the book of right-on

It’s a Musical - Pain Song
Wendy McNeill - Building a Castle
Lonely Drifter Karen - Passengers of the Night

Yoav - Yeah, the End
Koushik - Lying in the Sun
Galerie Stratique - Plastic Snakes

Aloe Blacc - Gente Ordinaria
Elizabeth Shepherd - Long As You’re Living
Hanne Hukkelberg - Displaced

Castlemusic - Clouds in the Sky
Populous with Short Stories - Drawn in Basic - The Holy See
Joanna Newsom - The Milk Eyed Mender - Clam Crab Cockle Cowrie

Feist - It’s Cool to Love Your Family
Adele - First Love
Laura Barrett - Ferryland

Apostle of Hustle - Folkloric Feel
Laura Veirs - Don’t Lose Yourself
The Weakerthans -  A New Name for Everything

Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook
DJ Brace - NH Two
Chic Gamine - Butterfly Woman

Stars - Take Me to the Riot
Caribou -  Desiree
The Notwist - Where in This World

Twilight Hotel - Viva La Vinyl

Black Kids - Listen to Your Body Tonight
CSS - Air Painter
Brendan Canning - Churches Under the Stairs

Adele - Cold Shoulder
Aloe Blacc - One Inna
Eliot Lipp -  Last Night

Herbaliser -  Kittynapper
Caribou - Air Doom
Lali Puna - Clear Cut

The Notwist - Good Lies
THe Breeders -  Night of Joy
The Album Leaf - See in You

Bob Wiseman - Who Am I
The Be Good Tanyas -  When Doves Cry
Nathan - Glorious Exhaust

Stars -  Window Bird
Imitation Electric Piano -  Relatively Good Times
Mirah  - La Familia  (Guy Sigsworth Remix)

Castlemusic - We Always Change
Chiwoniso - Only One World
Juana Molina - Tres Cosas

Au Revoir Simone - Oh! You Pretty Things
Katie Stelmanis - In My Favour

A Hawk and a Hacksaw -  Fernando’s Giampari
Basia Bulat - The Pilgriming Vine
Ann Walton - Back Porch

Apostle of Hustle - Baby You’re in Luck
Jacob & Lily -  I’ll See you Off
The Acorn -  Guilt Trip Fashion

Cara Luft -  Black Water Side
Kathleen Edwards -  Back to Me
Geoff Berner -  The Way That GIrl Drinks Beer

Chic Gamine - Don’t Lie
Grand Analog -  Human Beans
Little Miss Higgins - Middle of Nowhere

Wolf Parade -  Soldier’s Grin
You Say party! We Say Die! -  Monster
Rafter - Love Time Now Please

The Notwist - Where In this World
Ammoncontact - Earth’s Children feat. Mia Doi Todd
Gigi -  Semena-Worck

Bjork -  Wanderlust
CocoRosie - Noah’s Ark
Laura Veirs - Drink Deep

The Hidden Cameras - In the Union of Winde
Imitation Electric Piano - I Mean Wow
Joanna Newsom - Three Little Babes

Local musician and producer Mike Petkau has a new project. It’s called Record of the Week Club, and its premise is this: put three different musicians together in a room for an evening and have them create a track which will be mixed up in time for online release later that night. It happens every Wednesday, and this week will be the club’s fourth outing.

Visit the (super-fancy) site and you can stream the tracks or download them for just $0.99 or subscribe to the whole 16-track series as it comes for $13.95.

The tracks all have an urgent, off-the-cuff feel to them, for obvious reasons, but the production value is top notch — a testament to Petkau’s training and experience in studio production.

Petkau’s idea is been to smash together musicians of different genres who wouldn’t ordinarily play together, and I think he’s only really ventured into that territory in the last week where jazz pianist Jonathan Alexiuk was in the mix — otherwise the talent pool originates from the indie rock arena. Speaking of the talent pool, it’s been undeniably good, with the likes of Joe Silva, Ricardo Lopez (Oldfolks Home), Joel Klaverkamp (The Hummers), Dave Quanbury (Twilight Hotel) and Jack Jonasson (Novillero). It’s also been undeniably male. Petkau says he’s been working on bringing women into the mix, and I believe him, but I say: Work harder, buddy! Because so far you’ve had nine participants and none of them is female. Winnipeg has many, many awesome women musicians. My two favourite Winnipeg bands, Nathan and the Gorgon, are female-fronted and all-girl, respectively. Of course Nathan is major label now, but I would love, love, love to hear Alana, Julia and Jen from the Gorgon on RotWC. Or Eve from Vav Jungle or Jo from Anthem Red or some of the fab lady DJs in town like Mama Cutsworth or Mizz Brown.

Don’t disappoint me, Mr. Petkau! I know you’ll come through. RoTWC is a super great project and has so far in every other way been executed impeccably, from the music itself to the website to the user-friendliness of the track-buying process.

love thy neibor (sic)

The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?
Joe Silva, Ricardo Lopez, Graham Epp, Mike Petkau - Laying Mortar
YACHT -I Believe in You

The Streets - Sharp Darts
Maximum Joy - In the Air 7″ Version
Feist - I Feel It All

Aloe Blacc - Long Time Coming
Elizabeth Shepherd - Con Alma
Feuermusik - Summertime

Final Fantasy - The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead
Caribou - She’s the One
Hauschka - Belgrade

Miracle Fortress - Poetaster
Mia Doi Todd - My Room Is White (Dungen Remix)
Lali Puna - Micronomic (Boom Bip Remix)

Vancougar - Every Car
The Wet Secrets - Get Your Own Apartment
Maria Taylor - Irish Goodbye

Arthur Russell - Hiding Your Present From you
Joel Gibb - That’s Us/Wild Combination
Architecture in Helsinki - Wishbone

Erykah Badu - Twinkle
Eliot Lipp - See What It’s About
Fidgital - H1B

Vancougar - Obvious
You Say Party, We Say Die! - Poison
The Limes - Beyond Blue 9.21 Mix

Jhelisa - Friendly Pressure
Sylvie Lewis- Just You
Rickie Lee Jones - Little Mysteries
Madame Pamita - Love Is Good

Moritz Eggert - Symphony for 12 Mechanical Typewriters
Bell Orchestre - Recording a tape (typewriter duet)
Low - Dust on the Window

Philip Glass - Metamorphosis Three
Jose Gonzales - Heartbeats
The Lawries - Sailboats

The Notwist - Boneless
All of Your Friends - Un Estado
Oldfolks Home - I Hate Dell

Broken Social Scene - Late Nineties Bedroom Rock for the Missionaries
Hot Chip - One Pure Thought
Rafter - Casualty of Dance Music

Mirah - Advisory Committee (Shok Remix)
Nils Petter Molvaer - Kakonita
The Most Serene Republic - Solipsism Millionaires

Elizabeth Shepherd - Circles (Alister Johnson Remix)_
Eliot Lipp - The Area

tear out the strings connected to our hearts

Alphabeat - What Is Happening?
Rostam Batmanglij - Campus
Final Fantasy - Fantasy (Mariah Carey cover)

Hauschka - Chicago Morning
Hanne Hukkelberg - Balloon
Ratatat - Shiller
Of Montreal - Cato as a Pun

Carrie Rodriguez - She Ain’t Me
Bowerbirds - Olive Hearts
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Monster

Vancougar - Unmanned
The Breeders - Walk It Off
The Phonemes - Kim Rogers

The National Parcs - Border Patrol
K’Naan - Wash it Down
Ammoncontact - Children of the Sun

The Old Believers - Granny’s Song
The Notwist - Gloomy Planets
Basia Bulat - Little Waltz

Joanna Newsom - Sawdust & Diamonds
Sufjan Stevens - Concerning the UFO Sighting near Highland Illinois

Joni Mitchell - Woodstock
Katie Stelmanis - Natural Woman
The Gorgon - Royal Albert

Eric Chenaux - Love Don’t Change

Remember, Garageland starts on June 7th on CKUW 95.9 FM! Tune in every Saturday

in June to get the scoop on all the garage sale action in Winnipeg.

Basia Bulat - Before I Knew
Sarah Harmer - Basement Apt.
Laura Veirs - Drink Deep

Mirah - Don’t Die in Me
Stars - Look Up
The Notwist - Good Lies

Metric - The Police and the Private
The Bad Plus - Karma Police
Tokyo Police Club - Citizens of Tomorrow

Animal Collective - Water Curses
Clinic - Coda
Hot Chip - One Pure Thought

The Gorgon - Myrtle
TV on the Radio - A Method
Caribou - Sinuses

aMute - Hit My Country
The Most Serene Republic - Humble Peasants
Sarah Slean - Hopeful Hearts

Mother Mother - Neighbour
The Burning Hell - Grave Situation Part 1
Rafter - Chances

Portishead - Silence
Colleen - Everything Lay Still

The one time I don’t go to a CKUW event and I win a gosh-darned award! A jury of my peers voted The Book of Right-On to be Best Core Music Show. What a thrill. And since I missed my chance to make a grand acceptance speech, allow me to say a few words now. I really do work hard at programming the best shows I can with the best music I can. Thank you to all the musicians who make the wonderful music that gets stuck in my head. To my fellow CKUW programmers, you are all inspirations to me, and I’d like to shout out specifically to Mel Truman, Rob Schmidt and Robin Eriksson for being some of the most supportive TBORO boosters.

Why wasn’t I at the awards ceremony? Well, I was Núna-ing. My reports of the fabulous Icelandophilic events of the past week will follow soon, along with a playlist from last week (I win best core music show, but not best website-updater, obvs.).

If all goes according to plan, Mlle. Kyrie Kristmanson will be jetting in to Winnipeg this afternoon and shortly thereafter she will make a live-in-studio appearance at CKUW on The Book of Right-On! She’s in town for the Núna Now festival, which celebrates contemporary Icelandic/Icelandic-Canadian arts. On Saturday, she’ll open for experimental composer Johann Johannson at the West End Cultural Centre. So tune in to get a taste for what to expect on Saturday night, at least as far as Kyrie’s concerned.

I’ve been a fan of Kyrie’s clever, complex jazz-pop since last year and am super excited to get a chance to speak with her and introduce her to Winnipeg radio audiences.

The Book of Right-On will air, of course, from 6-8 p.m., but listen for Kyrie around 7:30 or so.

Kyrie Kristmanson @ MySpace