Kreative Kontrol

Vish Khanna on music, culture, and more

Tag: prairies

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Ep. #1001: Thanya Iyer

Thanya Iyer is here to discuss TIDE/TIED, her recent Canadian tour and what exactly is a jazz festival these days, Montreal music inspirations, her South Indian heritage and studying music from a young age, how synthesizers and pedals impact improvisation, dealing with chronic pain and becoming a music therapist, thematic lyrics about water and breathing, writing new songs, playing Sappyfest, other future plans, and much more.

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Tags adamkinner, ariswan, breathing, brigittenaggar, carnatic, chrisedmunson, christianeshortale, chronicpain, colonialism, constellationrecords, coreygulkin, danielgélinas, disabilityjustice, elianazimmerman, emiliekahn, eugéniejobin, eveparkerfinley, frédériqueroy, guelphjazzfestival, immigration, improvisation, India, individualism, jamesgoddard, jazz, jazzfestivals, jonkaspy, kevinduquette, maisonbonheur, mixing, monsemuro, Montreal, music, musictherapy, nicoosborne, pandemic, paroissestedouard, pedals, pompey, prairies, Sackville, SappyFest, sarahrossy, shainahayes, shelbycohen, simonmillerd, sophiegrouev, suffocation, suoniperilpopolo, thanyaiyer, theartistway, therapy, tidetied, topshelfrecords, tour, water, weather, yfransheska

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Ep: #993: Cassia Hardy

Post author By vish
Post date July 3, 2025

Cassia Hardy returns to discuss her new album In Relation, a mustard headache cure, a provocative new voicemail song that accuses her of shoplifting, craftsmanship, tech oligarchy, and repair culture, the ways that this new album is and isn’t accessible to the general public and its complementary book, pondering the Prairies from an Indigenous perspective, saluting Steve Albini and Fiver’s Simone Schmidt, hoping Bluesky is fun, playing shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Thanks to Blackbyrd Myoozik, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad’s Donuts.
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Tags Alberta, alcohol, allourrelations, amymalbeuf, apple, asko, audiblesongsofrockwood, bluesky, boylestreet, brokensocialscene, Calgary, cassiahardy, chet, cindylee, colonialism, craftsmanship, cree, danbejar, Destroyer, displacement, doniveson, Edmonton, edmontonoilers, Fiver, frogeyes, gentrification, icedistrict, inrelation, kcaccidental, kwameture, kylashellan, landlords, lastweekinfunnytweets, marxism, matthewcardinal, mattmckeen, mintrecords, musicvenues, mustard, names, nehiyaw, neilhamburger, nikostratis, oligarchy, pandemic, prairies, repair, rinaldowalcott, rogersplace, ryanbeattie, rylankafara, settlement, shoplifting, simoneschmidt, slothrecords, spotify, stevealbini, streaming, survival, synthesizer, technology, theempress, thehive, tofu, tofupress, voicemail, wares, wayfinding, weschristiansen, wunderbar

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Ep. #847: Rosali

Post author By vish
Post date March 19, 2024

Rosali discusses her beautiful new album Bite Down, Michigan, Philadelphia, and school trips to Canada, the important details, living in North Carolina with a dog and commuting to Nebraska, her band Long Hots’ Third Man Records single, befriending the David Nance Group and the Mowed Sound’s live-off-the-floor approach on Bite Down, our shared admiration for H.C. McEntire, her parents’ rock band, appreciating the Grateful Dead, escaping pigeonholes, touring, other future plans, and much more.

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