Great Canadian Records Fresh Out Of The Gate. And Ray Charles Too.

 

Stars From The Far Reaches Of Musical Space

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Orbital Circuit Reloads Crucial Broadcast

  

Original illustration by Kavus Totabi 

 Commissioner of Selection - Paul Corby

( Brought to you by Static Eccentric City, A Certain Battery and Extension Chords)

Podcast available RIGHT HERE

Canadian Artists in Asterisk'd RED

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5:00 Arrow Releasing & Archival Diving

* Emily Burgess ~ So Easily / To The River ~ Arrow ~ NEW RELEASE OUT TODAY

* Garnetta Cromwell ~ Woman's World ~ Time To Shine ~ @ Hugh's Room Live Saturday 13 January for January Blues with Quisha Wint

* Fred Eaglesmith & the Flying Squirrels ~ My Last Six Dollars ~ From The Paradise Motel (1994)

* Freddie Stone ~ In Season ~ In Season (1986)

* Nash The Slash ~ I'll Wait For You ~ Thrash (1994)

* The Pining ~ About The Truth ~ The Pining (2011)

5:40 Emphatic Radiance

* Reggadiction feat. Gisto ~ Talk ~ NEW RELEASE

Sarah Jarosz ~ Days Can Turn Around ~ NEW RELEASE

* Elizabeth Shepherd Trio ~ If This Ain't Love ~ Ste-Germain-Des-Prés Café #10 (2008)

Nation Of Language ~ Sightseer ~ NEW RELEASE

* Buckaroooo ~ Picturesque ~ NEW RELEASE

Smallgod and Black Sherrif ~ Fallen Angel ~ NEW RELEASE

Moa Vive feat. Geronimo Santana ~ Presente De Oxum ~ Tropical Party ~ NEW RELEASE OUT TODAY

* Nicole Schrire ~ Closer To The Source ~ Nowhere Girl 

* David Myles ~ Break Free ~ Devil Talking ~ NEW RELEASE OUT TODAY

6:10 Burgeoning Urges

 * Baker's Doz'n ~ Lesson # 1 ~ NEW RELEASE

Baskery ~ Way With Lovers ~ End Of The Bloodline ~NEW RELEASE

* Moira And Claire ~ Mundane ~ NEW RELEASE

* Kinley ~ Drift ~ NEW RELEASE

* Brett Matthews & Classified ~  If I Die Today ~ NEW RELEASE

* Cam Hollohan ~ The Final Blow ~ NEW RELEASE

* Barbra Lica ~ Forty Years ~ Impostor Syndrome ~ @ Tranzac Saturday 20 January with Jessica Stuart for "Songwriters' Monthly JS Presents! at the TRANZAC" 5-7 p.m. PWYC

* Mike Cowie ~ City Light ~ Lucid Blue (2004)

Muireann Bradley ~ I Can't Be Satisfied ~ Live on Irish Radio

* Mary Beth Carty ~ Oran Boisdale (Fail ì Fail ò) ~ Crossing The Causeway 

6:50 Deep Steps

Phoebe Bridgers & Jackson Browne with Phillip Glass and The Scorchio Quartet ~ Kyoto ~ NEW RELEASE

* Nyashane ~ Barefoot Love ~ Barefoot Love EP ~ NEW RELEASE

* Echoes Of... with Naja P & Mayzez ~ Shine Your Light ~ NEW RELEASE

Extra Opportunity To Listen Up This Friday

 

Illustration: Kavus Torabi

Playlist For Corby's Orbit Show Of 19 January 2024

  

Commissioner of Selection - Paul Corby

( Brought to you by Frozen Salad, Refridger Nation and Ice Wide Shut)

Podcast available RIGHT HERE

Canadian Artists in Asterisk'd RED

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5:00 Magma Flowers

* Kaia Kater ~ The Internet ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Pony Girl ~ Laura ~ @Wintersong Festival Stouffville Today

* Hotel Mira ~ Alone In America ~ I Am Not Myself ~ NEW RELEASE  In T.O. Feb. 15 Axis Club

* Fake Shark ~ Want Me ~ 

* Michael Terrance ~ Summertones ~ Underneath Everything

Wishy ~ Spinning ~ Paradise 

* Corb Lund ~ Old Familiar Drunken Feeling ~ El Viejo ~

PRE RELEASE 23 February

* Teagan Littlechief ~ Need You To Go ~ Need You To Go ~  

* Cinzia & The Eclipse ~ Back To Being Friends ~ @Wintersong Festival Stouffville

5:35 Silent As The Moon

* Kristin Lindell ~ Embers ~ River Of Light NEW RELEASE 

~ @ The Cameron House Thursday 25 January

* Sohayla Smith ~ You Are Enough ~ NEW RELEASE

Willow Avalon ~ Honey Ain't No Sweeter ~ NEW RELEASE

Dianne Reeves ~ I Remember ~ Bridges ~ (1999)

* Annie Gallup ~ Run For Me ~ Did You Hear the Red-Winged Blackbird ~ PRE RELEASE

* Martina Dasilva & Caity Gyorgy ~ You're The Top ~  NEW RELEASE

Herbie Hancock with Wah Wah Watson & Bennie Maupin ~ Hang Up Your Hangups ~ Live 1976

6:15 Open Up The Skylight

* Isabel Fryszberg Intro / Distance (Isabel & The Uncommons) ~ @ https://www.acousticharvest.ca/ Saturday 20 January

* Shawna Caspi ~ Leaving Came Easy ~ Hurricane Coming ~ @ Acoustic Harvest Saturday 20 January

* Jordan Klassen ~ Overstep ~ Marginalia ~  PRE RELEASE

* Jules ~ Judy ~ NEW RELEASE

* David Vertesi & Jill Barber ~ Mind Reader ~ Fictionalized ~ PRE RELEASE 27 February 

* Will Régnier ~ Whereto? ~ Traces ~ PRE RELEASE 16 February

* Clever Hopes ~ Intro by Andrew Shaver / Blue Parachutes ~ PRE RELEASE 26 January ~ New Kind Of Familiar ~ PRE RELEASE 3 May

* Barbra Lica ~ Lovefool ~ @

"Jessica Stuart's TRANZAC Songwriters' Monthly, JS Presents! #45 " Saturday 5-7 p.m.

6:45 Variegated Community

Jhené Aiko ~ Son / Sun ~ NEW RELEASE

serpentwithfeet ~ Safe Word ~ NEW RELEASE

Damian Marley ~ George Harrison's My Sweet Lord ~ NEW RELEASE

* Kristine Schmitt ~ Cookin' Up Trouble ~ Good Dirt ~ (2016)

Caspi & Fryszberg In Orbit Friday and In Scarborough Saturday

 

New Music From Kristin Lindell & Jesse Whiteley In Orbit This Friday

 

Stratospherical Musicality Free From Gravity Friday At Five

 

Canadian Songwriters T-Shirt

 

Playlist For Corby's Orbit Show of 12 January 2024

 

Linocut by Valdis Baskirovs

 Commissioner of Selection - Paul Corby

( Brought to you by Static Eccentric City, A Certain Battery and Extension Chords)

Podcast available RIGHT HERE

Canadian Artists in Asterisk'd RED

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5:00 Arrow Releasing & Archival Diving

* Emily Burgess ~ So Easily / To The River ~ Arrow ~ NEW RELEASE OUT TODAY

* Garnetta Cromwell ~ Woman's World ~ Time To Shine ~ @ Hugh's Room Live Saturday 13 January for January Blues with Quisha Wint

* Fred Eaglesmith & the Flying Squirrels ~ My Last Six Dollars ~ From The Paradise Motel (1994)

* Freddie Stone ~ In Season ~ In Season (1986)

* Nash The Slash ~ I'll Wait For You ~ Thrash (1994)

* The Pining ~ About The Truth ~ The Pining (2011)

5:40 Emphatic Radiance

* Reggadiction feat. Gisto ~ Talk ~ NEW RELEASE

Sarah Jarosz ~ Days Can Turn Around ~ NEW RELEASE

* Elizabeth Shepherd Trio ~ If This Ain't Love ~ Ste-Germain-Des-Prés Café #10 (2008)

Nation Of Language ~ Sightseer ~ NEW RELEASE

* Buckaroooo ~ Picturesque ~ NEW RELEASE

Smallgod and Black Sherrif ~ Fallen Angel ~ NEW RELEASE

Moa Vive feat. Geronimo Santana ~ Presente De Oxum ~ Tropical Party ~ NEW RELEASE OUT TODAY

* Nicole Schrire ~ Closer To The Source ~ Nowhere Girl 

* David Myles ~ Break Free ~ Devil Talking ~ NEW RELEASE OUT TODAY

6:10 Burgeoning Urges

 * Baker's Doz'n ~ Lesson # 1 ~ NEW RELEASE

Baskery ~ Way With Lovers ~ End Of The Bloodline ~NEW RELEASE

* Moira And Claire ~ Mundane ~ NEW RELEASE

* Kinley ~ Drift ~ NEW RELEASE

* Brett Matthews & Classified ~  If I Die Today ~ NEW RELEASE

* Cam Hollohan ~ The Final Blow ~ NEW RELEASE

* Barbra Lica ~ Forty Years ~ Impostor Syndrome ~ @ Tranzac Saturday 20 January with Jessica Stuart for "Songwriters' Monthly JS Presents! at the TRANZAC" 5-7 p.m. PWYC

* Mike Cowie ~ City Light ~ Lucid Blue (2004)

Muireann Bradley ~ I Can't Be Satisfied ~ Live on Irish Radio

* Mary Beth Carty ~ Oran Boisdale (Fail ì Fail ò) ~ Crossing The Causeway 

6:50 Deep Steps

Phoebe Bridgers & Jackson Browne with Phillip Glass and The Scorchio Quartet ~ Kyoto ~ NEW RELEASE

* Nyashane ~ Barefoot Love ~ Barefoot Love EP ~ NEW RELEASE

* Echoes Of... with Naja P & Mayzez ~ Shine Your Light ~ NEW RELEASE

Canadian Music Rescue Mission This Friday

Original illustration by Appolonas Soban

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Scooping endangered Canadian songs from the past, featuring the Two Freds - Eaglesmith and Stone - The Pining, and Nash The Slash, and curating the best from the potential energies of present productions, including new David Myles, Emily Burgess, Barbra Lica, Echoes Of, Reggaddiction and many others too plentiful to list, not to mention crucial international releases by Baskery, Phoebe Bridgers with Jackson Browne and Phillip Glass and Sarah Jarosz and Muireann Bradley. You need to hear it to believe what 2024 is up to.

New Music In The Orbital Outlook

Original Illustration - Paul Klee, 'Winterbild' (Winter Picture), 1930

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Playlist For Corby's Orbit Show of 29 December 2023 and 5 January 2024 - Best Songs of 2023

 Commissioner of Selection - Paul Corby

 ( Brought to you by Available Fables, Eligible Legends & Palatable Reportage )

Podcast available RIGHT HERE

Canadian Artists in Asterisk'd RED

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5:00 Future Sky

* Aquakultre ~ Don't Trip ~

* Begonia ~ The Only One ~ Powder Blue

* Nia Nadurata ~ Carsick ~

* Jon Finley ~ Change ~

* Loryn Taggart ~ Tell Me How ~ The Lost Art Of Pulling Through

* Moira And Claire ~ Delaney's Dad ~

*  Teagan Littlechief ~ Shangri La ~

* Tara Kannangara - The Name Song ~

* POSTDATA ~ Look To The Stars ~ Run Wild

* Tami Neilsen feat. Willie Nelson ~ Beyond The Stars ~ 

* Ken Whiteley ~ There's A Candle ~ So Glad To Be Here ~

5:40 Top Scouts

illustration by Jeff Bourgeau

* Fresh Breath ~ Through My Window ~ Through My Window 

* Alex Hughes ~ Til This Fire Dies 

* Bill Garrett & Sue Lothrop with Shelley Posen ~ The Price Of Gasoline ~

* Just Kids ~ I Want to Believe ~ Photographs From A Past Life EP

* Christine Bougie ~ Soft Landing ~ Soft Start

* Zaac Pick ~ Light Under The Door ~ 

* PRIMO ~ QBTV ~ Prophecy 

Channel Trés ~  Walked In The Room ~

* Evangeline Gentle ~ Bad Kids ~ Where The Diamonds Are

* Eliana Cuevas ~ Seré Libre ~ Seré Libre

6:20 What If You Were Real

illustration by Lê Long

H.E.R. & Usher ~ Risk It All ~ The Colour Purple Sdtrk.

* Carly Rae Jepsen ~ After Last Night ~ The Loveliest Time

* Amy Rose ~ One Love ~

* The Memberz ~ What Ah Joy ~

* Laila Biali ~ Bye Bye Blackbird ~ Your Requests 

* Zoe Ackah ~ Cares And Woes ~ This Hen 

* Julian Taylor ~ Seeds ~

* Liam MacKenzie & The Moondogs ~ Circle Round The Sun ~

Ringo Starr ~ Rewind Forward ~ Rewind Forward EP