Saturday, December 5, 2020

Sasha & John Digweed's Northern Exposure!

Hi everyone,

This show is 2 1/2 hours of pure musical bliss, a journey far & wide. Turn out the lights, cover in your blankets, float away . . .

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, November 27, 2020

Oneohtrix Point Never's Magic Oneohtrix Point Never!

Hi everyone,

This is a weird fever dream music. Sit back. Relax. Dim the lights. You'll be back later . . .

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, November 13, 2020

William Tyler's Parallelogram & Goes West & New Vanitas

Hi everyone,

William Tyler's albums are strange & beautiful & will comfort & move you in subtle & deep ways, salve you in these hard times.

Go Joe & Kamala!

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, October 23, 2020

John Zorn's Baphomet!

Hi everyone,

If you listen to my show, you know I love me some John Zorn! Brilliant avant garde jazz musician and composer. Multiple albums every years. So I am extra happy, laying low, voting for Joe (!!!), and digging me some new Zorn!

40 minutes of frickin' bliss, man!

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Saturday, October 17, 2020

Robert Rich's Tactile Ground!

Hi everyone,

Legendary ambient artist, who I just discovered. Wow. Inspired by Rich's experience with tactile synesthesia, this album is two hours of deep, drifting bliss. Sweet awe.

PeaceNstarZ,
V

PS - This is my 200th show on SpiritPlants Radio! Woot! :)

Friday, October 9, 2020

Mouse on Mars' Vulvaland & Iaora Tahiti!

 Hi everyone,

I don't know, sometimes I just forget music I loved long ago. Came on some tapes of this German group from the 1990s, and DAMN they are good! Dim the lights, fire up the vape pen, dress down to skivvies and groove in the murk good! Management gave me some extra time this show, so their great first two albums back to back! Enjoy! :)

PeaceNstarZ,
V

PS - I added a live M on M track from "MTV's Party Zone" for fun ;)

Friday, September 25, 2020

Soundwalk Collective And Patti Smith's Peradam!

Hi everyone,

This is from a review of this amazing final album in the "Perfect Vision" trilogy:

"'The gateway to the invisible must be visible.' So intones Patti Smith on the third and final journey in sound with Stephan Crasneanscki and Simone Merli, AKA Soundwalk Collective, musical psychogeographers and field recorders whose journey for this evocation of French spiritual-surrealist writer Rene Daumal’s posthumous 1952 cult classic Mount Analog took him to the peak of Nanda Devi in the Himalayas, the former Beatle hangout of Rishikesh, India’s 'spiritual capital' of Varanasi, and Upper Mustang, once known as the Kingdom of Lo, which only admitted its first foreign visitors in 1992."

Patti Smith is one of the coolest artists & women on the planet! Sound Boardwalk are her perfect counterparts. Try this out with me!

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Saturday, September 19, 2020

Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith's Mummer Love!

Hi everyone, Here is the description of this amazing second album in the "Perfect Vision" trilogy:

"For this body of work, Soundwalk Collective journeyed to Africa to explore the intricacies of Arthur Rimbaud’s most obscure period. After leaving France and what he deemed the ‘western stagnation’, Rimbaud found himself in Harar, Ethiopia – an epicenter of Sufism in Africa. Sufi practise focuses on the renunciation of worldly things, the purification of the soul and the mystical contemplation of God’s nature. Sufism is a mystical form of Islam, and its music is about reaching a communal ecstatic state, and once you find yourself there, you are granted access to the unknown. The Soundwalk Collective spent time with the Sufi group of Sheikh Ibrahim to record their music and chants in the shrine with the use of Audio-Technica microphones. “'You obtain connections to other levels of yourself and consciousness,'” Stephan Crasneanscki mentions of the musical process. “'This connection, like poetry, is a universal language.'"

Just lovely. Just so deep and funky and lovely.

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, September 11, 2020

Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith's The Peyote Dance!

Hi everyone,

Here is a summary from Amazon.com of this amazing record:

"The Peyote Dance, by Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith, is the first in a triptych of albums, collectively titled The Perfect Vision. Each take their inspiration from the writings of three emblematic French poets: Antonin Artaud, Arthur Rimbaud and RenĂ© Daumal, and their necessity to travel to different lands to acquire a new vision and perspective on themselves and their artwork. Recorded in the Sierra Tarahumara of Mexico The Peyote Dance retraces Artaud's footsteps. The album's opening, recited by Gael Garcia Bernal, evokes the summer he traveled by train towards the Chihuahua region, and by horse to the Tarahumara mountains with the help of a mestizo guide. One of Artaud's goal was to find a peyote shaman who could help him recover from an opioid addiction. During his stay he encountered the RarĂ¡muri Indians and peyote shamans of Tarahumara. His transcendental experience resulted in the book The Peyote Dance. Back in New York, Patti Smith channeled Artaud's spirit by listening, reading and improvising to the music.The penultimate track on the album is a poem she wrote in homage to Artaud's last hours in a mental asylum in France."

Wow. I will share the next two volumes soon.

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, August 28, 2020

Mogwai's Every Country's Sun!

Hi everyone,

Been spinning the Mogwai records from June along this summer to this show. Great band, roam the lands of sound widely, strangely, & wonderfully. Hoping this 2017 release is just the next of many more to come. It's a beautiful record. Been fun sharing all these songs of this band. Will catch up with them another time! Enjoy!

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Saturday, August 22, 2020

Mogwai's Rave Tapes!

Hi everyone,

This 2014 album by Mogwai soothes my sheltering-in-place soul. Don't know so much about it being too rave-y, but it sure is sweet!

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Saturday, August 15, 2020

Mogwai's Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will!

Hi everyone,

Here is the next entry in our Mogwai summer marathon. Their music has changed over time, still restless, still strange, still great listening in a darkened room, smoke blowing soft . . .

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, July 31, 2020

Mogwai's The Hawk Is Howling!

Hi everyone,

This is Mogwai's 2008 album, all of it are instrumentals, & a delight it is. Dark, brooding. Like a theme album for this pandemic summer. Enjoy!

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Two Hours of Mogwai!

Hi everyone,

The radio bossman said, "Can you make an extra long show this week, V?" I said, "Sho' nuff, bossman!" And since this show is right now on a Mogwai kick, we got two hours of three albums of Mogwai brooding, loud, soft, weird & wonderful brilliance. Here they are:

  • Rock Action (2001)
  • Happy Songs For Happy People (2003)
  • Mr. Beast (2006)

Shelter in place happy! :)

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, June 19, 2020

Mogwai's Come On Die Young!

Hi everyone,

Mogwai's second album is slower, more brooding, almost droning though it doesn't. It's like a day when you gotta just shut the curtains, put out the lights, hide away, not asleep, but apart as possible. Even in a pandemic . . .

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, June 12, 2020

Mogwai Young Team!

Hi everyone,

This was Mogwai's debut album, & I got a hankering for it while looking for ways to shelter in place well. Rowdy, dreamy music. Not quite like anything else. Give it a try with me :)

PeaceNstarZ,
R

Stay Safe!

Friday, June 5, 2020

John Zorn's Virtue!


Hi everyone,

Anyone listening to this show over the time know that I love me some Zorn. Here's some online description of this wonderful new record: featuring "the three acoustic guitars of Bill Frisell, Gyan Riley and Julian Lage, 'Virtue' is inspired by Julian of Norwich, one of the founders of Christian mysticism, portrayed through twelve succinct Zorn compositions of beautifully lyrical contrapuntal interplay and transcendental reflection."

Even if you knew none of that, you'll love this album! Lose yourself from these days of rage & sickness, just for a little while. 

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, May 29, 2020

Brian Eno's & Roger Eno's Mixing Colours!

Hi everyone,

These famous brothers have ever released a duo album before, but glad the wait! Roger would create the tunes on the piano, send them to Brian, & he would give them an electronic sheen, while riding on the train. It's calm in the storm, lovely, strange calm . . .

Stay Safe!
PeaceNstarZ,
V

Friday, May 22, 2020

Boards of Canada Potpouri!


Hi everyone,

I discovered I had not played everything by Boards of Canada so, sheltering in place, I dug up all these goodies. Enjoy!

In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country EP
1. Boards of Canada - Kid for Today
2. Boards of Canada - Amo Bishop Roden
3. Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
4. Boards of Canada - Zoetrope

Peel Session EP (21 July 1998 Peel Session broadcast on BBC Radio 1)
1. Boards of Canada - Aquarius (Version 3)
2. Boards of Canada - Happy Cycling
3. Boards of Canada - Olson (Version 3)
4. Boards of Canada - XYZ
5. Nevermen, Boards of Canada - Mr. Mistake (BOC Remix)
6. WHY?, Boards of Canada - Good Friday (BOC Remix)

Additionally:
1. Nevermen, Boards of Canada - Mr. Mistake (BOC Remix)
2. WHY?, Boards of Canada - Good Friday (BOC Remix)

PeaceNstarZ,
V
Stay Safe!

Saturday, April 18, 2020

Future Sound of London's Yage 2019!

Hi everyone,

Back in 1996, FSOL released an album called Dead Cities. Wonderful ambient beauty, sweet, fine, strange. One of its great songs, "Yage," served as the basis for this new album, which served as basis for the eleven tracks on this new album. Wow! And wonderful! Another great record to groove through the pandemic :)

PeaceNstarZ,
Health & Safety,
V

Saturday, April 4, 2020

William Tyler's Modern Country!

Hi everyone,

More of the great William Tyler for you to bunk down with while waiting out the pandemic. His music is strange, beautiful, soothing, a place of calm in all the calamities. Enjoy!

PeaceNstarZ,
Health & Safety!
V

Friday, March 27, 2020

William Tyler's Deseret Canyon!

Hi everyone,

Hope you are staying safe! No sane reason to risk it.

Laying low in my studio, listening to William Tyler, finding his music peace-making in my heart. Share it with me on this show! :)

PeaceNstarZ,
AND HEALTH,
V

Saturday, March 21, 2020

William Tyler's Behold the Spirit & Impossible Truth!

Hi everyone,

William Tyler is a magical guitarist who plays with great players & makes magick musik. If you tune in, close your eyes, the world would solve its crisis in a moment, but you will be massaged deep to be ready to do your part when you emerge. Try it! ;)

PeaceNstarZ
Nhealth!
Nsafety!
V

Friday, March 6, 2020

Sound Tribe Sector 9 Live! - 28.January.2018 - Albuquerque, New Mexico


Hi everyone,

Compared to the STS9 show from 18 years before (played in my show's last episode), this recent one is longer, & the crowd pays attention to the music! But the music itself is just as wonderful; hope you try it out with me :)

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Saturday, February 22, 2020

Sound Tribe Sector 9 Live! - 31.March.2000 - Cambridge, Massachusetts

Hi everyone,

My DJ friend told me he went to see this Atlanta jam-electronica group 20 years ago, in a club called the Middle East Cafe, a dark underground place. Danced his elixir the whole show, said that the band that came later didn't hold a candle to STS9! Lotta crowd noise, but great show!

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Saturday, February 15, 2020

Pulse Emitter's Swirlings!


Hi everyone,

Daryl Groetsch's project is dreamy weird for the dark among the blankets deep in the elixir you choose . . .

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Saturday, February 8, 2020

Deadmau5's 4x4=12!

Hi everyone,

So I dug deeper into Mr. Mau5 & found another winner. He reminds me of Moby, in his range of moods, from pretty piano to hard crazy dance floor. Give this one a whirl with me!

PeaceNstarZ,
V

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Deadmau5's While(1 Is Less Than 2)!

Hi everyone,

Happy 2020! Starting this year off with a new artist to me, though he's been around a long time. My friend DJ S said, "Try this out, girl!"

Deadmau5, stage name for Joel Thomas Zimmeran. This album is from 2014, & cracks the usual length of albums at nearly 2 1/2 hours! Ambient downtempo music, varieties upon varieties, so good! Tune in!  :)

PeaceNstarZ,
V