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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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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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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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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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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