Hey friends,

Spring (or perhaps summer?!) is upon us: students are free, the sun is out, and half our staff is a sneezy mess of allergies (including yours truly). Got any tips on how to fight the hayfever? We’re all ears over here…

This weekend we threw an amazing three-day concert series called Total Eclipse, and it was great times all around — but my personal highlight was an outdoor gig on a very hot, gorgeous Sunday afternoon full of weird & wonderful performances. Plus there were dogs! Getting to hang out with cute pups at a rad show in the sun is basically my dream come true.

xo
joni

:::WHAT’S UP AT CKUT:::
A new month is here, and that means it’s time to welcome a new host for our award-winning Montreal Sessions radio residency program. For the month of May, we’re excited to welcome local (yet global) sound pioneer Pierre Kwenders into the studio. The Juno nominee will be exploring the intersection of traditional Congolese music with modern electronics, digging deep into afro-futurism and beyond. Hear him live on CKUT every Tuesday in May from 3-5pm — and if you miss it in the moment, download it after the fact from our trusty audio archives.

:::CHARTS:::
ckut top 30 – may 5, 2015
1. suuns & jerusalem in my heart – s/t – secret city CC *
2. moon – s/t – bruised tongue CC
3. benoit pioulard – sonnet – kranky
4. a sacred cloud/anarchist mountains – split – howl!/jeunesse cosmique CC *
5. lightning bolt – fantasy empire – thrill jockey
6. warm wave – pyongyang suntan – self-released CC *
7. faith healer – cosmic troubles – mint CC
8. loc-nar – hotter water – don’t fall CC *
9. colleen – captain of none – thrill jockey
10. daily alice – s/t – head in the sand CC *
11. fort romeau – insides – ghostly international
12. annabelle chvostek – be the media – self-released CC *
13. speedy ortiz – foil deer – carpark
14. leopardism – extraversion introversion – self-released CC *
15. steve coleman and the council of balance – synovial joints – pi
16. c & c surf factory – garage city – six shooter CC
17. moon king – secret life – last gang CC
18. ok jazz – presents – self-released CC
19. squarepusher – damogen furies – warp
20. merzbow/pandi/gustafsson/moore – cuts of guilt, cuts deeper – rare noise
21. kappa chow – collected output as of now – self-released CC
22. alexander macsween – the squiggle game – & records CC *
23. liturgy – the ark work – thrill jockey
24. the brian jonestown massacre – musique de film imagine – a recordings
25. adam basanta – memory is the residue of thought – kohlenstoff CC *
26. sealadder – tiny territories – power moves CC
27. oromocto diamond & the zoobombs – oromo kumakus – p572
28. quatuor d’occasion – musica in camera – & records CC *
29. biosphere deathprod – stator – touch
30. wendy atkinson – the last fret – smarten up & get to the point CC

ckut jazz  – may 5, 2015
1. steve coleman and the council of balance – synovial joints – pi
2. tim berne’s snake oil – you’ve been watching me – ecm
3. shipp/bisio/maneri – the gospel according to matthew and michael – relative pitch
4. kaze – uminari – circum-libra
5. jack dejohnette – made in chicago – ecm
6. harris eisenstadt  – golden state ii – songlines CC
7. quatuor d’occasion – music in camera – & records CC
8. linda sharrock – no is no – improvising beings
9. anna webber – simple – skirl CC
10. kenny wheeler – songs for quintet – ecm CC

ckut global – may 5, 2015
1. bombolesse – vice & versa – self-released CC *
2. lemon bucket orkestra – moorka – self-released CC
3. v/a – radio vietnam – sublime frequencies
4. seckou keita – 22 strings – arc music
5. mazhar fuat – turkuz turku cagiririz! – shadoks
6. beautiful nubia & the roots renaissance band – soundbender – eniobanke
7. v/a – hanoi masters: war is a wound, peace is a scar – glitterbeat
8. dom la nena – soyo – six degrees
9. v/a – bali 1928, vol. II tembang kuna: songs from an earlier time – world arbiter
10. autorickshaw – the humours of autorickshaw – self-released CC

ckut rpm – may 5, 2015
1. pursuit grooves – mythico – what rules
2. moonstarr – mount real ep – new kanada CC *
3. feingold – nuff zang – 1080p CC
4. rabieto – à ton premier jour – wolfstag CC
5. cmd – ice daggers – basic sounds CC *
6. dasha rush – sleepstep – raster noton
7. echo beach – fortune – self-released CC *
8. mvr – astral dialogue – low noise productions CC
9. v/a – ambient parks vol. 2 – new kanada CC
10. alicia hush – the slightest inkling – hushlamb CC *

ckut beatbox – may 5, 2015
1. badbadnotgood & ghostface killah – sour soul – lex
2. auxx – harmonics contrast – urbnet
3. buck n’ nice – us versus them – busy inc. CC
4. theesatisfaction – earthee – sub pop
5. ill tone – up in my head – urbnet CC
6. d’angelo and the vanguard – black messiah – rca
7. souls of mischief – there is only now remixed – linear labs
8. pause – no small order – self-released
9. doomtree – all hands – doomtree records
10. ceschi – broken bone ballads – fake four inc.

ckut loud – may 5, 2015
1. nothing – guilty of everything – relapse
2. a.m.s.g. – anti-cosmic tyranny  – graceless recordings
3. behemoth – the satanist – nuclear blast
4. enslaved – in times – nuclear blast
5. sorcerer – in the shadow of the inverted cross – metal blade
6. black witchery/revenge – holocaustic death march to humanity’s doom split – nuclear war now CC
7. taake – stridens hus – dark essence
8. electric wizard – time to die – spinefarm
9. monolord – empress rising – riding easy
10. prong – songs from the black hole – spv