Tag: chly

  • There Are No Words

    There Are No Words

    It was a big week for your little friendo, Ashta. I spent the first half of it sheltering in the gentle sweeping piano of the Ethiopian composer and famous nun, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou (re: first track). The second half of the week was committed to making a radio show for you that took a rather…

  • Strings, Winds, Brass, and Ass

    Did you know that seals and sea lions have finger nails? Like on their flippers. FLIPPER NAILS. And they look exactly like what you’d imagine; frightening and wrong. Things You Can’t Un-Know is brought to you by The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, a curated music radio show which airs on CHLY 101.7fm every Wednesday…

  • Curated Mixtapes

    Every Wednesday morning at 8 on CHLY 101.7fm. If that’s too early for FM radio listening, you can always use your podcast provider to listen to the podcasted version. Just search for The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour. Where the heck else will you find Cat Power, Stevie Wonder and Solange represented in the same…

  • Treason Flower Sobriety Power

    Actually, it’s The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, and every Wednesday morning it airs live to about 1.5 million human beings, ~300 orca whales, a few billion notable sea creatures, and untold trillions of bacterium. Every one of these living organisms will be surrounded with the invisible frequency transmission of the songs listed below via…

  • Hold’m Joe

    Hold’m Joe

    The file

  • Year 12

    January of 2012 I began the Sweet and Sour Variety Hour. Now we begin it’s 12th season. Generally, I like to deliver an accompanying soundtrack to what I imagine others are also experiencing at 8 in the morning; it’s early, I’m rising. Things are slowly moving, my ability to reckon with waking life increases with…