Corby's Orbit
Listening in All the High Places illustration by John Kricfalusi
Sunday, April 19, 2026
Saturday, April 18, 2026
Playlist For Corby's Orbit Show of 17 April 2026
Commissioner of Selection - Paul Corby
* Canadian Artists in Asterisk'd RED
The Mixcloud Podcast Link is RIGHT HERE
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5:00 Roundabout Trajectories
* Jesse Roper ~ Sweet Little Caroline ~ NEW RELEASE
* Mario Puglia ~ Paz Y Felicidad ~ NEW RELEASE
* Charlotte Cardin ~ The Way We Touch ~ NEW RELEASE
* Mary Beth Carty ~ Oran Boisdale ~ Celtic Voices (Putumayo)
* Rae Spoon ~ Country Music Breaks My Heart ~ NEW RELEASE
* Brettyn Rose ~ Leavin' On My Lips ~ The Wild West ~ NEW RELEASE
* Reid Jamieson & CVM ~ Blue Jeans ~ NEW RELEASE
* Larkk ~ Cuckoo ~ Cinders ~ NEW RELEASE
Momo Boyd ~ American Love Song ~ NEW RELEASE
Mark Tonelli ~ Minha Felicidade Y Estar Com Voce ~ Brasiliana ~ NEW RELEASE
5:45 Circumnavigations of Nowadays
* Allison Russell ~ Rainbows ~ Rainbows EP ~ NEW RELEASE
* Allen Dobb ~ Lone Tree Of Your Heart ~ The Afterlife Sessions ~ NEW RELEASE
* Jani Lauzon ~ Symphony For Black Crow Woman ~ NEW RELEASE
Tiana Major9 ~ Have Your Way ~ NEW RELEASE
beabadoobee feat. The Marias ~ All I Did Was Dream Of You ~ NEW RELEASE
Liv Romano ~ Lasso The Moon
* DJ Shub & Natasha Fisher ~ The Eye Of The Storm ~ NEW RELEASE
* Cat Clyde ~ My Love ~ Mud Blood Bone ~ NEW RELEASE
* Clever Hopes & Kelly McMichael ~ Long Way Round ~ NEW RELEASE
* Pressgang Mutiny ~ Haul Away Boys / Lowlands ~ Departure ~ NEW RELEASE / Out Today!
6:20 Obstreperous Agendas
* Cowboy Junkies ~ If You Got To Go, Go Now
* The McDades ~ Telegraph Reel ~ NEW RELEASE
Delores Keane (26 September 1953 – 16 March 2026) ~ Sweet Forget Me Nots
* Medusa Quartet ~ Golden (excerpt)
* Edwin Raphael ~ It's A Shame You Swim So Well ~ I Know A Garden ~ NEW RELEASE
* Status / Non-Status ~ Peace Bomb ~ Big Changes ~ NEW RELEASE
* Tonya P. ~ Just Try ~ NEW RELEASE
* Ria Mae & Classified ~ In The Stars ~ NEW RELEASE
Monday, April 13, 2026
Sunday, April 12, 2026
Memberz Syndicate: "This is the kind of music you need to listen to loud on your car stereo." - Gary Topp.
Ultimate is the Memberz Syndicate's Set Dem Free album opener. JuLion King L takes it out for a spin. Toronto Reggae is the best choice for driving music.
Saturday, April 11, 2026
Playlist For Corby's Orbit Show of 10 April 2026 with Ken Whiteley
Commissioner of Selection - Paul Corby
Paul Corby's approach to the show is centered around discovering and promoting emerging artists, while also celebrating established ones. His passion for music and community engagement has made Corby's Orbit a beloved fixture on Radio Regent.
* Canadian Artists in Asterisk'd RED
The Mixcloud Podcast Link is RIGHT HERE
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5:00 Radio Telemetry
* PRAIRIE ~ Hush Of Light ~ NEW RELEASE
* Jesse Reyez & Stormzy ~ Palo Santo ~ Still Paid ~ NEW RELEASE
* Joelle Rose ~ Birdhouse ~ NEW RELEASE
*Tyra Jutai ~ Manic Pixie Dream Girl ~ A Dream Comes True ~ NEW RELEASE
* Meltt ~ Never Let Go ~ Never Let Go ~
<<<< Zoe from Divka
* Divka ~ Harbuz ~ Folk Fatale ~ NEW RELEASE
* Denielle Bassels ~ Lighthouse (LIVE) ~ @ The Old Mill Monday 13 April
5:45 Emphasizing Sizzle
* PIQSIQ ~ Mahaha ~ LEGEND ~ CFMA Winner
* Tanya Tagaq ~ Exit Wound ~ S.A.P.U.T.J.I.J.I.
~ NEW RELEASE
Illustration by Moebius
Olympia Vitalis ~ DAZE ~ NEW RELEASE
Omah Lay ~ Don't Love Me ~ NEW RELEASE
Nalan ~ OK ~ NEW RELEASE
* Moira & Claire x Noah Malcolm ~ Two Word Answers ~ NEW RELEASE
* DJ DANI LX ~ Lejos De Ti ~ NEW RELEASE
* Alex Cuba ~ All My Nights ~ Indolés ~ JUNO Winner
6:20 Kith & Ken
* Ken Whiteley ~ Interview / Keep Going / Everybody's Got To Be Tried feat. Cecile Levy / A Smooth One / At The End Of The Day ~ Keep Going ~ NEW RELEASE
* Tamara Weber ~ Play With Fire ~ Destinations ~ NEW RELEASE
* Melania Fiona ~ I Choose You ~ Say Yes ~ JUNO Winner
6:45 Love You Like An Art
illustration by Jack Kirby
* Bye Parula ~ I Don't Know ~ Something Out Of Nothing ~ NEW RELEASE @ Lee's Palace Saturday 18 April
* Mario Puglia ~ Vision Board
* David Wiffen (11 March 1942 – 5 April 2026) ~ More Often Than Not ~
* Mimi O'Bonsawin feat. The Pairs ~ Better Than Before ~ NEW
Illustration by Laurent Grasso - Studies Into the Past 2023
Thursday, April 9, 2026
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Monday, April 6, 2026
Dana Sipos Is Touring Her Golden Molten Album In Ontario This Week
The feather-edged heartbeat of Dana Sipos rises in her voice and arrives on record just in time to edge the springtime in, covering us with a smiling lava flow of stretched melismatic syllables, nudging and breathing long notes into our inner ear, while her words surge liminally towards – and away from – their literal meanings.
Reminiscing over her personal mythologies in lyrical laboratories where Astral Weeks and Blue Afternoons were discovered once, long ago by famed artists of the 70s, exploring new and ancient drifts adjacent to theirs, she has mined nine fresh songs that fuse the abstract/poetic to an evocative and immediate tactile sensuality.
Dana’s playful wordplay harnesses the skyward impulses of her underlying murmurations, emotively processing shafts seams veins lodes of raw language and memory into galvanized lyrical alloys. The resulting constructs infuse these tunes with a bucolic and slightly evasive sense of wonder, magnified throughout by the pervasive riffing hypnotism of the collaborating musicians, under the direction of her producer, Sandro Perri.
Nuanced and nomadic, atmospheric and felicitous are her adjectives. The songs, she says, are “meant to bring some folk magic into my healing processes,” with, as always, a nod towards the cosmic.
Her special formula of phosphorescent phonetics begins on the opening track, “Star City,” commemorating a favourite coastal retreat where “You’ll find you’re not alone no matter how you try.”
Over the course of the song, “Spring creeps in, a ripple on the breath of wind,” with insinuations of warmth from a richly-toned saxophone.
It’s followed by “Gemstone,” a crystal geode metaphor over steady fingerpicking and sparkles of flute. “When they crack you open do they find you glowing?”
“Soft Feeling” describes the emotional bundles of sensation that
accompany a deep friendship. Besides containing the album title, the lyrics confess to the most romantic feelings of intimacy on the record.
The delightful “Moondance” features more fingerpicked guitar, some waves of piano blues and a soulful choir, and anticipates the title of the next track, “Songs of Longing.” In that song, Dana yields her hopes for a dreamed romantic reunion to the comfort of deep memories as she realizes that “All of a sudden baby I’m short on time.”
Much of this record was in fact composed in the wake of a health scare that the singer experienced during it writing. In the Hour and the Glass, she again seeks relief from a crisis state with the help of music, specifically the blues, and the “cosmic love“ that it reliably provides.
The evanescence of life is introduced in the metaphorically-titled
“Passing Clouds,” a song buoyed by a vibraphone and amorphous sound effects, and anchored to the earth only by insistent guitar picking and the intimations of mortality in the lyrics: “I may be going too / And you know that when I go it’ll be some time til I’m coming home.”
The lead preview single for the album, back at the end of 2025, was “Strange to My Mind. It encapsulates the sensation of dislocation from oneself that can occur during meditation, or in an awakening, in what Buddhists call “the very subtle hour,” when it seems, as she sings, “the body’s just a story / It’s a map so full of windows…”. The song served as a good introduction to the record back then as it hardwires the listener to a comprehension of Sipos’s dichotomy of narrative perspectives as she constantly ranges from the personal to the astral planes.
“Blooming Heather” is the title of the closing song; it is soaked in strings and redolent with the fragrances of imminent summertime (“For some the saddest season“), and with the bell-tones of guitar harmonics, muted finger snaps, alpine echoes, and the cautionary smell of smoke it serves up a climactic incident to end the record.
Although it was released in January, Golden Molten is achieving more immediate relevance this month as Dana (pronounced Danna) heads out on a tour that will criss-cross Canada, beginning March 25, significantly, in Golden B.C., just west of Banff. She will then proceed to hit all the major urban centers in Alberta, wind through Winnipeg, and infiltrate Ontario on April 7 for a whirlwind four nights in Guelph, Toronto, Ottawa and Hamilton.
After a touch down back in Saskatoon she will make a thorough sweep of British Columbia in late April. Dana will be accompanied through it all by the rising Victoria-based singer Miina, whose debut album, Where the Light Goes, will be arriving shortly. For tickets and info you can go to
http://www.danasipos.com/tour
The after-effects of Dana Sipos’s capriciously slurred lyrical grace-notes affix affectionate melodic rings of memory to these songs, ensuring the necessity of your enjoying further listening. Golden Molten is a healing record. I suggest that you apply it therapeutically, soon, while it’s still spring.
Saturday, April 4, 2026
Playlist for Corby's Orbit Show of 3 April 2026 with Suzanne Jarvie
Commissioner of Selection - Paul Corby
* Canadian Artists in Asterisk'd RED
The Mixcloud Podcast Link is RIGHT HERE
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( Brought to you by Blazin' Raisins & Flamin' Dates )
5:00 Toronto With A Cappuccino
* Joe H. Henry ~ Bad Dude ~ NEW RELEASE
* Alessia Cara ~ Find The Boy ~ Love Or The Lack Thereof ~ NEW RELEASE
* The Bros. Landreth & Begonia ~ Knuckles ~ NEW RELEASE
* Sarah MacDougall ~ Blanket Skies ~ NEW RELEASE
* Angine De Poitrine ~ Teaser ~ Volume 2 ~ NEW RELEASE
* Cédric Dind - Lavoie ~ Chrysalide ~ NEW RELEASE
* Vivienne Wilder ~ Black Hearts ~ NEW RELEASE
* Ellie Heath ~ Pushing Forty ~ Pushing Forty ~ NEW RELEASE
The Petersens ~ Caledonia
* Hayden Ryann ~ Burning Rubber ~ NEW RELEASE
5:45 Abyss Kit
* Marshall Dane ~ Somebody Somewhere ~ NEW RELEASE
* Arielle Soucy ~ J'Pense ~ NEW RELEASE
Kronos Quartet ~ Neil Young's Ohio ~ Live At NPR's Tiny Desk Concert NEW RELEASE
* Abigail Lapell & Frazey Ford ~ Shadow Child ~ NEW RELEASE
* Wintersleep ~ The Abyss ~ Wishing Moon ~ NEW RELEASE
* Dana Sipos ~ Moondance ~ Golden Molten ~ @ The Baby G Thursday 9 April ~ NEW RELEASE
Selah Sue & The Gallands ~ Movin' ~ NEW RELEASE
* Suzanne Nuttall ~ Losing You Has Never Felt So Sweet ~ Live Without A Net ~ NEW RELEASE
* Q & A (Tony Quarrington & Zoey Adams ~ Admirando La Luna ~ Top To Bottom ~ NEW RELEASE
* Matthew Holtby ~ Be Good ~ NEW RELEASE
6:20 Suzanne Holds The Mirror
* Suzanne Jarvie ~ Interview / Honeycomb / Mother's Day / Temporary Emissary ~ Mother's Day ~ NEW RELEASE
6:50 Where Were You?
* Andrew Collins Trio ~ S.Y.T.E, ~ Retro ~ @ Hugh's Room Live Friday 10 April ~ NEW RELEASE
* Phil Weir ~ Scott Cook's If He Showed Up Now
Thursday, April 2, 2026
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Missing March 27 Show To Be Broadcast Wednesday From 5 - 7 on Radio Regent
This past weekend, the scheduler automative system and the shows expected to play for each of Radio Regent's slots did not play correctly and instead grabbed incorrect random folder content.
The Orbit that had been scheduled will be broadcast this Wednesday from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m., giving those artists and audience members a chance to hear the music that they missed last Friday. Apologies to all from Radio Regent.
Monday, March 30, 2026
Saturday, March 28, 2026
Orbital Accident - Yesterday's Show Didn't Air
I have yet to find out how or why, but a substitute Orbit, of less than exemplary caliber and vintage, was broadcast yesterday. It ruined my day, and maybe yours as well. A week of emails, posters and other preparations wasted...
Recent staffing cuts at Radio Regent explain the absence of any response to my S.O.S. messages asking for help at the time. The show will be played on air at some other opportunity, but there will be no podcast or playlist available today.
SAVE COMMUNITY RADIO!
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
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