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Whatever's Cool With Me
Thursday December 11th, 2025 with Ryan Bresee
The Sampha or Sampa Episode

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Instrumental
Infinite - 360 Degrees Canadian
Sweet pain
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook - Night Song Canadian
Run
U. Srinivas & Michael Brook - Dream Canadian
Saturday night church
Tuatara - Breaking The Ethers
Mariama
Boubacar Traore - S/T
Crosses
Jose Gonzalez - Veneer
If you were a stranger
Summersets - single Canadian
It's tonight
Tim Baker - Full Rainbow Of Light Canadian New
Inland ocean
Matt Berninger - Get Sunk New
The drop off w/ Gord Downie
The Rheostatics - The Great Lakes Suite Canadian New
Mt. Tamalpais forestry station
Marin County Lighthouse Keeper - Muir Woods National Monument New
Women at war
Cleo Reed - Cuntry
Deep red cherry night
Begonia - Fantasy Life Canadian New
Les oiseaux
Fleur De Peau - single Canadian New
Dream brother (alternate take)
Jeff Buckley - It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley OST New
Life in this body
Sorry - Cosplay
Long distance driver
Greg Freeman - I Looked Out
Sliding past
Idaho - Bayonet EP
Radioactive Dreams
Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo - In The Earth Again
Sadie
Shallowater - God's Gonna Give You A Million Dollars
From nothing to nowhere
Pinback - Autumn Of The Seraphs
Islands
Huddle - All These Fires Canadian
The yips
Petey USA - The Yips [A Case Of]
All her colours
Pick A Piper - S/T Canadian
Fallen cloud
Austra - Chin Up Buttercup Canadian New
Fineshrine
Purity Ring - Shrines Canadian
Cumulus/memory
Sampha - single New
Can't hold us w/ Mwanje
Sampa The Great - single New
Christiansands
Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension
YUHDONTSTOP
De La Soul - Cabin In The Sky New
Find a way
A Tribe Called Quest - The Love Movement
Discern
Shad - Start Anew Canadian New
Interactive CKCU
Carole
Good morning! Ready for some great music to listen to while I work!!

9:32 AM, December 11th, 2025
Carole
LOVE this first song! I pulled it on Bandcamp and it can be bought there . Chain of Light! https://nusratfatehalikhan.bandcamp.com/album/chain-of-light

9:43 AM, December 11th, 2025
Benoît
Hiya!

9:49 AM, December 11th, 2025
Benoît
As usual, it's different because it's not the same. Ahem

9:49 AM, December 11th, 2025
Ryan Bresee (host)
Hi Carole and Benoit!

9:55 AM, December 11th, 2025
Benoît
The drop off is remarkable. It's the most "spoken word" I've ever heard from Gord Downie, and I have a lot of his stuff.

10:20 AM, December 11th, 2025
Benoît
I take that back a bit. There are Hip tunes like the live N.O. Is Sinking (killer whale tank). Long talk in there. Although those are more "spontaneous" soliloquies. Anyway...

10:23 AM, December 11th, 2025
Ryan Bresee (host)
I'm curious how the collab came to be. Were they working on it together before he died and it took this long to come out, or did the Rheostatics get access to a spoken word bit and they worked it into the song?

10:25 AM, December 11th, 2025
Jeremy
Good morning everybody how’s everybody doing this morning? Be safe out there. Respect everybody in here and out there listening, and respect to the host with the most

10:48 AM, December 11th, 2025
Benoît
I was also wondering. Probably a bit of both: done with them, but was a cut left aside, and which was a bit 'embellished' (???); well, certainly, mixed and mastered more recently.

10:49 AM, December 11th, 2025
Ryan Bresee (host)
Morning Jeremy! You are probably right, B.

10:52 AM, December 11th, 2025
Benoît
Re Downie & Rheostatics: nope, you were right! "One piece, "The Drop Off", features the musicians performing instrumental music behind a recording of a spoken-word monologue that Gord Downie performed at a fundraiser for Lake Ontario Waterkeeper in the 2000s." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Lakes_Suite

11:17 AM, December 11th, 2025
Benoît
For those who'd like a thumbnail, here are the sentences just before the one I quoted above. "The process of creating the album started in 2023, with early improvisational jams leading up to formal recording sessions in 2024.[2] The main band lineup consisted of Bidini, Dave Clark, Tim Vesely, Kevin Hearn, Don Kerr and Hugh Marsh; regular band member Martin Tielli did not participate in the recording due to a desire to step back from music,[3] but supported the project, played a role in securing Lifeson's involvement, and contributed artwork for both the album booklet and the animated music video for "The Inland Sea".[4] Guest contributors included Alex Lifeson, Tanya Tagaq, Chief Stacey LaForme, Laurie Anderson, Anne Carson, Kendel Carson and Liz Howard.[2] "

11:19 AM, December 11th, 2025
B
(My buttercup runneth over.) (winkie)

11:20 AM, December 11th, 2025
B
Copied from reddit. A frustrated, but not weird, Otawa rider. "r/ottawa • 2h ago PenguinsAreScary OCtranspo aspires to be something it can never be and it should stop. OC Transpo Look I get it OCtranspo. You're poor and can't run buses. There's no funding. There's no drivers. There's no buses. You're a mediocre transit service in the capital city of a G7 country and I've come to accept that. You win. But stop lying to yourself. You know damn well you can't field buses every 15 mins even during peak hours. It's time to lose the undeserved ego and commit to consistent mediocrity. Just fix your schedule to field buses consistently every 30 mins so I can plan my trip. I know you really want to run buses every 15 mins but you don't know how to do that or you physically can't. Sure, a bus every 15 mins during peak hours is the bare minimum in most developed countries but the gulf here is too wide. I just don't want to freeze at a bus stop anymore hoping this is the day you figure out how to make your dream journal of a schedule work."

11:28 AM, December 11th, 2025
B
ttfn

11:29 AM, December 11th, 2025






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