Hey;

Sorry I’m so poor at posting to this thing. I’ve promised to do better in the past and it’s clearly made no difference, so I think I’ll just post this with no commitments.

Tunes from yesterday’s show:

Colin Stetson* – and in truth – New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light ( Constellation )
Mid Pines* – meridians – Corpse Pose ( Circuit Song )
William Elliott Whitmore – Bury your burdens in the ground – Field Songs ( Anti- )
Common Market – 40 Furrows – Tobacco Road ( Hyena )
Geoff Berner – Maginot Line – We Shall Not Flag or Fail, We Shall Go On To The End ( 9pm Records )
Bomba EstŽreo – Bosque – Elegancia Tropical ( Soundway )
Savk – The Morning Comes – Savk ( VK )
Snowblink – The Tired Bees/Stand Where a Fruit Tree Drops the Things it Doesn’t Need – Long Live ( Out of the Speck )
Raleigh – Gallup – (live) ( (live) )
Raleigh – Helios – (live) ( (live) )
Raleigh – CareBear – (live) ( (live) )
Phil Motion & The Easy Lo-Fi* – Time-Bomb – Time-Bomb Dangerous World ( Supafunk/Up & Up )
Baby Charles – I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor – Record Kicks 10th ( Record Kicks )
Dynamics – Miss You – Version Excursion ( Groove Attack )
Spoke And Mirror* – Global Village Idiot – The Music Is The Message ( Self-Released )
Malcolm Kipe f Chicken George – Motivestation – Breakspiracy Theories ( Merck )
Wordburglar – Scova Notions – Burglaritis ( Hand’Solo )
Retros Finest** – Modified Funk – Why So Serious? ( Self-Released )
Word People f Moka Only – Rollin’ – People’s Eatery ( ? )
BallakŽ Sissoko – Maimouna – At Peace ( Six Degrees )
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – Wawadou – Jama Ko ( Out Here )

Hey everyone – I’m SUPER-STOKED for tomorrow’s Funding Drive show with Matt and Kate and special guests!

To see all of our incentives in a handy, clickable chart, click on this link.

Thanks a million for backing the Derby/Almanac, and for supporting CJSW’s 2012 Funding Drive! Let’s boost that wattage!

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Howdy.

Fun show today – I had Matt Knapik (soon-to-be host if the Charmers’ Almanac) is for training and guest-hosting a snippet of the show, and two awesome Erins came up from Arusha to talk about Open Streets Calgary and Arusha’s Take Action Grants program.

Os Mutantes – Baby – we come in peace: luaka bop compilation ( luaka bop )
King Coya – Cumbiatron – Future Sounds Of Buenos Aires ( Waxploitation/ZZK )
Jab Micha Och El – Side Car Bicycle – Project Bicycle ( Ache Records )
Grand Pianoramax – Infidels – Smooth Danger ( ObliqSound )
Morcheeba & Hubert Laws – Summertime – Summertime EP ( Antilles )
Shawn Lee – AJ’s Mood – Synthesizers In Space ( ESL )
Money Mark – I Don’t Play Piano – Push the Button ( PolyGram )
Yo La Tengo – Mr. Tough – I AM Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass ( Matador )
Ramsey Lewis – Struttin’ Lightly – Dancin’ In The Street ( Cadet )
Mocean Worker – Swagger – Candygram ( Mowo )
Muneshine* – Home Sweet Home – There Is Only Today ( Droppin’ Science )
Sean Anonymous – Hot to Death – Anonymo ( Wide Eyes )
Roots Manuva Meets Wrongtom – Butterfly Crab Walk – Duppy Writer ( Big Dadda )
Dirty Projectors – Just From Chevron – Swing Lo Magellan ( Domino )
The Barr Brothers – Beggar in the Morning – The Barr Brothers ( Secret City Records )
Hinindar* – House of the Mansion – Absalon ( Self-Released )
Beirut – Eat Harlem – Calgary Folkfest Compilation ( Self-Released )
The Mynabirds – Mightier Than the Sword – Generals ( Saddle Creek )
Jesse & The Dandelions* – Only a Rocketship Can Save Us – Time and Space and Everything In Between ( Esper )
Dave McCann & the Firehearts – Standing in the River – Dixiebluebird ( s/r )
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – That’s What’s Up – Here ( Community/Vagrant )
Jeremy Fisher* – Highway One – Mint Juleps ( Hidden Pony )
The Be Good Tanyas* – For the Turnstiles – A Collection (2000-2012) ( Nettwerk )
Burning Spear – Man In The Hills – Man In The Hills ( Island )
Corey Harris – Afrique (Chez Moi) – Zion Crossroads ( TelArc )
The Tallest Man On Earth – Revelation Blues – There’s No Leaving Now ( Dead Oceans )
Besh O Drom – Kertunk Alatt – CFMF 2012 compilation ( s/r )

Thanks for tuning in, and for those of you who gave a shout to say hi. Maybe see some of y’all down at South Country Fair this weekend!

Peace Out,
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Hey! Happy Summertime!

Some kinda hot out today – hope you’re enjoying yourselves in the lovely sunny weather. I’mma go jump in the river this afternoon; it’s like an instant and total change of perspective.

Here’s what went down on the derby last week. Thanks to Doug Horner at Alberta Views and to all the writers who joined us.

Tunes:

Supreme Cuts – ciroc waterfalls – Whispers In The Dark ( Dovecote )
Dntel – Retracer – Aimlessness ( Pampa )
Cadence Weapon* – Cheval – Hope In Dirt City ( Upper Class )
Malik Work & the Upstagers – Let Me See Some ID – Nickodemus Presents The Wonderwheel Spins In 2012 ( Wonderwheel )
Ghislain Poirier – Jusqu’en Haut – No Ground Under ( Ninja Tune )
Mike Ladd – Black Orientalist – Nostalgiator ( World’s Fair )
Wordburglar & More or Les* – Rhyme O’Clock – 3rdBurglar ( Hand Solo )
Random Recipe – A Moment With the Last Dinosaur – Fold It! Mold It! ( Bonsound Records )
Dstr* – Mama’s Boy – Reconstructed Memories ( Neferiu )
G Jones – Intro & Scared Stupid – Get Movin’ ( Self-Released )
David Ramos* – Village Inn Diner – Sento La Tua Mancanza ( Fake Four )
Brownout – I Won’t Lie – Oozy ( Nat Geo )
Orchestre Super Bourgou De Parakou – Gandigui – The Bariba Sound ( Analog Africa )
Bob Snider – Parkette – Catterwaul and Doggerel ( Borealis )
Greg Brown – Two Little Feet – Further In ( Red House Records )
Bow & Antler* – Barbara Budd – Gather Frolic ( Self-Released )
Lauren Mann & The Fairly Odd Folk** – Weight of the World – Over Land And Sea ( Self-Released )
Rae Spoon – We Become Our Own Wolves – Superior You Are Inferior ( Self-Released )
Del Barber* – Queen of July – Headwaters ( Six Shooter )
The Rural Alberta Advantage – North Star – Departing ( Paper Bag )
100 Mile House – Songs We All Know – From Fall to Fall ( Self-Released )
Hinterlandband* – Come On Home – Bon Echo ( Self-Released )
Shooglenifty – McConnell’s Rant – Troots ( The Shoogle )
La Bouttine Souriante vs. Legion of Green Men – YoYo Vert – EP ( )

See ya around! Thanks for tuning in,
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Hey!

Thanks for tuning in today, and thanks to Justin Brown and Elise Hetu from the Sustainability Office, and to Mike Unrau from Waterlution for coming in to talk about water issues. Speaking of water issues, have y’all seen this campaign around town? Their posters are pretty powerful, looks like a solid outfit.

Also, Thanks to Sonia Edworthy and Amy Herauf from the Old Y Centre (home of show sponsors Arusha, CSIF, Sierra Club, and a pile of other organizations) for coming by to tell us about the Activist Past-Times celebration happening on Sunday. Hope you can make it out, sounds like a real fun time!

Here are the platters that spun on the show today:
Shawn Lee – low riders in space – Synthesizers In Space ( ESL )
Curumin – passarinho – Arrocha ( Six Degrees )
ray barbee – find enjoyment – in full view ( galaxia records )
black moth super rainbow – sun lips – dandelion gum ( graveface records )
the bird and the bee – la la la – s/t ( emi/blue note )
pink mountaintops – holiday – outside love ( jagjaguwar )
Shuffle Demons* – it’s all about the hang – Clusterfunk ( Linus )
charlie hunter trio – think of one – copperopolis ( ropeadope records )
The Cheebacabra – 2nd & cedar – Pass The Information ( Mackrosoft )
medeski, scofield, martin & wood – legalize it – out louder ( indirecto records )
booker t. jones – everything is everything – the road to memphis ( anti )
The Funkees – dancing time – Dancing Time ( Soundway )
Rob – loose up yourself – Make It Fast, Make It Slow ( Soundway )
staff benda bilili – avramandole – tres tres fort ( crammed discs )
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars – yesu gorbu – Radio Salone ( Cumbancha )
abdal malik – paris mais… – dante ( maisonette music )
Union feat. moka only – good morning – Analogtronics ( Fatbeats )
abstract rude – hell yeah – making tracks ( basement records )
ghostkeeper – by morning – ghostkeeper ( flemish eye records )
Northern Cree – hey b – Dancerz Groove: Cree Round Dance Songs ( Canyon )
jerry alfred and medicine beat – the grandfather song – s/t ( s/r )
devon sproule – good to get out – don’t hurry for heaven ( black hen music )

On top of all that, today is Go Skateboarding Day! So go getcher skate on! I played a track from Ray Barbee today – check out what Ray does more famously – slappies and Shuggie Otis!:
At Home with Ray Barbee (Strangenotes)

Here’s my other favourite skate video from recent times – dig this dude’s flow!:
Following Joe Pease (the Predatory Bird)

Roll on friends. See you at Sled Island.
PEACE,
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