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Beyond The Lakes Playlist for March 9, 2008
Playlist
Music from Beyond the Lakes
Produced by Jerry Nelms and Namdar Mogharreban Sundays, 8-10 pm Central Time, USA WDBX, 91.1 FM, Carbondale, Illinois (www.wdbx.org )
Streamed LIVE at http://www.wdbx.scientistsuperstar.com Listen by going to www.wdbx.org and click on "Listen"
This past Sunday's program featured music by Soulfood; Steven C; Anne Hills; A New Day; Ken Townsend; Ryan Farish; Lisa Lynne & George Tortorelli; and Richard Bone.
March 9, 2008
“Delicate Air” (produced by Jerry Nelms)
The earth is about to change its identity. We can feel it in the air. It happens every year of course, the abrupt fits and starts of seasonal change. The move from Spring to Summer and then, from Fall to Winter are slow, gradual developments as the earth heats and cools. But from Summer to Fall and then, Winter to Spring, the change is sudden, disjointed, spasmodic—one day cold and icy, the next day warm and sunny. These seasonal mood swings are felt all over. Here in the Midwest, it snowed on Friday; this week our air temperature may get back into the 60s.
On the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the kites will soon be flying again over the dunes. The sand will still feel cool on bare feet, but by the end of the week, the temperature on Topsail Island may reach 70. Soon, sometime this month, March, the monarch butterflies will leave their winter homes in central Mexico. They live off of their reserves of fat all winter. Soon, they will mate and then begin their trek back northward to look for food.
But the air they travel in is a delicate ambivalence, a stammering, fitful transition. 19th-Century English novelist Charles Dickens once described a March day as one where “the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” And all our hopes are set on science and precedence. “No winter lasts forever,” nature writer Hal Borland assures us; “no spring skips its turn.” Our skeleton woods sway in the white March winds. And the hoodwinked daffodils, which sprouted in the day or two of warmth we experienced, must brace themselves for another cold winter night. If they survive until the end of the week, they might just make it to see the butterflies return in April.
This evening, then, let’s contemplate on the coming of Spring, even as we experience the fits and starts of this seasonal change. I’ll provide thesoundtrack with a program of music entitled “Delicate Air.” We begin with these warm, mellow, shoreline atmospherics by sound artist Soulfood from his retrospective collection SpaScapes Massage. Later, we’ll hear a winsome solo piano piece by Steven C. Anderson, who goes simply by Steven C, from his collection Signature; and then, a bittersweet setting to music by Michael Smith of a portion of the diary of eccentric turn-of-the-20th-Century writer Opal Whiteley: “Larks of the Meadow,”
performed by Anne Hills, assisted by cellist Eugene Friesen. It’s from Hills’ collection Beauty Attends: The Heartsongs of Opal Whiteley. In our second half-hour, we’ll hear a charming, nostalgic little tribute to winter by the duo of Rob Miller and Ron Huestis, who call themselves A New Day, from Autumn Musings; also two lovely, delicate tracks from pianist/keyboardist Ken Townsend’s Gentle Beauty; and finally, two simultaneously transcendent and earthy piano and electronic compositions from multi-instrumentalist Ryan Farish’s collection From the Sky.
We’re contemplating the ambivalent fits and starts of seasonal change from Winter to Spring on our program tonight, the warm and cold spasms of March and the “Delicate Air” of this transition, wondering, I guess, if the seasons continue to change Beyond the Lakes.
8:00-8:30pm
Soulfood – SpaScapes Massage – Soulfood Music
“Opening”
“Soaring”
Steven C – Signature – Steven C Music – 2007
“Daybreak”
Anne Hills – Beauty Attends: The Heartsongs of Opal Whiteley – Collective Works – 2006
“Larks of the Meadow”
8:30-9:00pm
A New Day – Autumn Musings – Fat Cat Music – 2006
“Blue Sky in Winter”
Ken Townsend – Gentle Beauty – Lucid Creativity – 2007
“Feeling Divine Grace”
“Gentle Beauty”
Ryan Farish – From the Sky – Neurodisc Records – 2005
“Miles Away”
“Pacific Wind”
We’re contemplating the ambivalent fits and starts of seasonal change from Winter to Spring, the warm and cold spasms of March and the “Delicate Air” of this transition, tonight on Music from Beyond the Lakes. Ken Townsend returns to begin our second hour with this very pretty composition from Gentle Beauty. We’ll continue with three hauntingly beautiful tracks from harpist Lisa Lynne & flutist George Tortorelli’s Love & Peace and then the charming premiere track to keyboardist Richard Bone’s Saiyuji. “Saiyuji,” by the way, is the name of a Buddhist temple in Singapore. We’ll devote most of our final half-hour to more disarming music from Richard Bone’s Saiyuji, and we’ll end with a good-natured track from Richard Bone’s most recent collection, Finite Plastic Creation.
“Delicate Air,” tonight on Music from Beyond the Lakes.
9:00-9:30pm
Ken Townsend – Gentle Beauty – Lucid Creativity – 2007
“Graceful Soft Child”
Lisa Lynne & George Tortorelli – Love & Peace – New Earth Records – 2007
“Flowers in the Wind”
“The Journey”
“Windrise”
Richard Bone – Saiyuji – Quirkworks Laboratory – 2005
“By Any Other Name”
9:30-10:00pm
Richard Bone – Saiyuji – Quirkworks Laboratory – 2005
“Saiyuji (dawn)”
“Oblique Heaven”
“My Indelicate Star”
Richard Bone – Finite Plastic Creation – Quirkworks Laboratory – 2007
“Imperial Glide”
Profile of Beyond the Lakes:
Music from Beyond the Lakes was first aired on Easter Sunday evening, 1996.
Jerry Nelms began as the show's sole producer and host. Namdar Mogharreban joined as co-host that summer and began producing his first programs in the fall. Beyond the Lakes airs eclectic new age and contemplative world music, both ambient and rhythmic; electronic and acoustic; instrumental and vocal. Beyond the Lakes is thematically programmed each week. Jerry's understanding of "new age" music: it provides a space for the imagination, and, so, can take many different forms but always functions in that way of allowing the listener space for the play of the imagination.
Contact Jerry at gnelms@verizon.net .
Send all promotional materials to the following:
Jerry Nelms
Beyond the Lakes
114 Magnolia Lane
Carbondale, Illinois 62903
Thanks to all musical artists for enriching our world!
Music From Beyond the Lakes Top 20 Report for February 2008
1. Soundician - Still - Soundician
2. Lisa Lynne - Hopes & Dreams - New Earth Records
3. Jeff Greinke - Winter Light - Lotuspike
4. Jeff Findl and the Acoustic Accomplices - Beach Buzz Instrumentals - Hippie Van Music
5. cyberCHUMP - Sankhara: Tone Poems by Mark G.E. & Jim Skeel - Internal Combustion
6. Stanton Lanier - Unveiled - PianoPeace Music
7. Curtis Macdonald - Everlasting - EverSound
8. Randall Moore - Confessions - Self Released
9. Thierry David - Zen Pause - Real Music
10. Michael Stribling - Songs of Hope and Healing - Leela Music
11. Bruno Sanfilippo - Piano Textures - ad21music
12. Lawrence Blatt - Fibonacci's Dream - Self Released
13. Patrick O'Hearn - Glaciation - patrickohearn.com Music
14. Fiona Joy Hawkins - Ice: Piano Slightly Chilled - Little Hartley Music
15. Patty Larkin - Watch the Sky - Vanguard Records
16. Mary-Kathryn - Dreams & Visions (Limited Edition Instrumental) - Rhythm House Records
17. Ann Sweeten - Grey Sky and Bittersweet - Orange Band Records
18. Jamie Craig - The Lost Dream - Craig Sound Productions
19. Louis Landon - Peace Revolution! - Landon Creative, Inc
20. Kevin Keller - Santiago's Dream - Kevin Keller Productions
Music from Beyond the Lakes
Produced by Jerry Nelms and Namdar Mogharreban Sundays, 8-10 pm Central Time, USA WDBX, 91.1 FM, Carbondale, Illinois Streamed live at http://www.wdbx.scientistsuperstar.com
Profile of the show: eclectic new age and contemtemplative world music, both ambient and rhythmic; electronic and acoustic; instrumental and vocal.
Beyond the Lakes is thematically programmed each week. Jerry's understanding of "new age" music: it provides a space for the imagination, and, thus, can take many different forms but functioning in that way of allowing the listener space for the play of the imagination.
Send all promotional materials to the following:
Jerry Nelms
Beyond the Lakes
114 Magnolia Lane
Carbondale, Illinois 62903
Thanks to all musical artists for enriching our world!
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