Jam-Packed

The Wheat pool playing Lefty live on CorbzOrb.
The Wheat Pool

This week's show was a pod buster for realsies...Wendell Ferguson, heroically rising early in the morning after his DVD, Menage a Moi was released to an unsuspecting public at Hugh's Room, was on at 11:30. Opening act The Crooked Brothers of Winnipeg and I looked on in amazement at Wendell's stroboscopic fingerwork on a gorgeous Martin.

Then prairie mood-shifters The Wheat Pool, wafted through on the advent of their Ontario semi-tour in support of Hauntario, my crazy fave disk of 2009, and, so far, of 2010 as well. (as moving a song collection on one disk as I've ever heard. I get two sleeves full of goose bumps every time I listen). A live studio jam of This Is It ensued, along with much talking about the Junos, Edmonton culture, albums vs. records and drumming with restraint ( the word of the day it seems, as the full moon approaches and evaporates all restraint )..

At last, to bring it on back to the galley, The Sure Things, a rousing, mayhem- inducing force of nature warped out the end of the show, and previewed their new disk of dirtbag country hoots, Two Dollar Bottles. At the Dakota Tavern next Tuesday they wave farewell to Toronto on the eve of a western tour. Then, The Governor-General, selector deluxe, offered some of his crown jewels of Caribbean music, to promote his long-standing Saturday night tenure at the Embassy in Kensington. All rose to the maximum trajectory of the occasion in the rites of string

woodhands	electric avenue	seven year itch	paper bag	11:03
tommy castro	trimmin fat	hard believer	alligator	11:07
Makida -Rae	Free	single	Kornerstone	11:11
jim mccarty	hidden nature	sitting on the top of time	easy action	11:16
the crooked brothers	live performance	in studio	orbo	11:22
wendell ferguson	merle jam / live performance and interview	menage a moi	ferguson	11:35
paulo borges	viras	othos pretos	pb	11:54
caetano veloso	fina estampa	fina estampa	philips	11:56
the wheat pool	lefty /interview /this is it live performance / too far apart	hauntario	shameless	12:05
james murdoch	picture it all	in transit	indica	12:30
colleen brown	fantastic feelings	foot in heart	ddr	12:45
jenny whiteley	day without words	forgive or forget	black hen	12:50
david crosby	song without words	if i could only rememeber my name	atlantic	12:55
the sure things	old camp road / dear deer / interview / live performance	two dollar bottles	sure things	1:00
the governor general	selector extraordinaire	caribbean jam	guava mango	1:15
bobby mcferrin	round midnight	round midnight sdtrk	warner	1:55

Magic Moment on Spectacle. I do truly love Neko.

JESSE WINCHESTER

@ Hugh’s Room

Friday April 9 & Saturday April 10

$28 advance/$30 door

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Kings of Spring

Although it is barely spring, there is a sense of summer to what we are about today and

the wind could never blow it out. Only scatter the seeds.

It is the growing that comes after all the rain and music and

the bruising that the new moon and new seasons always cause

on our apple hearts. Seeds don't bruise.

What have I been listening to?

Woodpeckers, playgrounds, kazoo solo by Hellsongs' lead singer, in spandex, sequins and white runners,

for instance.

Today the King is coming into the Orbit:

achilla orru

When Achilla Orru was born among the Karimojong people in Northeastern Uganda, the birth of the apaa-idomo (the multi-coloured bull) was an auspicious event to be celebrated. With his international debut album in 1996, Achilla Orru lived up to the title APAA-IDOMO, for like the multi-coloured bull, he is a musician to behold and listen to.

During his formative years at the Madera special school for the blind in Soroti Teso his extraordinary musical talent was recognized and developed. In 1975, the lokembe earned a special place in Orru's heart. This was the year he won the Junior Award for the Thumb-Piano at the Uganda National Music Festival in Kampala. In 1976 he stunned the audiences of the National Theatre of Uganda when he broke with tradition and presented a troupe of twelve young women playing lokembe. Under his direction, these students from Berkley High Girls School in Iganga earned first place in the folk instruments category.

As the undisputed master of the lokembe, sometimes referred to as the akogo, sanza, akadongo, and kalimba (thumb-piano), Orru's colourfuly crafted music demands the rapt attention from everyone. In Orru's hands, the lokembe is transformed into the very embodiment of spiritual reawakening of his traditional culture. "When I sing with it, when I hear it, there is a part of me that becomes one with the world around me", he says.

The Last Playlist of Winter:

hellsongs	seasons in the abyss	hymns in the key of 666	aporia	11:03
SALLY SHAPIRO	dying in africa	the seven year itch	paper bag	11:08
orleans	fresh wind	let there be music	asylum	11:11
chin	don't shake it down	Dtach	chinschuners	11:16
the new koto ensemble of koto	andante from mozart's symphony #40 in G minor	koto mozart	emi	11:21
habib koite & bamada	fimani	afriki	cumbancha	11:26
desi arnaz	the peanut vendor	mambo	bmg	11:32
tom waits & kronos quartet	way down in the hole	healing the divide	anti-	11:37
israel and the new breed	new season	new season	zomba	11:42
will.i.am	it's a new day	Black I'd	Peas	11:46
catl	church on time	with the lord for cowards you will find no place		11:50
THE BANGLES	september gurls	live	youtube	11:54
heather mcready	take my hand	acoustic rainbow`	roots radio	11:57
colleen brown	ain't got no man to have problems with	foot in heart	outside	12:02
norah jones	tell yer mama	the fall	bluenote	12:06
tanya philipovich	inuit chicken sculpture	secret fiction romance	tanyarock	12:10
the dojo workhorse	the universe	weapons grade romantic	load	12;14
DON CHERRY AND THE JAZZ COMPOSERS' ORCHESTRA	the queen of tung-ting lake	relativity suite	jcoa	12:18
glen ricketts	everyone falls in love	rise up	thunderdome	12:22
souljah fyah	eight days of summer	summer single	love empire	12:26
dennis brown	say what you're saying	the best of...part 2	joe gibbs	12:30
jimmy cliff	let your yeah be yeah	rhythm n reggae	k-tel	12:35
thee silver mount zion orchestra	piphany rambler	kollaps tradixionelles	tsmzo	12;45
HANK JONES & CIEF TIDIANE SECK	HANK MIRI	SARALA	GITANES	12:55
KING ACHILLA ORRU	dongo lobo / interview / chan-lim	sacred gift	king	12:59
ross neilsen	jelly bean	what you need vol. 1	bootsoup	1:30
shawn jackson / roy kenner / wayne st. john		live at the bluenote		1:45
orleans	waking and dreaming	waking And dreaming	asylum	1:50
ginger st. james & the grinders	devil dance	preview	hamilton sounds	1:55