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Week of Feb. 24th...

This week we rerun a "heart of winter" program from 2004. If it's cold where you are, you'll be right in tune with music from Norway by ERIK WOLLO and BIOSPHERE, from France by LIGHTWAVE, from England by JON HOPKINS and IGNEOUS FLAME, and more. It's a supercooled journey called GLACIER BAY.

Week of Feb. 17th...

Back in the briar patch with this show of ambient/electronic/melodic/chordal spacemusic.

We've harvested a group of brand new pieces by DEAN DE BENEDICTUS, MINGO, MICHEL HUYGEN, THOM BRENNAN, JON JENKINS and DARSHAN AMBIENT, and seasoned the mix with a few older classics from KIT WATKINS, ZERO OHMS and DANNA & CLEMENT.

Whether cruising across distant starfields, drifting through clouds of interstellar dust, or just floating peacefully in the good ole cosmic soup, spacemusic takes us to a galaxy far, far away. That may be escapism, but hey, we like it. We might even need it...

Week of Feb. 10th...

This week we return to a sound and an instrument with endless appeal -- the personal, contemplative piano. In fact this program was going to be compilation for Hearts of Space records. I worked on it with my friend and co-producer AL EVERS in 2004. For various reasons, the album was never released, but I kept coming back to it for personal listening because I loved the selection and the sequence.

There are some absolutely wonderful players here including VICTOR SPIEGEL, RITCHIE BEIRACH, BENJAMIN DOWLING, ADRIENNE TORF, MYCHAEL DANNA and more -- the kind that make you realize the difference between good, and great. This week it just sounded right, and we decided to share it with you as a program.

Week of Feb. 3rd...

This week we return to the brilliant world of Nordic spacemusic and the ECM brand of space jazz in particular, with a special focus on Norway.

It may be a tiny country, but it's home to some of the best musicians on earth, including JAN GARBAREK, TERJE RYPDAL and TRYGVE SEIM, plus German bassist and kindred spirit EBERHARD WEBER. It's the yearning, passionate sound of Nordic space jazz, on this edition of Hearts of Space.