Playlist For Corby's Orbit Show Of 3 May 2024

 

Commissioner of Selection - Paul Corby

Podcast available Right Here

( Brought To You By Norm Sequitur, Frank Synopsis & The Beverley Hyperboles)

* Canadian Artists in Asterisk'd RED

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5:00 Tinsel & Frisbees

* Burnstick ~ Hands Tied ~ NEW RELEASE

* Jean-Pierre Ferland June 24, 1934 – April 27, 2024 ~ J'ai Pour Toi Un Lac ~ Chansons Jalouses

Fatoumata Diawara feat. Roberto Fonseca ~ Blues ~ NEW RELEASE

Amadou & Mariam ~ Mogolu ~ NEW RELEASE

* Kiesza ~ The Mysterious Disappearance Of Etta Place ~ NEW RELEASE 

 RIIZE ~ Boogeyman ~ NEW RELEASE

* Luka Kuplowsky & The Ryokan Band feat. Felicity Williams ~ How Can I Possibly Sleep When There Is Music?

* Michel DeQuevedo ~ Lo Que Eres ~ NEW RELEASE

* Honeybear ~ I Was Wrong ~ I Was Wrong EP ~ NEW RELEASE

5:35 Merillion Skies 

* Jed & The Valentine ~ Awake ~ Awake ~ NEW RELEASE 

* The Imagine If ~ Devil's Child ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Nicky MacKenzie ~ Morals ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Caribou ~ Honey ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Kari Van Der Kloot ~ Tiny Threads ~ Window ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Joel Plaskett ~ The New Joys ~ NEW RELEASE 

* The Wesleys ~ A Lot To Lose ~ The Wesleys ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Gathering Sparks ~ Feathers And Wings ~ All That's Real

6:10 The Spring Galaxies

Lizz Wright feat. Angelique Kidjo ~ Sparrow ~ Shadow ~ NEW RELEASE 

illustration by Kim Dorland 

Bruno Berle ~ Acorda E Vem ~ No Reino Dos Afetos ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Elliott Brood ~ Bluebird Wine ~ Country ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Julian Taylor ~ Weighing Down ~ Pathways ~ PRE-RELEASE 

Lindsey Stirling feat. Royal & The Serpent ~ Inner Gold ~ Duality ~ PRE-RELEASE 14 June

* Partynextdoor ~ For Certain (KDDO Mix) ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Ruth Moody ~ Already Free ~ Wanderer ~  PRE-RELEASE 17 May

6:35 Citizens Of The Stars 

* Old Man Luedecke ~ Dreadful Wind And Rain ~ PRE-RELEASE May 24 

 

* Boreal ~ Warm Hands ~ 

* Sherry Kean feat. Sherry Huffman & David Baxter ~ Diamonds And Pearls ~ People Talk (1987)

* David Gavan Baxter (November 5 1954 - November 9 2023 ) ~ Thank You Girl ~ Day And Age 

ODIE ~ Utopia ~ PRE-RELEASE

Omagh Community Youth Choir ~ Bob Dylan & U2's Love Rescue Me ~ Playing For Change 

First Annual Dub Poetry Day On Eglinton West

 

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In the intimate confines of Studio M, promoter Masani Montague's Eglinton West enclave, a gathering of Caribbean cultural caretakers convened on the last day of April to celebrate the seventh Poet Laureate of the City of Toronto, Dr. Lillian Allen.

Prominent guests such as singer Jay Douglas (right) and activist Dewitt Lee, chairman of The Poetic Justice Society, who organized this event, shared fond anecdotes of her legacy and her guidance with De Dub Poets, a trio of poetic outsiders who brought the spoken word to music venues in the late seventies and eighties, in Toronto and across Canada.

Along with playwright Devon Haughton and M.C. / raconteur Clifton Joseph, the three released an E.P. of their poetry accompanied by members of T.O.'s reggae community scions, Truths & Rights and Le Dub Sac in 1983.

Although it was refused recognition by the City of Toronto, Dub Poetry Day is meant to highlight the historical significance of Toronto's "Little Jamaica" neighbourhood in the international Dub Poetry movement that also emerged elsewhere, with Oku Onuwara

and Mutabaruka taking leadership roles in Jamaica along with Linton Kwesi Johnson and Benjamin Zephaniah in the U.K. Over the sound of dub, a unique and largely instrumental offshoot of reggae music, full of echo, reverb and mournful horns, poets began speaking out on behalf of the poor and downtrodden with an articulate vengeance.

Masani Montague and her daughter Jem (above)

At popular Queen Street clubs such as the Bamboo, The Cameron House and The Rivoli, and in basements and storefronts from Spadina to Scarborough, De Dub Poets, along with similarly-aligned artists, such as Ishaka, Ahdri Zhina Mandela and Donna Makeda, would evoke new ethical standards and call for action, often accompanied by live reggae from the bands that abounded in the city at that time.

As unified international resistance movements began to subside, and conscious rap music began to demand attention from the youth, the movement lost its media prominence. Lillian Allen won two Junos, Clifton Joseph became well-known on TVO and the CBC and for his audacious live hosting skills, and just recently released a collection of dub and jazz based poetry entitled Shots On Eglinton, while Devon Haughton has created a television series, Lufalo Rising, that is currently winning awards everywhere.

 To see them reunited - and still raging - at an event that promotes their well-considered history with a vanishing-but-still-vital art form reminds us that, as Dewitt Lee made us chant out loud, "Poetry is not a luxury, poetry is a necessity."

L. to R.: Elle de Lyon, Program Director of RISE Edutainment, Jay Douglas, Masani Montague, (?) Jill Andrew (NDP-Toronto-St. Paul's), Lillian Allen, Dewitt Lee (rear), Devon Haughton, Clifton Joseph, Jammal Augustine and DJ Mike Stoan with National Poetry Month Literacy Awards.

Listen Up - New Sounds - New Feelings

 

Another Archive Show This Friday - An Invasion Of Previously

 

Playlist For Corby's Orbit Show Of 26 April

 

Commissioner of Selection - Paul Corby

Podcast available Right Here

( Brought To You By Recycled Bicycles, Reduced Duesenbergs & Reused Utopias)

* Canadian Artists in Asterisk'd RED

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5:00 Pragmatic Fragments

* Matt Von ~ Still In My Heart ~ NEW RELEASE

Aleksi Glick feat. Laureanna & Eric Trudel ~ She Told Me ~ World Traveler ~ PRE-RELEASE May 10

Lake Street Dive ~ Better Not Tell You ~ Good Together ~ PRE-RELEASE 21 June

*  Dystoh ~ Come & Go ~ Heat Of The Times ~ NEW RELEASE @ 3030 Dundas Saturday 25 May

* Snotty Nose Rez Kids ~ Big Braid Energy ~ NEW RELEASE

5:20 Blindfold Halo

* Clever Hopes ~ Thrown It Open ~ NEW RELEASE

* Haley Blais ~ Somebody's Son ~ NEW RELEASE @ Lee's Palace Monday 8 April 

*Christina Smith ~ Half Past L8 ~ NEW RELEASE

* ASKO ~ nisis ~ NEW RELEASE

* David Francey ~ Time For The Wicked To Rest ~ The Breath Between ~ JUNO Winner Traditional Roots Recording 2024

Ehsan Matoori & Maliheh Matoori ~ Our Sorrow ~ Our Sorrow ~ NEW RELEASE

Bastards Of Soul ~ It's Gonna Be Alright ~ Give It Right Back ~ NEW RELEASE

* Ryan Wayne ~ No Easy Way Out ~ NEW RELEASE TODAY @ Dakota Tavern 2 p.m. Saturday 6 April  

5:50 The Things Of Nature

Marina Allen ~ Red Cloud ~ NEW RELEASE

iogi ~ The Ceiling ~ NEW RELEASE

Jordan Hamilton ~ Roses ~ NEW RELEASE

* Roddy Ellias ~ Chant ~ Moon Over Lake ~ NEW RELEASE

Ani DiFranco ~ The Thing At Hand ~ NEW RELEASE

* SP Simms & Maya T. ~ Play For Time ~ Weather's Getting Loud ~  NEW RELEASE

* Reggaddiction ~ The Guess Who's These Eyes ~  NEW RELEASE

* Lucy MacNeil ~ Radio Sweethearts ~ Angel Whispers ~  NEW RELEASE

* The New Pornographers ~ Think About Me ~ Just Tell Me That You Want Me ~ A Tribute To Fleetwood Mac

* Sarah Jerrom ~ The White Elk ~ Magpie ~ NEW RELEASE

Bossacucanova feat. Cris Delanno ~ Aguas De Marco ~ Uma Batida Diferente

* Tara Kannangara ~ Lisa Turtle ~ Extraordinary People EP ~ NEW RELEASE 

Afro Celt Sound System ~ Colossus ~ Volume 3 Further in Time

* Kaia Kater feat. Allison Russell ~ In Montréal ~ Strange Medicine ~ PRE-RELEASE 15 May 

6:55 The Body Tries To Cry

Matt Sweeney & Bonnie Prince Billy ~ Fleetwood Mac's Storms ~ Just Tell Me That You Want Me ~ A Tribute To Fleetwood Mac

Extra Large Canadian Music Becomes Lighter Than Air

 

New Canadian Music Multiplying Immoderately

 

Essential New Canadian Music Every Friday

 

Playlist For Corby's Orbit Show Of 19 April 2024 with Phil Nimmons Tribute, Lizz Wright, Dan Pitt and Julian Taylor.

 

Commissioner of Selection - Paul Corby

Podcast available RIGHT HERE

( Brought To You By Social Meteors, Comet Sections and Making An Asteroid Of Yourself)

* Canadian Artists in Asterisk'd RED

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5:00 Merillion Skies

illustration by Anthony Machuca

 * Jed & The Valentine ~ Awake ~ Awake ~ NEW RELEASE 

* The Imagine If ~ Devil's Child ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Nicky MacKenzie ~ Morals ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Caribou ~ Honey ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Kari Van Der Kloot ~ Tiny Threads ~ Window ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Joel Plaskett ~ The New Joys ~ NEW RELEASE 

* The Wesleys ~ A Lot To Lose ~ The Wesleys ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Gathering Sparks ~ Feathers And Wings ~ All That's Real ~ @ Emmanuel United Church Guelph - Sunday 21 April

5:40 Phil To The Brim

* The Nimmons Tribute/ Phil Nimmons  (June 3, 1923 – April 5, 2024) ~ Arf / Interview with Sean Nimmons - Paterson / Generational / Night Night Smiley feat. Heather Bambrick ~ Generational 

6:10 The Spring Galaxies

Lizz Wright feat. Angelique Kidjo ~ Sparrow ~ Shadow ~ NEW RELEASE  @ Koerner Hall 27 April 

illustration by Kim Dorland 

Bruno Berle ~ Acorda E Vem ~ No Reino Dos Afetos ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Elliott Brood ~ Bluebird Wine ~ Country ~ NEW RELEASE 

* Julian Taylor ~ Weighing Down ~ Pathways ~ PRE-RELEASE 

Lindsey Stirling feat. Royal & The Serpent ~ Inner Gold ~ Duality ~ PRE-RELEASE 14 June

6:30 Citizens Of The Stars 

* Old Man Luedecke ~ Dreadful Wind And Rain ~ PRE-RELEASE May 24 @ Greenbank Folk Club Saturday 

* Boreal ~ Warm Hands ~ @ Acoustic Harvest Saturday

* Sherry Kean feat. Sherry Huffman & David Baxter ~ Diamonds And Pearls ~ People Talk (1987)

* David Gavan Baxter (November 5 1954 - November 9 2023 ) ~ Thank You Girl ~ Day And Age 

ODIE ~ Utopia ~ PRE-RELEASE

Omagh Community Youth Choir ~ Bob Dylan & U2's Love Rescue Me ~ Playing For Change 

Star Swirled Galaxies Of New Canadian Music

 

Happy 75th Birthday to Ron Gaskin

 Happy 75th birthday card artifact launched today to premier impresario Ron Gaskin, b. 1949, by John Oswald towards last scenes and all incoming asteroids.

Ron Gaskin presented live music under the monikers Rough Idea Presents, What Next, and Next Wave, where his ear and intuition had a HUGE impact. His musical daring will resonate for years to come in the musicians and audiences who knew him. His stock in trade was experimental, creative, free and improvised music, but he wasn't limited by genre or definition. He was, first and foremost, a social convener, forging musical relationships that crossed genres and spanned borders, pairing people in masterful configurations that only he might imagine. As a radio host, programmer and producer his dulcet tones shared his vast musical knowledge and cool aesthetic to campus, community and pirate airwaves at multiple frequencies on the radio band, including CKLN (Toronto), CFRU (Guelph), Trent Radio (Peterborough) and Pirate 90 (Toronto Islands), with his shows AMFM, Huge Radio and Gaskin Calling. Ron approached everything with resolute principle, unconditional love, and a DIY ethic. In his early years he devoted his creative mojo to a number of endeavours, unrelated to the constant musical thread he followed throughout his life. Among them, he established an addiction support and outreach unit (The Trailer House) and an alternative asynchronous learning academy (The Free School) in Toronto, he ran a goat farm in Nova Scotia, and started Sangsara Natural Foods in Peterborough. Ron was a cherished friend to many. He embraced serendipity, celebrating the patterns and parallels in the everyday. He infused everything he did with style and precision. He was an impresario, an agent provocateur, and a good trouble maker. He was a poem texter and a master gift giver. Ron found treasure in the smallest things and the strangest sounds. He saw the invisible and heard the inaudible. He was funny, stubborn and mischievous. Always generous, with a twinkle in his eye. His faith in music, art and community never wavered. Ron was deeply connected to the community of Ward's Island (Toronto Islands), where he lived on and off after Cal's birth in 1993. He was the fire-keeper at many celebrations and supported Island artists, craftspeople and friends in countless ways. He produced music events there, at the St. Andrew by-the-lake Anglican Church, bringing performers from across the harbour and around the world to revel in the glorious acoustics of that sacred space. 

Published by The Globe and Mail from Aug. 28 to Sep. 1, 2020.

2020

Become Airborne With New Canadian Music This Friday

 

Playlist For Corby's Orbit Show Of 12 April 2024 with Tara Kannangara & Sarah Jerrom

 

Commissioner of Selection - Paul Corby

Podcast available RIGHT HERE

( Brought To You By Evertheless, Whohaveyou & Elision Courses)

* Canadian Artists in Asterisk'd RED

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5:00 Extraordinary Tara

* Tara Kannangara ~ Interview / The Name Song / Apartment / Extraordinary People ~ Extraordinary People NEW RELEASE ~ @ Monarch Tavern tonight

5:35 Ultra Alternative Utterances

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* Gillian Hay ~ Flowers In Your Headspace ~ Magnolia Baby! ~ NEW RELEASE *@ The Painted Lady 26 April

* Tei Shi ~ No Falta ~ NEW RELEASE

* SOLITAIR feat. Shahi Teruko ~ Something About You ~ NEW RELEASE @ GRBMFC: “The Grand River Black Music Festival & Conference”, from June 14th-16th Kitchener

* Ellen Doty ~ Every Little Scene ~ NEW RELEASE

Chappell Brown ~ Good Luck Babe ~ NEW RELEASE

* Housewife ~ Wasn't You ~ NEW RELEASE

* Alex Henry Foster ~ A Silent Stream ~ NEW RELEASE

* Ghostly Kisses ~ Crimson ~ NEW RELEASE

* SUM 41 ~ Dopamine ~ Heaven x Hell ~ NEW RELEASE

6:00 Magpie Glory

* Sarah Jerrom ~ Interview / Carrion (excerpt) / Crystallization (excerpt) ~ Magpie ~ NEW RELEASE TODAY

6:30 Arts Of Work

* Iskwé feat. Nina Hagen ~ I Get High

* Mike Evin ~ The Ham In You ~ NEW RELEASE @ The Tranzac Friday 19 April with Annabelle Chvostek

Hozier feat. Allison Russell ~ Wildflowers & Barley ~ NEW RELEASE

* Julie Aubé ~ Stop On A Dime ~ Boiling Over ~ NEW RELEASE

* Enyonam ~ Self Conscious ~ NEW RELEASE single release party at The Dakota Tavern in Toronto on April 28 – where she will also be highlighted as the Freefall Sunday featured artist

* Brenan Brothers ~ Fly With The Wind ~ Valley Of Silence ~ NEW RELEASE

* Roddy Ellias ~ Prelude ~ Moon Over Lake NEW RELEASE ~ Roddy Ellias Quartet - Felicity Williams (voice), Ted Crosby (saxophone/clarinet) and Josh Cole (bass) - at the Jazz Room in Waterloo this Saturday, April 13th 8:00 pm and at Drom Taberna at 2 pm on Sunday, April 14th