Episode 426

Hi again! (You got my note, right?) Off we go with a big bunch of Holding Tank goodness. It even gets a little funky…

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Start      Colin Rayment, Time Stands Still, Time Dilation
11.29     John Scott Shepherd, Shifting Dreamscapes, Corridors Of The Mind
16.01     Sophos, Systema Naturae (excerpt), Paradoxa
28.54     Tobi Morare, Riptide, Whiplash
31.10     David Barnes, Hovering Above, Pieces
36.06     Adam Ahuja, Johnny Butler & E Scott Lindne, 1st Movement, Ancient Scrolling
40.34     Cura, In the Hush of Mosaic Spaces, In the Hush of Mosaic Spaces
47.42     Sverre Knut Johansen, Massive Extinction, Still Time
56.51     Panoptique Electrical For Spaces, For Years
59.33     City of Dawn, Invincible Summer, Invincible Summer
1.04.12  Oxia Palace, Nyx, Kalendis
1.10.34  Pabellón Sintético & Lucas Tripaldi, Last Call, Last Call
1.16.37  Michael Brückner, Aish Ná, Sheep Asleep
1.27.23  Eulipion Corps, Snows of Kurama, Kurama

Episode 425

It’s official–you can’t say “2025” like you’re not in a science fiction flick and here we are. And sure, we haven’t managed flying cars and moon hotels yet, but we have gotten a pretty firm grasp on great music, 90 minutes of which starts as soon as you hit that li’l tipped-over triangle thingy. Happy new year.

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Start       Robert Rich & Luca Formentini, Tapestry Sky, Cloud Ornament
8.50       Gustavo Denouard, Spirits, Mysterious Wind
19.01     Kilometre Club, Belleville ON, Let Us Compare Geographies
23.53     Brannan Lane, Daydreams, The Sleep Album
28.15     David Franklin, Birds Start Their Songs, One Day in Spring
31.27     Jill Haley, Orange Melts into Blue, Colors Collide
35.45     Raphael Groten & Rebecca Kodis, Eternal Blossom, Unity
41.08     Rick Sparks, Serenity, Angeline
49.49     Carl Lord, Beckley Creek, Weightless
53.53     Jim Ottaway, This Fleeting World, A Promise of Eternity
1.00.03  Latome2, Moss Sunday, Geologic Dreams
1.06.22  Purgate, Dawn, Transcend
1.12.47  Freydel, New Pics On The Wall, New Thoughts
1.17.11  Patrick Patrikios, New Day (Single)
1.19.24  Gregory Paul Mineef, Barely Concealed, I Knew You Once
1.28.01  Vaux Flores, Manuel Antonio, 5 AM, nearly 20 years after my last encounter, Dawn Chorales

Episode 424

All righty, let’s close out 2024 with 90 more minutes of the good stuff. Thank you so much for listening, and thank you to all the artists who have sent their work my way. I hope you’ve enjoyed the ride, and we’ll keep meeting up as we head into the new year.

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Start      Billy Yfantis, Magnetic Fields, Planetary Fields
3.57       Erez Yaary, After Night Falls, Everything Will Dissolve
15.48     Black Decelerant, Five, Reflections Vol. 2
18.59     Braulio Lam, Films, Stills & Polaroids, Redscale
24.16     Liam Boyle, Kaleidoscope, Interdimensional Mind Traveller
31.08     In Vitro, Dark Space Age, Siete Noches
33.13     Charles Denler, I Love You More, It Was Just the Moon
36.05     Memory Drawings, Grateful for What Amounts to Nothing, Deathbed Requests
40.24     Phillip Wilkerson, The Emperor of Clouds, Whenever Now Finds You
45.12     Yulio, Sarah Connor, Symphonies from the Retrofuture
51.24     S475e, White Ocean, Next Stop Earth
55.20     Sophia, Mouth of Mammon, The Age of the Narcissist
1.00.23  Beckahesten, Min Sista Måne, Svältens Tid
1.05.53  Pietro Zollo, Emotion, Fragmented Patterns
1.12.12  The Lonely Bell, Benjamin’s Dream (excerpt), Benjamin’s Dream

Episode 423

No stops on this one. We kick off with a pair of contemporary piano pieces, find our way into the drifty zone, ramp things up with some old-school goodness, and close out, as is often the case here, a bit quietly. And along the way, you get chocolate. Enjoy!

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Start      Richard Shulman, Blessing, Spring Equinox Piano Meditations
3.48       Masako, Brooks and Cascades, Lost There Found Here
8.25       Dino Pacifici, Dark Chocolate, Dark Artifacts
13.50     Vamadeva, Magic Fire Circle, The Call of Wisdom
24.15     TheAdelaidean & Steve Roach, Vanishing Point, Parallels
34.11     Loneward, Distant Wanderers, Beyond the Sea Part Two
47.00     Neuro…No Neuro, Lunch Boxes, Mental Cassette
49.14     Old Amica, Tiden Far, För Alltid
54.02     Lofield, Suspended in Silence, Drifting
58.24     Michael Brückner, Crystaloquence, Threequences
1.16.18  Ackerley-Prymek-Turner, World’s Edge, All Hope With Sleeping Minds
1.25.11  Erik Wøllo, Then Now, Crossing the Equator

Episode 422

Back into the tanks we go for some spacey drifts, downright hypnotic piano, one amazing song title, and…a cover tune? Don’t look at the playlist before you listen–I think you’ll get a kick out of what it is. (And it’s definitely jazzier than you remember!) Let’s go.

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Start      Sacred Seeds, Vibrational Balance, Spectral Drift
7.33       David Pedrick, Port Issac, Arta
13.07     David Wright, Elemmírë, Fade
21.49     Cousin Silas & Michael Brückner, Reunion, Passages and Spheres
30.21     Paul Ellis, Three Trajectories 3, Three Trajectories
50.30     FINAL, Behind Me, What We Don’t See
1.02.02  Gretchen Korsmo, The Longest Strongest Looking Toes I Had Ever Seen, Silhouettes, Spires
1.15.33  Desiderii Marginis, Ghostfires, Bathe in Black Light
1.22.52  Slow Heart Music, The Past Be Upon Us, Hope
1.26.39  Todd Mosby, Norwegian Wood, Land of Enchantment

Episode 421

I know what you’ve been thinking, “When will John get around to doing another clever, well-thought-out theme show?” Maybe someday. In the meantime, here’s a very meh theme idea that still gives you 90 minutes of great music. And the title of it is…

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Start      Fred Baty, The Upper Air, The Upper Air
2.13       John Luttrell, The Dream Exchange, The Dream Exchange
6.23       John Lyell, Planetary Artifacts, Planetary Artifacts
11.36     Byron Metcalf, Steve Roach & Rob Thomas, Monuments of Ecstasy, Monuments of Ecstasy
26.33     Craig Padilla, Beyond the Portal, Beyond the Portal
39.16     Mong Tong, Mystery, Mystery
45.51     Rob Byrd, Aurora Season, Aurora Season
50.40     David Cullen, Revival, Revival
55.24     Greg Karukas, Serenata, Serenata
58.21     James Bernard, Atwater, Atwater
1.03.36  Neil Gardner, We Are Infinite, We Are Infinite
1.08.51  Michael Whalen, Sacred Spaces, Sacred Spaces
1.13.09  Jim Ottaway, Somewhere In-Between, Somewhere In-Between
1.17.34  Deborah Martin & Jill Haley, The Silence of Grace, The Silence of Grace
1.24.11  The Current, Communion-Mode Selector, Communion*

*Apparently out of print. Available on Amazon, but you know we feel about that.

Episode 420

As you’ll hear, I thought about it. You know, that theme. Instead, one homage to jazz lettuce and then we’re off into a joyful traipse through the library before delving into some new stuff.

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Start     Steven Halpern, Cannabis Dreams Part 2, Cannabis Dreams
5.54      The Smokering, Buddha Blessed, Mellow Majestic
10.35    Go Ask Alice, Born again(st), Ten little dreams (and one bonus nightmare)
17.43    Matt Goodluck, Devolution, Inner Cosmos
22.40    Computerchemist, Valley of Modulation, Volcan Dreams
29.15    Julien Boulier, Estuaire Ephemere, A Film Not Yet Made
33.21    Ben Carroll, Akashic Mantra for Recalibration, Becoming Light
39.56    Paulina Cassidy, Summer Rain, Drawing Up a Storm
48.15    Kilometre Club, The Starring Role in Undercover Mermaid, Other Rooms (compilation)
56.18    RL Huber, Restless Sun, Memories of Falling
59.33    Ancient Astronaut, Ethereal Mists, Secret Stars
1.03.34 Trem 77, Hello, You Are on the Air (Radio Towers Mix), Topography
1.07.06 Pandorama, People On Our Own, Latency
1.10.43 For The Glory Of Nothing, Secondo Tempo, CAERDROIA
1.15.10 Monster Taxi, Field of Dreams (single)
1.19.27 OdNu, Adaptogenic, Ronroco Rococo Memories

Episode 417

Oh, kids, this one’s got it all! Supergroups, weird titles, albums I got by mistake, strange and perhaps slightly discomforting songs, names I had to look up or ask how to pronounce, and at least one well-known artist I never thought would end up here. Curiosity piqued? Let’s flow.

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Start      Dark Sky Alliance, Latch, Interdwell
3.03       Sacred Seeds, Digital Shades, Electric Fabric
10.28     Zságer Balázs, Alámerül, Aqua Obscura
14.40     Matthew Ward, Sketches 20 (What Do We Want), Stranger
18.44     Max Corbacho, Primordial Flower, The Delicate Essence of Solitude
26.48     Signer, 251-3, Selected Dreams 2020-2022
31.50     MIDI Janitor, No Division Between Sayings, Holy to Dogs
36.11     Diane Arkenstone, Kiva Ceremony, Essential Diane Arkenstone
41.43     Peter Calandra, Spirit, Spirit
50.32     Deuter, The Walk, Komorebi
1.00.26  Susanne Darre, Loss, Fragile
1.04.50  Giannis Gogos, Movements, Linger
1.10.14  Mathias Grassow & Heikki Lindgren, Stück 9 – Valassaret, Harmaja
1.21.47  Poltrock, Titanus Giganteus, Aulus I & II

Episode 416

If you’ve been here before, you know that the rule is that the flow dictates the show. So this one starts off fun and funky with an infectious track but in short order turns into something drifting and just a little bit lazy. As Vonnegut said, so it goes.

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Start      Don Plok & Baja Frecuencia, Abajo, Camino de Cintura Vol 1
3.08       Temporal Waves, Cyclotron, Temporal Waves
5.51       Chris Meyer’s Alias Zone, Sputnik’s Ghosts, Finite Space
27.50     Billy Denk, Furthest Limits, Meditations of the Cosmos
34.17     Cosmos in Collision, Kairos, The Passage Of Time
41.30     Daryl Groetsch, Above the Shore (excerpt), Above the Shore
59.27     Steve Roach, The Splendor Within, Reflections in Repose
1.14.56  Loneward, Celestial Tides, Beyond the Sea Part One

Episode 415

Music can get a little weird at times–ever notice that? Well, you might this time around. But it all flows and lightens across time, so that’s good, right? If nothing else, you get to hear your host apologetically mangle someone’s language for the umpteenth time. So worldly. Enjoy.

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Start      SKSSS & Koiwa, 88888, Unexpected
4.13       HHNOI, Slow Blow, Scrambled Anthems
8.28       Elizabeth Joan Kelly, Calton Hill, LF17/Edinburgh
13.27     Diamond Gloss, Gala, Golden Mountain Tales
24.01     Willebrant & Williamson, Vesper, Night Daze
36.04     Snufmumriko, Havsklockor, Havstrakt
42.04     Andrew Heath & Mi Cosa de Resistance, The Dreamers, Cafe Tristesse
51.11     Robert Scott Thompson, And Tomorrow and the Earth, Dragging the Sea With Dreams
1.02.01  Adrian Lane, The Field Path, Vignettes
1.05.33  Mark David Hadley, Windfall, Homegrown Apples
1.10.50  Frolin & Magnus, The North Sea, Stargazing
1.13.46  Ginkgo Garden, Trade Winds In The Sails, Wrapped in Mystery
1.17.59  Michael Whalen, Ode to a Perfect Sunset, Watercolor Sky
1.23.13  Richard Theisen, Infinite Dream, Oceanova