It’s the last show of 2022, but we’re not going to look back. Oh no, my friend. We are going to stare straight down the barrel of a fully loaded Holding Tanks and say, with an appropriately unnerving grin, “Let’s see what you’ve got.” Seventeen cuts of goodness, that’s what.
As ever, thank you for being here, whether it’s been the whole year or you’re just figuring out that this is a thing. And for the long-timers…you da best.

Start       PurpleAndroid, Anguilliform, Irrational Hero
5.57       Corben, Calculating Colours, Sun Variants
10.34     San Mateo, Interoception, Exspiravit Luminaria
16.05     Sven Laux & Fione, There Was No Togetherness, Tomorrow Everything Could Be Different
22.14     Bett Butler & Joel Dilley, Where We Go From Here, Gracia
27.19     Samer Fanek, Desert Rush, Call of the Desert
30.30     Sharon Fendrich, Dryad’s Rejoice, Sapphire Oak
35.32     Joseph L Young, Secrets of Stone, Into the Unknown
40.23     Many Pretty Blooms, Spurious Realities, Bow & Clatter
46.48     Emme, New Dawn by the Lake, Talking to the Spheres
52.58     Federico Mosconi, A Rainy Picture, Outdoor Melodies
56.31     Isaiah Rizzo, Mother, Between Light & Shadows
59.34     Fred Baty, Into the Past, The Upper Air
1.02.58  Matt Christensen & P.M. Tummala, Yellow 4, Yellow Works
1.09.07  Exedra, Obelisk, Time and Emotion
1.13.00  Jacek Doroszenko, Synthetic Skin, Bodyfulness
1.21.13  Tom Eaton, The Invisible Shore, Shades of Fog

Now that the birthday party fervor has died down, we can get back to checking out new music for a bit. Then it’s into the library, beginning with a kind of new and possibly recurring segment…

Start      Radium88, No Place but Down, We are All Dreaming Now
5.56       Glossographs, Woodend, False Owls
10.24     Otaru, Prairie, View
16.11     Marco Pianges, Naran, Somewhere
19.41     Theatre of Delays, Cycling, Betelgeuse Boogaloo
24.19     William St Hugh, Amenomania, The Cracking Ship
27.51     Darlene Koldenhoven, Soliloquy, The Grand Piano Spa
31.17     Unius, A Peaceful Place, Sojourns
36.08     Swartz et, Here, but not Here, Desert Meditations
45.31     Fading Tapes, Fourth Circle, Circles
53.04     Warren Daly, Event Horizon, The Stones are Awake
56.47     Blood Box, The Celestial Abyss, Funeral in an Empty Room
1.04.36  Juha-Matti Rautiainen, Emerald, The Endless Now – Music for Stagnation
1.14.27  Quiet Horn, Expanding Sun, Life on Europa, The Last of the Sun
1.26.12  Endless Melancholy, As The Sun Quietly Sets And The Seashore Slowly Falls Asleep, Epilogue

Coming to you live from the depths of the holding tank, it’s the first episode of 2022! We’ll open up in contemporary instrumental territory, out there on the New Age border, then slip through a narrow passage of drone and into electronic realms. Off we go!

Start       Raphael Groten, Care, Potential
8.06       Adrian Lane, The Revolving Door, The Fleet
10.47     Guy Gelem, A Thought, Scenario
14.19     Johannes Linstead, In The Stillness Of Love, Bohemian Strings
18.30     Ann Sweeten, One Last October, Change is in the Wind
23.44     Will Ackerman, Jeff Oster & Tom Eaton, Head for the Sky, Brothers
28.40     Richard Souther, You Are the Picture, The Fourth Man in the Fire
31.56     Thomas Peters, Prayer, Lamentations
38.14     Phil Yeah, Giver Bend (If It’s Rain) (excerpt), Grey & Gold
52.49     Hiram, A Spectral View, Artemisia
57.49     Jim Ottaway, Celestial Parallax, Threshold of the Universe
1.05.56  Byron Metcalf, Seasons of Shifting Recall, Rhythms of Remembering
1.14.50  Chronotope Project, Myth of the Cave, Gnosis

The math in a collaborative effort is pretty simple. Artist A + Artist B = good stuff. So for the second time (the first being over 100 episodes ago) we’re going to do an “ampersand episode” and dive into some tasty musical alchemy of two artists coming together, beginning with a much-anticipated release.

Start      Steve Roach & Michael Stearns, Embrace the Infinite, Beyond Earth & Sky
9.36       Frore & Shane Morris, Lost in Wonder, Horizon
18.25     Wouter Kellerman & David Arkenstone, Taranaki Rises, Pangea
22.53     Byron Metcalf & Jennifer Grais, Near and Far Away, They Were Here
30.39     Sherry Finzer & Peter Sheridan, Leaving Earth, Traveler
36.11     Anthene & Simon McCorry, The Still Point, The Equation of Time
42.14     Philipp Bückle & Martijn Pieck, Captain Glassbeard’s Word Of Advice, Field Reports
49.25     Donoval & Fiala, V, Interstat
54.23     James Osland & Finn Kelvin, The Fog is Deeper Than We Will Ever Understand, Don’t Worry, I’m With You
58.36     Paul Adams & Elizabeth Geyer, Evening, Deeper Imaginings
1.04.20  Dean & Dudley Evenson, Evening in Giverny, Monet Garden
1.08.48  Tom Moore & Mike Clay, An Infinite Moment, Beyond Our Orbit
1.15.02  Johan Agebjorn & Mikael Ogren, Passing the Gates, Artefact
1.20.33  Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen, Tidal Disruption, Toward the Horizon

Having resisted the urge to do a 3-themed show, I instead decided to kick us off with a number of tracks in the what you call your New Age kinda sorta category. Lots of piano…which I’ll mention. When the urge passes we’ll head into somewhat driftier and less piano-y zones. It’s all good, if I do say so m’self.

Start      Terry Lee Nichols, The Cambrian Explosion, The Pale Blue Dot
5.44       Josefine & Trine Opsahl, Shaking the Yellow Leaves, The Infinite Between Us
11.40     Rimpa, Cosmos, Relax (compilation)
15.24     Eric Bikales, Kindness, Mandala
19.11     David J. Pena, Grace, Thinking of You
22.57     Ayla Schafer, Rose, Silent Voices
28.14     Mark Barnes, Misty Mornings, The Path
31.40     Max Ananyev, Palace on the Hill, Midday
34.52     Ed Bazel, Northern Lights, Homecoming
38.39     Seigo Aoyama, Blur, On the Drift
44.15     Biome, Walk Among The Crystal Tides, Essence
54.15     Igneous Flame, Hyperprism, Lapiz
1.01.07  Projekt Charity, Winter Stars, Continuum
1.12.14  Mingo, Insight, Continuum
1.25.41  Sebby Kowal, Warm Lights, Bright Spaces