Hi radio,

Hope you had a good holiday season & that the new year is treating you well so far – I was back in rural British Columbia visiting family for most of the break, taking advantage of small-town life and trying to chill out as much as possible. Read a bunch, drank nice wine, hung out in ranching country, saw coyotes and wild horses hangin out by the side of the road: very different from Montreal. Flying back east, I was welcomed home with -42 celsius (that’s -44 fahrenheit for the Americans) windchill in Montreal and so far the new year has just been about trying to keep warm…

Loud charts return next week.

happy 2014 friends
xo
joni

ckut top 30 – january 7, 2014
v/a – howl live – howl! arts CC
solids – blame confusion – bonsound CC
freelove fenner – do not affect a breezy manner – fixture CC
dog day – fade out – fundog CC
thee silver mt. zion memorial orchestra – fuck off get free we pour light on everything – constellation CC
v/a – j’aime fuzz, 2e edition – jeunesse cosmique CC
christof migone & alexandre st-onge – undo – squint fucker press CC
v/a – angola 2: hypnosis, distortions, & other sonic innovations 1969-1978 – analog africa
land of kush – the big mango – constellation CC
taylor ho bynum sextet & 7-tette – navigation – firehouse 12
heathers – s/t – self-released CC
tim hecker – virgins – paper bag CC
melt-banana – fetch – a-zap
warm soda – warm soda – castle face
molly drake – molly drake – squirrel thing
yamantaka//sonic titan – uzu – paper bag CC
shannon and the clams – dreams in the rat house – hardly art
omar souleyman – wenu wenu – ribbon
thee oh sees – singles collection vol. 3 – castleface
scout niblett – it’s up to emma – drag city
moonface – julia with blue jeans on – jagjaguwar CC
christof migone – fingering – squint fucker press CC
fresh & onlys – soothsayer EP – mexican summer
wooden shjips – back to land – thrill jockey
lederhosen lucil & krista muir – guten tag gemini! – hypo CC
the mallard – finding meaning in deference – castleface
the necks – open – northern spy
hubble – hubble eagle – nna tapes
circuit des yeux – overdue – ba da bing
depatterning – the huddled tone ep/the huddled town ep/the elevator at parkberg – wist records

ckut jazz  – january 7, 2014
taylor ho bynum sextet & 7-tette – navigation – firehouse 12
samuel blaser/benôit delbecq/gerry hemingway – fourth landscape – nuscope
brahja waldman/daniel carter/daniel levin/satoshi takeishi – say hello to anyone i know – fast speaking music
mary halvorson 6tet – illusionary sea – firehouse 12
william parker – wood flute songs: anthology – aum fidelity
ghost train ork. – book of rhapsodies – accurate
keefe jackson’s likely so – a round goal – delmark
tim berne’s snakeoil – shadow man – ecm
naughton trio – pawtuck – otic
jean derome/malcolm goldstein/rainer wiens – 6 improvisations – ambiance magnétiques CC

ckut global – january 7, 2014
v/a – angola 2: hypnosis, distortions, & other sonic innovations 1969-1978 – analog africa
omar souleyman – wenu wenu – ribbon
sidi toure – alafia – thrill jockey
tal national – kaani – fat cat
william onyeabor – who is william onyeabor? – luaka bop
mamadou kelly – adibar – clermont music
v/a – red hot & fela – knitting factory
mar seck – vagabonde – teranga beat
v/a – kassidat: raw 45s from morocco – dust to digital
sola akingbola – nigerian beats – arc

ckut rpm – january 7, 2014
egyptrixx – a/b till infinity – night slugs CC
graze – edges – new kanada CC
various – done with 2013 – pertin-nce CC
raudive – a system of objects – macro
the stranger – watching dead empires in decay – modern love
asolaar – obliterate – metaphysik
fis – preparations – triangle
nrsb-11 – commodified – wémè records
various – compilation #1 – low noise productions CC
ddd/mtsp – ddd/mtsp – fur trade recordings CC 

ckut beatbox – january 7, 2014
danny brown – old – fool’s gold
robert glasper experiment – black radio 2 – blue note
dj rashad – double cup – hyperdub
gas-lab & traum diggs – jazz hop – 623
the poets of rhythm – anthology: 1992-2003 – daptone
shad – flying colours – black box CC
deltron 3030 – city rising from the ashes – bulk
freedom writers – now – proletarian
nightmares on wax – feelin’ good – warp
grayskul – zenith – fake four