Infra-terrestrially Preferred Records 2015 From Corby’s Orbit on Radio Regent

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I don't listen to everything, but I listen to a lot. Generous people that I know draw me to certain music and sometimes I can hear it and sometimes I can only listen. 

If I miss it the first time, I go back later and sometimes the time spent  becomes radiant ( or darker) with meaning. The subtleties are more often revealed in the light of their solidarity with the overall binding concept than in the topic bubbles of the lyrics.

Often musicians are doing way more in live performance than in the recording studio. I will come home to hear a disk with only traces of what I have just witnessed at a live show. 

My favourites listed here, in no set order of preference, are all recent occasions when the artists and recordists have transcended the demands of  the marketplace and provided us with portals into the gleams and beams of reference that they have personally established within the aurora of music.

I've left out Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Bjork and others whose labours are so highly admirable that Rolling Fork and Pitchstone will be elevating them amply enough.

Canadian Artists written in red.

Yellow highlighted disks are available to you as prizes if you will just list your top ten albums of 2015 in the comments section of this post.

Hint: You need to become  follower in the top right corner first.

The Bombadils        Grassy Roads, Wandering Feet Bomba Estereo  Amenecer Gray Matter    Footsteps Terra Lightfoot    Every Time My Mind Runs Wild Anne Lindsay          Soloworks Daymé Arocena  Nueva Era Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld   Never Were The Way She Was Jack Marks     Wicked Moon Buffy Ste.-Marie    Power In The Blood Shemekiah Copeland     Outskirts Of Love ________________________________________ Cecile McLorin Salvant    For One To Love The Good Lovelies   Burn The Plan Braids     Deep In The Iris Alicia Hansen & Ben Brown     Companion Retrocity         Mixtape    _________________________________ Jennifer Castle    Pink City Leaf Rapids       Lucky Stars Liz Stringer      Warm In The Darkness The Punch Brothers   The Phosphorescent Blues Tara Kannangara          Some Version Of The Truth ___________________________________________ D’Angelo and the Vanguard     Black Messiah Fortunate Ones    The Bliss Mimi Oz      Men Who Never Loved Me Tracy McNeil      Nobody Ever Leaves Lindi Ortega    Faded Gloryville

Joel Plaskett      The Park Avenue Sobriety Test Pharis & Jason Romero    A Wanderer I’ll Stay Peter Katz   We Are The Reckoning Sam Outlaw    Angeleno Kristi Lane Sinclair   Dark Matter Fraser & Girard       Fraser & Girard Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project Gordie Tentrees   Less Is More Skratch Bastid & The Afiaria String Quartet   Spin Cycle Frank Turner      Positive Songs For Negative People ________________________________________ Tara Holloway       Little Ghosts The Visit      Through Darkness Into Light Gary & Whit       Matches Rich Brown & The Abeng      Abeng Mariza    Mundo _________________________________________ Matthew Byrne    Hearts And Heroes Daniela Nardi     Canto Dana Sipos    Roll Up The Night Sky The Kentucky Headhunters feat. Johnnie Johnson   Meet Me In Bluesland Sarah MacDougall   Grand Canyon _______________________________________ Trent Severn    Trillium Big Little Lions   A Little Frayed, A Little Torn Brother Strut    First Strut Is The Deepest Leon Bridges      Coming Home Myriam Alter    Cross / Ways

Conical Arbours

I woke up sick this Friday and was unable to go in to do my show, so I spent a bunch of time with Katarina at Fishki, who collects rad pictures from around the world. 

Here are some of her most festive trees. Brought to you by Spruce Bringtrees, The Psychedelic Firs and The Pine Young Cannibals.

Live Music Inevitable And Huge

Playlist For Show Of 4 December

The moon passed between Nasa's Deep Space Climate Observatory and the Earth, allowing the satellite to capture this rare image of the moon's far side in full sunlight.

Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby

( Brought To You by Ornate Coal Stoves, Arctic Dolphins and Shorter Waning Days )

Guests ~ Ori Dagan and Jesse Laine

5-7 p.m. Fridays online http://www.radioregent.com/ and at tunein.com .  

Canadians in Asterisk’d RED. 

5:00 Strongholds Of Song

* Justin Bieber ~ Purpose ~ Purpose NEW DISK @ Danforth Music Hall,  Monday, 7 Dec.

Cecile McLorin Salvant ~ Look At Me ~ For One To Love 

Ori Dagan ~ Googleable / Interview / Your Song ~ Less Than Three ~@ Poetry Jazz Bar Sunday 4 p.m. & @ Lula Lounge Friday 11 Dec.

5:20 Hannukah Harmonics

* Geoff Berner ~ When DD Gets Her Donkey Everything Will Be Alright ~ We Are Going To Bremen To Be Musicians

* The Boxcar Boys ~ The Crumb Brothers ~ Don't Be Blue ~ @ Castro's Monday, 7 Dec.

Little Richard (born Macon, Georgia December 5, 1935) ~ Freedom Blues ~ The Rill Thing 

5:40 Infra -Terrestrial 

Sergio Mendes feat. Carlinhos Brown ~ Odo-Ya ~ Encanto

Christopher Martin ~ I'm A Big Deal NEW TUNE 

Wynton Marsalis ~ O Christmas Tree ~ Christmas Jazz Jam

* David Gogo ~ Christmas Blues ~ Christmas With The Blues @ Commodore Ballroom Vancouver Sunday, 20 December with Jim Byrnes

6:00 Loops & Rolls

* Jesse Laine ~ Samsara ~ Love Hierarchy / Interview / The Greek Gods (live) / Worries On The Moon (live) @ The Burdock Sunday, 6 December

6:20 Spiritations

* Paul Horn ~ Air from Bach's Suite #3 In D Major ~ The Peace Album

* Kalle Mattson ~ Drake's Hotline Bling NEW TUNE 

* James Keelaghan ~ Kiri's Piano ~ My Skies @ Koerner Hall Saturday for Bluebird North

* Coco Love Alcorn ~ That Old Feeling NEW TUNE @ Hugh's Room Friday, 15 Jan. 2016

6:40 Pianobrations

* Alicia Hansen & Ben Brown ~ Unrequited ~ Companion @Merge Vancouver Saturday, 10 

* Oscar Peterson ~ A Sleeping Bee ~ Verve Silver Collection ~ Oscar @ 90 

at Koerner Hall next Friday with  Robi Botos, Oliver Jones, Kenny Barron, Benny Green, Gerald Clayton, Renee Rosnes & Bill Charlap 

The concert may be sold-out, but you can still see it! Tune in to the free Oscar @ 90 Live at Koerner Hall livestream on December 11 at 8pm EST.http://performance.rcmusic.ca/event/oscar 

Kenny Barron & Tommy Flanagan ~ If I Should Lose You ~ Together (Denon Japan 1984) Kenny Barron @ Koerner Hall next Friday for Oscar @ 90

* Ambre McLean ~ Butterfly ~ @ The Tipsy Toad Pub & Grill in Guelph Saturday 9:30 p.m.& @ The 120 Diner Sunday 6 p.m.