Corby's Orbit

Corby's Orbit
Listening in All the High Places illustration by John Kricfalusi

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Playlist for Show of Friday, 24 February, 2012



( brought to you by The Orbot, The Strat-Sphere, and Tremendous Deliria)
5-7 p.m. online and at tunein.ca . Canadians in Asterisk’d RED.

5:00   Zulu Vuvuzelas
Freddie Gwala – Amabavaria
Pure Gold – Hotlaba Jwang
Themba Ngwenya – Akuvumi
Mbali – Ke Nale Modisa

5:20  Local Vocal Focal Lengths
The Staple Singers – Slippery People
*Tanika Charles – Can I Be Yours?
*Melanie Durrant – Pop feat. J Diggs
*Melanie Fiona – Walk On By
Dionne Warwick – I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself – Burt Bacharach Tribute @ Hugh’s Room Saturday

5:45   Mod and Pop Shop
Punch Brothers – New York City - @ Lee’s Palace Tues., 28 Feb.
*The Paint Movement – Porcelains - @ The Steam Whistle Brewery tonight
* Lake Forest – Untitled - @ Saving Gigi – Friday and Saturday
*Whitehorse – Emerald Isle - @ The Winter Garden tonight

6:00  Therapeutic Blue Salve
*Ronnie Hayward – If Ya Want Me Only - @ Castro’s Fridays and @ The Dominion Saturdays
*Catl – 5 Miles – “Soon This Will All Be Gone”
* Michael Pickett  feat. Shawn Kellerman – Look Out At The Weather @ Aurora Blues Fest Saturday
* Son Roberts – Had It Lost It - @ The Trane Monday, and every alternate Monday

6:20  Re:new
Sinead O’Connor – 4th and Vine  - How About I Be Me (and You Be You)
Kronos Quartet – Beatitudes – The Music of Vladimir Martynov
*Ivy Mairi – Kenyatta - @ Hugh’s Room tonight

6:45 Live Music in Toronto Vicinity- Listings over My Elegy by Toshiko Akiyoshi feat. Lew Tabackin
@The Old Mill Monday Feb. 27
Toshiko Akiyoshi – Phrygian Waterfall
Coati Mundi – Me No Pop I
Skrillex – Kyoto - Bangarang


Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”~ Confucius


Monday, February 20, 2012

Ash Wednesday Blue Remedy on Radio Regent






In celebration of International Women’s Day, powerful new soul singer / song writer Tanika Charles will be sharing the bill with perennial Orbital honouree Treasa Levasseur at Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas St. W., Toronto, this Thursday February 23; doors at 6 p.m., performance at 8.30 p.m. Tickets: $18.00 in advance ($20.00 at the door). Call  416 531-6604 or reserve on-line: www.hughsroom.com


Also at 9, Mr. Catl (Jamie Fleming) brought in some of his pristine 30's and 40's blues vinyl to spin and an advance copy of the new CATL disk.

 Zachary Richard – File Gumbo – (Zack’s Bon Ton)
2)      *Ronnie Hayward - Don’t Be Don’t @Castro’s Fridays and @The Dominion Saturdays
3)      Jesse Powell Orchestra – Walk Right In Walk Right Out – (Rockabilly and Jump Blues)
4)      Fats Waller – Alligator Crawl – (Happy Birthday, Fats)
5)      *Bob Ryder – Interview / Grinnin In Your Face (live) / I’ve Got To Leave This Town (live)
6)      *Tanika Charles – Can I Be Yours? / Think Of You - @Hugh’s Room Thursday
7)      *TreasaLevasseur – Do Run – (Broad) @Hugh’s Room Thursday
8)      *Coco Love – No Limit (Play)
9)      Jimmy Nelson – Free And Easy Mind (The Blues vol.5 MCA)
10)   Percy Mayfield – Double Dealing (The Blues vol.5 MCA)
11)   Leon Russell – Monkey Business (Anything Can Happen)
Selection by Jamie from CATL:
12)   *CATL – Gold Tooth Shine - (Soon This Will All Be Gone)
13)   Skip James – A Mighty Good Leader
14)   Furry Lewis – When I Lay M Burden Down
15)   Charlie Patton – I Will Not Be Moved
16)   Fred MacDowell – Jesus Is On The Mainline
17)   Rev. Charlie Jackson – Trouble In My Way
18)   The Union Choir of The Church of God & The Saints of Christ – None But The Righteous
19)   Rev. Louis Overstreet – Get Ready, I’m Gonna Move
20)   The Hickory Bottom Harmoneers – I’ve Got Heaven On My Mind
21)   *CATL – He’ll Make A Way - (Soon This Will All Be Gone)


Hoop-La!

Vincent van Goes!

Light Fantastic

Playlist for February 17, 2012



Host Paul Corby, with guests Bob Ryder and Ambre McLean
( brought to you by Astral Sensory Perception, Music Belted Radials, and Your Hubble Tele-Servant)
5-7 p.m. online and at tunein.ca . Canadians in Asterisk’d RED.

5:00  Whitney’s Litanies
Whitney Houston – All At Once (Live) – (1963 -2012)
Arrested Development – How Far Is Heaven? – Since The Last Time

5:10 Winterfolk X Rays
*Bob Ryder – Interview / November Blues (live) / I Need To Leave This Town (live) Winterfolk X Delta Chelsea this weekend
*Chris Altmann - Love Like This - Que Paso
*Cris Cuddy – Here I Go Again - Winterfolk X @ The Delta Chelsea this weekend
*Alistair Artingstall – Married Life Winterfolk X @ The Delta Chelsea this weekend

5:40  Standup Cosmics
*Rose Cousins – All The Stars – We Have Made A Spark
Lana Del Rey – Dark Paradise – Born To Die
*Patricia Callahan - Yo Soy Maria – arr. Andrew Downing
Jenny Scheinman РAli Farka Touch̩- Mischief & Mayhem
The Angel – Unda Pressure – feat. Navigator – No Gravity
Kanye, Talib, Q-Tip, Common, Rhymefest - We Can Make It Better
Material – Deliver – Seven Souls



6:20  A February March
Professor Longhair – Mardi Gras In New Orleans
Leroy Smart – Our Love Is Strange
Josey Wales – ‘Pon Street Again
*Royal Canoe – Bathtubs – Extended Play

6:40  Listings Digest (Toronto Events)
over Miles Davis’ Stella by Starlight – Live at the Plugged Nickel

6:45  Co-Star Eureka!
*Abigail Lapell – All That I Wanted - @The Tranzac tonight
*Ambre McLean – Murder at the Smokehouse / Interview / Cheap Shot (Live) @The Tranzac tonight

6:55   How The Future Used To Be
Dirty Vegas – Days Go By – Best Dance Recording @ 2002 Grammys

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Remind Us How We Used To Be


I know, I cannot leave this place for the memories,
Things like they way they knew us, all over town
We used to walk the streets together,
We could be seen,
Past shops where people knew us,
Yeah, people knew.

I've got to choose between tomorrow and yesterday,
Can't stop to think about my life, here today.

Memories can hang you up and haunt you,
All your life, you know,
Get so you canot stay,
And yet cannot go.

Hey, I could find out where you've gone today,
I feel so unhappy,
Streets seem so empty now,
I want you, I want you,
I want you with me,
Maybe I'll find someone to get you
Off my mind 

Take me away from here and leave it, leave it all behind.


Memories can hang you up and haunt you,
All your life, you know,
Get so you canot stay,
And yet cannot go.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Playlist for Corby’s Orbit on Radio Regent , Show of Friday, 10 February, 2012


Host Paul Corby with guest ALPHABOT
( brought to you by Valentangos, Antiskeptic Unguents, and Hurts Like A Minor Chord)

5-7 p.m. online and at tunein.ca . Canadians in Asterisk’d RED.

5:00  Message Renewals
1)      Sweet Honey In The Rock – Young and Positive –@ Koerner Hall Friday 10 February
2)      *Digging Roots – We Are - @ The Gladstone 14 Feb. – The Red Masquerade Association

5:10   Incorrigable Robotics
3)      *Alphabot – Rabbit Ears / Interview / Kingdome Come – ‘EEP’ CD Release @ The Drake 16 Feb.
4)      *Wax Mannequin – God’s Love - @ Alphabot’s ‘EEP’ CD Release @ The Drake 16 Feb.

5:20  Don’t Get Mad, Get Violet
5)      *Madison Violet – If I Could Love You (Remix) / Small Of My Heart/ Interview with Brenley MacEachern / The Ransom

5:40  Love Funktions
6)      *K.C. Roberts & the Live Revolution – Wake Up @ The Rivoli tonight
7)      *David Gogo – Was It Love? – Juno nominee-Blues
8)     * Van Dusen feat. Christopher Estridge – The I Love You Song @ Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine Wed. 15 Feb.    for Winterflock VIII
9)      Raphael Saadiq- Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat (from Chimes of Freedom The Songs of Bob Dylan)
10)    Jason Molina – It’s Easier Now – Fundraiser for medical expenses @ The Garrison tonight

6:15  Afro - Heliocentric Radiation
11)   Mulatu Astatke –Masengo
12)   Vieux Farka Toure – Fafa

6:30   Intimations of Ultimatums
13)   The Low Anthem – OMGCD - @ Massey Hall w. City & Colour tonight and tomorrow
14)  * Royal Canoe – Hold On To The Metal – Extended Play
15)   *Jerry Leger – When The World Is Ending - @ The Horseshoe – Wed.15 Feb.
16)   Rise Against – The Ballad of Hollis Brown (from Chimes of Freedom The Songs of Bob Dylan)




6:45   Loving Music in Waning Moonlight
17)   Toronto Music Listings over The Mix by Krust
18)   Lonnie Johnson – Guitar set - Playing With The Strings /Have To Change Keys / Guitar Blues / 
B. February 8 1894 – d. June 16 1970
19)   Dave Van Ronk –My Baby’s So Sweet - b. 30 June 1936 - d. 10 Feb. 2002
19)   Dave Van Ronk –My Baby’s So Sweet - b. 30 June 1936 - d. 10 Feb. 2002

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Playlist for February 3 2012




Host Paul Corby ( brought to you by Historia Diasporia, Arterial Firepower, and Richard’s Polemical Pryorities)
5-7 p.m. online and at tunein.ca . Canadians in Asterisk’d RED.

5:00  Abraham, Martin and Don
Stevie Wonder – Please Don’t Go – for Don Cornelius ( 1936-2012 )
μ-siq – Roy Castle – In Pine Effect
*Saidah Baba Talibah – Gittaknowya @ Harbourfront’s  Kuumba Honey Jam tonight
*Natasha Waterman – All I’ve Ever Known @ Kuumba Honey Jam tonight




5:20 Rhythm is Language
*Patricia O’Callahan & Gryphon Trio- Riverman @ Enoch Turner Schoolhouse tonight & tomorrow
Toubabe Krewe – Mariama – TK2
Oliver Mtukudzi – Kousekana Kwanakamba – Vhunze Moto
Tinariwen – Enseqi Ehad Didagh – Companions
Bassekou Kouyate – Ladon – I Speak Fula

5:40 The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Altruist  
*Dan Mangan – How Darwinian @ Hillside Inside Guelph tonight
Kim Churchill – Truest Intentions @ Hillside Inside Guelph Saturday
*Jordan Klassen - Threads – Kindness ep
Bj̦rk РMutual Core - @ The New York Hall of Science for the next 6 nights
*Kim Wempe – Warrior @ The Rivoli Sunday, 5 February

6:00   Meticulous Articulations
*Carole Pope – Johnny Marr @The Flying Beaver Pubaret Tonight & Saturday
Saul Williams – Coded Language w. DJ Krust
MC Lyte & Bob Marley – Jammin’ –  Chant Down Babylon
                                            6 Feb. Bob Marley’s 67th birthday celebrated worldwide
Chicago Transit Authority – Someday (Aug. 29, 1968) @ Massey Hall Saturday
Pressure / Beres Hammond - Resistance
Morgan Heritage – Africa Here I Come

6:30  Toronto Events Listings
John Coltrane & Duke Ellington – The Feeling of Jazz / Stevie

6:45 Meditations and Palpitations
Bill Withers – Let Us Love – Tribute @ The Rex Wednesday, 8 February
*Son Roberts – Brakeman @ The Trane Mondays through February
Joe Henry – Richard Pryor Addresses A Tearful Nation – Scar

From Coded Language by Saul Williams:

“Thus, in the name of:
ROBESON, GOD'S SON, HURSTON, AHKENATON, HATHSHEPUT, BLACKFOOT, HELEN,
LENNON, KHALO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, TARA, LILITHE, LOURDE, WHITMAN,
BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, LUMUMBA, GHANDI, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ, SIDDHARTHA,MEDUSA, GUEVERA, GURDJIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN, HAMER, HOLIDAY, DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS, CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE, RACHMANINOV, ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE, HATHAWAY, HENDRIX, KUTI, DICKERSON, RIPPERTON, MARY, ISIS, THERESA, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, MICHAUX, NOSTRADAMUS, NEFERTITI,
LA ROCK, SHIVA, GANESHA, YEMAJA, OSHUN, OBATALA, OGUN, KENNEDY, KING, FOUR LITTLE GIRLS, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, KELLER, BIKO, PERON, MARLEY, COSBY,SHAKUR, THOSE STILL AFLAMED, AND THE COUNTLESS UNNAMED

We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter.”

Have a wise and wonderful African History Month