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Week of Sept. 29th...

As we resume new programming for the fall, we return to our long-running affair with the contemplative piano. With new selections from an all star lineup including KEITH JARRETT, GEORGE WINSTON, PATRICK O'HEARN, JEFF JOHNSON, GARY MALKIN and others, you really can't go wrong. Listen as they make 1200 pounds of wood, steel, felt and brass disappear into thin air...

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Week of Sept. 22nd...

The Japanese idea of beauty extends from brash and bold to the ideal of beauty, called shibui. Shibui means an understated kind of beauty, a quality that speaks quietly. Shibui objects embody utility, maturity, complexity, history — the patina that only time can bring. It's a deeply spiritual kind of elegance, rooted in the quiet appreciation of nature.

Today, both Japanese and western musicians attracted by this aesthetic are creating fusions of traditional Japanese and contemporary ambient music. On this week's encore program, we have music by KITARO, MIZUYO KOMIYA, STEPHAN MICUS, AGATSUMA, DANIEL KOBIALKA, ISHQ and others.

The subtle world of Japanese spacemusic...on SHIBUI.

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Week of Sept. 15th...

Most people like to vacation during the summer, but we like to stay home and enjoy the Bay area's best weather of the year. So we're taking a vacation in September and have scheduled 'encore' shows for the next two weeks. New fall programming resumes the week of Sept. 29th.

First up is a 2004 spacemusic show inspired by cosmic space. Music is by MARK DWAYNE, JONN SERRIE, ROBERT FRIPP and BRIAN ENO, AMIN BHATIA, SURFACE 10 and others. It's ride across the celestial panorama on STARGAZER.

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Week of Sept. 8th...

It's a very rare thing, but once in a great while we find an extended piece or album that just cries out to become a Hearts of Space show exactly 'as is.' This is one of those times, and the piece is SOLOMBRA by Bay area composer JANIS MATTOX.

The exquisite poetry of Brazilian writer CECELIA MEIRELES inspired Mattox to create a seven movement song cyle, sung in Portuguese by Bolivian soprano KATIA ESCALERA. The music, for electronically enhanced Just Intonation piano, violin, and cello -- could not be more beautiful!

This is the broadcast premiere of a composition that should become as well-loved as Henryk Gorecki's "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs."

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Week of Sept. 1st...

We roll the triple sevens with a program dedicated to the wonders of electronic feedback. From its roots in the golden age of the electric guitar, feedback has evolved to enrich tone, sustain notes, create rhythms, and imply space with echoes. Today we harness tens of thousands of echoes to create spatial illusions with digital reverb. It's all done…with sophisticated feedback.

Journey through the electronic looking glass with music by MIRROR SYSTEM, RENA JONES, TWILIGHT ARCHIVE, ATOM HEART, VIR UNIS, BOB HOLROYD and more…on program 777 : HALL OF MIRRORS.

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