This one opens and closes with artists I’ve been listening to for a couple decades now. (We’re gettin’ old, boys…) In between, familiar faces and new-to-me names from the Holding Tanks direct the ride.

Start      Altus, Matters of Light, Ultraviolet
6.06       Alluste Desde, Turín a Buenos Aires, Gemstones V
12.03     Voyage Futur, Ancient Treescape, Unseen Portal
16.59     Gandalf, A Light from Afar, A Light from Afar
25.18     Radio Massacre International, Galactic Furnace Part 2 (Radio Edit), Galactic Furnace
34.28     theAdelaidean, Day Dreamt, Distant Objects in Soft Focus
46.15     RL Huber, Forgiving Light, Forgiving Light
48.46     Jill Fraser, Beautiful Summer, Earthly Pleasures
55.40     Feeling Flying, Tiden far, Spirit Level
1.06.15  Teleport Collective, Mother Engine, A Monolith’s Dream
1.12.12  Ed Herbers, Spacewalk, Upper Atmosphere
1.15.54  Igneous Flame, Fluid Mass, Vortex

This one’s got it all! Magic, Darkness, Celestial Blueprints, Dreams, and the Carpet of Time. You’re intrigued, I know. So let’s not waste any more time with reading words. MUSIC!

Start      David Arkenstone, Ancient Magic Awakens, Quest for the Runestone
4.56       Holland Phillips, Behind the Veil, A Sense of Distance
8.14       Glacis, Locks, This Darkness from Which We Cannot Run
10.31     Point Surrender, Lonetree, Mark II
15.19     Time Being, Celestial Blueprint, Hidden Structures
25.35     Bart Hawkins, Roll Up the Carpet of Time, Mirror
36.32     Network 23, Piton des Neiges, Return to Berlin – Part 9
51.25     Playback Head, Memory Island, Body of Water
54.57     Todd Stuart Fletcher, All the Goodbyes, Futures 1
59.48     Steve Roach, In Twilight’s Shadow, One Day of Forever
1.11.51  Henrik Meierkord, Ambient Dreams, Falling
1.17.27  Polaroid Notes, The Night Returns Without A Sound, Quiet Rooms
1.22.48  Sunken Cathedral, Ericaceae Drift, Trails, Streams, Rivers, and Mile Markers

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

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.

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