It’s another week here in the land of The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour, the program created to be a community-driven plethora of varietal contributions, and was for a long time. Now it’s just me, Ashta, screening good music, selecting, and placing in order a mixtape I think you’ll love.
(typing tracklist now)
Here we are, on the road again.
If you’re a follower already, you’ll know that I fuss over the order of the songs to create the perfect mood – just like when we use to make mixtapes.
Well, not this week.
Everything you’ll hear on this show, was chosen by our listeners!
If you want in on the action, follow us on Instagram @ssvhradio
The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour is a one-hour anything-goes festival of sound-good. Every Wednesday morning for 10 years, CHLY 101.7FM listeners in over 40 coastal communities have been subject to the audiocratic whims of local weirdo, Ashta. From 8-9am, she privately relishes the technical reality that terrestrial radio waves saturate a portion of the Earth’s surface with frequencies of her choosing.
This week is no different. Only she’s asking you to follow the @ssvhradio account on Instagram
Here is the file for Wednesday, October 20th, 2021
Bibio , Feeling
Com Truise , Colorvision
Lusine , Two Dots
Mrid, Kawtar Sadik , Salat Ala Nabina
Generationals , In Green
Fred Thomas , I Heard You Say
Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin , Since you Stole my Heart
Radiation City , The Clod and the Pebble
Rainier Maria , Big Man
Forro in the Dark , Voce Nao E Insubstituviel
Forro in the Dark , Indios So Norte
Stereolab , Diagonals
The Beta Band , B + A
Chopin , Etude No. 12 in C minor, Op 10
Max Richter , The Departure
Chopin , Waltz in c Sharp Minor, Op 62
CHLY 101.7FM is like your badass next-door neighbour who unabashedly plays their music too loud and who you refer to in times of crises for advice. You switch to it when the overbearing snarky commercials of the other radio stations become too much to handle. It is at times your sonic refuge, and at other times a quaint slice of your community you can tip your head to.
The truth of the matter is that CHLY doesn’t suckle at the commercial radio teat to bolster its survival. It’s an independent woman about the world, making the ends meet where she can! Unsullied and raw, she tells it like it is, because she answers to No Man. Her health and survival depend on donations and meager levies.
In all seriousness: we cannot live in a world informed by the corporate media only. We need independent, critical-thinking views and reporting through a financially-healthy community-based media like CHLY. Only you can prevent an extinction, by ponying up a tiny bit every month. Spend the 5 minutes to sign up for an automatic monthly donation here.
This is the file for The Sweet and Sour Variety Hour on Wednesday, October 6th 2021 airing at 8am PST on CHLY 101.7fm to 40 coastal communities
The Music
