With the opening track on THE DEAD TEXAN (46'37"), the self
titled album by Adam Wiltzie, we find a piano dreaming, slowly
breathing music in and out, aspiring, in its respiratory nocturne,
to reach beyond its limits. Wiltzie has realized an album that is
dream-like in the truest sense; scenes repeat, anomalous
figures arise, continuity adjusts, time compresses and expands
as brief moments seem to extend towards infinity. Though it is
subdued, beneath the shroud of reverb within which this work
hovers, there is a luster and magnificence. The sounds of piano,
strings and guitar are manipulated, malformed enough to keep
the beholder engaged but recognizable enough to provide the
comfort of familiarity. Adding ethereal ooohs and ahhhs, movie
dialogue and whispered layered lyrics, this album takes the
Ambient Music form into areas more well established artists
cannot. Piano notes and chords count out the mood swing
between comfort and uncertainty. An acoustic guitar strums
before a vast landscape. Reverberant electric piano chords
references works of noir. The music is vulnerable without being
sentimental. Too cerebral to be considered new age, too gritty to
be classical and too engaging to be avant-garde, THE DEAD
TEXAN provides the listener with a captivating, restoring listening
experience of cool dreamy distressed textures from the edge of
nowhere.

Tune in to STAR'S END this weekend for music from THE DEAD
TEXAN

For more on THE DEAD TEXAN, access: http://www.kranky.net

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Blow Up Hollywood - live on STAR'S END

Following their 13 November 2004 concert in Philadelphia at The
Gatherings Concert Series, Blow Up Hollywood will perform a
live in-studio STAR'S END radio concert on the broadcast of
11.14.04. Tune in this weekend for music and details.

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STAR'S END broadcasts every Saturday night/Sunday morning
from 1am-6am (EDST) on:

88.5fm WXPN Philadelphia, PA
88.1fm WXPH Harrisburg, PA
90.5fm Worton/Baltimore, MD
104.9fm Allentown, PA

and live on the web...

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Chuck van Zyl
Host of STAR'S END Ambient Radio
http://www.starsend.org