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PGM 846 "ECHOES OF SPAIN" : Week of July 25th...

The evolution of the Spanish guitar, beginning with the nomadic Arabic lute, through North Africa and into Moorish-era Spain — is easy to forget. Today the guitar has found its way into a hundred other genres and musical contexts, from African to Country to Heavy Metal. Yet there's something that just sounds natural in the Andalusian roots of the Spanish guitar and the Mediterranean music that developed from it.

On this transmission of Hearts of Space, we focus on the Spanish guitar...on a program called ECHOES OF SPAIN. Music is by ROMERO, OTTMAR LIEBERT, JESSE COOK, BENEDETTI & SVOBODA, ANDRE GERAISSATI, BRENT GUNTER, AL-ANDALUS and CONSUELO LUZ.

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PGM 845 "SUMMERTRONICA 3" : Week of July 18th...

Summer...despite all the great new things we have to worry about these days, good old sunshine and heat still inspire our bodies to move, explore, and expand, while our minds open up to new sounds.

On this transmission of Hearts of Space, we mix up a refreshing cocktail of summer electronica, world rhythms, cool horns and trancey vocals, on a program called SUMMERTRONICA 3.

Music is by LUCID, JON HASSELL, PAUL HASLINGER, AL GROMER KHAN, MICHAEL BROOK & DJIVAN GASPARYAN, STILL LIFE, LOTUS and ISHWISH.

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PGM 347 "ELECTRONIC DREAMS" : Week of July 11th...

Now there's a sound that got a lot of people excited back in 1978: the rich, mysterious, romantic, oh-so-French electronic music of JEAN MICHEL JARRE, from EQUINOXE.

One of only a handful of electronic musicians to achieve popular stardom, Jarre continues to perform all over the world. His free outdoor sound and light concerts in Houston, Paris, Moscow, China, and a 12-hour spectacular at the Great Pyramids in Egypt for the Millennium celebration, have set records as the largest public music events in history, with audiences of up to 3.5 million.

On this 25th Anniversary retrospective edition of Hearts of Space, a program of spacemusic in the grand tradition — intensely emotional material that takes off from the orchestral tone poem and navigates into uncharted electronic space.

Music is by JEAN-MICHEL JARRE, PATRICK O'HEARN, MICHAEL STEARNS, MARK DWAYNE, and DAVID PARSONS.

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PGM 844 "AMERICAN CROSSROADS" : Week of July 4th...

Every July 4th, we celebrate America's independence with food, fun, and fireworks. For as long as most of us can remember, everything that's good about America — our diversity, freedom, individuality and self-assurance — has been proudly on display.

This year, our celebration is tempered by a growing awareness of the great challenges we face in national, global and even planetary affairs. You have to look back to the 1930s to find a comparable period, but even those challenges seem limited by comparison.

So this year we celebrate the founding of America with the knowledge that American ideals and the American character are being tested. If Americans can respond positively to the challenges we face, we may look back on this period as the time of America's maturity.

American music today reflects the maturing of our melting-pot of cultural traditions — hymns, folk and popular songs, blues, jazz, electronica, maverick classical, ethnic rhythms, and immigrant genres — a complex panorama of musical sources, freely invented and reinvented. On this transmission of Hearts of Space, we listen for the reflective side of the American soundscape, on a program called AMERICAN CROSSROADS.

Music is by BRIAN KEANE,  PAUL WINTER, PATRICK O'HEARN, WILL ACKERMAN,  SOULFOOD & BILLY McLAUGHLIN, SACRED EARTH, BIOMUSIQUE, PETER OSTROUSHKO, and JOHN DOAN.

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