The AM
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Weekly radio show on @cjsw.bsky.social hosted by @peterhemminger.com. Offbeat easy listening to start your week right. Live at cjsw.com every Monday morning from 7-10am MT, or stream past episodes at https://linktr.ee/the.am
Based in Treaty 7.
Based in Treaty 7.
PS: Calgary folks, see you at GoGo Penguin and/or Shecky/Slow Fresh Oil/Hot Little Rocket this week?
The A.M.
Music Podcast · Starting the week isn’t easy. Ease into it with hazy, reverb-soaked tunes, spacey epics and jangle-pop wake-up calls.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
PS: Calgary folks, see you at GoGo Penguin and/or Shecky/Slow Fresh Oil/Hot Little Rocket this week?
Sons of Faust, GoGo Penguin, EYE (not the Boredoms one), Manfred Mann Chapter Three, Andy Shauf, Lorelle Meets the Obsolete, The Besnard Lakes, Postnamers, and Caoilfhionn Rose & Svaneborg Kardyb
(Rolling Spotify playlist, consider giving it a save? open.spotify.com/playlist/62R...)
(Rolling Spotify playlist, consider giving it a save? open.spotify.com/playlist/62R...)
The A.M.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Sons of Faust, GoGo Penguin, EYE (not the Boredoms one), Manfred Mann Chapter Three, Andy Shauf, Lorelle Meets the Obsolete, The Besnard Lakes, Postnamers, and Caoilfhionn Rose & Svaneborg Kardyb
(Rolling Spotify playlist, consider giving it a save? open.spotify.com/playlist/62R...)
(Rolling Spotify playlist, consider giving it a save? open.spotify.com/playlist/62R...)
Essendon Airport, Light-Space Modulator, Sessa, Diablo in Apujarras, Slow Fresh Oil, Index for Working Musik, Juana Molina, Melody's Echo Chamber, Sunglaciers, Jürgen Pluta...
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The A.M. – Episode November 10, 2025 – CJSW Radio
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November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Essendon Airport, Light-Space Modulator, Sessa, Diablo in Apujarras, Slow Fresh Oil, Index for Working Musik, Juana Molina, Melody's Echo Chamber, Sunglaciers, Jürgen Pluta...
(Listen via CJSW: cjsw.com/program/the-...)
(Listen via CJSW: cjsw.com/program/the-...)
Featuring: Floating Points (Elaenia is 10 years old?), Cris Derksen, Alex Albrecht, Teen Daze, Drummachinemike, Contagious Yawns, Tennyson, Sulk Rooms, Resonating With Life, Rich Aucoin, BITWASHERE...
(Rolling Apple Music playslist: music.apple.com/ca/playlist/...)
(Rolling Apple Music playslist: music.apple.com/ca/playlist/...)
The A.M. by Peter Hemminger on Apple Music
Playlist · 174 Songs
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November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Featuring: Floating Points (Elaenia is 10 years old?), Cris Derksen, Alex Albrecht, Teen Daze, Drummachinemike, Contagious Yawns, Tennyson, Sulk Rooms, Resonating With Life, Rich Aucoin, BITWASHERE...
(Rolling Apple Music playslist: music.apple.com/ca/playlist/...)
(Rolling Apple Music playslist: music.apple.com/ca/playlist/...)
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Public Works and Utilities
warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com/album/public...
WRNTDP's urban synthscapes are never less than excellent; the optimistic "Renewal and Regenration" & the sprawling "The People Matter" are welcome additions to the plan.
warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com/album/public...
WRNTDP's urban synthscapes are never less than excellent; the optimistic "Renewal and Regenration" & the sprawling "The People Matter" are welcome additions to the plan.
Public Works and Utilities, by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan
6 track album
warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Public Works and Utilities
warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com/album/public...
WRNTDP's urban synthscapes are never less than excellent; the optimistic "Renewal and Regenration" & the sprawling "The People Matter" are welcome additions to the plan.
warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com/album/public...
WRNTDP's urban synthscapes are never less than excellent; the optimistic "Renewal and Regenration" & the sprawling "The People Matter" are welcome additions to the plan.
The Cosmic Tones Research Trio - S/T
mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-co...
Spiritual jazz explorations and incantations, confidently balancing invention with reassurance. The energetic "Sankofa" is the standout, but there isn't a track here that isn't worth some concentrated reflection.
mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-co...
Spiritual jazz explorations and incantations, confidently balancing invention with reassurance. The energetic "Sankofa" is the standout, but there isn't a track here that isn't worth some concentrated reflection.
The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, by The Cosmic Tones Research Trio
8 track album
mississippirecords.bandcamp.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The Cosmic Tones Research Trio - S/T
mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-co...
Spiritual jazz explorations and incantations, confidently balancing invention with reassurance. The energetic "Sankofa" is the standout, but there isn't a track here that isn't worth some concentrated reflection.
mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-co...
Spiritual jazz explorations and incantations, confidently balancing invention with reassurance. The energetic "Sankofa" is the standout, but there isn't a track here that isn't worth some concentrated reflection.
Steve Hauschildt - Aeropsia
stevehauschildt.bandcamp.com/album/aeropsia
Six years and one transcontinental migration since his last release, Hauschildt's latest picks up right where 2019's Nonlin left off, maybe a little hazier and more ambiguous, but as rich & rewarding as anything he's released.
stevehauschildt.bandcamp.com/album/aeropsia
Six years and one transcontinental migration since his last release, Hauschildt's latest picks up right where 2019's Nonlin left off, maybe a little hazier and more ambiguous, but as rich & rewarding as anything he's released.
Aeropsia, by Steve Hauschildt
9 track album
stevehauschildt.bandcamp.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Steve Hauschildt - Aeropsia
stevehauschildt.bandcamp.com/album/aeropsia
Six years and one transcontinental migration since his last release, Hauschildt's latest picks up right where 2019's Nonlin left off, maybe a little hazier and more ambiguous, but as rich & rewarding as anything he's released.
stevehauschildt.bandcamp.com/album/aeropsia
Six years and one transcontinental migration since his last release, Hauschildt's latest picks up right where 2019's Nonlin left off, maybe a little hazier and more ambiguous, but as rich & rewarding as anything he's released.
Snakeskin - We live in sand
snakeskinband.bandcamp.com/album/we-liv...
The 2nd Beirut-based act to catch my ear this year after SANAM. Snakeskin is similarly experimental in its textures, though often brighter & more indebted to dream pop. Not all sunshine, but even at its darkest, hope remains.
snakeskinband.bandcamp.com/album/we-liv...
The 2nd Beirut-based act to catch my ear this year after SANAM. Snakeskin is similarly experimental in its textures, though often brighter & more indebted to dream pop. Not all sunshine, but even at its darkest, hope remains.
We live in sand, by Snakeskin
8 track album
snakeskinband.bandcamp.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Snakeskin - We live in sand
snakeskinband.bandcamp.com/album/we-liv...
The 2nd Beirut-based act to catch my ear this year after SANAM. Snakeskin is similarly experimental in its textures, though often brighter & more indebted to dream pop. Not all sunshine, but even at its darkest, hope remains.
snakeskinband.bandcamp.com/album/we-liv...
The 2nd Beirut-based act to catch my ear this year after SANAM. Snakeskin is similarly experimental in its textures, though often brighter & more indebted to dream pop. Not all sunshine, but even at its darkest, hope remains.
Rural Tapes - Oneiric
claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/album/oneiric
"Flower Labs" is pure Clay Pipe, bursting with pastoral bliss, but Oneiric roams wider grounds—"Fantasia" with its swooning vocoder, "Hypermnesia" evoking early 2000s post rock, "Lingering Souls" pure paisley pop, just wonderful.
claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/album/oneiric
"Flower Labs" is pure Clay Pipe, bursting with pastoral bliss, but Oneiric roams wider grounds—"Fantasia" with its swooning vocoder, "Hypermnesia" evoking early 2000s post rock, "Lingering Souls" pure paisley pop, just wonderful.
Oneiric, by Rural Tapes
12 track album
claypipemusic.bandcamp.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Rural Tapes - Oneiric
claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/album/oneiric
"Flower Labs" is pure Clay Pipe, bursting with pastoral bliss, but Oneiric roams wider grounds—"Fantasia" with its swooning vocoder, "Hypermnesia" evoking early 2000s post rock, "Lingering Souls" pure paisley pop, just wonderful.
claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/album/oneiric
"Flower Labs" is pure Clay Pipe, bursting with pastoral bliss, but Oneiric roams wider grounds—"Fantasia" with its swooning vocoder, "Hypermnesia" evoking early 2000s post rock, "Lingering Souls" pure paisley pop, just wonderful.
Resonating With Life - Resonating With Life
cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/resona...
Space synths turned inwards, meditation aimed not at quieting the mind but opening it to the breadth of existence. That's a lot to put on an instrumental synth album, but its optimism is very welcome right now.
cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/resona...
Space synths turned inwards, meditation aimed not at quieting the mind but opening it to the breadth of existence. That's a lot to put on an instrumental synth album, but its optimism is very welcome right now.
Resonating With Life [CYD 0144], by Resonating With Life
11 track album
cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Resonating With Life - Resonating With Life
cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/resona...
Space synths turned inwards, meditation aimed not at quieting the mind but opening it to the breadth of existence. That's a lot to put on an instrumental synth album, but its optimism is very welcome right now.
cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/resona...
Space synths turned inwards, meditation aimed not at quieting the mind but opening it to the breadth of existence. That's a lot to put on an instrumental synth album, but its optimism is very welcome right now.
Psychedelic Source Outlaws - The Initiation Outlaws
echodelickrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-in...
The same Hungarian collective that brought you Diablo in Alpujarras lets it rip with Kikagaku Moyo's Go Kurosawa on four instrument-swapping psychedelic jams. Thick, hazy & full of stoned digressions.
echodelickrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-in...
The same Hungarian collective that brought you Diablo in Alpujarras lets it rip with Kikagaku Moyo's Go Kurosawa on four instrument-swapping psychedelic jams. Thick, hazy & full of stoned digressions.
THE INITIATION OUTLAWS, by Psychedelic Source Records
8 track album
echodelickrecords.bandcamp.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Psychedelic Source Outlaws - The Initiation Outlaws
echodelickrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-in...
The same Hungarian collective that brought you Diablo in Alpujarras lets it rip with Kikagaku Moyo's Go Kurosawa on four instrument-swapping psychedelic jams. Thick, hazy & full of stoned digressions.
echodelickrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-in...
The same Hungarian collective that brought you Diablo in Alpujarras lets it rip with Kikagaku Moyo's Go Kurosawa on four instrument-swapping psychedelic jams. Thick, hazy & full of stoned digressions.
Proxima Psychoacoustics - Whynott
proximapsychoacoustics.bandcamp.com/album/whynott
Speaking of nature-inspired Canadian electronics, Proxima's most varied album to date draws from a youth spent in rural Nova Scotia, evoking the wonder of forest walks and bike rides under endless skies.
proximapsychoacoustics.bandcamp.com/album/whynott
Speaking of nature-inspired Canadian electronics, Proxima's most varied album to date draws from a youth spent in rural Nova Scotia, evoking the wonder of forest walks and bike rides under endless skies.
Whynott, by Proxima Psychoacoustics
18 track album
proximapsychoacoustics.bandcamp.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Proxima Psychoacoustics - Whynott
proximapsychoacoustics.bandcamp.com/album/whynott
Speaking of nature-inspired Canadian electronics, Proxima's most varied album to date draws from a youth spent in rural Nova Scotia, evoking the wonder of forest walks and bike rides under endless skies.
proximapsychoacoustics.bandcamp.com/album/whynott
Speaking of nature-inspired Canadian electronics, Proxima's most varied album to date draws from a youth spent in rural Nova Scotia, evoking the wonder of forest walks and bike rides under endless skies.
More to come, when time allows. In the meantime, here's September's thread by way of apologizing for leaving you hanging.
bsky.app/profile/thea...
bsky.app/profile/thea...
Picking up on this thread, here's the other 17 selections from September 2025. Yes, it's almost the end of October now, but it takes a while to process this muhc music, y'know?
Anyone else find that September was shockingly good for new music? I feel like I could happily spend a year with just the releases from last month. Here's a playlist running down selections from just under 30 albums from September 2025, plus bandcamp links in the thread.
(In alphabetical order)
(In alphabetical order)
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
More to come, when time allows. In the meantime, here's September's thread by way of apologizing for leaving you hanging.
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bsky.app/profile/thea...
Peel Dream Magazine - Taurus
peeldreammagazine.bandcamp.com/album/taurus
Opener "Venus in Nadir" is spot-on Belle and Sebastian, but while those twee influences persist, so does the dronier indie-pop that endeared PDM in the first place. Immaculate melodies played with appealing restraing.
peeldreammagazine.bandcamp.com/album/taurus
Opener "Venus in Nadir" is spot-on Belle and Sebastian, but while those twee influences persist, so does the dronier indie-pop that endeared PDM in the first place. Immaculate melodies played with appealing restraing.
Taurus, by Peel Dream Magazine
8 track album
peeldreammagazine.bandcamp.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Peel Dream Magazine - Taurus
peeldreammagazine.bandcamp.com/album/taurus
Opener "Venus in Nadir" is spot-on Belle and Sebastian, but while those twee influences persist, so does the dronier indie-pop that endeared PDM in the first place. Immaculate melodies played with appealing restraing.
peeldreammagazine.bandcamp.com/album/taurus
Opener "Venus in Nadir" is spot-on Belle and Sebastian, but while those twee influences persist, so does the dronier indie-pop that endeared PDM in the first place. Immaculate melodies played with appealing restraing.
Patricia Brennan - Of The Near And Far
patriciabrennan.bandcamp.com/album/of-the...
Jazz improvisation, new music inventiveness, neo-classical melodicism, embracing dissonance & discord but just short of outright chaos. There's always a through-line, an inner symmetry to keep from falling apart.
patriciabrennan.bandcamp.com/album/of-the...
Jazz improvisation, new music inventiveness, neo-classical melodicism, embracing dissonance & discord but just short of outright chaos. There's always a through-line, an inner symmetry to keep from falling apart.
Of The Near And Far, by Patricia Brennan
7 track album
patriciabrennan.bandcamp.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Patricia Brennan - Of The Near And Far
patriciabrennan.bandcamp.com/album/of-the...
Jazz improvisation, new music inventiveness, neo-classical melodicism, embracing dissonance & discord but just short of outright chaos. There's always a through-line, an inner symmetry to keep from falling apart.
patriciabrennan.bandcamp.com/album/of-the...
Jazz improvisation, new music inventiveness, neo-classical melodicism, embracing dissonance & discord but just short of outright chaos. There's always a through-line, an inner symmetry to keep from falling apart.
Patche - Mode
patchemtl.bandcamp.com/album/mode
Not sure what to call this outside of invigorating. It reminds me of hearing Holy Fuck's live electronics for the first time, that mix of energy and possibility. Krautrock, maybe, but aimed at the dance floor, party music refracted into abstraction.
patchemtl.bandcamp.com/album/mode
Not sure what to call this outside of invigorating. It reminds me of hearing Holy Fuck's live electronics for the first time, that mix of energy and possibility. Krautrock, maybe, but aimed at the dance floor, party music refracted into abstraction.
Mode, by Patche
9 track album
patchemtl.bandcamp.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Patche - Mode
patchemtl.bandcamp.com/album/mode
Not sure what to call this outside of invigorating. It reminds me of hearing Holy Fuck's live electronics for the first time, that mix of energy and possibility. Krautrock, maybe, but aimed at the dance floor, party music refracted into abstraction.
patchemtl.bandcamp.com/album/mode
Not sure what to call this outside of invigorating. It reminds me of hearing Holy Fuck's live electronics for the first time, that mix of energy and possibility. Krautrock, maybe, but aimed at the dance floor, party music refracted into abstraction.
Oruã - Slacker
orua.bandcamp.com/album/slacker
I still prefer last month's split cassette with Reverse Death, but Oruã's mix of '90s indie and vintage Brazilian psych is a winning blend here. Certainly not hard to see why Built to Spill are such big fans.
orua.bandcamp.com/album/slacker
I still prefer last month's split cassette with Reverse Death, but Oruã's mix of '90s indie and vintage Brazilian psych is a winning blend here. Certainly not hard to see why Built to Spill are such big fans.
Slacker, by Oruã
10 track album
orua.bandcamp.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Oruã - Slacker
orua.bandcamp.com/album/slacker
I still prefer last month's split cassette with Reverse Death, but Oruã's mix of '90s indie and vintage Brazilian psych is a winning blend here. Certainly not hard to see why Built to Spill are such big fans.
orua.bandcamp.com/album/slacker
I still prefer last month's split cassette with Reverse Death, but Oruã's mix of '90s indie and vintage Brazilian psych is a winning blend here. Certainly not hard to see why Built to Spill are such big fans.
Makaya McCraven - Off the Record
intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/popup-...
Four EPs recorded at different times with different lineups. PopUp Shop is the most immediately appealing to me, Techno Logic the most intriguing. Only a few songs each, but still too much to absorb in the week its been out.
intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/popup-...
Four EPs recorded at different times with different lineups. PopUp Shop is the most immediately appealing to me, Techno Logic the most intriguing. Only a few songs each, but still too much to absorb in the week its been out.
PopUp Shop, by Makaya McCraven
5 track album
intlanthem.bandcamp.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Makaya McCraven - Off the Record
intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/popup-...
Four EPs recorded at different times with different lineups. PopUp Shop is the most immediately appealing to me, Techno Logic the most intriguing. Only a few songs each, but still too much to absorb in the week its been out.
intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/popup-...
Four EPs recorded at different times with different lineups. PopUp Shop is the most immediately appealing to me, Techno Logic the most intriguing. Only a few songs each, but still too much to absorb in the week its been out.