#Nicholas Krgovich

[therarefied]

Joseph Shabason, Nicholas Krgovich & M. Sage's “Gloria”

[deep-dive]

2024 year-end:

albums: A. G. Cook - Britpop Actress - Statik Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - HOAX Astrid Sonne - Great Doubt Belong - Realistic IX Bibio - Phantom Brickworks (LP II) Billy Bultheel - Two Cycles Biosphere - Patashnik (Decrypted By Sketch) Bladee - Cold Visions Body Meat - Starchris Broadcast - Spell Blanket & Distant Call (Collected Demos 2000-2009) Camila Cabello - C,XOXO Caribou - Honey Chanel Beads - Your Day Will Come Charli xcx - Brat Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee Colin Self - lemniscate d’Eon - Leviathan Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn - Quiet in a World Full of Noise DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Hex Eiko Ishibashi - Evil Does Not Exist Erika de Casier - Still ESP - Promise Felicia Atkinson - Space As an Instrument Fennesz - Mosaic Geotic - The Anchorite Good Sad Happy Bad - All kinds of days Hesaitix - Noctian Airgap Iglooghost - Tidal Memory Exo Jack J - Blue Desert Joanne Robertson & Dean Blunt - Backstage Raver Joseph Shabason, Nicholas Krgovich & M. Sage - Shabason, Krgovich, Sage Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves Kali Malone - All Life Long Klein - marked Laurel Halo - Octavia Loidis - One Day Merely & Malibu - Essential Mixtape Mk.gee - Two Star & The Dream Police Molina - When you wake up Mount Kimbie - The Sunset Violet Naemi - Dust Devil NEW YORK - Side A/B Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor Oliver Coates - Throb, shiver, arrow of time Otha - Club 20 Pet Shop Boys - Nonetheless Priori - This but More Saint Etienne - The Night Shinichi Atobe - Discipline ssaliva - Eat the Night Original Soundtrack Tems - Born in the Wild Tindersticks - Soft Tissue Total Blue - Total Blue Torus - Summer of Love (2024) Toxe - Toxe2 v/a - Hypersensitivity: A Decade Of Allergy Season v/a - TRANSA: Selects Vegyn - The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions Xiu Xiu - 13” Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips Yung Lean & Bladee - Psykos

songs: Actress - Ray A. G. Cook - Crescent Sun A. G. Cook - Crone Amnesia Scanner - AS Over Astrid Sonne - Give my all Baths - Sea of Men Billy Bultheel - Snows of Venice - Snow Cycle Bladee - END OF THE ROAD BOYZ Boy Harsher - Machina (ft. Mariana Saldaña) [Dark Mix] Carolina Polachek - Coma Chanel Beads - Embarassed Dog Charli xcx - 360 remix featuring robyn & yung lean Colin Self - Doll Park Doll Park Contrahouse - Big Time Sensuality 2 crushed - milksugar (DJ Python Remix) deBasement - FTDJ (Thank God) d’Eon - Gilded Cutlass (Kallisti Version) DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Come In, Carmen Dorian Concept - Hide (Bibio Rework) Dua Lipa - Houdini (Dally L Harle Slowride Mix) Erika de Casier - Test It ESP - Break Free Fennesz - Love and the Framed Insects Fibre Optixx - What Is Love (Priori Dee-Dub Remix) Geotic - The Going Herbert - Fallen (ft. Momoko Gill) Hesaitix - Santorosae (Black Dolphin) Hesaitix - Anticrime HTRK - Dream Symbol (Loraine James Remix) Iglooghost - Coral Mimic Jack J - At Last James K - Blinkmoth (July Mix) Jensen Sportag - Power Sergio Jim Legxacy - aggressive Joanne Robertson & Dean Blunt - she’s lost control again Job - Fun Town ‘24 Joseph Shabason, Nicholas Krgovich & M. Sage - Patti Jump Source - Balance Kode9 - Nuvola Loidis - Wait & See Marie Davidson - Sexy Clown Merely & Malibu - appregiated romance Mica Levi - Slob Air Milan W. - Days in My Arms Mk.gee - Dream police Mk.gee - ROCKMAN Molina - Flowers Mount Kimbie - A Figure in the Surf Naemi - Ambergris NEW YORK - ah Oklou - family and friends Oliver Coates - Backprint radiation (ft. Faten Kanaan) Otha - Effin Pet Shop Boys - New London boy Physical Therapy & Patrick Holland - 7PM Drive Priori - Moonstone (ft. Ben Bondy) Rat Heart - Picky Eater Rat Heart - U Can See Alex Park From Ere Ryota Kozuka - Da’at: shinjuku gyoen Sade - Young Lion Saint Etienne - Daydream Shinichi Atobe - SA DUB 8 SINN6R - Ay Caramba SOPHIE - Love Me Off Earth (ft. Doss) ssaliva & DJ KIT - I see the future Tems - Burning Tindersticks - Always a Stranger Torus - Lose Control Total Blue - Heart of the World Tove Lo & SG Lewis - Heat Toxe - Som En Sol Toxe - Eating Hearts Vegyn - Makeshift Tourniquet witchcell - Killswitch Xiu Xiu - Maestro One Chord Yung Lean & Bladee - Sold Out [playlist]

movies: 103 fever (Conner O’Malley) Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke) Challengers (Luca Guadagnino) Chime (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve) Evil Does Not Exist & Gift (Ryūsuke Hamaguchi) Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki) Furiosa (George Miller) Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood) La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher) Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie) Monster (Hirokazu Kore-eda) Problemista (Julio Torres) Red Rooms (Pascal Plante) The Shrouds (David Cronenberg) Smile 2 (Parker Finn) Stress Positions (Theda Hammel) The Taste of Things (Trần Anh Hùng) Trap (M. Night Shyamalan)

games: Animal Well Astrobot Balatro Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Metaphor: ReFantazio Persona 3 Reload Unicorn Overlord Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance – Armored Core: For Answer (2008) Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth (2020) Resident Evil (2002) Vampire Survivors (2022) Xenoblade Chronicles X (2015)

[theam-cjsw]

The AM: January 22, 2024

Former Constantines frontman and current solo artist Bry Webb calls in during hour three of this week's AM to discuss his new album and upcoming Calgary show. Before that, your usual mix of mellow moods, from neo-classical bassoon and accordion, to gentle acoustic ditties, to "maritime jazz" and other unclassifiable sounds.

Enjoy!

Listen on CJSW

Stream the whole episode on Soundcloud

Skip to just the interview

Spotify playlist (tracks from the last five-or-so episodes)

Hour One:

Grasslands Frank Horvat, Sébastien Malette • A Village of Landscapes

Ya Rayah Emad Armoush's Duos, featuring Francois Houle • Electritradition

Poeira Sam Gendel, Fabiano do Nascimento • The Room

London Tuulikki Bartosik • Playscapes

Dewdrop Coming Back to You Plains Apparition, Light Blending In • Window to the Soul

Phosphene Gregory Uhlmann • Small Day

Gloria Joseph Shabason, Nicholas Krgovich, M. Sage • Shabason, Krgovich, Sage

Detached Hauschka • Philanthropy

Xenon Arc sub lumen • Supercluster

Hour Two:

Archive Melodien • Morii

Relax With Me Easy Idiot • Stock Music II

Crushed Velvet Molly Lewis, featuring Thee Sacred Souls • On The Lips

Cruising Home Greg Foat, Ayu Salawu • Interstellar Fantasy

Maritime Jazz Cosmic Analog Ensemble • Les Grandes Vacances

Vampire SHOLTO • The Changing Tides of Dreams

Jandira Luiz Henrique • Mestiço

Pra Não Deixar de Sambar Luiz Henrique • Mestiço

Bossa nova for the contrails of my tears Rural Tapes, featuring Steve Wynn • Inner space music

Bright Green Vibrant Gray Helena Deland • Goodnight Summerland

Flowers on the Fire Escape MOONRIIVR • Vol. 1

(1-2-3-4-5-6-7) Count the Days Gene Pitney • She's a Heartbreaker

Hour Three:

No Mast Loving • Any Light

Morgengruß Popol Vuh • Einsjäger und Siebenjäger

Bo Tequila Rei Harakami • 広い世界 と せまい世界

Let Me Know Hannah Miette, featuring Rozi Plain • Single

Modern Mind Bry Webb • Run With Me

I Saw Me Victrix • I Saw Me EP

Perfect Storm Jane Weaver • Love in Constant Spectacle

Nodos Radiotr​ó​nica • Single

Best For You and Me Helado Negro • Phasor

Just a Minute (Moon King Cover) Tess Roby • Ever New (Compilation)

Ameleon Mega Bog • Life, and Another

[noloveforned]

friday always seems like a blur to me between work, home and radio but somehow by the end of the day a radio show full of new music has aired. tune into wlur tonight from 8pm until midnight to see what materializes! if that's inconvenient, you can catch up with last week's show below at your leisure.

no love for ned on wlur – march 17th, 2023 from 10pm-midnight

artist // track // album // label ramones // the job that ate my brain // mondo bizarro // chrysalis the runaways // california paradise // queens of noise // mercury the cool greenhouse // the neoprene ravine // sod's toastie // melodic lumpy and the dumpers // too much slime // collection, 2012-2014 // lumpy fastbacks // a quiet night // a quiet night 7" // no threes the coolies // king of confusion // if you gotta go-go, go-go now- a tribute to the go-go's // sympathy for the record industry lenz // moody michelle // ways to end a day // 1-2-3-4 go! the younger lovers // i can't (kim) deal with it // sugar in my pocket // southpaw the bug club // love for two // green dream in f# // we are busy bodies garden centre // super moon // a moon for digging // kanine sharp pins // bettie wait // turtle rock cassette // hallogallo tapes squilll // scripted lines // daughters of the earth // lost sound tapes black belt eagle scout // nobody // the land, the water, the sky // saddle creek ulaan passerine // light of lights // dawn // worstward antonina nowacka // part one // lamunan // mondoj cole pulice // astral cowpoke // scry cassette // moon glyph benji b, raven bush, theon cross, nubya garcia, tom herbert, shabaka hutchings, nikolaj torp larsen, dave okumu, nick ramm, dan see, tom skinner and martin terefe // raven flies low (single edit) // london brew // concord jazz larry young // sunshine fly away // lawrence of newark // perception tony williams // there comes a time // play or die // moosicus cortex // prélude à go round // troupeau bleu // trad vibes wiki and subjxct five featuring navy blue // one more chance // cold cuts // wikset enterprise boldy james and nicholas craven // scrabble // fair exchange no robbery // near mint yl, starker and no-face // friday night lights // lo.face // circle of patrons demahjiae featuring ovrkast. // lord // lord digital single // (self-released) nappy nina featuring moor mother // stone soup // mourning due // lucidhaus vérité // temporary // love you forever // venice music liberation // move me // liberation // night school say sue me // smothered in hugs // ten ep // damnably nicholas krgovich // cup full // ducks // orindal sierra manhattan featuring jokari // losing // which life, the friends // another cozy slippers // be alone with me // cozy slippers // subjangle the telephone numbers // weird sisters // weird sisters 7" // meritorio

[moochilatv]

Cici Arthur presents: Cartwheels for Coins

New music from Joseph Shabason, Chris A. Cummings, Thom Gill

Cici Arthur is the new project featuring Toronto artists Joseph Shabason, Chris A. Cummings, Thom Gill who are releasing the new album Way Through for a February 21st release date via Western Vinyl. The album features guests and frequent collaborators Owen Pallet, Nicholas Krgovich, Phil Melanson, and Dorothea Paas. 

Seeking to create large-scale set pieces to showcase Cummings’ vocals and writing (he was previously known as Mantler on the Tomlab label), producer-instrumentalists Shabason and Gill have parked their brand of smartly subverted adult contemporary aesthetics near the mid-century slink of Antonio Carlos Jobim, or the romantic opulence of Frank Sinatra.

The resulting outsize backdrop sits in poetic contrast to Cummings’ comparatively discreet delivery and intimate lyricism. Steering the Shabason-Gill cruise liner with delicate intonation and quiet introspection, Cummings paints a picture of city lights gleaming in rain puddles, mapping subtle emotional territories within the urban gloom while resigning in a kind of joyous ennui. “If I could be all that once looked so great and grand, I would have died for an occasion to rise to,” he sings through the horn section of ‘Cartwheels for Coins’, “but it’s a gray sky, nothing to say, mixed emotions always get in the way”. Lines like these epitomize Cici Arthur’s music; when the bandstand empties out and the singer finds himself alone on a darkened soundstage, the emotional complexities of life still lie waiting to be confronted. Cummings lends a literary counterweight to Shabason and Gill’s sonic splendor, and in doing so spotlights the inherent tension between pragmatism and ambition

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The album takes the communal spirit of Shabason’s previous jazz ventures to panoramic heights -- as heard here on the new single "Cartwheels for Coins" -- with the previously mentioned guests, with the result akin to so much music in Joseph Shabason’s orbit; spinning around a centerpoint of humanness and vulnerability, placing even its most colossal elements comfortingly within arm’s reach. Cummings' ground realism gives the track a vocal identity that, when intertwined, is hard to forget.

The intro it's so good and chill, check it:

[twistedsoulmusic]

Meditation fuses with ambient electronics and dreamy pop, occasionally taking on a jazzy air. Ensconced in Matthew Sage’s converted barn studio nestled at the base of the Rockies, the talent-soaked trio – including Joseph Shabason and Nicholas Krgovich – manifest their exceptional talent of uncovering beauty within everyday moments. Press play, and you can almost feel the Rocky Mountains’ wide-open spaces and the trio’s harmonious synergy bouncing off the studio’s rustic wooden beams. This is an album best enjoyed in life’s quieter moments – one that calls for your undivided attention and deep absorption.

[hmgn3]

24-04-12(fri) Shabason & Krgovich featuring Tenniscoats Japan Tour 2024＠渋谷7th FLOOR

テニスコーツ (with Nicholas Krgovich, Joseph Shabason) Shabason & Krgovich featuring Tenniscoats

[guscfranklin]

BEST OF 2023

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End of Year Lists Below:

The headings will take you through to more expansive Playlists.

Individual song links take you to youtube videos and a playlist of all selections.

Album list links will take you to places to buy the records.

MUSIC IS NOT FREE!   Always Support the makers and buy your favorite music direct from the artists, preferably via bandcamp or direct. 20 SONGS (links to Larger Playlist)

Andy Schauf - Wasted on You

Leah Senior - Where Am I Now?

Yo La Tengo - Aselestine

Shirley Collins - High and Away

Lankum - Go Dig My Grave

Weval - Remember

Fever Ray - North

Juan Waters - Let Loose

Peter Peter - I Promise

Summer Flake - Ordinary

Nicholas Krgovich - Cup Full

Tim Hecker - Winter Cop

Westerman - Idol; RE-run

Keanu Nelson - Kutjupa Tjuta

Ulaan Passerine - Gathering

King Tuff - Pebbles In A Stream

André 3000 - Ants To You, Gods To Who?

MGMT - Mother Nature

Brian Eno - We Let It In

Mac Demarco - Gualala 2

10 ALBUMS (links to Playlist)

Andy Schauf - Norm

Leah Senior - The Music That I Make

Ulaan Passerine - Dawn

Shirley Collins - Archangel Hill

Weval - Remember

Tim Hecker - No Highs

Lankum - False Lankum

Okonski - Magnolia

Juan Waters - Wandering Rebel

King Tuff - Smalltown Stardust 2023 SONGS (Video Playlist) ***CLOSING NOTE: Even though I use Spotify I am not captured by it. As a listener, don't let this Spotify Wrapped bullshit sweep you up. They've got me completely wrong because the data gets skewed by how you listen in random ways. Don't let it tell you what you are. The people that run that company are a bunch of homogenising data-stealing pricks and their algorithm and influence will be the death of music. Make your OWN PLAYLISTS. Keep them Private. Find your own way in music listening by using things like IT as a TOOL only to recommend and find music that you then can go and buy via Bandcamp and other means to support the artists that they DO NOT.

[the-playlist]

Preoccupations - Memory

Evan J Cartwright - impossibly blue

The Holidays - Tongue Talk

The Amazing - Safe Island

Nicholas Krgovich - The Place Goes Quiet

[growing-at-the-edges]

I think this intensely observational yet not annoyingly self-conscious style of lyrics is very difficult to pull off and I'm very inspired by this album

[fuckyeahstephensondheim]

Somehow I missed this when it came out last year. If you wanted to hear one of Sondheim’s most devestating meditations on love reset as an 80s adult contemporary pop ballad, you are in luck.

[dustedmagazine]

Tim Clarke’s 2020

Trying to make sense of 2020 leaves me at a loss for words. Australia began the year with a Black Summer, as terrifying bushfires swept across vast swathes of the country. And then, of course, COVID-19 hit. Melbourne went into lockdown, many of us began working from home, and human connection, fragility, mortality and economic recession were all more important talking points than music. Yes, the music industry took a huge hit as the gig economy was decimated, but focus switched, it seemed, to smaller moments of connection. I transitioned from a headphone commute and attending sporadic gigs to sneaking in listening whenever I could: around home-schooling my daughter, during car rides, on headphones before bed, or while working from home. Music has seemed simultaneously less important and more important than ever. As a result, I couldn’t get a clear sense of how the albums that meant the most to me in 2020 could be arranged in any kind of order, so here they are alphabetically.

Activity — Unmask Whoever (Western Vinyl)

Unmask Whoever by Activity

Arising from the ashes of the criminally underrated Grooms, Activity put out their debut early in the year, latching onto my subconscious with their bewitching blend of noise-rock and synth-pop. Imagine Sonic Youth wandering lost in a haunted forest and you’re on your way to getting a handle on this slippery beast.

Anjimile — Giver Taker (Father Daughter)

Giver Taker by Anjimile

This one caught me by surprise late in the year, mainly thanks to Jennifer Kelly’s review. Giver Taker brings together the sprightly melodic sensibility of Illinoise-era Sufjan Stevens and the rhythmic and vocal qualities of the sorely missed Wild Beasts. Short, sweet and amiably tuneful.

Fake Laugh — Dining Alone (State 51 Conspiracy)

Kam Khan not only has a way with a tune, he also has a subtle sense of humor. On Dining Alone, he’s evolved the power/guitar-pop of his fantastic self-titled debut into a more strident, synthesized sound that’s undercut by self-deprecating wordplay and sly instrumental details. Catchy as all hell.

Yves Jarvis — Sundry Rock Song Stock (Anti- / Flemish Eye)

Sundry Rock Song Stock by Yves Jarvis

I’d never heard any of this guy’s music before this year. Jean-Sébastien Audet creates gorgeously affecting psych-pop that unfolds like a half-remembered fever dream. Woozy, hazy and deeply beautiful.

King Krule — Man Alive! (XL)

Hard to articulate how music that is so gloriously warts-and-all ugly can be so satisfying, but Archy Marshall has done it with his new album. Smoky jazz, belligerent post-punk and stoned lo-fi are all stirred together into a murky and intoxicating soup.

Adrianne Lenker — Songs (4AD)

songs by Adrianne Lenker

Given my adoration of last year’s two Big Thief records, I was really looking forward to Adrianne Lenker’s new solo albums. Instrumentals missed the mark for me, but Songs really shines, Lenker mustering a moving suite of achingly intimate folk.

Loma — Don’t Shy Away (Sub Pop)

Don't Shy Away by LOMA

Loma’s self-titled debut was my favorite album of 2018, so this follow-up was eagerly awaited. It didn’t end up quite what I was hoping for, but Don’t Shy Away is deeply affecting and intricately crafted, nonetheless. Emily Cross’s voice is as bewitching as ever, this time set within a more varied collection of songs, venturing into art-pop as well as their more familiar folk-rock terrain.

Protomartyr — Ultimate Success Today (Domino)

Ultimate Success Today by Protomartyr

A new Protomartyr album is always cause for celebration here at Dusted, and Ultimate Success Today is up there among their best. This time around they’ve incorporated a wider instrumental palette, including woodwind and cello, while also, somehow, getting heavier, befitting a year in desperate need of catharsis.

Shabason, Krgovich & Harris — Philadelphia (Idée Fixe)

Philadelphia by Shabason, Krgovich & Harris

Remember the Neil Young song “Philadelphia” from the Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington movie of the same name? Joseph Shabason, Nicholas Krgovich and Chris Harris do, and their interpretation sets the tone of this lovely album: hushed, introspective, delicately beautiful.

Andrew Wasylyk — Fugitive Light and Themes of Consolation (Athens of the North)

Fugitive Light and Themes of Consolation by Andrew Wasylyk

This is the third album in a trilogy of gorgeous instrumental records from Andrew Mitchell (who also plays bass in rabble-rousers Idlewild). Though all three albums are good, this is probably the best of the three, bringing to mind the suave sci-fi lounge-pop of Air’s Moon Safari, the lush soundtracks of Sven Libaek, or Mogwai at their most restrained and minimal.

Honorable mentions (10 more in alphabetical order):

Alabaster DePlume — To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 (International Anthem)

Any Kind — Peacock (self-released)

Autechre — Sign (Warp)

Ian William Craig — Red Sun Through Smoke (130701)

Sarah Davachi — Cantus, Descant (Late Music)

Claire Deak & Tony Dupe — The Old Capital (Lost Tribe Sound)

Lemon Quartet — Crestless (Last Resort)

Owen Pallett — Island (Domino)

Lyra Pramuk — Fountain (Bedroom Community)

Dean Roberts — Not Fire (Erstwhile)

[soundaslanguage]

Best of March 2021

Hey it’s still April so it’s OK to post this. Thanks for sticking around.

Landon Caldwell - Deep Strand (Trouble In Mind)

- Covered this one here. Caldwell has become quite the prolific artist here lately. That doesn’t always bode well for quality but no worries on that front for Caldwell. Deep Strand is a deep ambient jazz stunner.

https://landoncaldwell.bandcamp.com/album/deep-strand

Dialect - Under ~ Between (RVNG Intl.)

- A fascinating experimental ambient listen from the UK artist on the always great RVNG label.

https://dialect-trax.bandcamp.com/album/under-between

Dntel - The Seas Trees See (Morr Music)

- Wrote about this one here. The first of two albums from Tamborello coming this year and the album is a hypnotizing journey.

https://dntel.bandcamp.com/album/the-seas-trees-see

m. geddes gengras - echelons beyond reality (self-released)

- m. geddes gengras returns with my favorite release of his since 2018′s Hawaiki Tapes. A haunting, beautiful trip.

https://mgeddesgengras1.bandcamp.com/album/echelons-beyond-reality

Rod Hamilton - Toad Lily (KMAN 92.5)

- Not sure how I missed Baltimore artist Rod Hamilton all these years but I messed up. Toad Lily is his latest and it’s a brilliant mix of rhythmic new age jazz. Also, bonus points to Hamilton cause he guests on the new Zachary Utz release that some label (my label) is releasing next month.

https://kman925.bandcamp.com/album/toad-lily

Ki Oni - Indoor Plant Life (sound as language)

- Do I need to say anything else about this? Indoor Plant Life approximates the swishing of a houseplant next to an open window and by god it delivers.

https://kioni.bandcamp.com/album/indoor-plant-life

Josh Medina - Drifting Toward The Absolute (Eiderdown)

- Absolutely floored by this gorgeous album of ambient guitar/synth instrumentals. Medina is one to watch closely.

https://eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/drifting-toward-the-absolute

G.S. Schray - The Changing Account ( Last Resort)

- Schray and Last Resort are nothing but consistent. Smooth and light ambient jazz rock with heavy feels.

https://gsschray.bandcamp.com/album/the-changing-account

Andrew Weathers & Hayden Pedigo - Big Tex, Here We Come (Debacle)

- Reviewed this one here. The album is one of those no doubters from two artists who weave ambient guitar instrumentals masterfully.

https://debaclerecords.bandcamp.com/album/big-tex-here-we-come

Dustin Wong - Internal Hot Spring (Self-Released)

- Yeah, so you should know who Dustin Wong is already. Internal Hot Spring is yet another fine release in a brilliantly diverse catalog. Colorful and intoxicating.

https://dustin-clarence-hidetoshi-wong.bandcamp.com/album/internal-hot-spring

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Honorable Mentions: Keith Berry, Ben Bondy, Floatie, Dylan Henner, More Eaze, Kristen Roos, Shabason, Krgovich & Harris, Patrick Shiroshi, Skogar, SMC

[theam-cjsw]

The AM: December 23, 2024

No Christmas tunes on this week's AM—although there is one sad Christmas Eve song in the 8:30 Throwback. No, it's just an average mid-winter episode of The AM, gradually waking up from gently drifting synths and ambient jazz through a psych-pop second hour to a trip-hop-laced conclusion. Hope you enjoy the break from holiday sounds, and see you next week for the annual AM Gold year in review episodes.

Listen to today's episode at CJSW.com

As always, track listing, Soundcloud stream, and Spotify playlist are after the break.

Hour One:

reassurance, consolation Various Artists, featuring Asta Hiroki & Tristan De Liége • Modern Music Vol. 3

Mainframe - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Remix Pye Corner Audio • Where Things Are Hollow: No Tomorrow

TB11 34 20 Roedelius • 90

Late Night Yellow Boisson Végétale • Periodic Repeater: FRB 180916 Transductions

Bound in Stillness R Grunwald • Iterations

Septieme Ciel Sebastien Tellier • Libre (Original Motion Picture Score)

To Unknownia Domenique Dumont • Nocturnes Vol. 2

Last Night Reprise Arooj Aftab • Night Reign

To Breathe Philip Clemo • Through the Wave of Blue

Scarves and Lashes Postnamers • IMIM

Away David Zucchi • Mandi

Hour Two:

Everybody Had a Hard Year Tarwater • Nuts of Ay

Dreamscaper Seawind of Battery • East Coast Cosmic Dreamscaper

The Tree as a Kinship Symbol Milkweed • Folklore 1979

Empty Cup (Yves Jarvis Sequel) Bernice • Single

Toast Simon Fisher Turner • Instability of the Signal

At Last I Am Free Nicholas Krgovich, Jan Lankish • Single

Christmas Eve Can Kill You The Everly Brothers • Stories We Could Tell

Green River The Everly Brothers • Stories We Could Tell

Enkaz Kit Sebastian • Single

Sun Margo Guryan • Words And Music

Turn to Love Parsnip • Behold

Canonized Faith Healer • Cosmic Troubles

The Coward Astral Swans • Split

Hour Three:

The Rip Portishead • Third

Dodecahedron Sinewave • Unity Gain

Pray for Rain Massive Attack • Heligoland

All At Once Bristol Manor • Nightlife

Of Frisbees and Pylons Concretism • Magnox

Prismatics Cate Brooks • Prismatics

The Afterlife The Comet is Coming • The Afterlife

Superculture O.rang • Fields and Waves

The Soft Focus Sound of Today Dreamsploitation • The Soft Focus Sound of Today

Into the Air L.T.Leif • Single

Streams:

[noloveforned]

no love for ned hits the wlur airwaves at 8pm sharp tonight for a new show that includes several tracks acquired today during bandcamp friday.

we kicked off a new theme in last week's show (stream it on mixcloud). for the next several months we're going to start the show off with tracks that feature jim white of the dirty three on drums. he's been playing in bands for more than forty years and he's been featured on four new releases already this year which suggests the theme might take us all the way until september!

no love for ned on wlur – april 26th, 2024 from 8-10pm

artist // track // album // label venom p. stinger // precious little time // meet my friend venom // no masters voice helta skelta // i am shiva, god of death // helta skelta // bad habit writhing squares // eternity // mythology // trouble in mind lupo cittá // machine operator // lupo cittá // 12xu wounded lion // hungry? // wounded lion // in the red cloud nothings // i'd get along // final summer // pure noise superchunk // as in a blender // everybody dies 7" // merge itchy and the nits // square // the worst of itchy and the nits // total punk petticoats // paranoia // scaling triangles compilation // zaius tapes hooper crescent // staring at the post // essential tremors // spoilsport close lobsters // what is there to smile about // john peel session on january 4th, 1988 ep // precious the jesus and mary chain // second of june // glasgow eyes // fuzz club the veldt featuring elizabeth fraser // aurora borealis // illuminated 1989 // little cloud the wake // host // something outside 12" // factory ruth garbus // healthy gamer // alive people // orindal nicholas krgovich, joseph shabason and matthew sage // bruce // shabason, krgovich, sage // idée fixe isaiah collier and the chosen few // perspective (peace and love) // the almighty // division 81 meshell ndegeocello featuring immanuel wilkins, deantoni parks and justin hicks // solipsistic panacea (black antiques) // red hot and ra- the magic city // red hot organization al tanner quintet featuring william 'smiley' winters // the magi // happiness is... takin' care of natural business... dig? // jazzman ka // if not true // languish arts // iron works domo genesis and evidence featuring navy blue // skeletons // intros, outros and interludes // bigger picture kofi flexxx featuring anthony joseph // by now (accused of magic) // flowers in the dark // native rebel nicholas craven featuring pink siifu // serotonin // craven n three // goodfelons liv.e // ghost // girl in the half pearl // in real life seablite // faded (glok remix) // faded (glok remix) digital single // mt. st. mtn. the legends featuring julia lannerheim // secret shine // secret shine digital single // (self-released) belle and sebastian // what happened to you, son? // what happened to you, son? digital single // matador yea-ming and the rumours // ruby // i can't have it all // dandy boy near wild honey // stars are never wrong // stars are never wrong digital single // bad frankie the wendy darlings // ridicule // lipstick fire // lunadélia