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musicfordinner · 3 years

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Big up to all Indigenous folks on Indigenous Peoples Day!

It’s Indigenous Peoples Day and I figure we should look at music that goes over the evolution of Indigenous sounds and styles, and the fusion of Indigenous and Black culture through sound.

I’m going to start off with two records that I really love. First up the OG baddie Buffy Sainte Marie and her record Illuminations.

Buffy St. Marie is such a legendary artist, poet and creative mind. Right up there with Joni, Tina, & Carole King — she was giving us story, performance and artistry. This is a record I heard working at HMV back in the day. Again, thanks to so my dope friend N. who shared such interesting records with me that I probably would never had heard on my own. Buffy is just otherworldly. Illuminations, like it’s title shares so many truths and my favourite cut is the opening God is Alive, Magic is Afoot. Guess Who I Saw in Paris is a magic track. I love that cut, it’s just a woman who saw a man she’s enamoured with and it’s gorgeous. I love her voice and her reflections. He’s a keeper of the fire is a lively one track too, pure rock and roll goodness.

Another dope record is Heartbeat: Voices of First Nation Women. Layers and layers of voices meeting in unison, magnetic and syncopated in their delivery.

Jumping into the future, two of my favourite newer records is 1) We Are the Halluci Nation by the Halluci Nation formerly known as A Tribe Called Red.

Of course, this record needs no words — it’s been dope, it’s a game changer, the fusion of cultural sounds, electronica, heavy drums & hip-hop. It’s madness. FIRE.

Also, for the women, Tanya Tagaq has been using her voice in ways completely new to me. She creates audial landscapes you have to hear to believe. I killed Animism on it's original release.

A completely new release from a young queen, Prado. Prado is from Vancouver doing it big for Black Indigenous girls everywhere. Her new record Prado Monroe is fire.

I love that we’re seeing new artists break through and create roads for the rest of their community. In celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day, pick up a record and get comfortable or get shook.

#chantel’s sound diary #Prado #we are the Halluci nation #indigenous history month #indigenous peoples day #tanya tagaq #buffy sainte marie #a tribe called red

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firbozz · 7 years

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Long-Overdue Track List Updates (The Sequence, Oct 8 - Jan 7)

So between school, life, and personal stuff, I’ve fallen really far behind on track list postings for The Sequence. I wanted to put them all up for anyone looking for completion, but in the interest of keeping your feeds clean, I’ve condensed everything into this post to reduce clutter. Regular track list postings should be returning tonight.

The Sequence, October 8th

des lignes - ce qui nous traverse (Full Album) (Canadian)

The Sequence, October 15th

We Are the Halluci Nation – A Tribe Called Red ft. John Trudell & Northern Voices – We Are the Halluci Nation (Canadian)

Who’d You Kill – Kishi Bashi – Sonderlust

Throw the Stone and Hide Your Hand – E-Saggila – Old Orders of Beauty (Canadian)

Thirst Trap – Ultra Magnus & DJ Slam! – Opus Magnus (Canadian)

1048 – NHK yx Koyxen – Doom Steppy Reverb

Fly 2 – Zomby (ft. Banshee) – Ultra

Arrival Contraptions Ancient Perils – Naphta – 7th Expedition

Panzer Tanzer – Babel – This Is the Sacred Fire (No. 1) (Canadian)

Dummy Track – Why Be, Elysia Crampton, Chino Amobi – Demon City

The Sequence, October 22nd

WDPK 83.7 FM – Daft Punk – Homework

Jazzalude – Basement Jaxx – Remedy

I Know a Bloke (Interlude) – The Herbaliser – Take London

Big Blue II – Hooded Fang – Tosta Mista (Canadian)

Scanning II – Devin Vibert – Glitchikers (Canadian)

I Can Do Anything (Delacracy) – De La Soul – 3 Feet High and Rising

You Go Dave (A Goldblatt Presentration – De La Soul ft. David Goldblatt – and the Anonymous Nobody

The Mystery of Doom (Skit) – MF Doom – Operation: Doomsday

School Spirit Skit 2 – Kanye West – The College Dropout

Intro – Talib Kweli – Prisoner of Conscious

Human Mic – Talib Kweli – Prisoner of Conscious

Scents and Subtle Sounds (Intro) – Phish – Undermind

Undermind – Phish – Undermind

Vitamin C – The Seatbelts – Cowboy Bebop No Disc

Bounty Hunter Vision – Le Matos – Turbo Kid Original Soundtrack (Canadian)

End of Level – Alexander Bradon – Tyrian: Original Soundtrack

The Scent of Battle – Adam Skorupa – The Witcher 2 OST

Daniel – Chris Remo – Gone Home OST

Time 2 Go – Yabra – Yabra (Canadian)

Stark’s Reality – BadBadNotGood, Ghostface Killah – Sour Soul (Canadian)

Flu Season – Kid Koala – Some of My Best Friends are DJ’s (Canadian)

A Number of Microphones – Propellerheads – Deckanddrumsandrockandroll

Clearing – John Chantler – Which Way to Leave?

Only Searching Grammar – Ian William Craig – A Forgetting Place (Canadian)

Cool cave – YlangYlang – Pyramid Island/Parallel Beaches

In the Annexe – Boards of Canada – Geogaddi

Invest In Pressureforming – PMM – Gracefully Force Consensus

Common Descent – STS9 – The Universe Inside

Ciesla’s Revenge (Intro) – Corb Lund – Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier! (Canadian)

My Saddle Horse Has Died – Corb Lund – Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier! (Canadian)

The Sequence, October 29th

Exorcise – Gazelle Twin – Unflesh

Collapse – Vaghe Stelle – The Full Stream Ahead: The Prologue

Mass Exodus – Soft Riot – You Never Know What Might Come Next (Canadian)

Godless Chic – Dreamcrusher – Suicide Deluxe

Halloween – Lovecraft – Bed Room: A Sides (Canadian)

“positronic coma…” – Titanium Tunnels – The Blackhole in a Star and The Alien Asleep in the Sun… (Canadian)

The Growing – The Haxan Cloak – The Haxan Cloak

The Sequence, November 5th

Grossbuster - Singularity (Full Album)

Aphex Twin - Cheetah EP (Excerpt)

The Sequence, November 12th

Double Arm – N.M.O. – Nordic Mediterranean Organization / Numerous Miscommunications Occur

Low Ink – Mr. Oizo – All Wet

Whisper Diving – FaltyDL – Heaven Is for Quitters

Roy – Speaker Face – Driftwood (Canadian)

Youth – Alexandre Bazin – Full Moon

The Second Gate – Forager – Sorrow and joy throng the gate, weal and woe in the same land (Canadian)

011 – Chambers – Sigma Flare II (Canadian)

H2O Recollections – Tominaga – The Water Dreams the Fire

The Sequence, November 19th

Interview with Matt Rogalsky of the Tone Deaf Collective

Seal Island Murders - Loscil - Sea Island (Canadian)

Problematic - Big River Dream - Remember//Remember EP (Canadian)

Two Part Noise Invention - Andrea Pensado

Listen to Them - The Submissives - Do You Really Love Me? (Canadian)

The Sequence, Novmeber 26th

North of 7 – Big River Dream – Bon Echo (Split release with Forest Management) (Canadian)

Drained Lake – Loscil – Monument Builders (Canadian)

It Doesn’t Hurt That Much – Konig – Puberty (Canadian)

Miharu – Diana – Familiar Touch (Canadian)

Burgundy – Sarah Davachi – Dominions (Canadian)

The Way Shadows Play – Ylang Ylang – Life Without Structure (Canadian)

The Sequence, December 3rd

Innocence – Electric Youth – Innerworld (Canadian)

Ivan Unlock the Box (Nikita Zabelin Remix) – Philipp Gorbachev – Remix the Box

3m6-disc1 – ¬ b (fka Lee Bannon) – Reflection Disc 1&2 2012-2016

Roll Da Beats – My Electronic Friends – Temporal Echoes (Canadian)

Clover – Calia Thompson – Alea OST (Canadian)

The Moonlight Surfer – Wilfred Kozub – What’s Gonna Become of Us (Canadian)

This Future (Inside) - Tiger village – Tiger Village VI: Effective Living

Osaka Phantom – FaltyDL – Heaven Is for Quitters

Cosmic flux – Prairie Fang – Flux/Dust (Canadian)

19/14 – Esmerine – Lost Voices (Canadian)

The Sequence, December 10th

Miss Roboto – Famicom Fountains – Back to Godhead

Stakesishigh – howiewonder – tension ep (Canadian)

100 Percent – Sammus ft. Latasha Alcindor – Pieces in Space

And I Do Feel Ajar Somehow – YlangYlang – Life Without Structure (Canadian)

Instinct – Dedekind Cut – Successor

Weeds – Loscil – Monument Builders (Canadian)

Brightleaf Blues – Daniel Bachman – Daniel Bachman

Red Protection Against Black Magic – Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement – Green Graves

New Brain – Sandro Perri – Offworld (Canadian)

The Sequence, December 17th

The Way Shadows Play – YlangYlang – Life Without Structure (Canadian)

Hubris Part 3 – Oren Ambarchi – Hubris

Dissolution B – Olivia Block – Dissolution

Time Tells You – KL Sealegs – Collected Works 2004-2014 (Canadian)

The Sequence, December 24th

Balade aux USA – Marie Davidson – Un Autre Voyage (Canadian)

Resurrection – Delerium – Semantic Spaces (Canadian)

Amygdala – Frost – Melodica

Blood Brew – Videodrones – Mondo Ferox

Red Tide – Loscil – Monument Builders (Canadian)

II – Fuck My Winter – Après Vous (Canadian)

The Warmth of a Christmas Chill – The Flowers of Hell – Aria 51 (Canadian)

The Sequence, December 31st

R.E.D. – A Tribe Called Red ft. Yasiin Bey, Narcy & Black Bear – We Are the Halluci Nation (Canadian)

Goulag Drums – Mr. Oizo – All Wet

Boyfriend – Tegan & Sara – Love You to Death (Canadian)

Dead Battery – Hooded Fang – Venus on Edge (Canadian)

Dusty Moog – Amplified – Black Bear (Canadian)

Weight Off – Kaytranada ft. BadBadNotGood – 99.9% (Canadian)

And That, Too. – BadBadNotGood – IV (Canadian)

Voodoo in My Blood – Massive Attack & Young Fathers – Ritual Spirit EP

Smiling (Quirky Race Doc) – Open Mike Eagle & Paul White – Hella Personal Film Fesetival

Perfect, Dark – Sammus – Pieces in Space

The anatomy Lesson

Ghettobicoke Rock – King Pong Dub System – Islington West (Canadian)

Language of the Bass – Africaine 808 – Basar

Tropical Realities – CFCF – the Colours of Life (Canadian)

How Thin Is the Skin of the Soul – YlangYlang – Life Without Structure (Canadian)

_D_ – Chambers – Sigma Flare II (Canadian)

The Sequence, January 7th

Marie Davidson - Adieux Au Dancefloor (Canadian) (Full Album)

Island Romance - Monster Rally - Mystery Cove

National House Milk #2 - Chares Barabé & Roadside Picnic - National House Milk (Canadian)

As always, previous installments of The Sequence can be found in CFRC’s digital archives, found here.

#CFRC #Community Radio #The Sequence

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shuabert · 7 years

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Top 50 Albums of 2016

Despite all the ways 2016 was terrible (Brexit, the Syrian humanitarian crisis, extremist violence worldwide, Donald Trump, the deaths of so many of our heroes), one area where 2016 was a success was in terms of the quality of music released. Many of this year’s best albums were a direct response to the state of the world, some angry, some resolved, and some comforting. And others just allowed us to tune it all out and get lost in the sounds. Here is my 2016 year in review.

Best Soundtrack/Score: Stranger Things Soundtrack (Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein)

Best Soundtrack/Compilation: Jack White - Acoustic Recordings: 1998-2016 (runner up goes to Carly Rae Jepsen for Emotion Side B, which is catchier than any b-sides record should be)

Best Live Album: (It was probably that massive Kate Bush box set, but I didn’t listen to that yet, so let’s go with...) Lissie - Live at Union Chapel

Best EP: Dan Mangan - Unmake

Worst Comeback Attempt: Blink-182 - California

The Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion Award for Most Bangers for your Buck: The Weeknd - Starboy (runners up: Kaytranada - 99.9% and Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman)

And, my top 50 albums of the year (out of the 134 I listened to)

50 - 41

50. Savages - Adore Life 49. Sarah Neufeld - The Ridge 48. Loretta Lynn – Full Circle 47. Låpsley - Long Way Home 46. Kendrick Lamar – Untitled.Unmastered 45. Crystal Castles - Amnesty (I) 44. Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial 43. James Blake - The Colour in Anything 42. Swans - The Glowing Man 41. Swet Shop Boys - Cashmere

40 - 31

40. Mitski – Puberty 2 39. Laser - Night Driver 38. PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project 37. River Tiber - Indigo 36. Dolly Parton - Pure & Simple 35. Jessy Lanza - Oh No 34. Drake – VIEWS 33. Angel Olsen – My Woman 32. Gord Downie - Secret Path 31. Andy Shauf - The Party

30 - 21

30. Santigold - 99¢ 29. Wintersleep - The Great Detachment 28. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate 27. Majid Jordan - Majid Jordan 26. Blood Orange – Freetown Sound 25. Rihanna - Anti 24. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition 23. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool 22. Lissie - My Wild West 21. Alicia Keys - Here

20 - 11

20. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 3 19. Pup - The Dream Is Over 18. Case/Lang/Viers - Case/Lang/Viers 17. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo 16. Kaytranada - 99.9% 15. Hannah Georgas - For Evelyn 14. A Tribe Called Red - We Are the Halluci Nation 13. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree 12. Solange - A Seat at the Table 11. The Weeknd - Starboy

10 - 01

10. Anohni – Hopelessness

“I wanna burn the sky, I wanna burn the breeze / I wanna see the animals die in the trees / Ooh, let’s go, let’s go, it’s only four degrees”

Lines like “Let me be the one…you choose from above,” sound painfully romantic until they come in a song about drone warfare. And that’s only one example of the way Anohni’s Hopelessness blends the beautiful and the horrific. The album reads as the love letter to state-sanctioned violence (geopolitical, environmental, physical) that most of us won’t admit we’re living. Ahnohni’s dizzy croons over blissful electronics are more beautiful than something called “Hopelessness” has any right to be.

09. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service

“You bastards overlooking street art / Better yet, street smarts, but you keep us off the charts / So motherfuck your numbers and your statisticians / Fuck y’all know about true competition?”

This never-expected final album from ATCQ exemplifies the phrase, “rolling in their graves,” like a legend resurrected (literally, in the case of Phife Dawg, who appears here posthumously) by a dark present. Making explicit reference to the campaign rhetoric of Donald Trump (even going as far as to sample the Oompa Loompa song from Willy Wonka), the album was timed as a middle finger to a candidate expected to lose. That he won makes it is a necessary balm to the political lesions of the next term. Effortless and full of life, We Got It… shows a group that feels like they never left at all. Legends never die.

08. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker

“I heard the snake was baffled by his sin / He shed his scales to find the snake within / But born again is born without a skin / The poison enters into everything”

The opening title track on Leonard Cohen’s final album feels prescient, a potent exploration of God and death from a poet who saw both on the horizon. “Hineni, Hineni, I’m ready my Lord,” he sings wearily, but it feels ambivalent. Shit, who wouldn’t be? The instrumentations from Cohen’s son Adam act as a guide for Cohen’s minimalist vocals, here at their most powerful and tired. The blending of romance and religion, the physical and the spiritual are classic Cohen. “I’m leaving the table / I’m out of the game” he says on “Leaving the Table.” You can’t help imagine him tip that iconic fedora with a subtle grin on the way out. You Want It Darker is a stellar album to cap off an unassailable legacy.

07. Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is to be Nowhere

“Would you stay with me / if you thought the war was over / and everything made right? / Would you still believe in us? / And would your love for me grow colder / with no one left to fight?”

Thrice’s first album in five years after announcing an indefinite hiatus in 2012 couldn’t have come at a better time. Steeped in politics and apocalyptic imagery, TBEITBN recalls some of the band’s best work while sounding like a perfect encapsulation of the tumult and fear of the past 18 months. With songs about drone bombing, whistleblowing, and foreign policy, this is an album wholly concerned with the state of geopolitics today, though not without its songs of love and hope, however tenuous. It is a blues-rock-meets-post-hardcore manifesto exploring reluctant complicity in state-sanctioned terror, abuse of power, and the fear of self-destruction. All of this with the tight creative energy of a band of best friends who have played together for almost two decades.

06. David Bowie - Blackstar

“Just like that bluebird / oh, I’ll be free / Ain’t that just like me?”

It is difficult to separate Blackstar from David Bowie’s death, because the album was calibrated and timed so much to be a part of it, a final confrontation to mortality and the legacy of fame. For the first few days it almost felt like his alleged death might be part of some grand performance art piece — that’s so Bowie. A year later Blackstar feels, as it should, like a David Bowie album, full of cryptic imagery, bewildering lyrics, inspired musical flourishes, and emotional resonance. “Blackstar” is the best Radiohead song of the year, jazz inflections and unexpected absurdist turns of lyrical phrase demand repeated, concentrated listening, and the haunting “Lazarus” perfectly denotes the way in which Bowie’s consistent reinvention has made him an artist outside of time and beyond death. “Everybody knows me now,” he sings on Lazarus. And they always will.

05. White Lung - Paradise

“I’ve got a basic need / Kiss me when I bleed / They say I split my pride in two / when I became a bride for you / But what do they know?”

As deliriously melodic and powerful a punk rock racket as you’ll ever find, Paradise finds Vancouver’s White Lung sharpening their skills and their teeth. Mish Barber-Way’s vocals are more refined but no less sneeringly powerful as she spits over meticulously-arranged and elegantly-produced instrumentations that average under 3 minutes in length. Clocking in at 28 minutes, “Paradise” is the tightest and most purposeful rock record of the year, which is impressive considering how deeply the record explores the body horror inherent in being a woman in a patriarchal society.

04. Frank Ocean - Blonde

“You showed me love / Glory from above / Regard, my dear / it’s all downhill from here.”

Frank Ocean’s long-anticipated follow up to Channel Orange is a challenging first listen, less immediate and more thoughtful than its predecessor. “RIP Trayvon. That nigga look just like me,” Ocean sings on the album opener “Nikes,” a disarmingly down-tempo number whose bittersweetness creeps up and sets the tone for a contemplative and deeply personal album of tonal lethargy and spare instrumentations. References to “pink and white” skies and “black and yellow” streets are prescriptive: this is an album for the fading days of summer, the fading hours of the day, when a twilight drive brings pains of nostalgia and regret to light.

03. Beyonce - Lemonade

“They say true love’s the greatest weapon / to win the war caused by pain / But every diamond has imperfections / But my love’s too pure to watch it chip away”

Lemonade is the stuff of great drama, a kitchen sink story by way of an epic as it spins out a relationship story without a neat conclusion. It is a master-work of rage and heartbreak and, ultimately, hope, blind as it may be. But that pain is more alive for how Lemonade makes the personal political. This is about more than just Beyoncé and Jay Z, it is about fathers making their daughters tough and setting them up to be betrayed by men just like them. It is about survival and resilience in a world that doesn't care about you. It is a testament to the vision and production that Lemonade mines so many disparate genres (pop, blues, country, r&b, reggae) yet feels so cohesive. Beyoncé was a career milestone, a pop album about the thrills and joy of marriage, but Lemonade is transcendent, a genre-defying album about betrayal and the challenges of marriage as a metaphor for the ways relationships of all kinds destroy and sustain us.

02. Tanya Tagaq - Retribution

“Sacrifice / Our blood goes back into the earth / In. Out. Womb. Core.”

If Mother Earth groaned in pain on Tanya Tagaq’s 2014 album, Animism, then she delights in the destruction of humanity on Retribution, an album that finds the Inuk throat singer croon with a trickster’s smirk that “Gaia likes it cold.” Here, at her most metal, she asserts that “the retribution will be swift” if humanity continues down a path of ecological devastation. Her most sonically-diverse album in vocal and collaborative terms (featuring producer Jesse Zubot’s haunting strings, Christine Duncan and the Element Choir, a cover of Nirvana’s “Rape Me” and a collaboration with rapper Shad), Retribution is a career milestone and the most stunning work of Indigenous art of the year.

01. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book

“I don’t make songs for free, I make ‘em for freedom.”

Coloring Book plays like the kind of album that could only have been written by someone experiencing the life-changing miracle of childbirth for the first time. Gospel choirs and horns back an album of ebullient joy that in sound and title suggests a blank space full of possibility. The religious fervor of Chance’s unabashed positivity was just what we needed in 2016. Chance’s desire to “give Satan a swirlie” reminded us not to take ourselves too seriously while fighting evil, and “All Night” might be the year’s hardest banger this side of Drake’s “One Dance.” Coloring Book was like a big hug in the face of a cruel year, an invitation for us all to be with family, to remember the good times and to help one another through the bad. By the time the album closes with the refrain “are you ready for your blessings; are you ready for your miracle?” it feels like both a challenge and a plea. Bring on 2017.

#music #2016 #2016 music #lists #top albums #top albums 2016

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