Corby's Orbit: June 2016

Thursday, June 30, 2016

Canada Day Dazzle: Forest, Goat, Dubzz and Toth

In Canada we always like to have some wilderness in our music, and the songs of Lake Forest have all the tranquility and foreboding that chilly mist and sunshine can provide.

Secret identity spoiler: Will Whitwham of “The Wilderness of Manitoba” opens the Orbit to his sylvan aspects at 5:30 this Friday with performance and chat along with Tom Bona, whom Will will join at Burdock on Friday, July 8 for a Soulstack show.
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From acoustic power trio Ten Strings And A Goat Skin comes the celebratory verve and the cumulative effects of P.E.I. soil and hot stoves. They will be calling in a report at 5:45 from the beginning of their summer tour supporting their fierce new disc Auprès du Poêle . The full story arrives at Hugh`s Room on Thursday 7 July and continues at 2016`s Mariposa Folk Festival July 9-10.

We grow a lot of free-range poetry up here in Canada and a well-curated show of some of our best verse-croppers is happening at the Free Times Cafe next weekend. Two of our most bountifully lyrical performers,

Carmen Toth and Clifton Joseph,

will be up in the Orbit after 6:00 to discuss and display a bit of the power of the word.

Word.

Saturday, June 25, 2016

Playlist For Show Of 24 June

Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby

( Brought To You by Subverticals, Mirrorzontals & Diagnosticals )

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

Canadians in Asterisk’d RED.

5:00 Feminine Eminence

Oh Pep! ~ Crazy Feels / Tea Milk & Honey ~ Stadium Cake NEW DISK ~ @ The Drake tonight

* West My Friend ~ Go Straightaway ~ Quiet Hum NEW DISK

Beth Orton ~ 1973 ~ Kidsticks NEW DISK

* Chloe Charles ~ Little Regret ~ With Blindfolds On NEW DISK

Jefferson Starship ~ Women Who Fly ~ Miracles Live

5:30 Cruel Britannia

Brian Auger's Oblivion Express ~ Trouble Man ~ Looking In The Eye Of The World

Chick Corea ~ El Stephen ~ The Ultimate Adventure ~ @ The Phoenix Wednesday 29 June TD JAZZ

Jimi Hendrix Experience ~ Bob Dylan`s Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? ~ BBC Sessions

Lee Fields & The Expressions ~ Jagger / Richards` Moonlight Mile ~ Faithful Man ~ @ Nathan Philips Square Sunday 8:30 TD JAZZ

5:45 Rainbow Ions

* Exco Levi ~ Natty Haffi Long ~ Country Man ~ @ Yonge Dundas Square tonight 8:00 (Photo by Lauren Speers D.J. Chocolate)

Gregory Isaacs ~ Bits & Pieces ~ Private Beach Party

* Turbo Street Funk ~ If I Think Twice ~ Momentum NEW DISK ~ @ Koerner Hall Wide Open House Sunday and @ The Horseshoe Wednesday 6 July

* The Roger Chong Quartet ~ Dirty Dogs ~ Funkalicious NEW DISK

6:00 Jump Pumps

Texas Johnny Brown ~ Bongo Boogie ~ Atlantic Blues: Guitar

* David Vest ~ Come Back To Bed ~ Devestatin` Rhythm NEW DISK

Cornell Dupree ~ Gatemouth Brown`s Okie Dokie Stomp ~ Atlantic Blues: Guitar

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings ~ Pick It Up And Lay It In The Cut ~ Dap Dippin` ~ @ Nathan Philips Square Saturday 8:30 TD JAZZ

The Bad Plus ~ Kurt Cobain`s Smells Like Teen Spirit ~ These Are The Vistas ~ K.C. Roberts & The Live Revolution Tribute to Nirvana @ The Horseshoe tonight

6:30 Inexorable Excellence

Ralph Stanley (February 25, 1927 – June 23, 2016) & The Clinch Mountain Boys ~ In Heaven We Shall Never Grow Old ~

* Slocan Ramblers ~ Roy Acuff`s Streamline Cannonball ~ Coffee Creek ~ Distillery District 3 p.m. Saturday

* Jason Wilson & Dave Swarbrick (5 April 1941 – 3 June 2016) ~ Sail On ~ Lion Rampant

* Mike Murley & Phil Dwyer ~ My Favourite Things ~ Sax Summit ~ Phil Dwyer @ Jazz Bistro Sunday / Mike Murley @ The Rex Saturday

* Russ Little ~ Friday Night At the Cadillac Club ~ On The Shoulders Of Giants ~ @ The Old Mill June 24 & 25 and July 1 & 2 + Toronto Music Listings

Ralph Stanley & Bob Dylan ~ The Lonesome River

Thursday, June 23, 2016

North By North Easy ~ Through the Lens Tuesday and Wednesday Nights

Romantic Dogs running free at the Rivoli reboot.

Putting the 'partee' back in Repartee, Newfoundland's Meg Warren and crew blew the Rivoli up to full capacity with a display of vocal sharpshooting and tight rhythmic expertise.

Backstage, Jose Contreras, head arbiter of By Divine Right argues the pros and cons of new electric versus old steam radiators at the Rivoli's revamp, with Romantic Dog drummer Kyle Sullivan (right) retaining a healthy skepticism.

Grand Mistress of Toronto Soul Rock, Saidah Baba Talibah whose power to SATE, suffice and satisfy is one of the true natural wonders of the local galaxies ruled the Bovine Sex Club on Thursday night. She takes no prisoners, else I'd be so gonzoid.

Bravestation proved their courage by facing down a small crowd in the opening slot of Rivoli Redux night with impassioned love songs and grooves of brooding magnificence.

Veins' goddess-powered pulsations of heartsong and guitar wound the crowd up in vortexes of silk and sulphur. Bass player (left) garners extra points by stringing a Fender Jaguar with bass strings whaaaaaa...

Heaven's Muse debuted a fresh sound of soft funk and flirt-rock.

And if you had a bro beard, a tattooed calf or two and a ball-cap, you were in the right place at The Silver Dollar as Shy Kids goofed and groped and gagged out top laughs while their blustering game plan unfolded with supreme musicality.

Monday, June 20, 2016

It's About That Time

Happy Summer Solstice 2016

Saturday, June 18, 2016

Playlist For Show Of 17 June

Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby

( Brought To You by Busker Rhymes, Expatriates' Expertise, and Indiscriminate Discrimination )

Guests: Sue & Dwight and Vince Fontaine of Indian City

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

Podcast here (some distortion, sorry) https://www.mixcloud.com/paul-corby/corbys-orbit-sue-and-dwight-17-june-2016-some-distortion/?play=fb&fb_action_ids=10154146438091291&fb_action_types=mixcloud%3Aupload

Canadians in Asterisk’d RED.

5:00 Orlando Furioso

Souzy Kasseya (Zaire) ~ Mr. Simon ~ Go South (Rough Trade 1979)

The Beat feat. Ranking Roger ~ Walking On The Wrong Side ~ Bounce NEW DISK (pre-release)

:* Rae Spoon ~ Armour ~ Armour ~ @ The Tranzac Thursday, 23 June

Mali Music ~ I Believe ~ WOW Gospel 2015 ~ @ The Rivoli Tuesday 21 June

Aretha Franklin ~ Wholly Holy ~ Amazing Grace

* Shad feat. Bernadette Kabango ~ I'll Never Understand ~ When This Is Over ~ @ Mod Club Friday 24 June

* Maria Dunn ~ How I Live ~ Gathering NEW DISK

5:30 Garden Of Earthly Rewrites

Paul Simon ~ Rewrite ~ So Beautiful Or So What ~ @ Sony Center Tuesday 21 June

* Jason Wilson ~ Jellyby ~ Perennials NEW DISK ~ NXNE @ Kitchener City Hall Saturday 8 p.m. Free

* Heaven's Muse ~ Fallen Once Again ~ The Fire In Eden NEW DISK NXNE

* Repartee ~ Electric Every Day ~ All lit Up NEW DISK NXNE

* Adam Baldwin ~ Sparrow Song ~ No Telling When ~ @ Lee's Palace Saturday NEW DISK NXNE

6:00 Momentary Orientation

* Sue & Dwight ~ For A Moment / Interview / Suddenly Invisible (live) / Uncle Joe (live) ~ For A Moment NEW DISK ~ CD Release @ The Tranzac Saturday

Luther Allison ~ When Will It Ever Change? ~ Alligator's 45th Anniversary Collection NEW DISK

6:30 Rolling Rippling Ripening Unravelling

* Indian City ~ I Am Special / Dance 2 / Colors / Interview with Vince Fontaine ~ Indian City @ Fort York Saturday 8 p.m. for Indigenous Arts Festival @ Fort York http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=549cf6088a9c4510VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD&vgnextchannel=d4ef31608ffb4510VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD