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STAR'S END Update - 20 October 2019
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Kelly David is exploring the Earth, and discovering that it is far bigger than he imagined. The release Meditation in Green (58'03") allows us to project ourselves into his luxurious, long-view. Those open to the seduction of electronic drama and its beautiful symbolism will be substantially rewarded. Utilizing a variety of pristine field recordings, and layering them with gentle percussion and evocative synthesizer surfaces Kelly David produces passages of mystic bliss - where reverberant chords move like slow clouds on the horizon and glowing tones flex and fade off into a buzz of jungle. From ethno-grooves to Fourth World dreamscapes, the arc of this fantasy for synths, samplers and landscapes recedes and expands as the music flows across a leafy, watery and often intense sonic terrain. Some tracks add a ceremonial rhythmic propulsion, but we will recognize that most of Meditation in Green is pushing slowly through a dreamy, verdant realm. This work's series of seven interludes build tension through minimal means, driving one to consider the larger questions of what it is to be alive. The listening experience is sensuous enough to become lost in, but so vivid that we might encounter ourselves somewhere along our travels. In its textured roar, wilderness sounds, ethereal atmospheres and thunder claps we find an escape from the broken world. The screens of our modern times offer so much to look at, from the trivial to the sublime. Yet, Meditation in Green proves to be a move vivid experience than any random feed could possibly offer. To give his perspective on the world and its ancient governing powers this artist's vision reaches us through the act of listening, to be interpreted within the theater of the mind.
Please tune into the 10.20.19 broadcast of STAR'S END Ambient Radio for music from Meditation in Green, the recent release by Kelly David
For more on Meditation in Green, please access: www.spottedpeccary.com
For more on Kelly David, please access: www.kellydavid.com
Additional Content:
Angkor (2006) by Kelly David
Broken Voyage (2002) by Kelly David
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| 5ToK3 Live on STAR'S END 10.20.19
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5ToK3 is a British musician and artist working in Brooklyn NY. Renowned for a unique programming technique using only analogue synths, as well as his extensive vintage keyboard collection, 5ToK3 exists as an analogue human in a digital world. Otherwise mysterious, choosing for his identity to remain unknown, his roots in punk and industrial sound fuse with his obsession with electronics, machines and the synthesizer. His work is as hypnotic and captivating as it is dark and experimental. Inherently reflective of the current communal climate both in the UK and the states, music by 5T0K3 remains beautifully hopeful.
5ToK3 will play a live-to-air radio concert on the 10.20.19 broadcast of STAR'S END. Please tune in for details
Prior to his on-air set, 5ToK3 will take part in Modular Church at The Gatherings Concert Series in Philadelphia on Saturday 19 October 2019 8PM. Please access details at: www.thegatherings.org
For more on 5ToK3, please access: www.5tok3.com
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| Chuck van Zyl: Live on Star's End 08.26.18 - Special WXPN Thank You Gift
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Produced by Public Radio Station WXPN, Chuck van Zyl: Live on Star's End 08.26.18 (63'36") is not a commercial release. It is available only as a "Thank-You" gift to those making a donation to WXPN/STAR'S END.
This album is a conventional silver CD featuring over 60 minutes of the Chuck van Zyl live electronic realizations made in the WXPN performance studio during a private Salon Concert (for Tony Masiello) and live-to-air broadcast of 25/26 August 2018. Its four parts each offer passages of improvised in-the-moment sequencer manipulations, amidst the ethereal yearning of synthesized harmonies and cresting lead lines. The listener is invited inside, to float away as the patterns and textures envelope them - tumbling in circles, spirals and pinwheels, beneath unfurling ribbons of creamy synth melodies and modulated, chirping effects.
Chuck van Zyl: Live on Star's End 08.26.18 may seem more like a spiritual expression than an exploration of a musical form. This work has mysterious power purely on a sonic level. But the miracle of this release is that every time we listen to it, our minds will hear something new - and will so find a different album. Absorbing the full tapestry of the Electronic/Berlin-School experience, and the ideals of live improvisation, we can easily imagine every concert outing serving as a mystic portal for this musician's own spiritual journey.
Whether channeled from the astral plane, or just the transformation of electricity into sound, Live on Star's End 08.26.18 is for those seeking a deeper examination of tone and mood. Anyone in love with Spacemusic and its very specific poetry will want to own this recording. While this musical form may have been established in the 1970s, Live on Star's End 08.26.18 feels made-today fresh. A ceaselessly inventive work, its history begins now.
For more on Chuck van Zyl: Live on Star's End 08.26.18, please access the WXPN Online Donation Form
For more about Chuck van Zyl, please access: chuckvanzyl.weebly.com
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Beginning with the 10.07.18 edition, an archived stream of each broadcast of STAR'S END will be available through the WXPN website. To listen anytime, please access: tinyurl.com/starsendarchive
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| The Signal: Podcast
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This edition of The Signal includes notes on five releases from the Projekt Records label.
Please listen in as host Chuck van Zyl reviews:
Phase IX by Lorenzo Montana
MantraSequent by Jeffrey Koepper
Following the Ether Sun by Forrest Fang
Different Spaces by Erik Wøllo
Spiral Revelation by Steve Roach
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Access the Concerts page for more about live on-air in-studio STAR'S END radio concerts
~ Coming Up ~ Live on STAR'S END ~
onewayness : 7 April 2019
Bernhard Wostheinrich w/Ombient: 14 April 2019
Worms of the Earth : 14 April 2019
Staer : 12 May 2019
Skoulaman : 19 May 2019
Jason Sloan : 25 August 2019
Chuck van Zyl : 6 October 2019
5ToK3 : 20 October 2019
Simon Lomax : 3 November 2019
Guitar Pilots : 17 November 2019
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