Episodes

Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Surgery 304
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Bex Burch - There is only love and fear (International Anthem)
Werner Durand, Amelia Cuni, Uli Hohmann - Clearing (Aguirre)
Vessit - Chapter One: Abstractions (Dragon's Eye)
Ocoeur - Nouveau Départ (n5MD)
Meitei / 冥丁 - Kofū III / 古風 III (Kitchen.Label)
Mister Water Wet - Cold Clay (Students of Decay)
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma - Grasshopper Republic OST (Invada)
Joseph Branciforte & Theo Bleckmann - LP2 (greyfade)
Natalie Beridze - If We Could Hear (Room40)
Jules Reidey - Trances (Shelter Press)
Simonel - Colmena (Line)
Track Listing
Bex Burch - Don't Go Back to Sleep [0:00]
Werner Durand, Amelia Cuni, Uli Hohmann - Byss [2:48]
Vessit - Closet I [12:15]
Ocoeur - Traversée [16:40]
Meitei / 冥丁 - Heiwa / 平和 [22:29]
Mister Water Wet - Song for Glob (feat. Memotone) [25:44]
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma - Daylight [30:26]
Joseph Branciforte & Theo Bleckmann - 1.13 [33:04[
Natalie Beridze- Who Dwells in Possibility [40:13]
Jules Reidy - I [45:34]
Simonel - Marea Alta [54:04]
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Sunday Oct 15, 2023
Surgery 303
Sunday Oct 15, 2023
Sunday Oct 15, 2023
Gary Peters - Beginnings: Collected Pedal Steel Works (Scissor Tail Editions)
Max Ananyev - Scenery (Bandcamp)
Andreas Gerth and Carl Oesterhelt - Music for Unknown Rituals (Umor Rex)
Aiko Takahashi - It Could Have Been a Beautiful (IIKKI)
Mikael Lind & Johanna Sjunnesson - Wave Cycles (Whitelabrecs)
Boris Rogowski - A Waste Land Companion (Piano and Coffee Records)
SG - For Lovers Only / Rain Suite (Faitiche)
Jordan Martins - Fogery Nagles (Astral Spirits)
Alien D - Spiritual World (Lilerne Tapes)
R.A Sánchez - L'Ottava Sfera (Lost Tribe Sound)
Ian Hawgood - Tape Sketches I (Folk Reels)
Track Listing
Gary Peters - Relent Less [0:00]
Max Ananyev - Wee Hours [5:36]
Andreas Gerth and Carl Oesterhelt - Abdication [9:22]
Aiko Takahashi - It Could Have Been a Beautiful Evening [14:13]
Mikael Lind & Johanna Sjunnesson - Wave Cycle [20:30]
Boris Rogowski - Unreal City II [26:32]
SG - Sentimental Guitar Suite [28:23]
Jordan Martins - Budlong Dirge [33:18]
Alien D - With Mark [41:01]
R.A Sánchez - Forma [47:00]
Ian Hawgood - tlr27s [51:43]
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Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Surgery 302
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Zak Riles - Earthwave (Important Records)
Ilyas Ahmed - A Dream of Another (Geographic North)
Marina Herlop - Nekkuja (PAN)
Lisa Lerkenfeldt - Halos of Perception (Shelter Press)
Kin Leonn - Mirror in the Gleam (Kitchen Label)
Jeremiah Chiu - In Electric Time (International Anthem)
Gazelle Twin - Black Dog (Invada)
Daniel Bachman - When the Roses Come Again (Three Lobed)
Adela Mede - Ne Lépj a Virágra (Warm Winters Ltd)
Droneroom - The Best of My Love (Somewherecold)
Lau Nau - Aphrilis (Beacon Sound)
Celia Hollander - 2nd Draft (Leaving Records)
Track Listing
Zak Riles - Cloud Feedback [0:00]
Illyas Ahmend - Little Devil [7:01]
Merina Herlop - La Alhambra [11:46]
Lisa Lerkenfeldt - Stairway to the Interior [16:57]
Kin Leonn - Your Spectrum [21:09]
Jeremiah Chiu - Brush With Thin Air [27:07]
Gazelle Twin - Black Dog [31:10]
Daniel Bachman - Summer's Fingers Sweetly Linger (Everywhere On Every Side) [35:44]
Adela Mede - Nestoj Nado Mnou (ft. Wojciech Rusin) [40:01]
Droneroom - Nothing of Value is Every Truly Lost (for Jessi) [44:09]
Lau Nau - Nukahtamislaulu [52:14]
Celia Hollander - In Plain Sight [58:44]
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Sunday Sep 17, 2023
Surgery 301
Sunday Sep 17, 2023
Sunday Sep 17, 2023
Makushin - Move into the Luminous (Blackford Hill)
Niecy Blues - Exit Simulation (kranky)
Laurel Halo - Atlas (Awe)
Paniyolo + Akio Watanabe - 家並み - Yanami (Schole)
Suzanne Langille, Andrew Burnes, David Daniell, and Loren Connors - Let the Darkness Fall (Recital)
Loraine James - Gentle Confrontation (Hyperdub)
Frederico Mosconi - Nocturnal (Dronarivm)
Will Samson - Harp Swells (12k)
Gonubie - Signals at Both Ears (Métron Records)
Emil Palme - Ripen (First Terrace)
Glacis - Interpretations (Whitelabrecs)
Far Away Nebraska - Il vento mi parla di te (Home Normal)
Track Listing
Makushin - More Easily [0:00]
Niecy Blues - Violently Rooted [4:40]
Laurel Halo - Atlas [8:25]
Paniyolo + Akio Watanabe - 朝のたより (Morning Letter) [15:12]
Suzanne Langille, Andrew Burnes, David Daniell, and Loren Connors - A Sadness in Me [18:14]
Loraine James - 2003 [26:38]
Frederico Mosconi - At 10 PM [29:27]
Will Samson - For Rubi [33:55]
Gonubie - Minke [41:07]
Emil Palme - Birth & eternity [47:07]
Glacis - Ghost Dances (Satomimagae) [50:47]
Far Away Nebraska - Lontananza [53:30]
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Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Surgery 300: godspeed you! black emperor
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
As is consistent with my low grade anxiety I silently debated for the last few weeks how I might tackle this 300th episode. I wanted to do something that would tie in with a piece I was writing over at my Substack, Indie Dependence, about the history of the show... so some sort of summary of its existence seemed apt. But rather than compressing 20 years of programming into one hour I did the next worst thing: compress it into a nearly 21 hour Spotify playlist you can listen to by clicking here. That taken care of, or at least kind of taken care of, the answer for what to do with the actual show occurred to me in the most obvious manner. I am off to see Godspeed You! Black Emperor in New Hampshire in just over a week, and in many ways they are one of the bands that put me on the musical course that led me here. I saw them for the first time back in 1998 at a festival in Halifax, NS having no prior knowledge of their existence, Then again less than a year later at Victoriaville, QC's FIMAV. In 2004 I was enlisted to facilitate a show for them here in Fredericton, NB... a task that proved excessively unpleasant behind the scenes, not because of anything to do with the band, only with all the other logistics involved. I'm told the show was transcendent for many on hand... I came away with a stress-triggered nosebleed... the one and only time this has ever happened to me. The last time I saw them was in the much more relaxed environs of a five night stand of theatre shows in their hometown of Montreal back in 2011. Much like compressing 20 years of podcast history into one hour is impossible, summarizing the band's 25 year career and seven totemic albums into such an abbreviated time does not do them justice. Still I feel like there is a kind of flow in the edits here, so hopefully the show will serve as a kind of reminder to some already on board and an introduction to those as yet unfamiliar... if that's at all possible. Enjoy.
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F# A# ∞ (Kranky / Constellation)
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven... (Kranky / Constellation)
Yanqui U.X.O. (Constellation)
ALLELUJAH! DON'T BEND! ASCEND! (Constellation)
Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (Constellaion)
"Luciferian Towers" (Constellation)
G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END! (Constellation)
Track Listing
note: most of these tracks are edits, not full length
Dead Flag Blues [0:00]
Storm [6:39]
Like Antennas to Heaven [17:19]
Rockets fall on Rocket Falls [20:46]
We Drift Like Worried Fire [27:38]
Piss Crowns are Trebled [38:01]
Bosses Hang pt. II & III [44:31]
A Military Alphabet (five eyes all blind) [54:19]

Sunday Aug 20, 2023
Surgery 299
Sunday Aug 20, 2023
Sunday Aug 20, 2023
Shigeto - Lineage (Ghostly)
Raphael Rogński - Talàn (Instant Classic)
Pauline Anna Strom - Echoes, Spaces, Lines (RVNG)
Richard Sears - Appear to Fade (figureight)
KMRU - Dissolution Grip (OFNOT)
Murales - Reflejo (Ediciones Éter)
Arthur Clees - Stay, Temporary Home (Macro)
Sævar Jóhansson - Where the light enters (Whitelabrecs)
Chantal Michelle - 66 Rue L (Warm Winters Ltd)
Josh Mason - An Anxious Hope (Students of Decay)
Erik K Skodvin - Nothing left but silence (Sonic Pieces)
Jupi/ter - Islands, Pt. 3 (Ambientologist)
Track Listing
Shigeto - Field Trip [0:00]
Raphael Rogński - Cliffs and the Sea [4:20]
Pauline Anna Strom - Quiet Joy [8:38]
Richard Sears - Manresa [11:32]
KMRU - Along a Wall [17:31]
Murales -Tu Sombra [30:02]
Arthur Clees - Everyday [34:02]
Sævar Jóhansson - Where the light enters [38:19]
Chantal Michelle - Line of Drift [44:35]
Josh Mason - Goes Reptile [47:20]
Erik K Skodvin - The Slow Harvest [50:37]
Jupi/ter - Our Final Days [54:18]
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Sunday Aug 06, 2023
Surgery 298
Sunday Aug 06, 2023
Sunday Aug 06, 2023
Alan Courtis & David Grubbs - Braintrust of Fiends and Werewolves (Husky Pants)
Mary Lattimore - Goodbye, Hotel Arkada (Ghostly)
Claire Deak - Sotto Voce (Lost Tribe Sound)
IKSRE & anthéne - Seasons Shifting (Polar Seas)
7038634357 - Neo Seven (Blank Forms)
Atte Elias Kantonen - A Path with a Name (Students of Decay)
Philipp Otterbach - The Dahlem Diaries (Music from Memory)
Peter Broderick & Ensemble 0 - Give It to the Sky: Arthur Russell's Tower of Meaning Expanded (Erased Tapes)
Tristan Allen - Tin Iso and the Dawn (RVNG Int'l)
Tomáš Knoflíček - Serendipity (Laaps)
Chaz Knapp, Cy Werner, Chaz Prymek - Microfolk (Scissor Tail)
Track Listing
Alan Courtis & David Grubbs - Braintrust of Fiends and Werewolves [0:00]
Mary Lattimore - And Then He Wrapped His Wings Around Me [4:10]
Claire Deak - A Million Cloaked Ghosts [9:10]
IKSRE & anthéne - Solstice [13:12]
7038634357 - Winded [17:59]
Atte Elias Kantonen - Mire [24:39]
Philipp Otterbach - Left Hand Society [29:13]
Peter Broderick & Ensemble 0 - Tower of Meaning III [31:53]
Tristan Allen - Act II: Sea and Sky [38:46]
Tomáš Knoflíček - Syllabic Speech [47:52]
Chaz Knapp, Cy Werner, Chaz Prymek - To Mend a Heart with Gold [52:52]
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Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Surgery 73
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Busy week... plus it's been a while since we featured a "Vintage" episode. Enjoy this one originally posted on January 23, 2009.
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The Fun Years - Baby, It's Cold Inside (Barge)
The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition of Phrases (Install)
Library Tapes - A Summer Beneath The Trees (Make Mine Music)
Reigns - The House On The Causeway (Monotreme)
Dakota Suite - The End of Trying (Karaoke Kalk)
Robert Henke - Atom/Document (Imbalance)
Kangding Ray - Automne Fold (Raster-Noton)
Pixel - The Drive (Raster-Noton)
Jacaszek - Treny (Miasmah)
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Dolores (Ipecac)
Humcrush - Rest At Worlds End (Rune Grammofon)
Hemlock Smith & Les Poissons Autistes - Three Times Dead (Everest Records)
Track Listing
The Fun Years - The Surge Is Working [0:00]
The Caretaker - Lacunar Amnesia [8:10]
Library Tapes - Above The Flood [11:30]
Reigns - Mirrors At Night [15:22]
Dakota Suite - This Failing Sea [19:58]
Robert Henke - [First_Contact] [21:51]
Kangding Ray - Quarante [30:12]
Pixel - +40° 42 24.12 -73° 59 51.18 [33:44]
Jacaszek - Powoli [38:22]
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Welk [44:12]
Humcrush - Solar Sail [50:23]
Hemlock Smith & Les Poissons Autistes - Birmingham [55:38]

Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Surgery 297
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Sonmi451 - The Eighteen Minute Gap (Laaps)
Stefano Guzzetti - Letters from Nowhere - Piano Book Volume Three (Home Normal)
JARR - 42º (Sound in Silence)
Jon Neher & Michael Scott Dawson - I Yield My Time (Whitelabrecs)
Carmen Villain - Music from the Living Monument (Smalltown Supersound)
Jörgen Kjellgren - Bluebird (Slow Music Movement)
Hania Rani - Ghosts (Gondwana)
Maria W Horn & Vilhelm Bromander - Earthward Arcs (Warm Winters Ltd)
Infinite Light Ltd - Infinite Light Ltd (Denovali)
Arovane - Seismograf (Dauw)
Track Listing
Sonmi451 - A Taste for Vicarious Pleasure [0:00]
Stefano Guzzetti - Tokyo at Night [5:09]
JARR - Rainbows on their Curves 1 [8:25]
Jon Neher & Michael Scott Dawson - Less Cardinal [20:44]
Carmen Villain - Multicolor [24:40]
Jörgen Kjellgren - Bluebird Waltz (Radio Edit) [30:03]
Hania Rani - Dancing with Ghosts [33:17]
Maria W Horn & Vilhelm Bromander - Mycelial Bloom [38:07]
Infinite Light Ltd - December 12 [49:25]
Arovane - Endett [55:17]
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Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Surgery 296
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Samuel Sharp - Consequential (Blackford Hill)
Bendik Giske - Bendik Giske (Smalltown Supersound)
Matthew Halsall - An Ever Changing View (Gondwana)
Akhira Sano - Phase Contrast from Recollection (12k)
Danny Paul Grody - Arc of Day (Three Lobed)
Saverio Rosi & TeZ - Rote Um (Backwards Records)
Sebby Kowal - Formations (Lontano Series)
Alina Kalancea - Letters Never Sent (Important Records)
Audrey Carmes - Quelque choses'est dissipé (Métron Records)
Track Listing
Samuel Sharp - Puzzle Permission [0:00]
Benedik Giske - Start [4:51]
Matthew Halsall - Water Street [9:04]
Akhira Sano - Grain Culture [17:13]
Danny Paul Grody - California Angelica [22:55]
Saverio Rosi & TeZ - Sauterne [30:28]
Sebby Kowal - Citrus & Wood [38:07]
Alina Kalancea - I Contain Multitudes [46:10]
Audrey Carmes - La fin du film [53:22]
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