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On the eve of cannabis legalization in Canada, Clara-Swan takes you on a nostalgic musical journey commemorating 100 years of prohibition, featuring novelty, love, and protest songs about grass, herb, ganja, mary jane, and marijuana.

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Feat. David Peel & The Lower East Side, Harry “The Hipster” Gibson, Mardi Gras.BB, Cheech & Chong, Amon Düül, Sean Nicholas Savage + Kool Music, Hawkwind, Gong, Rick James, Brian Robbins, Ska-P, Peter Tosh, Medeski, Martin, & Wood, The Fugs, Eek-a-Mouse, John Holt, Stooges Brass Band, Twink, Dave Cloud, Richard Cheese, Otto, The Tubes, and The Coup

A decolonial thanksgiving feast of sound, with guest, Jaggi Singh!

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Feat. William S. Burroughs, Jeffrey Lewis, Mutabaruka, Grace Jones, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Kishore Kumar, Ginni Mahi, Iqbal Bano, Charles Aznavour (RIP), Nina Simone, Música Dispersa, Mustafa Özkent ve Orkestrasi, Sarolta Zalatnay, Orkestar Kriminal, Asian Dub Foundation, Les Chercheurs D’Or, Trippple Nippples, Propagandhi, and YlangYlang

Step right up! Step to, and step fro, a mild medley of musicality!

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Feat. Otis Rush (RIP), King Crimson, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, The Residents (RIP Hardy Fox), Toronto Tabla Ensemble, Land of Kush’s Egyptian Light Orchestra, Gaby Kerpel, Maggie Estep, 椎名林檎 (Shiina Ringo), Jefferson Airplane (RIP Marty Balin), Digital Primitives, Elfin Saddle, Khaira Arby (RIP), and Fernanda Porto

Clara-Swan is joined again by James for some crunching numbers

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Feat. Tom Tom Club, Cat Power, Issam Rafea & Gao Hong, Ry Cooder, NYU Steel, Philip Glass, Eli Muro, Toog, John Abercrombie, Jefferson Airplane, Miles Davis, Caïman Fu, Invisible Opera Company of Tibet, Tagaq, Hassan K, Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, Shoji Yamashiro, 1-Speed Bike, Black Light Orchestra, and Leila Gobi

This is a journey into sound… this week with James and Clara-Swan

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Feat. Eric B. & Rakim, Musicians of the Chimbuck Murung People of Western Bangladesh, Frank Oz & Jim Henson, The Ink Spots, Herbie Hancock, Taj Mahal, St Paul and the Broken Bones, Billy Preston, Bob and Doug McKenzie, Kiran Ahluwalia, Ali Hassan Kuban, Alex Chilton, Graforréia Xilarmônica, Thelonious Monk, Parc X Trio, and For Esmé

One for the ages. Clara-Swan takes you on another musical journey

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Feat. Magazine, Chalf Hassan, Chango, Bill McBirnie And Bruce Jones, Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet, Clifford Thornton, Blodwyn Pig, Buckingham Nicks, Dewey Redman, Master Musicians of Jajouka, Bachir Attar, Bonzo Dog Band, Chicha Libre, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Hector Infanzon, Banda Filarmonica CECAM, Cesar Delgado Martinez, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Mutantes, Buckshot LeFonque, Chapter 24 & Philippe Petit, Chupame El Dedo, and Charanjit Singh

James takes it to the river and leaves it all on the shoreline in this one.

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Feat. Jim White, Syl Johnson, Foghat, Canned Heat, Talking Heads, Annie Lennox, Kaleida, Crazy Backwards Alphabet, Bad Brains, METZ, Jazz Against The Machine, The Kinks, Snatch, Bixio, Frizzi, and Tempera, Funki Porcini, Ox Bow, Pink Floyd, CoConuts, Joyfultalk, Anthony Braxton, and Rational Youth