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

The quest to clear out the older stuff in the Holding Tanks continues! (But only for a bit.) I’ve also got fresher stuff to offer–and watch out for that track with lyrics. Hey, it happens.

Start      Parallel Worlds, Timeflow, Fragmented
6.13       Krakenkraft, Vibrofluxx, Sononymic
14.09     IDTiL, Beneath the Patina, Artefacts with Artifacts
20.04     April Clocks, Ceremony, Rituals
25.15     Rick Sparks, Sleep Walk, Nightsong
29.56     Byron Metcalf & Mark Seelig, Timeless Voices, Kali Raga
38.06     Chris Russell, Noir, Noir
44.12     Ephemeral Mists, Nexus of the Astral Dreamer, Beginnings of Infinity
50.21     Thy Veils, Sunvault, Next Forever
55.45     LAD, Carina Nebula, Pillars of Creation
1.02.25  Christian Wittman, Expanding Galaxies, The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars
1.08.36  Rudy Adrian, Mirror Island, Reflections On A Moonlit Lake
1.11.36  Christian Fiesel, Falling Below Ground Level, Isolation Sleep
1.16.13  Requator, Mountain Temple, KosMo
1.20.07  Christopher Alvarado & M.Nominized, Mother of Earth, Arboreal
1.24.36  AO Music, Yelele, Otherness