Jeff Greinke "Virga"
Jeff Greinke realizes works inspired by something outside of music. The intricacies of climate, weather and time mimic the feelings he carries within. His CD Virga (55'36") strives to give musical form to the sensation evoked by our planet's atmospheric activities. Applying a classicist form to his succinctly brief works Greinke produces 12 formal, fully composed and arranged Electro-ambient chamber music pieces. The listener's grasp on time weakens as in the span of a few minutes untold hours may seem to pass. The sound is sometimes airy, but never air-headed as the majority of the tracks posses a somber, elegiac sense. Greinke even references a few pieces from an earlier CD Soundtracks. With synthesizers alongside mellow trumpet and cello lines, Virga's classical influences lead the music toward territory inhabited by the likes of Harold Budd, Tim Story and K Leimer. With no exaggerated expressive effects, Greinke follows his contemporaries in simplicity, restraint, dignity, proportion and interest in form. Grenike is an artist working to engage us with our deepest emotions. His music unites us with one another - as not only are we connected to this music but connected by it.
Tune in to STAR'S END this weekend for music from Virga, the new CD by Jeff Greinke
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Clocks Back One Hour This Weekend
STAR'S END will be one hour longer this weekend as Daylight Saving Time ends on Sunday 1 November 2009, at 2:00:00 AM local standard time. Please turn your clock back one hour this Saturday Night/Sunday Morning while you listen to STAR'S END.
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Halloween
STAR'S END makes its annual Halloween observance this weekend by featuring an array of strange and wonderful seasonal works, including music sets full of Science Fiction and Horror movie soundtracks, strange and eerie music by noted STAR'S END artists, the poetry of former Philadelphian Edgar Allan Poe, excerpts from previous "Back in Time" on-air concerts and even a closing segment aligining with and in reverance to All Soul's Day - or The Day of The Dead as it is also known. Please tune in and enjoy haunted soundscapes, twisted timbres and "stuff I never thought they'd play on the radio" this weekend on STAR'S END.
Arc Live on STAR'S END 11.15.09
Together, Mark Shreeve and Ian Boddy are the duo of Arc
and continue a tradition of experimentation through collaboration -
both live and in the studio. Rexamining the sequencer spacemusic of the
'70s through the creative lens of two masterful electronic musicians, Arc realizes music that is evocative and compelling.
This duo hits on all the
major aspects of the Spacemusic genre, their melodies are human,
rhythms machine-like, harmonies ethereal and the range of timbres they
create to voice their music are original and extraordinary. Arc
filters the past into a vital contemporary landscape without sinking to
cliche. Their music is a sincere exploration of the mood and mystery of
the Spacemusic genre.
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 release of
several remarkable studio albums and numerous legendary live
performances; Shreeve notorious for his muscular, testosterone fueled
electro-music and Boddy for his prog-influenced symphonic synthscapes.
Arc will be making their Stateside concert debut at The Gatherings Concert Series in Philadelphia on Saturday 14 November 2009. For complete details, please access: www.thegatherings.org
Following The Gatherings Concert in Philadelphia Arc
and their music making equipment will be moved over to STAR'S END
Ambient Radio for a live in-studio radio performance of all new
original Ambient material. Tune in to the 11.15.09 broadcast of STAR'S END for the live on-air radio concert beginning at 1:00am at 88.5fm WXPN in Philadelphia or access the live webcast.
Arc STAR'S END Profile
Jason Sloan Live on STAR'S END 11.22.09
Exploring sound, texture and atmosphere, the music of Jason Sloan
is smooth and spacious. It opens up and fills ambient areas with the
slow motion of sustaining chords and a gradual metamorphosis of timbre.
By adding the elements of rhythm and melody, his works provide a
surprisingly deeper examination of the interior landscape. With layers
of reverberant e-bow guitar over sampled percussion loops or cloud-soft
synth pads churning alongside digital-age beats, Sloan's musical ideas
posses a shimmering exuberance. Expanding beyond the uniformity of
structure found on his early drone-like works, the energy of the new
fuller arrangements is subdued by dreamy atmospherics. Sparking then
smoldering, his music plays out across an ever-changing landscape - and
deserves praise for aiming so high.
Soundscape artist Jason Sloan plays live on the 11.22.09 broadcast of STAR'S END. Please tune in for details.
For photos of Jason Sloan live on previous broadcasts of STAR'S END, please access his STAR'S END Profile
For more about Jason Sloan, please access his official Website: www.jasonsloan.com
Desert Planet Discs - Top Ten
Imagine you are traveling at light speed in your spaceship somewhere
out at the furthest reaches of the aural universe. Suddenly there is a
malfunction and you must ditch it on a nearby deserted desert planet!
Oh No! With little hope of rescue you are on your own for the
foreseeable future. So what music would you want to have with you while
you are waiting to be found?
STAR'S END asked this of avid listener and supporter John Garaguso of Sicklerville, New Jersey. On-time Intern
et
Spacemusic radio show host, Prog-Rock enthusiast and avid attendee and
advocate for The Gatherings Concert Series, one imagines that John
would come up with
an interesting library of music while marooned on Planet X. So let us
see exactly what John will be listening to until Space Patrol rockets
out to pick him up!
John's Desert Planet Discs list covers an interesting range of styles
and musical eras. Included are classic Spacemusic releases from the
1970s right alongside releases by artists spawned by this early
movement, plus an album each of New Age Ambiance and Ambient Chamber
music:
Top Ten Desert Planet Discs - John Garaguso
Structures from Silence by Steve Roach
Rubycon by Tangerine Dream
X by Klaus Schulze
Etherea by Jeff Koepper
Inventions for Electric Guitar by Ashra
Solid States by Radio Massacre International
Departure From the Northern Wasteland Michael Hoenig
Numena by Robert Rich
Beguiled by Tim Story
Soundfall To The Infinite by Zero Ohms & Brannan Lane
plus: a recording of The Ministry of Inside Things - Live on STAR'S END 01.26.03 (unreleased)
Great! Thanks for participating John!