Katharsis Aug. 7 '11

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

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Katharsis July 31 '11

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

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Katharsis July 24 '11

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

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Katharsis July 17 '11

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

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Katharsis July 10 '11

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

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Katharsis July 3 '11

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

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Katharsis June 26 '11

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

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

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Katharsis June 19, 11

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

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

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Katharsis June 12 '11

Still getting caught up...

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

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Katharsis June 5 '11

Yet another old playlist...

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

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Katharsis May 29 '11

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

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

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Katharsis May 22 '11

Yet more housekeeping...

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

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Katharsis May 15 '11

Still catching up...

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

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Katharsis May 1 '11

Still catching up...

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

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Katharsis April 24 '11

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

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

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Katharsis April 17 '11

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

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

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Katharsis Apr. 10 '11

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

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

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

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

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Katharsis Apr. 3 '11

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

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

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

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

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Katharsis Mar. 27 '11

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

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

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

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

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Katharsis Mar. 20 '11

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

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

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

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

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