Friday, November 28, 2014

Moondog's Later Years . . .


Hi everyone,

Moondog was Louis Thomas Hardin, a strange, long-lived composer who lived on the streets of New York City for many years from the late 1940s to the early '70s, before moving to Germany in his later years. 

The music on this show is from those later years, a variety of pieces that concludes with Moondog's last live concert on August 1, 1999, a few weeks before he died. Moondog is one of a kind, and it's a pleasure to share his music, especially with those who have not heard it before.

PeaceNstarZ,
Veronica

Friday, November 21, 2014

On My 6th Anniversary Show: Flying Lotus Says . . . You're Dead!

Hi everyone,

Flying Lotus is Steven Ellison from LA, and has released 5 albums. They are a wondrous melange of electronic, hip hop, jazz, R&B. He lost some loved ones recently, including Aunt Alice Coltrane (!), and so had mortality on his mind but, wow! what beautiful affirming music!

Six years of my show! Long live SPRadio! :)

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, October 10, 2014

FSOL: Environment Five!

Hi everyone,

It's been about four years since FSOL released some new music, and this time it comes with a new addition to their Environments series, all-new music this time (some of the early entries were odds'n'sods). Music about passing from this world to somewhere else. Music to catch a hold of, just a little corner in your fist, and ride, ride, ride . . .

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, September 12, 2014

I Care Because You Do . . .

Hi everyone,

One of my favorite electronic music artists, Richard D. James, has recorded a lot of albums under the name Aphex Twin. But it's been over a decade since he's put out new music. That music is coming soon. Like with Olivia Tremor Control a few shows back, I'm celebrating this return by playing some older music that I really like. Long ago, your favorite DJ sat with her favorite bong in a dark college room, many nights, grooving deep with RDJ. Here's I Care Because You Do from 1995. Still makes me happy to listen to . . .

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Master Musicians of Joujouka!


Hi everyone,

This episode is devoted to the album Brian Jones (of the Rolling Stones) recorded of music by the Master Musicians of Joujouka,  who live in a remote village in the Ahl Srif tribal area south of the Rif in Northern Morocco. He visited Morocco in 1968, about a year before he died. Saw something special in these musicians, and the album, Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka, was posthumously released in 1971.

Oh, and a little Bill Laswell to round out the show :)

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, August 15, 2014

TAZ!


Hi everyone,

This episode features Hakim Bey and Bill Laswell performing Bey's great book, T.A.Z. [Temporary Autonomous Zone] . These are the notes for this album:

Explorations of the political, the personal, the social, and the metaphysical from writer and spoken word artist Hakim Bey. A meld with musical terrorist Bill Laswell. Bey advocates nearly everything, including creating free states for likeminded cabals and collectives. He recommends marginalized groups form secret societies and concludes with a lengthy piece on boycotting cop culture. Musique concrete cloaks his words in an eerily seductive melange of avant-garde noise and ambient music. A swirling, surreal vertigo of information and methods for “escape,” woven with the kind of airy tones and hallucinatory rhythms that Laswell has been playing with lately, Bey's voice calms and prepares the listener for an age where missing information and the icons of late capitalist high tech correspond with an increasing alienation of this “X Generation’”s most primitive needs. Most of all, Bey doesn't come across as a cheesy, overzealous, visionary bard, but presents us with ideas point blank, allowing us to be choosy in aiming our own forms of poetic terrorism against those forces that attempt to suppress and homogenize humility and free thought.

1. Chaos
2. Poetic Terrorism
3. Amour Fou
4. Immediatism
5. The Tong
6. Boycott Cop Culture

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Saturday, July 26, 2014

2014 Zorn!


Hi everyone,

My favorite living composer, by far, is John Zorn. You know he shows up on my so often. This time it is my pleasure to present three of his newest albums, all from this year: Psychomagia (Zorn compositions performed by Abraxas); The Alchemist (two classical-ish pieces), & Fragmentations, Prayers And Interjections (Zorn produced this, and it sounds the most Zorn-ish). Enjoy, enjoy!

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Olivia Tremor Control......

Hi everyone,

I've heard that Olivia Tremor Control is putting out a new album this year, first time in 15 years, and I am so excited I want to share their first two albums from the 1990s. Nobody is quite like this band. Jump in! Enjoy :)

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Saturday, May 17, 2014

East India Youth!

Hi everyone,

William Doyle has made such a great album, all sorts of good, one of 2014's best! Plus a little Moondog :)

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Tapegerm.com!!

Hi everyone,

There's this great site called "Tapegerm: Experimental Music, Collaboration, and Audio Arts." All sorts of goodies there! My show this time will feature "Caricature Masquerade" by Taped Rugs Productions, which is all sorts of fun! You can look up the individual tracks at: https://archive.org/details/CaricatureMasquerade

Enjoy!

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, March 28, 2014

Pelt's Ayahuasca

Hi everyone,

This time around is devoted to Pelt's 2001 droney masterpiece, Ayahuasca. All two-plus hours of it. But there's so much to it, all kinds of sounds mix in, like a long ride through mountains and hills, deep into the night, and you arrive at dawn!

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Monday, February 10, 2014

Golden Sun of the Great East!

Hi everyone

This first show of 2014 features Juno Reactor's great recent album The Golden Sun of the Great East. I've been a JR fan for so long, and it's nice to see them back to doing their great thing great. Also, a little Wayne Shorter to fill out the episode. Enjoy! :)

PeaceNstarZ,
V