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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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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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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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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