David Darling‘s “Cycle Song” from the jazz inclined ECM records is as refreshing in its chamber jazz stylings now as it was in 1982. But mostly, HOS looked far afield for what they often refer to as contemplative music. That said, the collection includes a space music classic from Michael Stearns, his surprisingly undated Planetary Unfolding, a composition of slowly evolving electronic textures and subliminal melodies.
In over 25 years and over 850 shows, they’ve only played Tangerine Dream in 13 programs.
In fact, they never even played much “space” music. Although frequently branded as a “new age” show, HOS rarely plays material like Music for Meditation, Reiki Healing or Music for Yoga, except, perhaps, for Tony Scott’s ground breaking Music for Zen Meditation. Follow along with track and title information using magical apps like Shazam and Soundhound or the music identification software built in to the Android and Apple mobile operating systems.Judging from First Flight, hosts Stephen Hill and his original partner, Anna Turner, who died in 1996, proved from the start to have highly refined tastes as the original connoisseurs of the drone zone. The philosopher Goethe described good architecture as frozen music, so good, spacious music to us is Liquid Architecture. Midnight to 1 Monday morning we present expansive long-form musical structures by artists like Robert Rich, Constance Demby and Steve Roach. Hear extended ambient and space music classics after Hearts of Space. Playlists available as each program closes. Saturday evenings beginning at 9, veteran broadcaster Michael Ables highlights your ambient, drone, chill, and space music favorites! The program is actually a higher proportion of music from the Hearts of Space record label than the Sunday show! We transmit the show via FM from 9 to midnight, then be among the fans who are with us online all night long! Sign up for program updates and drawings for CDs and even boxed sets on our fan page.
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