Playlist For Corby's Orbit Show of 10 August with Jocelyn Barth

Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby 

(Brought to you by Fried Day, Slaughtered Day and Stunned Day)

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

 Guest: Jocelyn Barth of The Tiki Collective

Podcast here https://www.mixcloud.com/paul-corby/

Canadians in Asterisk’d RED. 

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5:00 Nomenclaturism 

Toots & The Maytals ~ My New Name ~ @ Danforth Music Hall tonight

Jon Brooks ~ Because We're Free ~ Delicate Cages ~ @ Hugh's Room Live Tuesday 12 August for Songwriter Session (round robin style)

* Dayna Manning ~ Gold (The Fire Song) ~ Volume 1 ~ @ Hugh's Room Live Tuesday 12 August  for Songwriter Session

Rod Stewart ~ Tomorrow Is Such A Long Time ~ Every Picture Tells A Story ~ @ Budweiser Stage tonight

Cyndi Lauper ~ Money Changes Everything (live) ~ The Best Remixes ~ @ Budweiser Stage tonight

5:25 Love / Tiki - O

* The Tiki Collective ~ Dreaming (Avery Raquel) / All Too Soon (Jocelyn Barth / Interview with Jocelyn Barth / The Wanderer (Denielle Bassels) / Harlem Nocturne (Joanna Majoko) ~ Muse NEW DISK ~ @ Berkley Church Fieldhouse Thursday 16 August

Patti Austin (born August 10, 1948) ~ Stars In Your Eyes / Captivated ~ That Secret Place 

6:00 Spirit Lamps

* Maryem & Ernie Tollar feat. Alfred Gamil ~ Gigue ~ Cairo To Toronto ~ @ Small World Music Center tonight & Saturday for Al Qahwa Ensemble with Majd Sekkar and Dr. Alfred Gamil

J. Moss ~ Just James ~ Just James

* The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer ~ Are You Listening Lord? ~ Checkered Past ~ @ Dundas Square tonight

6:20 Traditions And Transitions

Tortoise ~ Blackjack ~ Standards 

Melissa Payne ~ Don't Say ~ Melissa Payne

Miranda Lambert ~ That's The Way That The World Goes Round ~ Revolution ~ @ Budweiser Stage Thursday 23 August

Hot Tuna ~ True Religion ~ Live At The New Orleans House Berkeley

6:40 Oracles & Tentacles

Percy Mayfield ~ The Big Question ~ My Blues

Great Lake Swimmers ~ Unmaking The Bed ~ The Waves, The Wake NEW DISK

Dave Koz ~ Shakin' The Shack / Toronto Music Listings

* Lido Pimienta ~ Fornicarte Es Un Arte (feat. Melody Mckiver) ~  La Papessa

Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage ~ Santa Fe Trail ~ Awake

Corby's Orbit Playlist for Show Of 3 August

Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby 

(Brought to you by Compiled Islands, Archipelagian Architecture and No Trouble Atolls)

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

Podcast here https://www.mixcloud.com/paul-corby/

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5:00 Bold-Timers

* Heather Luckheart with The Willows ~ Hypnotized ~ The Tiki Collective ~ Muse NEW DISK

Shirley Bassey ~ Where Do I Begin? ~ Etage 3 ~ Costes

Kate Bush ~ The Red Shoes ~ The Red Shoes 

* Moscow Apartment ~ The Things You Do ~ EP ~@ Union Station Saturday 12 p.m.

Jenny Lewis ~ You Can't Outrun "Em ~ The Voyage ~ @ Fort York Saturday

* Ian & Sylvia ~ Katy Dear ~ Vanguard Visionaries ~ Sylvia Tyson @ Hugh's Room Live Tuesday 7 August

5:20 Torontodad

Lord Composer & The Silver Seas Orchestra ~ Hill And Gully Rider ~ Mento Madness

Count Owen ~ The Sound Of Music ~ Rock Steady Calypso (Kalypso 1968)

Hubert Porter with George Moxey's Calypso Orchestra ~ Monkey Talk ~ Mento Madness

Buster's All-Stars ~ Cast Your Fate To The Wind

5:40 Oblong Songs

Doc Watson ~ Life Gets Teejus, Don't It / Lost John ~ Doc Watson On Stage (Vanguard)

Garland Jeffreys ~ Coney Island Winter ~ The King Of In-Between 

The Supremes ~ Joni Mitchell's All I Want ~ ... Produced & Arranged by Jimmy Webb

* Judy Brown ~ I Dream ~ Say It NEW DISK

Ry Cooder ~ Tattler ~ Paradise & Lunch

6:00 Non Combos Mentis

Ahmad Jamal ~ The Tube ~ Live In Paris 1992

Funky 4 + 1 ~ That's The Joint ~ Roots Of Hip Hop 

* Alex St. Kitts feat. J.P. Saxe ~ Love Sick ~ The Projektor lll ~ @ Union Station Thursday 8 August

Shakti feat. John McLaughlin ~ Lotus Feet  ~ @ 

* Al Qahwa ~ Il Helwa Di ~ @ Small World Music Center Friday & Saturday, 10 & 11 August

6:30 Happenstance Handstands

The Apples In Stereo ~ The Rainbow ~ The Discovery Of A World Inside The Moon

Nicole Atkins ~ Solano Avenue ~ Here Lies Love

David Byrne & Shara Warden ~ Seven Years ~ Here Lies Love ~  David Byrne at Sony Center tonight & Saturday

Jim Bryson ~ One Cigarette ~ The Occasionals

Warren Hill ~ Another Goodbye / Toronto Music Listings

B.B. King ~  I`ll Survive ~ Blues On The Bayou

The Sweet Old Religion Of Pharis & Jason Romero

  The best harmony in music traditionally comes from siblings and lovers. It is an intimately personal sharing experience for the performers and for the listener. When pure harmony happens it elicits grace. As a temporary alignment with perfection, it is a religious experience without the obligation of worship.

Sweet Old Religion, the new record by Pharis & Jason Romero, investigates that common cohesive quality of song, community and family, which is also often referred to as love.

The album was composed during a chaotic time in the couple’s life. A disastrous fire took away their banjo manufacturing workshop while they were building a new house and adjusting to life with a new baby.

“We put out a record in 2015, and we just thought we’d take a year off the road, and suddenly the shop burned down. We weren’t doing any music or writing any songs. It just wasn’t a big part of our life. We got focussed on rebuilding the banjo shop,” recalled Pharis. “It threw this creepy element of chaos into what was already a pretty chaotic world. We were so focused on building the house and rebuilding the banjo shop, and our house was in lockup, and in October, about two weeks after everyone left, all these songs started coming – some days two or three of them. The outpouring of support and kindness, it was just an incredible experience to be on the receiving end of. So when the first song came, it was about love and gratitude. From that evolved this album.”

“The over-arching themes are about light and love and resilience and a sense of just how truly amazing this world is,” Pharis said. “The feelings that came after the fire, the very, very large feelings, were more of what I needed to process, and that’s more what came out in the songs. There’s a lot of light in the lyrics. That’s constantly on my mind these days.”

Translating their drastic and vivid life experiences somehow became music that is effervescent, with an awareness of the positive and beneficent streams of worldly existence. Carefully-engineered and recorded, the effects of their harrowing year reach out to the heart for any listener who may be going through their own catalogue of catastrophes.

“If you can find a way to see the lightness in life,” Pharis explained, “I find that helps me to get through times when I’m questioning or doubting or just feeling stressed, if I can see the lightness and the goodness and just the overall picture that life is good.”

Much of the medicine that helps to produce this philosophy is the environment of Horsefly, British Columbia where Pharis and Jason live and work.

“Yeah we carry that with us all the time. We always need to take time to climb in the mountains and swim in the lake. We live out in the big open spaces, and it’s quiet and beautiful.”

Sweet Old Religion is Pharis and Jason’s first all-original collection of songs, and it contains the familiar clarity and warmth of their former work. But the songs have sparks of joy and hope that carry from the title tune throughout the heart-swelling testimonies of “You Are a Shining Light,” “Come On Love” and “You Are The Best Thing,” to the wistfully metaphoric “Age Old Dream” and “The Salesman” and on until the final shimmer of “Babes Mothers & Fathers,” which is filled with parental adoration and guidance. “Shine all the way,” they sing, reaching into a new future.

Originally published at Roots Music Canada.

Corby`s Orbit Playlist for Show of 27 July

Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby 

(Brought to you by Contrario, Quebalk, and the Semantic Provinces )

Guests: Isaac Papineau, Jaiden Crawford, Owen Gardner & Liam Gallagher of Rikashay

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

Podcast here https://www.mixcloud.com/paul-corby/

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5:00 Going Forth / After Danforth

* Minotaurs ~ All Hail ~ AUM

Beachwood Sparks ~ Sparks Fly Again ~ The Tarnished Gold

* Kellie Loder ~ Molded Like A Monster NEW DISK ~ Benefit Of The Doubt

* Tragedy Ann ~ The Last Thing NEW SINGLE ~ @ The Distillery District Saturday 2-4 p.m.







* Jory Nash ~ She  Gets Her Courage From Alcohol ~ Wilderness Years NEW DISK

* Ivy Mairii ~ East Of The Don ~ No Talker ~ @ Tranzac Wednesday 1 August

* The Ennis Sisters ~ Our Own Sweet Time ~ Keeping Time NEW DISK

5:30 Barbed Wares

Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage ~ Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key ~ Awake NEW DISK ~ @ Hugh's Room Thursday 2 August

Brett Dennen ~ Make You Crazy ~ Hope For The Hopeless ~ Echo Beach Sunday

* Julie & The Wrong Guys ~ Love & Leaving ~ Julie & The Wrong Guys ~ @ Riverfest August 17-19

Jeff Beck ~ Superstition ~ Beckology ll ~ @ Budweiser Stage Wednesday 1 August / Tribute to Stevie Wonder @ Woodbine Park tonight

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros ~ Bummed Out City ~ Global A Go Go

JOE feat. Mr. Cheeks ~ That Girl ~ Conception ~ Tribute to Stevie Wonder @ Woodbine Park tonight

6:00  Rikashay Bulletin

* Rikashay ~ Interview / Seasick Lullaby (live) / Luna (live) / Low Rider (live)

6:20  Elevators and Pocket Dials

Caetano Veloso ~ Fina Estampa ~ Fina Estampa

* Valeria Matzner ~ De Amor y Soledad ~ Anima NEW DISK ~ @ Café Embargo Saturday 

* Stacey Renee ~ Run This NEW SINGLE ~ @ Beaches Streetfest tonight and Saturday

Roseanne Cash ~ Save The People ~ Time & Love

Roy Ayers ~ Searching ~ The Yoruba Soul Mixes

6:45 Ubercasters





* The Willows ~ Boy Oh Boy ~ Tea For Three ~ @ 120 Diner Sunday

* John Pittman ~ Reminiscing ~ Kinship NEW DISK / Toronto Music Listings

* The Long War ~  Lake Louise ~ Landscapes NEW DISK

* VK ~ Even The Devil Cries ~ Terms & Conditions NEW DISK

Rikashay Pkew Pkew

Markham Ontario's Rikashay is bringing it downtown and skyward for this Friday's Orbit, pulsing live out of Radio Regent. Currently planning some tour dates for the summer and working on a new album, the quartet of guitar, bass, drums and trumpet will be reaching combustion around 6:00. Large amounts of new Canadian music will be filling out the playlist. Come and get your music's worth from 5-7, every Friday evening. Be so there!

Denielle Bassels' Thoughts On Elizabeth Shepherd

Denielle Bassels will be closing the vocalist portion of the show at the Parkdale: A Reinvention concert this Sunday with Elizabeth's haunting song Next Time Round. 
Denielle has ths to say:

“Parkdale" is a beautiful homage to a part of town that I am so familiar with. Hearing Elizabeth Shepherd struck me in a whole new way. Never since Nina Simone have I seen a woman in Jazz so masterful in their compositions. Her rhythms and harmonies are complex without feeling contrived and her compositions are all at once intelligent, raw, and transparent. Her voice is ethereal yet approachable, she speaks to you. For me, I hear that it is alright to be vulnerable and masterful at once. She brings a whole new light to being a female in jazz today." 

Beginning at 7:00 in the air-conditioned Gladstone Ballroom, the entire 2008 album will be represented live by the combined efforts of Radio Regent's Corby's Orbit show and the Gladstone Hotel. Tickets and info at Advance Tickets for Parkdale: A Reinvention

Playlist For Corby's Orbit Show Of 13 July with Wax Mannequin

Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby 

(Brought to you by Easy Carnivals, Stellar Inebriations & Extra Festival Perceptions)

Guest: Wax Mannequin

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

Podcast here https://www.mixcloud.com/paul-corby/

Canadians in Asterisk’d RED. 

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5:00 American Peril

* Neil Young ~ Just Singing A Song ~ Fork In The Road (2009) ~ The Neil Young'Uns @ The Linsmore Saturday

Shemekiah Copeland ~ Americans ~ American Child NEW DISK

* Cowboy Junkies ~ Sing Me A Song ~ All That Reckoning NEW DISK

* Aasiva ~ Hurt Heart ~ Aasiva NEW DISK

5:20 Livication To The Great Garry Lowe (1953 - 2018)

Buju Banton ~ Excerpt from a Speech by Marcus Garvey / Friends For Life ~ Friends For Life

Bob Marley ~ I Know ~ Confrontation

5:30 Waxing Phase

* Wax Mannequin ~ Quickening / Interview / People Can Change (Live) / 1000 Years (Live) 

~ Have A New Name NEW DISK ~ @ The Rivoli Saturday

5 :45 A Circus Intense

Less Than Jake ~ You`re The One That I Want ~ Greased ~ @ Vans Warped Tour Budweiser Stage Tuesday  17 July 

Buddy Guy ~ Watch Yourself ~ I Was Walking Through The Woods  ~ @ Budweiser Stage tonight

Elvin Bishop s Big Fun Trio ~ Right Now Is The Hour ~ Something Smells Funky Round Here  NEW DISK

6:00 Reinvention Earrings 

* Raha Javanfar ~ Take Our Time Together  ~ Bad Luck Woman & Her Misfortunes ~ @ The Local Thursday 19 July and @ Parkdale: A Reinvention Sunday at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom

* The Jessica Stuart Few ~ Without You ~ Same Girl EP ~ @ Parkdale: A Reinvention Sunday at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom

* Collette Savard ~ My Last Cigarette ~ Collette Savard & The Savantes ~ @ Parkdale: A Reinvention Sunday at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom & @ The Local tonight

* Valeria Matzner ~ Broken Landscapes ~ Anima ~ @ Parkdale: A Reinvention Sunday at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom

* Elizabeth Shepherd ~ Next Time Around ~  Parkdale ~ NOT @ Parkdale: A Reinvention Sunday at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom 

6:30 Slow Biologies

The Future Sounds Of London ~ Dead Skin Cells ~ Lifeforms

* Amanda Tosoff ~ Leaves Changing ~ Looking North ~ @ The Rex tonight

Jim Lauderdale ~ I Should Have Listened To Good Advice ~ Lost In The Lonesome Pines ~ @ Hugh`s Room Live Wednesday 18 July

* Sarah Burton ~ Grind My Teeth ~  Make Your Own Bed

6:45 Pop Propulsion

Howard Jones ~ Life In One Day ~ @ Phoenix tonight / Toronto Music Listings

* Oh Susanna ~ Into My Arms ~ Name Dropper

Janelle Monae ~ We Were Rock And Roll ~ Electric Lady ~ @ Rebel Monday 16 July