Whatever's Cool With Me
Thursday June 8th, 2023 with Ryan Bresee
The June Smoke Episode

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Instrumental
Infinite - 360 Degrees

Pushing against a stone
Valerie June - Pushing Against A Stone

June
Charlotte Corfield - The Shape Of Your Name

June
Eric's Trip - Love Tara

June
Destroyer - Labyrinthitis

Sink is busted
June of 44 - Engine Takes To The Water

June
Pinback - Some Offcell Voices

All of this time w/ Bahamas
Jenn Grant - Champagne Problems

Saluted by the light outside
Claude Munson - The Silence Came After

(over now)
summersets - Small Town Story

Pretzel bell
Moonfruits - Salt

Things to do with rage
Wax Mannequin - The Red Brain

Living in automobiles
Stoby - Playing In Cement

Lay your head down
Mad Caddies - Keep It Going

Good grief retreat
Belvedere - Hindsight Is The Sixth Sense

Cost of comfort
Kingfisher - single

Everyone I've never met
Leith Ross - Motherwell

Red wing
Feist - Multitudes

Smokey (demo)
Red House Painters - The Shanti Project Collection

Les embruns de mon coeur (love me) w/ Safia Nolin
L'Indice - single

Better somehow
Hannah Georgas - I'd Be Lying If I Said I Didn't Care

At the end of the day
Sunnsetter - The Best That I Can Be

Forest fire
Versus - More Of Our Stupid Noise

Millenia
Braids - Euphoric Recall

Ascents
Bodywash - I Held The Shape While I Could

The girl from Ipanema
Astrud Gilberto & Stan Getz - The Girl From Ipanema

Bim bom (Psapp remix)
Astrud Gilberto - Verve Remixed 4

Let the smoke clear
Thanya Iyer - Kind

Bird's eye view
Witch Prophet - Gateway Experience

Thinking clearly
Kae Tempest - Nice Idea

Lazy smoke
New Kingdom - Heavy Load

Super dope
Buck 65 - Super Dope

Breathe later
Abdominal - Escape From The Pigeon Hole

Smoke
Haviah Mighty - 13th Floor

Above the clouds
Gangstarr - Moment of Truth

Catherine
Nate Husser - Geto Rock For The Youth

Interactive CKCU

Benoît
I'll be listening to your show in the car, and from afar... But here are, below, a few impressions from last week's Braids show at Club SAW.

8:51 AM, June 8th, 2023

Benoît
BRAIDS show at Club SAW, 1st June 2023 It was a spectacular performance. Raphaelle Standell-Preston showed that she hasn’t lost a thing since that first recording, Native Speaker. I’m not really qualified to comment all that much on her, or the band’s, progression: I didn’t follow the next three albums, outside of occasionally hearing a cut here or there, probably on CKCU. Her voice, what a voice! She can still go into that high, Mariah Carey “whisper register”, but had the taste and restraint to only go there perhaps three times, all told. Great form. I’d forgotten that her voice is an absolute treasure. The drums and percussion were excellent, as were the synth keys; I don’t want to give them short shrift, but words fail. Top level stuff, very self-assured, musically essential. The string quartet, though perhaps not as necessary, did add texture and depth to the mix. They were one cello and three violins or violas, not sure, as I stayed in the back where the sound is best. The quartet were onstage for most of the time, except around the end, when Braids did a few hits from the past, for instance Miniskirt. The sound was excellent, mostly not requiring ear plugs. And the stage light play was also better than expected, quite effective. Pro level. The opener, Orchidae, is the budding solo act of the lead singer of Pony Girl, Yolande Laroche. She also was excellent, much better than mere “opener quality”. Her offerings were not unlike Braids’ in musical kinship: Yolande indeed recounted how Raphaelle’s band was her inspiration for getting into music in 2013 or ‘14.

8:55 AM, June 8th, 2023

hillbilly
Benoît is the best!;-)

9:25 AM, June 8th, 2023

Ryan Bresee (host)
Thank you for the in-depth review. I'm glad it was so good and sorry I missed it!

9:39 AM, June 8th, 2023

hillbilly✊
Tuned in...up loud! Humongous Earth Machine jackhammering away rock cliff .... to build ugly plastic cancerous material puke-beige monster home in woods....so they can stay inside all the time - cept race away in big vehicle....to buy more shit... I'll just keep fiddlin' while fires edge closer.... Peace & Love! lost ya for couple of minutes...;-)

9:41 AM, June 8th, 2023

PeterB
Smokey Robinson anyone? Cowering ... And the new Feist. .'Multitudes'' is just a jaw dropper, top to bottom!! On contuois play here.. Thank you Leslie.

9:50 AM, June 8th, 2023

Ryan Bresee (host)
It's so good!

9:56 AM, June 8th, 2023

PeterB
hillbilly, all Earthlings... Do tell us how you really feel q;^/ Feel you....... Peace, Love, Beats, Chi-Miigwech

9:57 AM, June 8th, 2023

Bernard Frazer
that wax manikin song is extraordinary!

10:29 AM, June 8th, 2023

Ryan Bresee (host)
He's a stellar and quirky musician.

10:38 AM, June 8th, 2023

Bernard Frazer
Wax Mannequin, that is. Talk to Text sucks

10:38 AM, June 8th, 2023

gentlegypsie
Fiddle onward, hillbilly dope setlist, Breseey ... deep-dip Snow Angel, Braids, be Beauty Feist, finely profound Light. Miigewech-Chi beats1

11:16 AM, June 8th, 2023

Ryan Bresee (host)
Thanks, Gentle!

11:20 AM, June 8th, 2023

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