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Acheulean Age

Take a walk along an ancient road deep into the wilderness, where folkways lead with Outsider ambition. Tune in for an eclectic mix of country, folk, blues, and more from deep history to the far future, all woven in from an Outsider perspective celebrating the weird, the witchy, and the wonderful of folk music. Bring your favourite rock, a pair of sturdy boots, and an open mind on this adventure. Sponsored by the Calgary Underground Film Festival

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Acheulean Age - Episode January 17, 2026

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2026/01/18

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Acheulean Age - Episode January 10, 2026

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2026/01/11

"Is the wind on the shield of Fingal? Or is the voice of past times in my hall? Sing on, sweet voice! for thou art pleasant. Thou carriest away my night with joy. Sing on, O Bragéla, daughter of car-borne Sorglan!" from "The Death of Cuthullin" by Ossian but actually almost definitely by James Macpherson.Sing on! music to change your mind to.Playlist: Loreena McKenneitt - Si Bheag, Si Mhor / Wild Mountain ThymeMastodon - Sleeping GiantUltan O'Brien - Game of LoveThomas Newman - To The Shock Of Miss

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Acheulean Age - Episode January 3, 2026

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2026/01/04

The North wind doth blow in rectilinear fashion in homogeneous media, by reflection, scattering, or absorption of the sound waves and we shall have snow, within a sample and therefore errors and irregularities with a very high degree of accuracy, but what will poor robin do then, poor thing? All systems of Analytical Systems GmbH operate using the pulse reflection method, meaning that he'll sit in a barn, to detect and identify internal delamination, voids, material density changes, defects and many

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Acheulean Age - Episode December 27, 2025

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2025/12/28

Let's go over. Where? Over there. I'm putting you over, kid. You're gonna be a star. Crowds'll love you. So let's walk. Where? Over there. Just. Over. There. The wishing well can last three rounds. Trust me, Ol' Sarge Rock did it, too. Are you listening? The twigs make music for the stones to hear. And dancing? The crowds'll love ya, kid. Start dancing. Hear what living is. There. Hear what living is, there. Where? Just over here, c'mon, the crowds, they love you.Playlist: Edith Piaf - Histoire de

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Acheulean Age - Episode December 20, 2025

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2025/12/21

"The Coyote" / If you get back off the interstates / And away from urban trends, / You'll find a coyote doesn't have / A multitude of friends. / But I kind of like to see one, / Or hear him greet the day. / He's sort of part of our old West / That's fading fast away. / Though he demands his tribute / I'll let him have his due. / Let him take his cut, and welcome. / I guess it's his world, too. / by Wallace McRae, from "Cowboy Curmudgeon and Other Poems"Playlist: Gene Kucherawy - I Forget How The

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Acheulean Age - Episode December 13, 2025

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2025/12/14

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Acheulean Age - Episode December 6, 2025

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2025/12/07

I tried counting all the bones inside my body, every root set deep into the soil of my being, but I saw a cool bug I hadn't seen before and promptly forgot all about counting my bones. There's layers to soil, to dirt, to the earth - like a tree ring. More localized than the layers of like crust and mole people kingdoms. They call them horizons - I suppose suns set within the dirt too. I have forgotten about my bones; I float through the horizons of the soil which makes me, each particle singing

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Acheulean Age - Episode November 29, 2025

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2025/11/30

Chance. Luck. Fate. The Fates. Since we first began carving symbols into bits of bone and reading the future in the entrails of animals and the movements of the moon, humans have been captivated and entranced and reliant upon CHANCE. And today, Syf and Wynter plunge deep into just that. Chance.With some dice, a bowl with a painting of a plum on it, and a carpet bag full to bursting at the seams with CDs, Lady Luck plans today's programme, an eclectic, delightful mix that reveals deeper truths than

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Acheulean Age - Episode November 22, 2025

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2025/11/23

THE BIG SHOW TIME AYOO! From the top rope, we've got...CUFF DOCS!First off, local filmmaker Chad Blain chats with Syf about LIAM & FRIENDS, his short doc on snowboarder Liam Gill! Then, Colin Whitman, director of DIMINISHING RETURNS, tags in for his interview with Syf, about Ernesto, LA, and the reality of Filipino workers around the world. Catch both docs as part of CUFF DOCS' Shorts Package: Portraits, tomorrow, November 23, 1:15pm at the Globe Cinema! Then, with the steel chair, Lethbridge's

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Acheulean Age - Episode November 15, 2025

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2025/11/16

CUFF.DOCS coverage, with a spotlight on local directors and short doc films, continues! Today, Syf chats with Morgan Pinnock about their documentary LIFELINE, and with Jeremy Pollock about LEO MAJOR: ONE MAN ARMY. Enjoy plenty of tunes alongside the deep and wide-ranging interviews, with a highlight on atmospheric, doomy, hazey, sludge-y tunes, perfect to rest your weary bones on, one November afternoon.Playlist: Todd Snider - Vinyl RecordsBill King Trio - One Mint JulepKid Creole And The Coconuts -

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Acheulean Age - Episode November 8, 2025

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2025/11/09

CUFF.DOCS is rapidly approaching temporally! November 19 -23, head to the Globe Cinema and catch some incredible documentaries - including two discussed in this episode! Syf interviews Liv James, director of STREET CATS YYC - A MINI DOCUMENTARY, followed by a chat with director Victoria McFadyen about her short doc, ICE COWBOY. Both will be showing at CUFF.DOCS this year. For schedules, line ups, and tickets, head to calgaryundergroundfilm.org !Playlist: Micah P. Hinson - The Last Train To

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Acheulean Age - Episode November 8, 2025

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2025/11/09

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Acheulean Age - Episode November 1, 2025

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2025/11/02

COYOTE PLOTLINES DEEPEN!listen on in to syf and DUKE & GOLDIE, the phenomenal duo of country-folk songstory stylings, chat about their upcoming EP (November 7!!!) and Calgary show the night before (The Prairie Emporium, November 6!!!), and...coyotes? i shan't say more, you'll have to HEAR for yourself! plus, a delightful assortment of canadian music spanning the gamut of genres, styles, eras, and more; more cannibal-centric songs than usual; and a rather sunny disposition'd syf sharing facts,

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Acheulean Age - Episode October 25, 2025

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2025/10/26

In this country the animalshave the faces of animals. Their eyes flash once in car headlights and are gone. Their deaths are not elegant. They have the faces of no-one. from "the animals in that country" by margaret atwood The dog park near my home, which forms the focus of my outings with my own canine, has fully done away with green grass. Yellow dry stalks of dead and dying tall grass wave in the

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Acheulean Age - Episode October 18, 2025

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2025/10/19

FUNDING DRIVE SPECTACULAR!Syf is joined by Wynter (of Practical Lace) and friend of the show Bird to chat all things funding drive, internet archives, public domain gems, and how YOU, dear listener, can support CJSW 90.9FM!!! call (403)220-5000 before 6pm October 24th and PLAY! CONNECT! DISCOVER!Playlist: Jaiden Riley - Chickens In The Trailer ParkJennie Harluk - SugarcoatGrateful Dead - Friend Of The DevilAbing - Da LangtaoshaBoyd Raeburn, featuring Ginnie Powell, Alec Wilder - Trouble Is A ManYma

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Acheulean Age - Episode October 11, 2025

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2025/10/12

"o leafy yellowness you create for mea world that was and now is poised above time i do not need to puzzle out ETERNITY as i walk this arboreal street on the edge of a town." -from "October" by patrick kavanagh it is autumn & i feel the momentum towards winter pushing me forward it is autumn & a cold wind tightens my chest it is autumn & i sweat among dying leaves wondering how i am both overheating and underdressed it is autumn & i have not mourned summer yet it is autumn & many gifts have been

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Acheulean Age - Episode October 4, 2025

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2025/10/05

BOY HOWDY WHAT A SHOW!!!! lots of folk, country, jazz, and the darker side of life, woven through with humour, weird delights, and the warmth of storytelling! Plus, TWO interviews! First up to bat, Wayne and Abbey of Express Entertainers join Syf to chat about their upcoming show Northern Nights (https://www.expressentertainers.ca/ ) coming to Calgary October 8 - 19 at the Royal Canadian Legion 275! Next, local singer-songwriter Jaiden Riley (https://www.stagehand.app/artists/2911) joins Syf to

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Acheulean Age - Episode September 27, 2025

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2025/09/28

& thee Old Wives Summer continues! Sure, the mornings are crisper and chillier, but these days, they do sweat themselves by! Among the yellow leaves and dead-dry stalks of tall grass, what treasures, what tales, what travellers might we find?Root yourself in the land. We are guests here. Say thank you to your hosts. Tidy up after yourself. Rest, as long as you need. Find comfort in the rocks, twigs, beeswings, and other delightful things. Ordinary, yet extraordinary, too. "1. SET CONFLICT

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Acheulean Age - Episode September 20, 2025

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2025/09/21

"All overgrown by cunning moss,All interspersed with weed..." Oh Emily Dickinson, I sure do hope your spirit out there is enjoying today's show - were you the last of your kind? Perhaps you felt that way. I do, sometimes, too.But we are not thylacines, we are not treasures of the swamp. We are people of feeling. Love, hurt, envy, joy. Isn't it all beautiful? And to see every colour, to feel every feeling, pleasant or not, there is a richness and a hesitant enjoyment to relish, in the enjoyment of

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Acheulean Age - Episode September 13, 2025

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2025/09/14

Hey! Hey!That’s what the Blues singers say. Singing minor melodies They laugh, Hey! Hey! from "Blues Fantasy" by Langston Hughes, 1926 maybe it's a song six centuries old. maybe it's a poem only ninety-nine years young. maybe it's the croaking of a bird whose species has been crowing that same call for seventeen million years. perhaps the wurlitzer organ-made calls of birds which never existed. maybe it's a song caught on yesterday's breeze, sung sweetly, freshly now, in this present moment. or

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