(First aired: April 18 2023)
on this week’s Convergence Zone, we evoke the turbulent mood of spring in the PNW; brand new music from Frore, and from Active Region — and a new reissue of a rare album by Steve Roach and Michael Shrieve; classics from Jean-Michel Jarre, Kitaro, Dead Can Dance, and Michael Hoenig; synthwave and synthpop from Talk Talk, FM Attack, and Japanese Breakfast; …and lots of surprises
10:30pm PDT 4/11/23 – 90.7 KSER | Independent Public Radio
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FM Attack ft. Julian Sanza | Fade Away | Deja Vu | Tonite Records | Synthwave project from Vancouver BC (Shawn Ward) – 2013 sophomore album |
| Talk Talk | It’s My Life | It’s My Life | EMI | 1984, second LP |
| Japanese Breakfast | Be Sweet | Jubilee | Dead Oceans | Sold out performance at ZooTunes on August 20, 2023 with Built to Spill |
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| Steve Roach & Michael Shrieve | Theme For The Far Away | The Leaving Time | Novus | 1988 collaboration re-released in October 2022 |
| David Arkenstone | Night Wind | Valley in the Clouds | Narada Equinox | 2023 tour in May; dates include Bellevue, Enumclaw, Seattle, Tacoma, Vancouver BC, Victoria BC, Portland… |
| Richard Souther | The Long Riders | Cross Currents | Narada Equinox | 1989 New Age |
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| Dead Can Dance | The Carnival Is Over | Into The Labyrinth | 4AD | 1993, remembrance of Brendan Perry’s visit to a circus as a pre-teen |
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| Frore | Fern Cluster | Biome | Spotted Peccary | Brand new! Releases on April 21 – label debut from Paul Casper |
| Pink Floyd | Signs of Life | A Momentary Lapse of Reason | EMI | 1987 – First Floyd album w/o Roger Waters… |
| Pink Floyd | Learning to Fly | A Momentary Lapse of Reason | EMI | …some may call it a David Gilmour solo album featuring Richard Wright and Nick Mason 🙂 |
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| Redshift | Shift to Blue (live) | RW Three | 2008 concert, at Hampshire Jam Seven festival | |
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| Active Region | Into the Black | Horizon Dispatch | Exosphere | February 2023 release, project of Peter Brefini |
| Jean-Michel Jarre | Oxygène, Pt 2 | Oxygène | Les Disques Motors | 1976 album – perhaps most important album in the history of electronic music? |
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| Mary Lattimore | Silver Ladders | Silver Ladders | Ghostly International | 2020, universal acclaim, Bandcamp Album of the day |
| Andreas Vollenweider | The Glass Hall (Choose the Crystal) – The Play of the Five Balls – The Five Planets Canopy Choir | White Winds | CBS | 1984, fourth album with very long track titles |
| Keep Shelly in Athens | Me Then (B-side) | Philomeno / Me Then (single) | Athenian Aura Recordings | Greek/Australian duo, 2021 single |
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| Boards of Canada | Kid for Today | In a Beautiful Place out in the Country | Warp | 2008 EP, Scottish brothers Mike Sandison + Marcus Eoin |
| Cool Maritime | Apex | Big Earth Energy | Western Vinyl | Seattle musician Shawn Hellfritsch; 2022 album |
| Kitaro | Hiten (Flying Celestial Nymphs) | Silk Road (Vol 1) | Canyon | Soundtrack for 1980 Japanese TV documentary series |
| Vangelis | Theme from Antarctica | Antarctica: Original Soundtrack | Polydor | Koreyoshi Kurahara drama – 1958 Japanese scientific expedition to the South Pole |
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| Michael Hoenig | Hanging Garden Transfer | Departure from the Northern Wasteland | Warner Records | German composer, collaborated with Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Ash Ra Tempel; this was his debut album (1978) |
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