Over the years STAR'S END has hosted many live in-studio
on-air concerts, usually with artists fresh from The Gatherings
Concert Series stage. Having played to a sold-out house earlier
at The Gatherings, Steve Roach embarked on the second leg of
the aforementioned music marathon on the 05.20.07 broadcast
of STAR'S END. The radio concert began pretty much in the
same zone as where the public performance left off. But playing
on STAR'S END is meant to open up a space for discovery, and
Roach soon turned from music for The Gatherings community to
atmospheres for an audience each in their own dream space.
From this two-hour excursion Roach has culled the CD
LANDMASS (67'51"). With its six distinctive phases, the album
ingeniously moves from skipping synth patterns and icy tone
clusters into echoing sequencer runs and a palpable sense of
propulsion. A different kind of motion is present in the slower
textural sections as sounds move in waves - more like on the
ocean than through the air. There is an interesting energy arcing
through this work. The act of playing a second more private
concert after a public event often provides a sense of summation
to a powerful experience. But the live music played on STAR'S
END is more than a beautiful artifact of a big Philadelphia
weekend. Descending into himself Roach realized this music
completely in the moment, and listening to LANDMASS one gets
a sense of the vastness of the eternal now.

Tune into STAR'S END this weekend for music from LANDMASS
by Steve Roach

For more on LANDMASS, access: http://www.steveroach.com

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STAR'S END 30th Anniversary Anthology CD

To mark 30 years of continuous broadcast of STAR'S END,
WXPN has released the STAR'S END 30th Anniversary Anthology
CD. This double CD contains over 120 minutes of live music
from 12 renowned artists. The unique performances were culled
from on-air in-studio radio concerts by some of our community's
greatest talents. Included on the disc are previously unreleased
live selections donated by: The Ministry of Inside Things, Orbital
Decay, Ian Boddy, AirSculpture, Radio Massacre International,
Robert Rich, Rudy Adrian, Jonn Serrie, Jeff Pearce, Saul Stokes
and Steve Roach.

The STAR'S END 30th Anniversary Anthology CD is available for
a $60 donation to WXPN, which includes membership and all of
its benefits (current WXPN members can receive the STAR'S
END 30th Anniversary Anthology CD for a $25 donation). Call
1-800-565-WXPN for details.

Thanks very much for your support!

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

88.5fm WXPN Philadelphia, PA
88.7fm WXPH Middletown, York and Lancaster, PA
90.5fm Worton/Baltimore, MD
99.7fm Harrisburg, PA
W285DH Whitehall, PA

and live on the web at http://xpn.org

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