dominique A - Valparaiso, Felix - Death to Everyone But Us, Timber Timbre - I Get Low, Alva Noto - Xerrox Monophaser 2, Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Attack/Transition, David Sylvian - Manafon, A Broken Consort - A Sundering Path (abbreviated, sorry), Klumpes Ahmad - You Can Have What I Take, Knots - Happiness, Kreng - Caliban, Madam - Marine Boy, Pillowdiver - Twenty-Nine, and Grinderman - Song for Franke.

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