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PGM 816 "BORDERLANDS" : Week of Sept. 28th...

A border can be a boundary...or a grey area — a line of demarcation...or a zone of ambiguity. Borders between countries are political boundaries; they can be the scene of violent confrontation, as in the Middle East, or so remote that few people ever see them.

Outside of politics, a border can be a barrier...or a zone of transition. In music, we often find ambiguous borders between styles and genres — in fact, much of today's fusion music is interesting because it deliberately disregards borders. There's a lot of information...at the borders.

On this transmission of Hearts of Space, a journey in ambiguous, transitional spaces called BORDERLANDS. Music is by RUSSELL WALDER, EVAN BARTHOLEMEW, DEBORAH MARTIN & J. ARIF VERNER, KIT WATKINS, AMONGST MYSELVES, and RICHARD BONE.

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PGM 561R "TRANCE-FORMATION" : Week of Sept. 21st...

What's in a trance? It's a state of mind that has a history of fascinating society through the ages. From ancient shamanic ceremonies that provoke visions with extended rituals and mind-blowing chemistry, through the whirling dervishes of 13th century Islam, the hypnosis techniques of Professor Mesmer and others in the 20th century, right up to the cathartic all-night dance marathons of the rave generation — inducing trance states...is something like the extreme sports division of mysticism.

On this edition of Hearts of Space we'll take a slightly safer approach — with a trance-ambient journey by musicians who create this experience in sound. Music is by OPEN CANVAS, DAVID PARSONS, STEVE ROACH & ROBERT RICH, EBERHARD SCHOENER, LUMIN, and KLAUS WIESE.

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Radio Channel update

New programs today:

1      815      VIHUELA   an excursion in the Spanish-Moorish soundscape
2      813      THE MUSIC OF MYST   a journey in mythic soundworlds
3      804     DOWNTEMPO TO SPACE   from electrogrooves to electrospheres
4      790      INTERSTELLAR   a cosmic electronic journey
5      769      BALEARICA   a journey in the Mediterranean soundscape
6      766      FLOATING GARDENS   globally warmed spacemusic for summer
7      743      REMASTERPIECE   classical masterworks gone ambient/electronic
8      730      CANYONLANDS   a flute powered excursion in the Native American soundscape
9      713      INVOKING THE MUSE   the timeless, heartfelt sound of the female voice
10    695      INDIA NIGHTS   the contemplative edge of Indian fusion
11    696      POSSIBLE MUSICS   more cool sounds from hot places
12    764      DEEP GROOVE   downtempo, chill and ambient electronica
13    708      A WINDOW TO THE EAST   East-West music of Gurdjieff-DeHartmann et al
14    634      ENIGMATIC CHILDREN   an electronic-classical-vocal fusion festival
15    522      WAVELANDS   fresh new electronic spacemusic waveforms
16    533      BAMBOO AND BRONZE   the magical soundworlds of Indonesian spacemusic
17    517      SPACEMUSIC FOR BRASS   spacemusic for the brass family of instruments
18    662      SANTOSA   the languid East Indian sound of contentment
19    515      SPACE GUITARS 4   a journey to the edges of the electronic guitar universe
20    507      BORDER CROSSINGS   an ethno-ambient, strange hybrid journey
21    499      SEVEN VEILS   an ethno-ambient, electro-acoustic spotlight on Robert Rich's masterpiece

PGM 815 "VIHUELA" : Week of Sept. 14th...

If you're not an aficionado of Early Music, you may not have heard of it, but the ancestor of the guitar was the vihuela, also called the viola da mano. With six sets of double strings tuned like a lute, the vihuela was the 15th-century bridge between the the Arabic oud and the modern six-string Spanish guitar.

The rich fusion of cross-cultural influences from Iberia, North Africa, Jewish and Gypsy cultures that produced flamenco in the 18th century were built on it, and variations on this much-loved music continue to grow and develop today.

On this transmission of HEARTS of SPACE, we explore this world with another journey in the Spanish-Moorish soundscape called VIHUELA. Music is by STEPHEN DUROS, ANDRE FERIANTE, TOM SALVATORI, LUYS DE NARVAEZ, and FRANCISCO TARREGA.

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PGM 814 "KEYS TO CONTEMPLATION" : Week of Sept. 7th...

Sitting down at a grand piano offers a musician a world of choices. It can be a vehicle for flights of romantic passion or classical form, improvisation or interpretation. But for some, it's a path to peace, a conduit to the sublime, a way to enter the hushed, sensitive dimensions of sound and feeling.       

On this transmission of HEARTS of SPACE, a piano-based journey with music by MARTIN TILLMAN, DANA CUNNINGHAM, CRAIG URQUHART, BEN DOWLING and BRUNO SANFILIPPO.

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