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Week of March 31st...

We continue to navigate the seemingly interminable transition to spring with a program of intra-seasonal electronics from ROBERT RICH, PATRICK O'HEARN, HEMISPHERE, ROB PAPEN, CHAD HOEFLER and others. The show combines light, optimistic sounds with deeper wintry streams. A slow ride on ambient waveforms...to spring.

Week of March 24th...

This week we reprise a lovely ambient chamber show from 2005 with a stellar cast: HAROLD BUDD, JIM FOX, TIM STORY, DWIGHT ASHLEY and TOSCA. The music is warm, restrained and intimate -- just the thing for those waning days of winter.

Update on our Software Upgrade

We've spent the week dealing with a number of minor but annoying problems affecting our subscriber accounts in the wake of a software update by our service provider. Again we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. Even when you try to anticipate everything, these bugs are hard to prevent; luckily (in this case) they are relatively easy to fix.

If you've had trouble logging in, or received an email about a transaction you don't understand, just email us at [email protected] and we will make the problem go away.

HOS Customer Service

THOSE DREADED SOFTWARE UPGRADES

On Monday evening (March 13th) our service provider upgraded several important components of our "Log In" and "My Account" functions. Everything appeared to go smooothly. The service was down for about six hours and went live slightly ahead of schedule.

Despite an extended and very careful period of testing that took several weeks, we have still had a number of reports that paying users are either being locked out of everything but the current week's show, or, receiving a message saying that they need to purchase an Access Plan -- which of course they don't.

We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience. In tracking the problem today we found it is caused by a small database error that never appeared in the test accounts.

If this is happening to you the solution is easy: just send the email address you use to log in to [email protected] and we will immediately reset your account.

Week of March 10th...

You know it's March when the Celtic music starts to flow again. This week we attempt to sooth the savage spring here on the storm-blown Western coast, with a show focused on a group of fine female singers from Ireland.

We have three ethereal gems from the latest release by ENYA. We've also mined the PBS Celtic Woman project (see PGM 748) for singers and plundered their respective solo albums for material by MAIREAD, ORLA and MEAV, plus the extraordinary Capercaillie vocalist KAREN MATHESON. And we've put it all together with several luscious Celtic harp pieces by AINE MINOGUE.

Week of March 3rd...

Back in action with a nice retro-future-ambient guitar show. We've reverse engineered our "Mostly Infinite Guitars" and "More Infinite Guitars" shows of yore and given this series a proper foundation.

The show features a few familiar space-pickers like JEFF PEARCE, CHAS SMITH and pedal steel ace BRUCE KAPHAN. The big new discovery is one of Brian Eno's go-to studio guys, LEO ABRAHAMS. And there's more from fine slow hand players like HAMMOCK, SUMNER McCANE and JON DURANT. It's the cosmic twang of INFINITE GUITARS.