In Philadelphia's Fall season, when our timepieces are turned back one hour (and most of the world returns to Daylight Standard Time) the audience anticipates the protracted span granted annually to STAR'S END. With the clock change of 5 November 2023 came a special "Back in Time" edition. Presenting live Spacemusic studio sets by local talent, with an original performance occurring in each of the six one-hour segments, this extended radio broadcast found multi-instrumentalistNeil Cippon holding down the courageous 4-5AM subsection of the ambitious Wireless transmission. The album Live on Star's End Back in Time 2023 (58:48) exhibits this intrepid artist holding forth before the cosmic abyss. On a shared sojourn through time, night and the FM airwaves Cippon channeled a host of influences. Summoning sonic spaces both tactile and freeform, the focus was on sound, color and design. Ably making his way through his part of this momentous evening of live realizations listeners easily settled in to the distinctive texture and tone of Cippon's nocturnal realm.Dividing the duration into bold electronic fields, passages of pure exploration brought forth an Ambient artfulness enjoyed by few contemporaries. Above soft key arpeggiossteel strings picked, plucked, strumed and rose on currents of pulsing percussion and synthesizer chords.Dense as a thundercloud one moment, then billowing blithely the next, this concert drifted readily between interludes of aural innovations and motoring, propulsivesequencer patterns - all in support of Cippon's signatureBass Guitar strivings. Made for those who would receive, achievements such as this are a rare source of renewal. In the dynamic, primal undertow of the seven tracks we find a story of constant and confidentsearching and invention - an expression of this musician's potent American Dream.
Please tune in to the 13 September 2026 broadcast of STAR'S END for music from Live on Star's End Back in Time 2023, the new release by Neil Cippon, and much more... Thanks!
The release of Live on Star's End Back in Time 2023 coincides with the Neil Cippon + Ótal event for The Gatherings Concert Series in Philadelphia on Satruday 12 September 2026 at 8PM (doors 7:30PM) within the sanctuary of St Mary's Hamilton Village,3916 Locust Walk
Free Admission
The work of Ótal feels more measured than most modular synth realizations. Blurring the borders between collage, sculpture, abstraction and tonal representation Óskar Arngrímsson searches for a more radiant realm. Original, restlessly changing and charging, sounds float free of context or lineage - with meaning pointing in multiple directions. While rising electronic forms enthrall in a slowly revealing timbral bloom, oscillators take their turn advancing, stacking and receding. As enigmatic as the realm it is trying to depict, such musical intentions do not merely hang in the air, inert. They sparkle, shine and gleam - moving as easily out through the cosmos as they do inward to the recesses of the human spirit.
Following his 12 September 2026 appearance at The Gatherings Concert Series in Philadelphia, noted Icelandic Electronic MusicianÓtal performs a Live-to-Air Radio Concert for STAR'S END/WXPN.
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In Philadelphia's Fall season, when our timepieces are turned back one hour (and most of the world returns to Daylight Standard Time) the audience anticipates the protracted span granted annually to 
The work of Ótal feels more measured than 
Have you ever been looking for something on this website only to become bogged down by the massive size and enormous content? Now you can find what you are seeking somewhat easier. Searching the STAR'S END Website has become much easier. Look for info on artists, albums, track names, labels, etc. via a Google "site search" - now part of the STAR'S END Website.
