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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.
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!
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.
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…
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.
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 419
Let’s get comfy in the library this time around. I’ll dig through the stacks to see what I can pull for your discerning ears. Gosh, I wonder if I’ll come across one of those…
Start 42DE, Dawn Of The Day, Fall Of The Moon
5.07 Leaving Richmond, Memories from Another You, Visions
9.20 Dan Caine, Incantation, Cascades
13.29 AnimalWeapon, DST (Wreath), Set of Constraints
17.33 Joe Frawley, Undine, Waterhouse
20.43 Chance’s End, Telling Truth, Almost Home
22.48 Rest You Sleeping Giant, Light from the Cave’s Mouth, Peppermint Tea
26.51 Bill Whitley, Absent Light, Mind & Machine
39.57 Phillip Wilkerson, The Weave of the Day, Silver Afternoons
44.54 CommonSen5e & Mario Gronnert, Through Midnight Fallen Lands, Nightmares And Dreamscapes: Silhouettes Of Urbia
49.33 Tom Eaton, Altitudes, Elements – Audio Environments Part One: Air
59.24 Sine Rider, Carry On, Lonely Ocean
1.03.04 Caleb Dolister, The Acrobat, Daily Thumbprint Collection 3, The Wandering
1.05.20 Haiku Salut, Divided By Surfaces And Silence, Etch and Etch Deep
1.09.02 Signal Void, Eidolon, This Liminal Reality
1.13.19 Erik Wøllo & Byron Metcalf, Valley of Spheres, Earth Luminous
1.21.33 Robert Logan, You, Me, You, Me
1.28.10 Laura Masotto, Lucciola, Fireflies
Episode 418
The new stuff keeps flowing in this little jaunt. As is often the case, it goes a bit of everywhere and mellows right out at the end.
Start Xu & Francis Gri, Ghost Hills, Valley of Languages
6.50 Celestial Trails, Time Collapse on the Threshing Floor, Lunar Beachcomber
12.47 Marucoporoporo, Conceive the Sea, Conceive the Sea
17.11 Simon McCorry & Wodwo, Jackself in his Toadskin Hat, Every Creeping Thing
24.59 Eulipion Corps, MoonChild BC, Megaliths & the Tides
29.41 Ice Planet 9000, The Planetoid, Sequence 2: Star Chamber
35.09 Eleon, Euphoria, Hidden Kingdom
43.34 Jarguna, Icy Drops on Buds, Hanami
56.00 Lars Jakob Rudjord, Great Great Grandfathersong, Kjempe-Jo
1.00.45 John Butler, Drifting, Running River
1.11.03 Serena Gabriel, In the All, The Saffron Sky
1.19.01 Byron Metcalf & Ari Urban, The Memory Temple feat. Dashmesh, Rituals of Passion
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.
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.
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
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