Rolling Back The Rock

Illustration by David Hynes

There will be no Easter weekend Orbit again this year.

In its place may I suggest watching this. Subtitled from the Italian.

Gorgeous music, thoughtful direction and script straight from The Bible. Jesus - phobes be aware: the director, Pasolini,  was a gay atheist and the lack of sycophancy just magnifies the message.

The Flight Fantastic

Special Jam for Good Thursday in Regent Park

Playlist for show of Friday, 22 March 2013

Guest:  Larry Graves of Drumhand

( brought to you by Canadian Schmoozic & The Genre du Jour vs. Unaffected Affections) 5-7 p.m. online http://www.radioregent.com/ and at tunein.ca .  Canadians in Asterisk’d RED.

Videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/CorbysOrbit?feature=mhee

5:00  Winning Constellations

*Nuela Charles ~ The Good Ones ~Aware @The Gladstone Hotel tonight CMF

Emeli Sandé ~ Wonder ~ Our Version Of Events

*The Matinee ~ The Sinking Of The Greenhill Park ~ @ The Supermarket Tonight @ The Horseshoe Wednesday CMF

*Aidan Knight ~ A  Mirror ~ Small Reveal @ The Horseshoe Saturday CMF

*Ron Sexsmith ~ Snake Road @ Randolph Theatre tonight CMF

5:20  Applause-able Arguments

*Pocket Dwellers ~ Critical Acclaim ~ @ The Piston tonight

*Imaginary Cities ~ Ride This Out ~ @ Lee’s Palace tonight CMF

*Cold Specks ~ The Mark ~@Kool Haus tonight CMF

*Adaline ~ The Spark ~@Velvet Underground tonight CMF

Apparat Organ Ensemble ~ Polýnésia ~ @ The Drake Underground tonight CMF

*Elephant Stone ~ The Sacred Sound  CMF

5:45  Plunk Of The Tongue. & Lilt Of The Drum

Rodney Crowell ~ Moving Work Of Art ~@Massey Hall tonight

M. Ni Mhaonaigh & F. Kennedy ~ Cin No gCumann

*Drumhand ~ The Arrival @ Gerrard Artspace  tomorrow / Interview with Larry Graves

6:00  Earth Tone Poems

Kurt Elling ~ Walt Whitman’s “A Child Said What Is The Grass?” @ Living Arts Center tonight

Massive Attack feat. Horace Andy ~ Hymn Of The Big Wheel (Earth Day tomorrow)

*Michelle McAdorey ~ Leave The Main Road  CMF

*Jordan McIntosh ~ Walk Away CMF

*Jordan Klassen ~ I Am A Collector ~@El Mocambo tonight CMF

*Sarah MacDougall ~ The Greatest Ones Alive ~@ The Cameron tonight CMF

*Lily Frost ~ Secrets ~@Painted Lady Thursday, 28 March

6:45  Toronto Musical Astro-Disiacs dispensed over T.S. Monk’s “Ugly Beauty”

*The Crooked Brothers ~ Another Sun :

“I got everything / I got everything /

I got everything I could use / I got funk I got country I got Rhythm and Booze

I got this crooked little heart / I got this thing for you /  I’ve got this little trick I’ve been dying to do.”

Sarah MacDougall Between Scenes At Canadian Music Week

A live entre'acte Face To Face with one of the most astute and engaging singer-songwriters in the cosmos as she slingshots into Orbit Friday, near the top of the show (between 5:00 and 5:30).

Known for her balladeering from Moose Jaw to Moosonee and on to Ri-moose-ki, Sarah's The Greatest Ones Alive was one of our favourite releases of last year, much played and discussed: http://www.rootsmusic.ca/2011/08/30/getting-to-know-sarah-macdougall/

Be so listening!

Playlist for show of Friday, 15 March 2013

 Host: Paul Corby

( decreed to you by Polemics, Palavers & Pontiff-ications ) 5-7 p.m. online http://www.radioregent.com/ and at tunein.ca .  Canadians in Asterisk’d RED.

Videos athttp://www.youtube.com/user/CorbysOrbit?feature=mhee

5:00  Shoot To Thrill

*Jean Paul De Roover ~ Clarity ~ Complexity In Simplicity

* J/P/ Hoe ~ Conversation ~ Mannequin

*Jon McKiel ~ Death Van ~ @ Tranzac 7:30 Saturday

* John Antoniuk ~ The Secret ~ Always With Me

5:20     Spring Excursions

*The Jessica Stuart Few ~ Intone ~ Two Sides To Every Story CD Release tonight at The Cameron House

*Suzana D’Amour ~ Exchange Your Heart With Me @ The Courthouse Tuesday 19 MarchCMF

Efterklang ~ Polygyne @ The Mod Club Thursday, 21 March  CMF

Nick Cave & The Flaming Lips ~ You, Man? Human? Next Saturday @ Massey Hall, 23 March CMF

5:40   Igneous Comments From  A Magmatic Agenda

The Danks ~ Sold Me Out @ The Silver Dollar Wednesday 20 March CMF

*Wool On Wolves ~ Unsuspecting Ways ~ @ The Tranzac  Wednesday 20 March CMF

Biffy Clyro ~ Biblical ~ Opposites

*Kevin Briet & The Upper York Mandolin Orchestra feat. Sue Patrick Briet ~ Nothing About Us ~ Field Recording

6:00  A Lonely Lokembe

*King Achilla- Orru Apaa-Idomo ( b. Uganda, 1960 – d. Toronto, 3 February 2013 ) ~ Dongo Lobo ~ Sacred Gift

Orchestra Super Mazembe ~ Malaba D’Amour (Buddy Holly’s Words Of Love) ~ Kaivaska

Beautiful Nubia ~ Masters Of The Earth ~ Oriojori ~ Eternal Spirits

6:15  Conviction Currents

The Hombres ~ Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)

*Ron Hynes ~ Cryer’s Paradise

*Jay Aymar ~ Your Precious War ~ Overtime

*Michael Jerome Browne ~ G20 Rag ~ The Road Is Dark

*24^th Street Wailers ~ The Pleasure’s All Mine @ Aron Cinema, Campbellford tonight

Robben Ford & The Blue Line ~ Misdirected Blues ~ Mystic Mile

Le Double Six ~ Boo’s Blues by Quincy Jones (born March 14, 1933)

6:45  Impactful Guidance Strategies

Russell Malone & Band ~ Yeah Man~ / Froggy Bottom from Kansas City sdtrk. adorned with signal flags for safe Toronto musical landings in the upcoming week

*Tom Eastland ~ I Walk Through ~ Saving Graces

Playlist for Corby’s Orbit on Radio Regent, Extra-Spatial International Women's Day show of Friday, March the eighth, 2013

Guests:  Christa Couture (& Forest)

 ( brought to you by Soul-ebrations, XL-tations, and Toronts-formations)

5-7 p.m. online http://www.radioregent.com/ and at tunein.ca .  Canadians in Asterisk’d RED.

Videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/CorbysOrbit?feature=mhee

5:00  Femininjas

Pheobe Snow ~ Best Of My Love ~ Something Real

Jhelisa ~ That’s Bullshit Woody ~ Electric Language

*Lillian Allen ~ Freedom And Dance ~ Freedom & Dance!

Rory Block ~ Samson & Delilah ~ I Belong To The Band

*Tanika Charles ~ Dancin’ With Your Ghost ~ @ The Rivoli, Wednesday 13 March

5:30  Contributaries

Brett Dennen ~ Because You Are A Woman ~ So Much More

*The Matinee ~ Let Her Go ~ @ The Supermarket Friday 22 March for CMW

Tame Impala ~ Apocalypse Dreams ~ @ Koolhaus Saturday

Soulfly ~ In Memory Of…~ @ Virgin Mobile Mod Club tonight

                                                                                                      Art by Pavel Guzenko

5:45  To Face The Road Alone…

*** Stompin’ Tom Connors (February 9, 1936 – March 6, 2013) ~ The Ballad of Stompin’ Tom

*Matt Patershuk & The Dirty Plaid Orchestra ~ First Snow ~ Outside The Lights Of Town

6:00  Christa Redentor

*Christa Couture ~ Sing For Me / Interview / Hopeless Situation / Good Bayou @ La Revoluçion Saturday

6:20 Estro Regenerations

Skeeter Davis ~ Am I That Easy To Forget? ~ The End Of The World

*Jenn Grant ~ Getcha Good ~ Winner: “Pop Recording Of The Year” @ ECMA’s, for The Beautiful Wild

*Kim Wempe ~ The Only One ~ Coalition

Devon Sproule ~ Mary Margaret O’Hara’s Body’s In Trouble ~ I Love You, Go Easy

*Tannis Slimmon ~ Perfect ~ @ Hugh’s Room Wednesday 13 March

6:45  Telepathy From The Future

Matthew Shipp (@ Lula Lounge with his trio Sunday) The Root / Toronto music pilgrimages divined over The Key  

Peter Tosh ~ Come Together ~ No Nuclear War

Music and Words Marching Together and Alone

Playlist for show of Friday, March the first, 2013

Guests:  Ambre McLean & Tara Holloway

 ( brought to you by March Heirs, Troop Justice, and The American Weight)

5-7 p.m. online http://www.radioregent.com/ and at tunein.ca .  Canadians in Asterisk’d RED.

Videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/CorbysOrbit?feature=mhee

5:05  Rockin’ The Granite Planet

George Harrison (b. 25 Feb. 1943) feat. Eric Clapton ~ Something ~ Live In Japan

The Zombies ~   If It Don’t Work Out ~ @ The Sound Academy Sunday

Ra Ra Riot ~Dance With Me @ Lee’s Palace Wed. 6 March

5:20  With Love, Time Dissolves

The Temptations ~ Papa Was A Rolling Stone (Jazzy Jeff& Pete Kozma Soleful Remix) feat. Damon Harris (17 July 1950-18 Feb. 2013) and Richard Street (5 October 1942- 27 Feb. 2013)

Dewayne Woods ~ Good Times ~ My Life’s Lyric

Erykah Badu ~ 4 Leaf Clover ~ Baduizm is being performed in its entirety @ Koolhaus Tues. 5 March

5:40  Arts of Work

Vieux Farka Touré ~ Fafa ~ Good-bye African Heritage month

Jesse Dee ~ On My Mind & In My Heart ~ @ The Horseshoe Monday March 4 (solo) with The James Hunter Six

James Hall ~ Illingness

*Tara Holloway ~ East Side Story ~ @ The Tranzac Saturday (7:30-9:30) Whirlwind Tour

*Ambre McLean ~ Fast Feet / Interview with Ambre &Tara / When Is That Day Gonna Come? @ The Tranzac Saturday (7:30-9:30) Whirlwind Tour

 6:15  Aloft Weekend

*Daniel Romano ~ He Lets Her Memory Go @ Massey Hall w. Whitehorse Saturday 8 p.m.

* The Rattlesnake Choir ~ Carousel @ The Cameron House Saturday 6 p.m.

*Jenny Allen ~ Bigger Fish ~ Blanket

*Sara Johnston ~ Missing You

*Joni Mitchell~ If ~ Shine Tribute To Joni Mitchell @ Hugh’s Room Saturday

6:40  Mingus Finger Tingles Linger

Charles Mingus ~ Song With Orange ~ The Toronto Mingus Collective @ The Tranzac tonight 7:30

Toronto Music listings descanted over Gunslinger Bird by Charles Mingus (Mingus Dynasty)

6:50    A History Of Violins  

The Chair ~ Humours ~ The Road To Hammer Junkie

*The Métis Fiddler Quartet ~ Teardrop Waltz @ The Underground Restaurant / York University on Saturday 7 p.m. and @ The Gladstone 13 March for The Toronto Aboriginal Business Awards
Ben Harper ~ She’s Only Happy In The Sun ~ @ The Danforth Music Hall tonight with Charlie Musselwhite