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Week of August 25th...

For our encore show this week we've chosen a delightfully eclectic fusion of world music influences that illuminate our theme of the "stillness" music can imply even while rhythmically active. Cultural strands extend to Eastern Europe, Spain, the Middle East, North Africa and India.

Our all star cast of artists includes ANCIENT FUTURE, DANNY HEINES and IRINA MIKAILOVA, Norway's GREEN ISAC, ARCHETRIBE, LAYNE REDMOND and TOMMY BRUNJES, STEPHAN MICUS and ANOUR BRAHEM. Join us for STILLNESS...IN MOTION.

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Week of August 18th...

Flying high in the warm winds of summer, we naturally found ourselves drawn to the ethereal charms of the electric guitar. Thus, this celebration of Leo Fender and his world-changing 1954 invention, the Stratocaster: an electronic instrument...you can fly.

Featured ambient guitar gods are DANIEL LANOIS and LEO ABRAHAMS, with contributions by LANTERNA, SUMNER McCANE and our favorite pedal steel god, BRUCE KAPHAN.

It's an hour of high-altitude electric guitar called STRATOCASTER.

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Week of August 11th...

Encoded in the summer heat is an older, deeper frequency we attempt to decrypt on this program. Inspired by the pioneering work of STEVE ROACH from his seminal album Dreamtime Return, we ride the now well-travelled frontier between aboriginal shamanic trance music and ambient electronica.

Music is from several eras of Roach's long-running career, with help from STEPHEN KENT, KENNETH NEWBY, MAX CORBACHO, PARADISO, and DWIGHT LOOP. Fire up your browser, rattle your rainstick and let your tech flag fly for a techno-tribal excursion on a program called AIRTRIBE.

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Week of August 4th...

With the biennial Flamenco Festival coming up next month in Seville, Spain, this seemed like a good time to catch up on one of our favorite fusion styles. Flamenco has proven itself both durable and popular, as well as remarkable in embracing innovation along with tradition.

This week's show combines classic flamencos like MANITAS DE PLATA, more traditional players like GINO D'AURI, and RUBEN ROMERO, and modernizers and extenders like ARMIK, PEDRO CORTES and AL-ANDALUS, plus the unique and addictive sound of Spanish singer SILVIA PEREZ CRUZ and steel "hang" player RAVID GOLDSCHMIDT. It's all part of the Andalusian charm, on a program called FLAMENCO FUSION.

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