Pondercast

Listening Party – We have Canadian music royalty for you this episode. After a 15 year hiatus, The Rheostatics have a new album: Here Come the Wolves.

This episode is a live recording of Moon Merge at The Bentway in Toronto on September 14th - the night of the full Harvest Moon.

In this episode we join forces with another podcast: 'The Moth' to talk about storytelling. The Moth has been encouraging real people to tell their real stories in front of an audience for 22 years. If you haven’t listened you should..right after you listen to this.

The urge to disappear...to shut down the phone and walk away from being ‘social’. Are you feeling it?

This episode is our second instalment of summer-isms. Because we all can’t get enough of summer. We also can’t get enough time off to enjoy it.

Listening Party – Rich Aucoin’s latest album is called Release - and that’s what it feels like. I sat down with Rich to find out how he writes such uplifting music about such serious stuff...like death and fear.

This episode is built for a summer’s night. So instead of recording inside, I took the microphone to the backyard on a beautiful night and pressed record. Then Joshua took his recording gear outside and filled this with warm summer music. So imagine we are all sitting outside in a backyard together, soaking up the summer night vibes. If you are heading in to the fridge will you grab me something?

Interview and Listening Party – We talk about storytelling, songwriting, and about the joy of creating. And we also talk about how the sound of a voice attracts us.

What does it take to get you to ‘come to your senses’? A whole lot of nothing.

Listening Party – It’s here! The latest Ponderbeat is going to fill your summer of 2019 with a buffet of brand new music.

Listening Party – Music! Talk! Pondering! Tony Dekker of Great Lake Swimmers and I got together to talk about things that are mostly wordless. Ha!

The world does feel like it’s unravelling, but do you see the great turning too?

Hear my conversation with Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds. We talk about creativity, flow and sweat. In that order.

How to talk about what silence does for us in a sound-based medium?We start with the opposite: noise! This episode moves from noise to silence and from past to present.

Listening Party – Dan Mangan writes songs way above his pay grade. From the moment he started putting out music, his songs had the sophistication of a much more experienced writer. So on this Pondercast - may I pull your attention towards this remarkable new album by Dan called More or Less.