Troubadour balladeer of folk, jazz, Celtic and traditional standards, Willow Rutherford has deep roots in the Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver indie music scenes.  She is the former band leader and lead songwriter for the infamous Montreal supergroup, The Subcollisions.  Her style of accordion-folk cabaret is unparalleled.  Willow’s songs have been referred to as “land-locked sea-shanties” with lyrics about hysterical love, historical fantasy, and a sublime mix of playful yet poignant narratives that are both earnest and ironic.

Willow comes by music honestly.  She is the offspring of the late, great pianist Mark Rutherford and the sister of Toronto songstress Calamity Royale.  A chance encounter with a gifted accordion inspired an entirely new range of musicianship and Willow has never looked back.  She has composed soundtracks for documentaries and animated shorts, and has accompanied rising stars The Fugitives, E.S.L., Annabelle Chvostek, and David Simard.  Willow sings in English, French and Spanish and is a master of improvisation, both musically and lyrically.


Organic. Electronic. Nu Gaia.

In the beginning there were low-lit 3am FM radio broadcasts with tape loops, turntables, poorly mic’d hand percussion, copious analogue delay, and numerous talented dj’s + other guests, many of whom have long since gone on to earn great due repute worldwide. This was 1992.

Through multiple incarnations of shows, many of which were situated on the crystalline frequencies of the ever-pertinent bastion of soundness, CiTR 101.9fm, the evolution of this perpetually evolving channel currently manifests and maintains as Mantra Radio.

There is _an_ unfolding, not cliche at all actually, and one way it’s known, lived, and celebrated is through the subtle language of sound vibration. There is a coming together around this, an expansion of the vocabulary, a sharing of experiences, a higher connection. Lineages great and small can be traced of the beings who have contributed to this beautiful conversation. Mantra Radio, and it’s preceding forms, were and are interested in supporting such transmissions and the people who sculpt them.

As the binaries of organic and technospheric, spirit and soil, converge and dissipate, we are engaged in soundtracking this continuously new’ing paradigm. We sometimes use the term nu-gaia to capture this concept. We invite you to share in the benevolent static. A shifting sum of sculpted vibrations formed by the minds of many gifted composers, appositely curated and hosted by Raghunath Khe (@raghunathkhe)

Mantra Radio airs live every other Saturday 5 – 6pm (PST) from the studios of CiTR 101.9fm in Vancouver, Canada. http://citr.ca

Schedule is available at http://www.mantraradio.ca/live-broadcast-calendar

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