James Murray summons the imagination. His Islands Alight (47:28)re-interprets the Ambient Music form over a series of eight distinctive Electronic realizations. Striking in their originality and continuity of vision, this release frees itself from the confines of the present - to give us something passionate and eternal. Approaching Islands Alight with curiosity and awareness, an informed audience encounters lost works of unsettling remoteness, then ascends in tracks excited by flowing rhythm and the danger of discovery. As soft grooving brings a sultry sensibility to the cerebral atmospheres, comforting pads, breathing tones and a guiding, propulsive pulse offer a unique transient intimacy. Energetic, due less to its beat treats than the frequent harmonic shifts and bright recurring themes, Islands Alight riffs with an impression of cloudy ethereality. Emphasizing a gulf of imagined space between some distant landscape and the narrative confronting the listener, Murray cools us to safe levels - while navigating the vast silent space and solitude of the mind.
Please tune in to the 11 October 2026 broadcast of STAR'S END for music from Islands Alight, the 2026 release by James Murray, and much more... Thanks!
June Lopez enjoys focusing on how cultural and musical influences shape sound. He is deeply invested in textures and rhythms of Latin-Jazz-Afro-Roots and in preserving the art of sonic design in live improvised performances - most memorably for the WXPN/STAR'S END Member Concert of 25 April 2026.
Ahead of his 14 November 2026 appearance at The Gatherings Concert Series, June Lopez makes his Star's End debut on the 1 November 2026 broadcast. Please tune in, or stream live over Youtube.
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Live Remote Concerts On-Air in August
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June Lopez enjoys focusing on how cultural and musical influences shape sound. He is deeply invested in textures and rhythms of 
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.
