Insights For Orbiteers

 

Celestial Sightings Of Guitar Galaxies And Harmonic Constellations , On Your Radio Telescope Friday

 

Orbital Guitar Galore This Friday With Nichol Robertson

 

Gia Ionesco Drops Up To The Orbit This Friday

 

More Uncommon Canadian Phenomena Friday At Five

 

Playlist For Corby's Orbit Show Of 10 May 2024

 

Commissioner of Selection - Paul Corby

Podcast available RIGHT HERE

( Brought To You By Pete, Betsy and Murgatroyd)

* Canadian Artists in Asterisk'd RED

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5:00 Emotion Detectors

* Jade Turner ~ This Wind ~ NEW RELEASE

* Kate Wyatt Quartet ~ Going To The Sun (Live Recording) ~ @ Jazz Bistro TONIGHT

* Classified ~ Amnesia ~ NEW RELEASE

* Kathleen Edwards ~ Hard On Everyone ~ (Live Recording) NEW RELEASE

* Zochi ~ Alone (Whole Again) ~ NEW RELEASE @ Grand River Black Music Festival June 14 & 15

* Angelique Francis ~ Train Coming ~ NEW RELEASE

* James Gordon ~ Wild Wind Blows ~ Wrinkles And Scars ~ NEW RELEASE ~ Album launch @ Hugh's Room Live Wednesday 29 May

* Marshall Dane ~ No Need To Speak ~ NEW RELEASE

* Rosemary Phelan ~ Waiting For The Tide To Change ~ Avalanche Lily 

* Yung Leo ~ Habit ~ NEW RELEASE

5:40 Salient Subtleties

* Kyle McKearney feat. Trey Hensley ~ Lonesome ~ NEW RELEASE

* Tréson & Margaret Maria ~ Gordon Lightfoot's Song For A Winter's Night ~ NEW RELEASE

Zaila Jazz ~ Abeng ~ NEW RELEASE

Zsela ~ Lily Of The Nile ~ Big For You ~ NEW RELEASE

* The Sugar Darlings ~ Funky Darling ~ Thirsty For Your Love ~ NEW RELEASE

* Mia Kelly ~ Bonefish Boys ~ To Be Clear ~ PRE - RELEASE

Jasimi ~ Absinthe And O.J. ~ NEW RELEASE

* Jessica Stuart ~ Don't Ya ~ Jessa Trio @ Sauce on the Danforth Saturday 11 May 4 - 7 p.m.

6:20 Angels Igniting

* Marie-Pierre Arthur ~ Paradis ~ NEW RELEASE

Valerie June ~ Lightnin' Hopkins' The Life I Used To Live ~ NEW RELEASE

* Leaf Rapids ~ Velvet Painting ~ NEW RELEASE

Ibibio Sound Machine ~ Pull The Rope ~ NEW RELEASE

Lay Bankz ~ Tell Ur Girlfriend ~ NEW RELEASE

* The Deep Dark Woods feat. Erica Rae ~ The Banks Of The Lough Erne ~ Broadside Ballads Vol. lll ~ NEW RELEASE

* Dan Loomis ~ Every Revolution Makes A New World / Over The Andes / The Spark Of Liberty ~ Revolutions ~ NEW RELEASE

Mimi & Richard Farina ~ Children Of Darkness ~ Reflections In A Crystal Wind (1965)

6:50 Life Is A Particle

* Geoffroy ~ C.A.Y.A. (Come As You Are) ~ NEW RELEASE

* Divine Brown ~ Joni Mitchell's Help Me ~ @ The El Mocambo Thursday 16 May with Sean Jones

Enjoy The Audio Radiance On Radio Regent

 

This Friday, Get Inside A New Musical Space.

 

Playlist For Corby's Orbit Show Of 3 May 2024

 

Commissioner of Selection - Paul Corby

Podcast available Right Here

( Brought To You By Norm Sequitur, Frank Synopsis & The Beverley Hyperboles)

* Canadian Artists in Asterisk'd RED

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5:00 Tinsel & Frisbees

* Burnstick ~ Hands Tied ~ NEW RELEASE

* Jean-Pierre Ferland June 24, 1934 – April 27, 2024 ~ J'ai Pour Toi Un Lac ~ Chansons Jalouses

Fatoumata Diawara feat. Roberto Fonseca ~ Blues ~ NEW RELEASE

Amadou & Mariam ~ Mogolu ~ NEW RELEASE

* Kiesza ~ The Mysterious Disappearance Of Etta Place ~ NEW RELEASE 

 RIIZE ~ Boogeyman ~ NEW RELEASE

* Luka Kuplowsky & The Ryokan Band feat. Felicity Williams ~ How Can I Possibly Sleep When There Is Music?

* Michel DeQuevedo ~ Lo Que Eres ~ NEW RELEASE

* Honeybear ~ I Was Wrong ~ I Was Wrong EP ~ NEW RELEASE

5:35 Merillion Skies 

* Jed & The Valentine ~ Awake ~ Awake ~ NEW RELEASE 

* The Imagine If ~ Devil's Child ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Nicky MacKenzie ~ Morals ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Caribou ~ Honey ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Kari Van Der Kloot ~ Tiny Threads ~ Window ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Joel Plaskett ~ The New Joys ~ NEW RELEASE 

* The Wesleys ~ A Lot To Lose ~ The Wesleys ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Gathering Sparks ~ Feathers And Wings ~ All That's Real

6:10 The Spring Galaxies

Lizz Wright feat. Angelique Kidjo ~ Sparrow ~ Shadow ~ NEW RELEASE 

illustration by Kim Dorland 

Bruno Berle ~ Acorda E Vem ~ No Reino Dos Afetos ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Elliott Brood ~ Bluebird Wine ~ Country ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Julian Taylor ~ Weighing Down ~ Pathways ~ PRE-RELEASE 

Lindsey Stirling feat. Royal & The Serpent ~ Inner Gold ~ Duality ~ PRE-RELEASE 14 June

* Partynextdoor ~ For Certain (KDDO Mix) ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Ruth Moody ~ Already Free ~ Wanderer ~  PRE-RELEASE 17 May

6:35 Citizens Of The Stars 

* Old Man Luedecke ~ Dreadful Wind And Rain ~ PRE-RELEASE May 24 

 

* Boreal ~ Warm Hands ~ 

* Sherry Kean feat. Sherry Huffman & David Baxter ~ Diamonds And Pearls ~ People Talk (1987)

* David Gavan Baxter (November 5 1954 - November 9 2023 ) ~ Thank You Girl ~ Day And Age 

ODIE ~ Utopia ~ PRE-RELEASE

Omagh Community Youth Choir ~ Bob Dylan & U2's Love Rescue Me ~ Playing For Change 

First Annual Dub Poetry Day On Eglinton West

 

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In the intimate confines of Studio M, promoter Masani Montague's Eglinton West enclave, a gathering of Caribbean cultural caretakers convened on the last day of April to celebrate the seventh Poet Laureate of the City of Toronto, Dr. Lillian Allen.

Prominent guests such as singer Jay Douglas (right) and activist Dewitt Lee, chairman of The Poetic Justice Society, who organized this event, shared fond anecdotes of her legacy and her guidance with De Dub Poets, a trio of poetic outsiders who brought the spoken word to music venues in the late seventies and eighties, in Toronto and across Canada.

Along with playwright Devon Haughton and M.C. / raconteur Clifton Joseph, the three released an E.P. of their poetry accompanied by members of T.O.'s reggae community scions, Truths & Rights and Le Dub Sac in 1983.

Although it was refused recognition by the City of Toronto, Dub Poetry Day is meant to highlight the historical significance of Toronto's "Little Jamaica" neighbourhood in the international Dub Poetry movement that also emerged elsewhere, with Oku Onuwara

and Mutabaruka taking leadership roles in Jamaica along with Linton Kwesi Johnson and Benjamin Zephaniah in the U.K. Over the sound of dub, a unique and largely instrumental offshoot of reggae music, full of echo, reverb and mournful horns, poets began speaking out on behalf of the poor and downtrodden with an articulate vengeance.

Masani Montague and her daughter Jem (above)

At popular Queen Street clubs such as the Bamboo, The Cameron House and The Rivoli, and in basements and storefronts from Spadina to Scarborough, De Dub Poets, along with similarly-aligned artists, such as Ishaka, Ahdri Zhina Mandela and Donna Makeda, would evoke new ethical standards and call for action, often accompanied by live reggae from the bands that abounded in the city at that time.

As unified international resistance movements began to subside, and conscious rap music began to demand attention from the youth, the movement lost its media prominence. Lillian Allen won two Junos, Clifton Joseph became well-known on TVO and the CBC and for his audacious live hosting skills, and just recently released a collection of dub and jazz based poetry entitled Shots On Eglinton, while Devon Haughton has created a television series, Lufalo Rising, that is currently winning awards everywhere.

 To see them reunited - and still raging - at an event that promotes their well-considered history with a vanishing-but-still-vital art form reminds us that, as Dewitt Lee made us chant out loud, "Poetry is not a luxury, poetry is a necessity."

L. to R.: Elle de Lyon, Program Director of RISE Edutainment, Jay Douglas, Masani Montague, (?) Jill Andrew (NDP-Toronto-St. Paul's), Lillian Allen, Dewitt Lee (rear), Devon Haughton, Clifton Joseph, Jammal Augustine and DJ Mike Stoan with National Poetry Month Literacy Awards.