This week's broadcast of STAR'S END will feature tracks by artists and albums considered to be at the core of the STAR'S END library. Please think of this...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Oct 11, 2003 2:46 am
The music on HYDROPONIC GARDEN (76'33") by Carbon Based Lifeforms is too sophisticated to be popular; as with all music of this ilk, it does not need the...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Oct 17, 2003 5:15 am
Mark Shreeve and Ian Boddy have a great deal in common. They both independently rose to icon status - catalyzing the 1980's UK synth scene - through the...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Oct 25, 2003 1:34 am
On 9 November 2002, Steve Dinsdale of Radio Massacre International got to say something that every Brit band dreams of... "Hello America". Thus marked the...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Nov 1, 2003 5:01 pm
On Taksu (69'18"), Loren Nerell turns in an epic masterpiece of ambient music steeped in the legends and landscapes of Indonesia. The album draws equally from...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Nov 8, 2003 1:36 am
The expansive opening of the CD Aftermath - Archives of Peace (42'09") by AES Dana (aka Vincent Villuis) bestows a primordial atmosphere upon the listener....
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Nov 15, 2003 7:11 am
Following their 15 November 2003 performance at The Gatherings Concert Series, local Spacemusic duo, Orbital Decay return to STAR'S END for their third live...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Nov 22, 2003 6:08 am
LIFE SEQUENCE (73'37") stands in stark relief against the transcendent depths of Steve Roach's more atmospheric/textural works. The music found on this...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Nov 28, 2003 4:22 am
Patrcik O'Hearn is an electronic musician exploring the more refined and elegant timbres of the synthesizer. The album Beautiful World (47'58") is full of the...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Dec 5, 2003 5:27 am
Dom F. Scab has obviously been heavily influenced by the post-kosmische musik contemporary electronic sequencer music that emerged during the 1980's. Music of...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Dec 12, 2003 3:38 am
Detlf Keller and Mario Schonwalder are among Germany's most prolific collaborators in electronic sound. The combined output as a duo, with their cosmicmusic...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Dec 19, 2003 5:52 am
Through tone, Diatonis (a.k.a. Stuart White) intends to capture life. Using the fluctuating forms and boundaries of the Ambient and New Age Music genres, his...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Dec 27, 2003 4:26 am
This weekend and next, STAR'S END will present in two parts the annual Year In Review edition. Please tune in for music selected from the many significant...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Jan 2, 2004 3:19 am
This weekend, STAR'S END will present the second in two parts of the annual Year In Review edition. Please tune in for music selected from the many significant...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Jan 9, 2004 5:39 am
Should you come by OF FOREIGN LANDS AND PEOPLE at your local record shop's listening station, please be careful. If you buy this album based on its few opening...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Jan 17, 2004 4:46 am
TELLURIC WAVES (55'32") is an esthetic declaration conceived through a genre steeped in neutrality. Maitreya (aka Simon Lomax) is an artist in electronic sound...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Jan 23, 2004 3:30 am
"Music is a place to go to take refuge," says Lisa Gerrard. How true... Anyone should be able to find solace in Gerrard's music as amongst its elegant...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Jan 30, 2004 4:47 am
Nearly all art is created out of memory. On THIS TIME AND SPACE (58'59"), Kit Watkins seems truly in tune with this idea. The seven tracks conjure up a hushed...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Feb 7, 2004 4:02 am
This weekend, STAR'S END will be dedicated to Fundraising efforts. Week after week, month after month, year after year, STAR'S END has been providing...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Feb 13, 2004 4:48 am
The locally based Spacemusic duo of The Ministry of Inside Things will play live on the STAR'S END broadcast of 02.15.04 MoIT's music has been inspired by the...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Feb 20, 2004 6:10 am
Principe of Silence is more of a concept than it is a collaboration. Referred to as a "controlled coincidence", Principle of Silence initally placed together...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Feb 27, 2004 5:47 am
CALLING DOWN THE SKY (74'00") was recorded live during Robert Rich's North American concert tour of Summer 2003. This beautiful performance moves between eight...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Mar 5, 2004 6:00 am
The duality of Saul Stokes is made clear on the album RADIATE (69'51"). This volume presents 50+ minutes of live material from 2003 plus two bonus studio...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Mar 12, 2004 4:55 am
Ian Boddy goes beyond the panoramic on his live album CHIASMATA, a concert recording of his November 2003 performance at the planetarium of Leicester's...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Mar 19, 2004 4:33 am
Ian Boddy returns to Philadelphia on Saturday 20 March 2004 to perform live at The Gatherings Concert Series and then later on into the night on the STAR'S END...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Mar 26, 2004 5:43 am
The genre of Spacemusic is based on the concept of the future as musicians working in this field have always been perceived as making music that is ahead of...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Apr 2, 2004 6:19 am
On the album Visualia (59'39"), Bruno Sanfilippo shows us that Ambient Music can offer the listener more than just the pleasant passing of time. Working in a...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Apr 9, 2004 5:05 am
Alpha Wave Movement is an artist not bound by era. Gregory Kyryluk is the man behind this project and on the album COSMOLOGY (64'55"), realizes music haunted...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Apr 16, 2004 4:28 am
The British spacemusic trio of AirSculpture will play live on the 04.18.04 broadcast of STAR'S END. Adrian Beasley, John Christian and Peter Ruczynski describe...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Apr 23, 2004 3:43 am
The album DISTANCES (78'00") represents the debut work by H.U.V.A. Network, a collaboration between AES Dana (Vincent Villuis) and Solar Fields (Magnus...
