Playlist For Corby's Orbit Show Of 9 October with Maryem & Ernie Tollar and Matt Zimbel

 

Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby

( Brought To You by Celebratory Laboratories, Hospitable Hospitals and Cynical Clinics )

Guests: Maryem Tollar & Ernie Tollar of Al Qahwa and Matt Zimbel of Manteca

Corrections: Hedzoleh Soundz is from Ghana, not The Congo

                    Jo-el Sonnier plays accordion, not fiddle

                    Nastasia Y. sings with DoVira, not Stacey Y.

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

Canadians in Asterisk’d RED. 

5:00 Relics of the Future

*Howard Gladstone ~ Paradise Passing Through ~ The Promise NEW Single / NEW RELEASE

*Chin Injeti feat. Esthero~ Falling NEW Single

*Trevor Sloan ~ Northern Girl ~ Green Reflections NEW RELEASE

*Ryan Hillier ~ Brave New Waves ~ No Excuses NEW RELEASE

*Adrian Mottram ~ I Guess So, Whatever NEW Single

5:20 Iconic Volcanics

Will Rock ~ Eddie Van Halen's Eruption (8-Bit Remix) ~ R.I.P., Eddie January 26, 1955 - October 6, 2020

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ~ Nit Teri Kher Mangha ~ The Individual Legend

Hedzoleh Soundz ~ Mo Dou Obu Na ~ Hedzoleh Soundz

5:30 Special O'Cajun

Beausoleil ~ Bon Temps Rouler / Nathan & The Zydeco Cha-Cha's ~Your Mama Don't Know ~ The Best of Louisiana Music

Jo-El Sonnier ~ Knock Knock Knock ~ The Best Of Cajun Country

*Paul Reddick ~ Pinegum ~ Live In Italia NEW RELEASE

Red Baraat ~ Drums 'n' Brass ~ Chaal Baby

5:50  Lennon Zest

Chocolate Genius ~ Julia ~ I Am Sam Sdtrk

John Lennon ( 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980)  ~ Grow Old With Me ~ Wonsaponatime

6:00 Routes Suite

* Al Qahwa ~ Interview with Maryem Tollar & Ernie Tollar / Marrakesh NEW Single / The Rain / Spoil Me With Flower Petals ~ African Routes

http://alqahwa.ca/

6:30 Man-To-Man Manteca Talk

*Manteca ~ Never Twelve / Interview with Matt Zimbel / Lowdown / Illusionist ~ The Twelfth Of Never NEW RELEASE

https://manteca-music.com/

*Nastasia Y. & DoVira ~ Back To  Water ~ iii EP NEW RELEASE

https://li.sten.to/dovira

Transportative Tunes From African Routes To The Twelfth Of Never

 PLUS:

New Music 

from

Trevor Sloan

Adrian Mottram

Chin Injeti

Howard Gladstone

and

Ryan Hillier

Radio Regent 5-7pm Friday 9 October 

 Blues & Roots Radio  9pm Tuesday 13 October 

& Wednesday 14 October midnight

Playlist For Corby's Orbit Show with Rebecca Binnendyk, Birds Of Bellwoods & Friendlyness Re-broadcast From March 2016

 

Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby

( Brought To You by Rave Waves, Glee Beams and Ecstatic Static)

Guests: Friendlyness from The Human Rights, Rebecca Binnendyk, and Birds Of Bellwoods

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

Canadians in Asterisk’d RED. 

5:00 Extra Seasonal Perceptions

Bonnie Raitt feat. Jon Cleary ~ I'm In Love Again  / All By Myself  ~ Going Home : A Tribute To Fats Domino 

Judy Collins ~ Night Comes On ~ ...Sings Leonard Cohen

Carole King ~ Peace In The Valley ~ Rhymes & Reasons ~ Tribute To Carole King 

Neema ~ Come ~ Painting My Wall Gold

Frank Turner ~ The Opening Act Of Spring ~ Positive Songs For Negative People 

Bossacucanova feat. Cris Delanno ~ Aguas De Marco ~ Una Batide Diferente

5:25 Conquering Concepts

* The Human Rights ~ Moments / You Think It Easy / Interview with Friendlyness ~ The Human Rights 

* Melanie Peterson ~ Truth Talkin' ~ Anywhere From Here 

Drink Small ~ Widow Woman ~ Spirit Blues

5:45 Funz Never Done

* Rebecca Binnendyk ~ You Give Love A Bad Name / Interview / Some Fun Out Of Life 

* Mike Janzen ~ Time Painting ~ Nudging Forever 

6:00 Close Encounter of the Birds Kind

Birds Of Bellwoods  (Stevie Joffe, Chris Blades, Adrian Morningstar, Kintaro Akiyama) ~ Grey Ghosts / Interview / Melatonin (live) / My Heart Is Yours (live) 

Jayme Stone's Lomax Project ~ Lambs On The Green Hills 

6:30 Raucous Caucuses

Peter Paul & Mary ~ Too Much Of Nothin' ~ The Very Best Of PP&M

Lake Street Dive ~ Close to Me ~ Side Pony 

Captain Luke ~ Poke Salad Annie ~ Spirit Blues

* BadBadNotGood ~ Kaleidoscope ~ III 

Novalima ~ Aye Bembe ~ Afro

David Bowie ~ Let's Dance (solo vocal)

Corby's Orbit Show On Break for 2 October 2020 With An Archive Show from 11 March 2016 with Rebecca Binnendyk, Birds Of Bellwoods & Friendlyness Instead

 

Pursuing The Conundrum Further

 

Ten years ago, a rejected gallery proposal involving a flaming canoe sparked some last-minute inspiration. With a canoe at hand, my buddy, artist David Hynes, found himself facing a creative conundrum. In a eureka moment, he considered that the word “conundrum” = “canoe + drum,” and in an instant, a unique Canadian instrument was conceived, replacing a doomed installation with a fresh look at art, music, linguistics, culture and the humble pun. He painstakingly stretched three stitched cowhides over the 12 foot cedar-strip canoe, and his art piece, the Conundrum, manifested itself upon the earth.

Producing a thunderously deep (21Hz) ringing roar, its debut on Good Friday 2010 at La Petit Mort Gallery in Ottawa drew immediate attention from art fans, musicians, neighbours, and eventually, the cops. The power of its low frequency vibration penetrates buildings, bodies and imaginations with equal impunity. When played, often by groups of a dozen or more, it ingests energies from people of every race and age, and provides a unified portal to inner rhythmic resonances that can be physically and spiritually overwhelming.

Some of the people who have been caught up in its magnetic field include Santana’s Raul Rekow and Dennis Chambers, Toronto reggae stars Jay Douglas (top right) and The House of David Gang, and jazz biggies Jeremy Ledbetter and Jane Bunnett’s Maqueque.

Since then, David has “followed the drum” to the 2017 Sesquicentennial at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto, the Maritimes, Quèbec City, the Figment Festival in New York Harbour (Brooklyn was particularly delighted with it) and the Muhtadi International Drum Festival in Toronto. The Conundrum has also been invited to innumerable powwows and First Nations events. The First Nations community has been particularly inspired by Dave’s creation. At its first powwow, an elder named it the grandfather drum. He said, “When it speaks, everyone must listen.”

Suddenly in 2020, the world went retrograde, and the drum fell silent. With a shortfall of engagements, Dave and I resolved to take it on its first trip to Manitoulin Island for a week in August.

This meant strictly outdoor appearances in vividly isolated parks and campgrounds, the constant sanitizing of drumsticks, limited player groups, and a serious ban on chanting. We traveled to the north, south, west and east ends of the island on consecutive days, creating mini-events and strong connections wherever we unpacked it.

Only at the wonderful Debajehmejig Creation Center in Manitowaning, where another magnificent canoe was already on display (above), did we find a venue with some possible indoor showcase potential, but the timing will have to be decided in the future. Over on the far northeastern shore of Wiikwemkoong, in the unceded eastern territory, we saw a new powwow center being built, but as with everywhere in the world, the social culture on the island is awaiting, and actively preparing for, a reawakening.

We hope that our quick visit provided a memory and a harbinger, on a small scale, of the crowded unity of communal joy and the escape offered by the living power of music and rhythm. The absence of that power in our nowadays lives is truly a conundrum.

YouTube Link to: Conundrumming

               First published at ROOTS MUSIC CANADA

Playlist for Corby`s Orbit New / Used Show of 25 September 2020 with Julie Leahy, Deniele Bassels and Susan Aglukark

 

Illustration:  “Swimmers” Artist: Yuko Shimizu

Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby 

( Brought to you by Vernacular Binoculars, Patio Patois and Slang Freud )

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. 

Click on photos to enlarge.

5:00 Rippin` and Riffin`

*Mark Ripp  ~ Old Mike Pence  ~ The Melanias  NEW RELEASE

*Leahy  ~ Interview with Julie Leahy / Good Water NEW RELEASE

*Ofra Harnoy feat. Alan Doyle  ~ Ron Hynes` The St. John`s Waltz  ~ On The Rock NEW RELEASE

*Reza Manbachi & Najva Ensemble  ~ Whirling In Love / Introduction Poem  ~ Passing Through The Dark NEW RELEASE

 5:40 Fresh Bassels (Vintage show from 3 Feb. 2017)

* Denielle Bassels ~ What About Wool Wishbags / Interview / Silly Lion (Live) / We Smile (Live) feat. Jacob Gorzhaltsan, Nathan Hiltz, Scott Hunter ~ What About Wool Wishbags

 6:00 Song Times Coming

* Ben Sures ~ Everybody Matters ~ Gone To Bolivia 

* Retrocity ~ Rise  Up / At The Feet Of The Moon ~ Mixtape 

* Alejandra Ribera ~ Higher ~ This Island 

* Rose Cousins ~ White Flag ~ Natural Conclusion 

6:20 Polar Passion 

* Susan Aglukark ~ As Only A Heart Would Dare ~ Blood Red Earth / Suongan ~ Big Feeling / Interview / Where Do We Go From Here? ~ White Sahara 

6:35 New Disk Colony

* Kayla Luky ~ Bottom Of The Bottle ~ Back To Dirt

* Beyreis ~ The Pursuit Of Happiness ~ Landing 

* Lisa Marie Kruchak ~ Had To Lie ~ Miles Of Prairie 

6:45 Owen Sound

Judith Owen & Leland Sklar~ Somebody's Child Rest of interview n/a, unfortunately.

*The Be Good Tanyas ~ Neil Young`s For The Turnstiles ~ Hello Love

*Laila Biali ~ Leonard Cohen`s Anthem ~ NEW RELEASE

Featuring Music From The Past, The Present, and The Future with Leahy, Denielle Bassels, Susan Aglukark, Judith Owen and Leland Sklar