PETER KATZ - SON

Splashdown

After ten days of going all Repo-man on my audience, raising about 4 figures in pledges for the station, I am looking forward to reconsecrating the show to creative rather than fiscal goals. Coming up December 4th will be bard of the hour Mr. Peter Katz, and more music than you'd ever want to shake a stick at, with, or through.

Abundant Orbital Applause goes out to:

~Shoshannah, Christina, Bill Watson, Dave Hynes, Kate, Queenie, Verlia and all staff and callers for stamina, cheerleading and moral support.

~All pledgers for $uch generosity.

~ Jack Marks, K.C. Roberts, Sheriff Miller, Shakurah Saida, F&M, Jen Lane, Jerry Leger, Jace, Ivy Mairi, Greg Lawson, Luke Jackson, Stephen Fearing, and Rebecca Campbell for performance, personality and persuasion on-air.

~Prize and enticement donors Molly at Warner Brothers, Ken at Killbeat, A Man Called Wrycraft, catl, and Garry Topp.

~Sincere upward thanks for the rising of all to the occasion.

Friday Orbiting Radio Busker

Chipping away at yr pocket, all day straight up. Please surrender. Space exploration is expensive.



Guests galore as the galactic climactic Fund Raising Corby Orbits for $ with:

11:00 F&M: Live Anti- Billboard Rock on their CD release and Tour

11:30: Jen Lane: Appearing tonight at Not My Dog w/Amy Campbell and smokekiller (and Tuesday at MITZI's SISTER)

12:00 Massive dreadlocks record treasurer Greg Lawson plays and offers up lost Bob Marley tracks.

12:30 Jerry Leger: Live with his 4th Disk, Looking forward to his show on the 29th at Hugh's Room

1:00 Ivy Mairi: Live"I want you" and "In between love", from the Tom Waits Tribute tonight at Hugh's Room

1:15: Stephen Fearing does Nick Drake Live for the Sunday Tribute Show at Trinity St. Paul's

1:30: Microbunny: Live on air with Rebecca Campbell as Rancho Relaxo gig approaches this evening.

Fundamental Fund-Raising Shows Nov.19 & 26

Thanks, Roger Humbert for the photo
We'll be switching from fund-raising to hair-raising and back fairly abruptly, the way the Orbit do, when gravity just doesn't apply. Friday the 19th will feature phone linkage ship-to-surface, hot-to-ground connections with missing blues/bluegrass link Joel Fafard, at the Free Times Saturday, supporting his new disk, Cluck Old Hen. Then a communique from country dolls Ladies of the Canyon's singer Senja Sargeant, anticipating a Dakota gig next Thursday, that will take place noon-ish. Then, songster Joey Wright whose latest, Hatch, featuring such roots music stars as Sarah Harmer, Jenny Whiteley and Amy Millan, takes flight at The Great Hall next Thursday, will call up with a tour update. Ticket opportunities will abound for shows galore, and disk bribes, though for these two weeks, we will be demanding $$$$$s for the famished radio station which, for 50 weeks a year at least, only lives to give.
But Wait!
You want live nebular celebrities?
Well, Shakura Saidah, who takes only YES for an answer internationally, is appearing appealingly at Hugh's Room that very evening, and yet will manage a gracious flightpath into the Orbit for a chat and insight into the inspirations of her vast talent. Radio-telescopes should be trained on the 12:30-1:00 time slot for best clarity. Also, at 1, Funk Titan K.C. Roberts and his sax avatar Jared, riding a new cd and gigs resplendant, will arrive prepared to jam some telekinetic volitional omni-beats straight into your cortex. Put on some headphones and get loose, let's pledge some juice to keep CKLN.FM 88.1 in use, and formidable pour tous! QL?

Snow White: The Remix

I have gotten out of my Blog routine since paper play-lists have become non-transferable from the station. They are impossible to print out, but Someday my prints will come back. Until then, enjoy this disneytronic version. Major jams, live beatbox, small choirs, and lonesome asteroids have all made flaming appearances on the airwaves of Corby's Orbit over the last month.
Please stay tuned at 88.1FM Friday afternoons from 11-2.

Sealand White

Deep brown shadows arched beyond the golden streetlamps in a Regent Park co-op on that somber October Friday night as much of Toronto's critically obscure community of reggae musicians rose and gathered to support star drummer Raffa Dean and his family. The tragic loss of Raffa and Karen's son, Sealand White to a pointless discharge of gunfire into an opening elevator door last week has shattered their lives, and the lives of his school community. A tearful crowd of teens wept and hugged beside a tribute wall full of the fifteen-year-old's exploits, while the night's breezes flickered candles over a floor space covered in bags of Skittles. The purple ones were his favourite. Reggae and hiphop sounds gently soothed and smoothed the sobbing and the silence of the crowd of about a thousand mourners. The intensely inventive and fun-loving qualities of the popular lad were the epitome of all that Jamaican culture has to offer; these were characteristics largely inherited from his father, Raffa Dean. As a drummer, singer and a beacon of steady personal Rasta cultural force, Raffa has had no equal in this city. Growing up amongst tightly focussed musical peers of Jamaican background in Malton Ontario, Raffa would run home after school every day to practise the drums. He was called to Montreal at the age of seventeen to play for reggae royalty, Dennis Brown. As jazz musicians revere the abilities of Tony Williams, who famously joined Miles Davis' band at the same age, Raffa's progress was as precocious and as in fluential. Since Leroy Sibbles left Toronto in 1993, along with the passing of Jackie Mittoo, reggae, arguably the most important style of music to evolve at the end of the last century, has languished in Toronto. A once-thriving cultural scene, centered at the Bamboo and the Jerk Pit has been excised from the media and club interest that sustained dozens of local bands in the 80's and 90's.

I was at Jahmeel 'Shanx' Spence's funeral in September ( bullet-ridden at Lawrence Ave. and Brimley - another B.S. murder). He was carrying on the reggae cultural tradition in new ways. The pastor asked "where is the family", and a hundred people stood up.

Now Sealand White. These were good children that many knew to be full of the good things in life, not random gameboyz. More deaths are happening week after week.

Try to be a human and walk the earth in peace. Deep winds will blow you down in a moment too,( in Jamaican patois' idiom, the code of acceptance says do not feel no way). Let's work on the gun culture together; from cops n robbers movies, music and media and conversational bravado, retreat from levity and irony. Death is too real, but sudden and random death is soul-killing, fuelled by hatred and ignorance; it is just the end of the beginning of a pain and sorrow that will last through generations.

“He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time,” a devastated Jax White said of her younger sibling.

“My brother was the light of my life,” she added. “He didn’t live long enough ... I miss him already.”

Anyone with information is urged to contact Homicide detectives at 416-808-7400, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).

Jim Bryson! Live! Free! With The Weakerthans!

The Falcon Lake Incident CD Release Show
Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans (full band) will be celebrating the release day of The Falcon Lake Incident by playing Dave Bookman's Nu Music Nite at the Horseshoe Tavern. Doors open at 9:00pm. The band will be playing at 10:00pm. The price is free.

Tuesday October 19th
Horseshoe Tavern
Toronto, Ontario
Set Time 10:00pm (sharp)
Free Show.
19+