End of the Dial

The aesthetics of radio just happens to luckily match the aesthetics of the internet … you have this feeling of conversational tone and accessibility and when radio is working it has that feeling of, “this person on the radio is just talking to me.”

[audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2251996/endofthedial_20140213.mp3]

End of the Dial (MP3)

Interesting documentary about radio from EastVan’s Garth Mullins.

 

The People’s Music

I’m a son of a sea cook, and a cook in a trader
I can dance, I can sing, I can reef the main boom
I can handle a jigger, and cuts a big figure
Whenever I gets in a boat’s standing room.

Maritime adaptation of Spanish Ladies


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Birth of a Genre (MP3)

[audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2251996/The-Peoples-Music-Part-1.mp3]

The Genre Comes of Age (MP3)

[audio: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2251996/The-Peoples-Music-Part-2.mp3]

The Birth of an Industry (Mp3)

[audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2251996/The-Peoples-Music-Part-3.mp3]

If I Had a Song (MP3)

[audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2251996/The-Peoples-Music-Part-4.mp3]

We Are The World (MP3)

[audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2251996/The-Peoples-Music-Part-5.mp3]

A fantastic 5-part radio documentary on the emergence of Canadian folk music from Vancouver’s Gary Cristall.