A throwback to an early 2000s post-rock debut, excursions into psych-folk and ambient country, and your usual genre-and-decade-spanning mix of offbeat easy listening—enjoy another three hours of mellow Monday mantras on The AM. Playlist: Kindly Spoken Thieves - Lillian SUSS - Flight The Golden Age of Wrestling - The Chauffeur In The Well - Meadow Transient Zachary Gray - Tessellate! Greg Foat, Sokratis Votskos, Warren Hampshire, Ayo Salawu - Kiki’s Tavern (For Vasilis) Hiro Ama - Sunday Miyauchi Yuri - Yoti e Tommy Perman, Andrew Wasylyk - Communal Imagination Salami Rose Joe Louis, Flanafi - I Gotta Find Some New Friends Harmonia, featuring Vittoria Maccabruni & Michael Rother - Wave By Wave Black Moth Super Rainbow - Melting on the Meadow MISZCZYK, featuring Bile Sister - The Ecstatic Dance Dreamsploitation - Creating Love and Happiness out of the Noir - the Melancholy Miracle Fortress - Tracers Yuuf - Silky Spring Efterklang - Antitech Caméra - Rumeurs Year of Glad - Old Growth Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu, Marta Sofia Honer - Dizzy Ditty Sam Prekop - The New Last Project Gemini - Seven Seconds to Sunrise Jeffrey Silverstein - Gassed Up Woods - Lay With Luck Beth Gibbons - Reaching Out Melody's Echo Chamber - Endless Shore Felt - Under a Pale Light Knife Pleats - Constellation Ducks Ltd. - Harm's Way Lab Coast - Astronaut The Clientele - As Night Is Falling Summer Bruises - Fog

Special guest Vincenzo Natali (director of cult classic sci-fi flicks like Cube, Splice and Nothing) joins in the third hour to discuss his upcoming retrospective at the Calgary Underground Film Festival. Hear that conversation, plus your usual mix of ambient instrumentals, dream-pop ditties, and other early morning sounds, in this week's AM on CJSW. Playlist: Tancredi Fazzino - Know Your Ways Temporal Waves - Luminous Objects Channelers - Middle Over Hill Laurent Dury - Pulse of Life 1900 - Radio Dada Bright Boy - Tremor Khotin - Alterac Acid Yetsuby - 물먹는하마 The Utopia Strong - Miniature Citadels Circle Sky - lcm_1 Cam​é​ra - Le Philtre OHMA - the essence of the divine herself E. Lundquist, featuring Gianni Brezzo - My Sun Sávila - Pocoapoco Ivan the Tolerable - The Thin Night Far East Family Band - Kokoro The Royal Family - I Am the Wind Ryan Bourne - Entropy ROY - I Ride The Highway Pan Amsterdam, Metronomy - Nice Town - Metronomy Remix Laetitia Sadier - Panser L’inacceptable Corridor - Mon Argent YOCTO - Hagio Agio TTSSFU - Baggage Marine Girls - Love to Know Sunglaciers - Waiting for Nothing Cindy Lee - What’s It Going to Take Jeff Parker and The New Breed, featuring Ruby Parker - Soul Love

Tune into hour three for a mini-tribute to the Solar Eclipse (which is as close as I'll get to seeing one for the next few decades, most likely). Plus unexpected new music from Cindy Lee, a throwback to Sandro Perri, alphabetical ambiance from Kilometre Club, and other sounds for a sunny Monday morning in Calgary. Playlist: Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka - You've Come Far NES Kelly Moran - Dancer Polynomials Anne Nikitin, Hannah Peel - A Royal Statement Michael Peter Olsen - So Far So Good Gregory Allison - Veritas (Tristan de Liège Rework) Kilometre Club, featuring Hollie Kenniff - Airliner Jilk - Kayla Asleep Shabason, Krgovich, Sage - Joe Zeta II Reticulli - teacozy 3 Apta - Emerge (The Hardy Tree Remix) Mort Garson - Concerto for Philodendron & Pothos Kamasi Washington, featuring André 3000 - Dream State Khruangbin - Fifteen Fifty-Three Glass Beams - Mahal Mort Garson - Plantasia Valebol - La Pulpa Mort Garson - Symphony for a Spider Plant Sandro Perri - Family Tree Sandro Perri - Love is Real Raf Wilcot - Slither Loving - On My Way to You Penny Arcade - Jona Julia Holter - Sun Girl Michael Boddicker - Buckaroo Bonzai End Credits The Sun Ra Quartet, featuring John Gilmore - When There Is No Sun Shana Cleveland - Invisible When the Sun Leaves Jacco Gardner - Eclipse Possum - Dance of the Eclipse Daisy Rickman - Golden Seeds Cindy Lee - Government Cheque A. Savage - Black Holes, the Stars and You Alena Spanger - Ines Bibi Club - Parc de Beauvoir La Force - Outrun the Sun Halo Maud, featuring Greg Saunier - You Float Astral Swans, featuring Jairus Sharif - Shine the Light Inside

No pranks, no jokes, just a serene start to April 2024. Three hours of offbeat easy listening, with a throwback to Tangerine Dream, new music from Kiasmos, Fuubutsushi, and TEKE::TEKE, international oddities, and other sounds to start the day/week/month on the right foot. Playlist: Fuubutsushi - Tenel Ka (First Crush) OHMA - mama’s knee Hochzeitskapelle - Silver Rider Buildings and Food - sky-d Test Card - Super 8 Sunset sub lumen - Pick Pop Sci Plains Apparitions, Light Blending In - Outside the Universe Four Tet - So Blue POSTNAMERS - Mirthpeal and Roses The Hillside Project - Sparkler Dims - Josh Semans Rework Kiasmos - Flown Bilal Nasser - Say Nothing Six Organs Of Admittance - New Year’s Song Claudio Rocchi - Tutti insieme Libra Rising - Over the Fields Jungle By Night - The Green in Your Dreams Tangerine Dream - No Man’s Land Morricone Youth, Devon Jon Goldberg - Method Acting Kifu Mitsuhashi & Kiyoshi Yamaya - Hohai-Bushi TEKE::TEKE - Bankrobber Various Artists, featuring Guess What - Stickle Bricks The Analog Girl - Zodiac Klaus Johann Grobe - Better Do Sunglaciers - Cursed Corridor - Mourir Demain Coco - Mythological Man Patti Whipp - Walkin’ Dolce - Lögnen Cedric Noel - Sessions Bill MacKay - Powder Mill Park Eric Chenaux Trio - This Ain’t Life

Trying my best to find the beauty in the wintry weather, exploring glacial sounds in the third hour of this week's AM. Before that, still a bit chilly, with icy synth-pop, interstellar electronics, and a little bit of warm-blooded jazz just to keep things balanced. Hope you enjoy it! Playlist: Seahawks, Woo - Omotion Sunalta - Only Rob Mitchelson - Mood Ultraviolet Group Listening - Hills End Violeta Vicci - Orbital - Turze Hyperfocus Remix Aagtive & Classy Vampire - Unnerving Discovery Qwalia - Omega Sean Ono Lennon - Thinking of M Will Régnier - Not a Real Place Nathan Salsburg, James Elkington - Buffalo Stance Tara Clerkin Trio - The Turning Ground Oan Kim, featuring Gabi Hartmann - Lush Timber Timbre - Holy Motors Yea-Ming and the Rumours - I Can’t Have It All Lali Puna - Faking the Books Lali Puna - Grin and Bear The Organizing Committee - Primordial Egg Tess Roby - Ballad 5 Discovery Zone - All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go Clément Froissart, Domenique Dumont - A Silent Thunder The Declining Winter - Song of the Moor Fire Geotic - The Lime of Stars Ulrich Schnauss, Jonas Munk - Along Deserted Streets Twink with Moths & Locusts and Heavy Friends - Love Ashore Death and Vanilla - Transparent Things The Reds, Pinks & Purples - What's Going On With Ordinary People The Radiation Flowers - Never Fade El Perro Del Mar - Wipe Me Off This Earth SUUNS - Watch You, Watch Me

Taking inspiration from The Holdovers, the second hour of this week's AM digs into '60s and '70s singer-songwriter fare—and the music it inspired. And, of course, your usual mix of Monday morning sounds, from ambient electronics to soul-jazz excursions, folk-rock ditties and unclassifiable but soul-soothing sounds. Playlist: Nick Schofield - On Air Geotic - The Going Benny Benji - After the Farmer’s Wife Rooster37 - Champagne of Life Morgan Greenwood - Pomegranate El Perro Del Mar - The Truth the Dead Know Drum & Lace - Sisters Michael Vincent Waller - For Pauline - Yu Su Remix 1900 - Den minsta av segrar Folke Nikanor - E4an två mil The Hylozoists - The Crippled Giant Mark Orton - Candlepin Bowling Baby Rose, Badbadnotgood - One Last Dance Fortunato Durutti Marinetti - The Flowers Leonard Cohen - Sing Another Song Boys The Brazda Brothers - Gemini Jim O'Rourke - Friends With Benefits Jim O'Rourke - Last Year Loving - The Light In You Karen Dalton - Right, Wrong Or Ready Margo Guryan - Why Do I Cry Bill Fay Group - Just a Moon Yuma Abe - Fuyo Goe Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Frank Rosaly - Destejer WITCH - Message from WITCH Ethnic Heritage Ensemble - The Whole World Jahari Massamba Unit (Madlib & Kariem Riggins) - Stomping Gamay Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band - Mellification Gal Gracen - Winds of Solace, Pillars of Sand N NAO - Pangée Ora Cogan - Is Anything Wrong Fila Brazillia - Sugarplum Hairnet Osmanthus - Bloom