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Pgm 803 "WEST BY SOUTHWEST" : Week of May 25th...

The American Southwest is a mythic landscape, hewn for eons by nature, and centuries by man. It's home to vast desert spaces, endless mesas and monumental canyons — and several distinctive American musical genres, among them a spacious, languid, yearning sound perfectly captured by the slide and pedal steel guitar. It's a sound we like to return to in the warm summer months.

On this transmission of Hearts of Space, we immerse ourselves in the subtle, chiming, floating twang of the steel guitar and the dobro, on a program called WEST BY SOUTHWEST.  Music is by ERIC TINGSTAD, LEO ABRAHAMS, STEVE ROACH & ROGER KING, LANTERNA, CHAS SMITH, and DANIEL LANOIS.

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Radio Channel update

All new programs today:

1     802    ARGUABLY POST-AMBIENT   new waveforms from the international electronic soundscape
2     801    DEEKSHA   Indian devotional chants and contemplative instrumentals
3     795    SPACE GUITARS 7   stretching six strings till they dematerialize
4     775    AIRTRIBE   a techno-tribal excursion
5     740    NIGHTSCAPES   environmental electronics for a summer night
6     774    FLAMENCO FUSION   an excursion in the Andalusian soundscape
7     728    THE EDGE OF THE WORLD   an ambient-electronic journey
8     731    MAGIC REALISM   on the 4th-world night train to Babylon
9     722    TELHARMONIA   floating and flying on electronic waves
10   769    BALEARICA   a journey in the Mediterranean soundscape
11   758    INFINITE GUITARS   a retro-future-cosmic-twangy guitar journey
12   729    SUFI SOUL   an inner-toxicating journey in the Sufi soundscape
13   707    SLOW TIME   exploring the mystery of relative motion
14   706    SAUDADE   a journey in the Brazilian soundscape
15   671    TRANS-TRIBAL EXPRESS   ambient electronics and tribal rhythms
16   669    SUMMER LIGHT 4   music for languid days and sultry nights
17   696    POSSIBLE MUSICS   more cool sounds from hot places
18   698    DESERT VISION 3   more romantic transcultural exile music of the Middle East
19   709    STARGAZER   spacemusic inspired by the celestial spectacle
20   599    INDIDGENOUS   a tribal/electronic/ambient/tropical journey
21   603    SWIZZLE   a refreshing cocktail of effervescent summertime electronica

Pgm 736 "HYDROLOGY" : Week of May 18th...

Here's a show about water. Salt or fresh, almost three quarters of our planet is covered by it, and it makes up to 65% of our bodies. It's our most important nutrient — we simply can't live without it. And it's all around us; no wonder it's a common theme for ambient music. 

On this transmission of Hearts of Space, music that celebrates water, on a program called HYDROLOGY. From the primordial ocean, the source of all life — we'll navigate rivers and streams, lakes and marshes — tracing the water cycle. Music is by familiar artists like VANGELIS, JEFF GREINKE, ROBERT RICH, DAVID PARSONS and KIT WATKINS, plus whale researcher LISA WALKER and more.

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Pgm 802 "ARGUABLY POST-AMBIENT" : Week of May11th...

We're back in the ole briar patch this time, with a fresh collection of psycho-acoustic experiments from Norway, Switzerland, England, California, Ohio, Vermont, and not least: mighty little Rhode Island.

The textures are mostly electronic, but acoustic sounds still play a big role. In many cases, you really can't say what the sound is ...and that's the point. We're living in an inter-national, supra-cultural, technically-enhanced music matrix, and the results are diverse beyond imagination.

Genre names don't last long in this hyper-creative environment. A few years ago, we'd have called this show electronica or ambient, but today some of the artists would object if we did. On this transmission of Hearts of Space, we'll look for a congenial harbor amongst the creative flux. Let's call it ARGUABLY POST-AMBIENT.

Featured artists are HAROLD BUDD and ROBIN GUTHRIE, plus music by TIM STORY, GREEN ISAC, TRISTAN FELDBAUER and Friends, AURAH, KIT WATKINS, DAN BARRIO, and RICHARD BONE.

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Pgm 801 "DEEKSHA" : Week of May 4th...

Deeksha...is a Sanskrit word for the "transfer of divine energy." In the West, we might call it a blessing, a transmission, or a spiritual healing.

Whatever you call it, in music you know it when you hear it, and there's a venerable genre of Indian music dedicated to it that's been embraced and extended by Western musicians. This week we return to the ardent, timeless, devotional sound of Indian music on a program called...DEEKSHA.

Music is by MANEESH DE MOOR, RASA, STEVE GORN and BENJY WERTHEIMER, MELANIE HUTTON and MARSHALL LEFFERTS, and STEPHAN MICUS.

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