Author: Jim Causey

Convergence Zone.015 – Juneteenth 2023

Post author By Jim Causey
Post date 06.21.2023

first aired 6.20.2023

Honoring atmospheric music by Black and African-American artists in commemoration of Juneteenth in the United States

Recent music from pioneers like Laraaji and Alice Coltrane; avant-garde classics from Dorothy Ashby, Art Ensemble of Chicago, and The Detroit Escalator Co.

New ambient from Colloboh and Qu’ran Shaheed; recent space music from Jayme Rose Hannegan, Bluetech, KMRU, Klein, and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe

Explorations from Fholston Paradigm, Kamasi Washington, Flying Lotus and L’Rain, and Yves Tumor

And lots more — when Convergence Zone arrives Tuesday night at 10:30pm PDT on 90.7 KSER-FM, 89.9 KXIR-FM, and streaming at KSER.org, TuneIn, etc

Artist	Song	Time	Album	Notes
Fhloston Paradigm feat. Jacqueline Constance	…GLOW	00:00	AFTER…	Afro-futurist side project of Philly musician King Britt
Fyling Lotus & Niki Randa	Between Memories	07:02	Yasuke	Music from six-part TV series
Qu’ran Shaheed	Thrive	08:33	Lefto Early Bird presents The Beauty is Inside	Pasadena Compilation by Belgiun DJ Lefto
L’Rain	Not Now	14:40	Fatigue	Brooklyn taja cheek
	Two Face	14:49
	Walk Through	18:54
Kokoroko	Ewa Inu (ehWA iNOO)	19:12	Could We Be More	August 2022; channeling the greats of W Africa
Dorothy Ashby	Joyful Grass and Grape	25:50	The Rubiyat of Dorothy Ashby	1970 on Cadet
Laraaji	Ocean Glimpse	29:23	Koto	2023 algum Edward Larry Gordon, dulcimers and zithers, 1980 Ambient 3 album produced by Brian Eno
	Bethelem Glimpse	30:53
Art Ensemble of Chicago Lester Bowie	Rios Negroes	33:01	The Great Pretender	1981
Alice Coltrane Ravi Coltrane Oran Coltrane Jack DeJohnette Charlie Haden	Crescent	40:13	Translinear Light	200 4
Makaya McCraven	Crash Course	46:29	Lefto Early Bird presents The Beauty is Inside	Compilation by Belgiun DJ Lefto
The Detroit Escalator Co	The Inverted Man (Dreaming)	50:57	Black Buildings	2002 on Peacefrog records
Yves Tumor	Limerence	53:31	PAN records compilation – mono no aware
*end*	*segment*	*one*
Colloboh	Acid Sunrise	01:00:00	Saana Sahel EP
Jayme Rose Hennegan	Through the Healing	01:05:30	Time Ritual
Claude Young Jr.	Sedna 90377	01:11:31	Celestial Bodies	Detroit techno producer moving to space music Evidence for a planet beyond the orbit of Neptune? Discovered in 2003
The Detroit Escalator Co	Folding Space	01:19:00	Black Buildings
Robbiee Elizee	Smoking Wet	01:21:43	Cull	Louisville, Kentucky musician
Klein	Shot in the dark	01:23:56	Shot in the dark
Wayne Phoenix	…and sleepless skies	01:27:38	Soaring wayne phoenix story the earth
	Burn False Messages	01:28:02
	Reserve	01:30:39
	Death is Pure Objectivity	01:33:34
Space Afrika	Version 3	01:35:23	Untitled (To Describe You) OST	Short film from Tibyan Mahwah Sanoh Manchester UK duo
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe	Dix Voix	01:39:21	Notes Above Land	Live rehearsel in San Francisco 2015 Brooklyn artist
Robbie Elizee	SOMMA 8,9	01:47:58	Cull	2020 compilation of remixes of The Conet Project – recordings of shortwave Numbers Stations
Laaraji	Koto Glimpse	01:50:32	Koto
	All Pervading Glimps	01:52:15
KMRU kamaru & Echium	Unending	01:54:32	Peripheral

first aired June 20 2023

Tags #ambient, #convergencezone, #kser, #lo-fi, #newage, #radio, #spacemusic, #synthpop, #synthwave

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Convergence Zone.014

Post author By Jim Causey
Post date 06.13.2023

first aired June 13 2023

This week on Convergence Zone:

tons of new music from PNW artists and labels, as well as debuts and exclusives from around the world

New local ambient from Nathan Kawanishi, ann annie, Deborah Martin and Jill Haley, and Hello Meteor

Brand new lo-fi from Four Tet, and a classic from Boards of Canada

New synthwave from FM Attack, Meltt, and Ladytron

Local space music from AeTopus and Marc Barreca

And an exclusive track from Steve Roach!

Convergence Zone arrives Tuesdays at 10:30pm PDT on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR, and kser.org, TuneIn, all that good stuff

Artist	Song	Album	Label
Meltt	Do You Ever Wonder	Do You Ever Wonder
Holy Ghost!	Epton on Broadway	Work
FM Attack	Strange Ways	Strange Ways
Ladytron	The Night	Time’s Arrow
Lemonade	Ice Water	Diver	Beggar’s Group
Small Black	Collections	Limits of Desire (Deluxe Edition)
Four Tet	Three Drums	Three Drums
Nathan Kawanishi	projections	Splashes of Ink (antithesis)
Boards of Canada	Aquarius	Music Has The Right To Children
Hello Meteor	Photic Glitter	The Lower Path
Marc Barreca	Music Works for Industry	Music Works for Industry
Marc Barreca	Shopping	Shopping
Paul Ellis	Forever Exploring	Music For The Space Between Atoms	Cyclical Dreams
Segment break
Panabrite	Pool	Pavilion
AeTopus	Altum	VARIANT
Fred again. & Brian Eno	I Saw You	Secret Life
Nathan Kawanishi	a name, a place	Splashes of Ink (antithesis)
ann annie	Hazel Creek	By Morning
Deborah Martin & Jill Haley	Reaching the Ambient	Into the Quiet	Spotted Peccary
Mark Isham	Raffles in Rio	Vapor Drawings	Windham Hill
Francisco Nicosia	Electrónica del antiguo Egipto	Historias Secretas	Cyclical Dreams
Steve Roach	Elegant Forward (exclusive)	Cloudwatch (Subscriber Exclusive)

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Artist	Song	Time	Album
Mree	All the Stars	0:00	All the Stars
Jenn Champion	O.M.G (I want to get a hold on you)	02:50	Single Rider
Tori Amos	Caught a Lite Sneeze	07:50	Boys for Pele
Dead Can Dance	American Dreaming	12:10
Sill Corners	White Sands	16:36	The Last Exit
U2	In God’s Country	22:02	The Joshua Tree
Daft Punk	Horizon	25:41	Random Access Memories
Cowboy Junkies	Pale Sun	29:55	Pale Sun, Crescent Moon
The Handsome Family	Far From Any Road	33:25	Singing Bones
Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno	Deep Blue Day	36:06	Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
Oatmello ft. Ornithology	Passing Moments	40:19
Emma Ruth Rundle	Body	41:28	Engine of Hell
NAVVI	Clemency	46:38	V
Betamaxx	Love on a Real Train (remix)	52:13
FM Attack	Nova Child	55:34	The Never Ending
End seg 1		59:00
Siren and the Sea	The Large Floating Vessel	59:00	Gravity Wave
Lisa Bella Donna	Dawn on Manitou River	01:02:41	Early Atmospheres
Fog Net	Polymer Field	01:07:14	Headlands
Martin Sturtzer	Orion Constellation	01:11:09	Cosmic Echo
Frore	Luminous and Tangled	01:20:17	Biome
‘ramp	Hanging gardens	01:30:21	Synchronize or Die
Erik Wollo	Illuminated River	01:51:48	The Le Paysage Single

Convergence Zone.012 – remembering Dave Smith

Post author By Jim Causey
Post date 05.30.2023

first aired May 30 2023

This week on Convergence Zone, I’m excited to play new music I’m loving from artists like Yaeji, Eydís Evenson, Deborah Martin & Jill Haley, Bluetech, Siren and the Sea — and debuting a single from the upcoming self-titled debut LP by The Conspiracy Tapes

Awesome local music from AeTopus, Dreamstate Logic, MIDI Janitor, Mt, Fog, and Style.King.Of.The.Week

And remembering the great Dave Smith, creator of the celebrated Prophet synthesizers — with music by dedicated players of his gear such as Betamaxx with FM Attack, CHVRCHES, and Shannon Hammett of LEATHERS and ACTORS

(other surprises too)

Convergence Zone arrives Tuesday nights at 10:30pm PDT on 90.7 KSER-FM, 89.9 KXIR-FM, and kser.org

Artist	Song	Album	Show Notes
Mt Fog	Behind a Silent Door	Spells of Silence	Performing at Belltown Yacht Club on June 7 2023
CHVRCHES	The Mother We Share	The bones of what you believe	September 2012 debut LP
Yaeji	Done (Let’s Get It)	With a Hammer	Live at Day In Day Out Festival August 12 2023
Melody’s Echo Chamber	Looking Backward	Emotional Eternal	One of my favorite albums from 2022
Holy Fuck ft. Nicholas Allbrook	Free Gloss	Deleter	Featuring vocals by Pond frontman
FM Attack, Betamaxx	Cosmic Voyage	Cosmic Voyage (single)	Sequential Prophet synth spotlight article
LEATHERS	Ultraviolet	Ultraviolet (single)	Interview with Shannon Hemmett for Sequential Prophet spotlight
Style King of the Week	Eerie Blvd	Style king of the week EP	Live at Vermillion Art Gallery June 26 2023
Bluetech	Echoes of Orion	Spacehop Chronicles 2: Echoes of Orion	Continuing the story of laika, the cosmonaut dog
Nils Frahm	All Armed	All Encores	2019 Brings together three Eps refined live
MIDI Janitor	Vapor King	Bulk Order	originally imagined the MIDI Janitor as an aging maintenance man creating beats in the privacy of his supply closet
Gotan Project	Vuelvo al Sur	La Revancha del Tango	2001 debut LP
Still Corners	Shifting Dunes	The Last Exit	Ambient country, one of my faves from 2021
*Segment two*
Deborah Martin & Jill Haley	Hall of Whispers	Into the Quiet	Brand new on Spotted Peccary
Eydís Evenson	Dreaming of Light	The Light	Live at The Triple Door Oct 13 2023
Enya	The Loxian Gate	Dark Sky Island	inspired by designation of Sark, in the Channel Islands, as a dark-sky preserve
Siren and the Sea	Probably Hawai’i	Gravity Wave	March 2023 release from Cristina Cano
AeTopus	Aerie (Extended)	Urbus	Bellingham artist, just signed with Spotted Peccary Records
The Conspiracy Tapes	For As Long As it Takes	The Conspiracy Tapes	Upcoming debut album in June Manila, Phillippines solo project
Fumerolles	Cyclique	Nuit jaune	Montral illustrator and librarian Frédérique Duval
{arsonist}	Till human voices wake us	Reality structure	Pittsburgh artist — “unbraids time and decoloroizes nature”
Dreamstate Logic	Crystalline multiverse	Era4	Colby Sixx, solo electronic project January 2020
Tom Eaton	Before Obsidian	Collected Ambient Works Volum 1	grammy-award nominated – New Hampshire-based ambient artist

First aired 5.30.23

Tags #ambient, #convergencezone, #darkwave, #kser, #radio, #spacemusic, #synthwave

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Convergence Zone.011 – World Goth Day

Post author By Jim Causey
Post date 05.23.2023

first aired May 23 2023

World Goth Day took place around the world this week; and on this edition of Convergence Zone we embrace the darkness

Brand new music from A Covenant of Thorns, Hello Meteor, Alio Die and Lorenzo Montaná, and NAVVI

Recent local music from Terminus Void, ODESZA featuring Julianna Barwick, and SNOWDN

Classics by Depeche Mode, Sisters of Mercy, and much more

Convergence Zone arrives Tuesday nights at 10:30pm PDT on 90.7 KSER-FM, 89.9 KXIR-FM, and kser.org

Artist	Song	Album	Show Notes
FM Attack	Timelesss	Timeless	March 24, 2023 w/ add’l vocals by Stella Dee Ward
Nation of Language	Rush and Fever	Introduction, Presence	2020 debut LP
break
NAVVI	Ultimae	V	Seattle new music
Sally Shapro	Dulcinea (Ben Macklin Remix)	Sad Cities (The Remixes)	Swedish duo; London-based remixer; April 2022
BA
New Order	Perfect Kiss (12″ mix)	Substance 1987	Jonathan Demme video

A Covenant of Thorns	Grace (Like The Back of a Fist)	Ashes	Brand new! Comes out May 26, Scott-David Allen
ID
The Cure	Fascination Street	Disintegration	1989, 8th LP, approaching 30 and began writing by himself as he wrestled with depression
Sisters of Mercy	Lucretia, My Reflection	Floodland	Final single from 1988 Floodland; written by Andrew Eldritch for bassist Patricia Morrison
break
ACTORS	Strangers	Acts of Worship	Vancouver, BC 2021 release
POLICA	Alive	Madness	2022 Minneapolis synthpop
Boy Harsher	Come Closer	Careful	2019 album
Mic Break
Depeche Mode	Strangelove (Maxi Mix)		12″ single supporting Music for the Masses 1987

ODESZA feat. Julianna Barwick	This Version of You	The Last Goodbye	Bellingham-based duo, vcals from recorded therapy session
Enya	Storms in Africa	Watermark
Orbital	I Wish I Had Duck Feet	Snibilization	1994 ambient techno
Hello Meteor	Photic Glitter	The Lower Path	Brand new from Seattle anonymous “cozywave” act
Alio Die & Lorenzo Montana	Cave Chasm Recall	Dialogue of Water	Italian artitsts exploring the perpetual flow of water; due out June 2023
SNOWDN	19XX	Modern Quilt EP	December 2022 – Seattle-based artist Justin Benjamin; includes waves on the Puget Sound
Terminus Void	Dark Outpost	Origins Unknown	2022 dark ambient
Brian Eno	There Were Bells	FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE	Climate-focused single, 2022, first Brian Eno vocal projects since 2005
Colin Chin	The Alluvial Plains	Intruding on a Silence	1989 Narada
Suzanne Ciani	The Fourth Wave: Wind In The Sea	Seven Waves	1979 Japan-only release, re-released in US in 1984
Abstract Audio System	Out Beyond the Belt	Marginal Breath	May 2023 on Neotantra
Steve Roach	Infinite Shore	The Magnificent Void	1996 dark ambient on hears of space label

First Aired 5.23.2023

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Convergence Zone.010 – Live Recordings

Post author By Jim Causey
Post date 05.16.2023

first aired May 16 2023

Celebrating the 10th episode of Convergence Zone with a show full of live recordings by atmospheric artists

Rare tracks from Dead Can Dance live in Seattle in 2005, Steve Roach in Philadelphia in 1986, Suzanne Ciani in Switzerland in 2020, and Cocteau Twins live on BBC Radio in 1996

Live classics from Tangerine Dream, Rudy Adrian, Redshift, Peter Gabriel, and Node

And a couple of surprises! Convergence Zone arrives Tuesdays at 10:30pm PDT on 90.7 KSER FM in Everett, 89.9 KXIR in Freeland, and streaming at kser.org, TuneIn, and other radio services

Time	Track Name	Album	Artist	Date	Notes
0:00	Can I Believe You (Solstice Version)	A Very Lonely Solstice	Fleet Foxes	12.21.20	Recorded live at St. Ann & Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn for a December 2020 stream
3:55	Fifty-Fifty Clown	BBC Sessions	Cocteau Twins	04.10.96	BBC Radio London set hosted by Robert Elms in 1996
8:17	Rakim	Live at Paramount Theatre Seattle – 2005	Dead Can Dance	11.17.05	Seattle stop on the 2005 world tour
14:08	Someone Great	The Long Goodbye	LCD Soundsystem	04.02.11	Madison Square Garden April 2 2011; at time was their “last show ever”
20:53	In Your Eyes	Secret World Live	Peter Gabriel	11.1993	Secret World Live Tour, recorded in Modena Italy – supported by Paula Cole, with cameo Papa Wemba – Congolese king of Rumba Rock
32:07	Night Ride Across the Caucasus	Live in Paris and Toronto	Loreena McKennit	04.19.98	Salle Pleyel, Paris on 1998 world tour
38:10	Caravansary	Live in America	Kitaro	04.25.90	Fox Theatre in Atlanta on 1990 US tour
43:59	Pyro_Gen	Faultline	Redshift	10.2002	Hampshire Jam 2 in the UK, 2002
59:00	End	Segment	One
1:00:00	Cherokee Lane	Encore	Tangerine Dream	Spring 1977	Spring 1977 sold-out tour in the US – compiled from different recordings of the opening track over multiple nights
1:16:24	Heartbeats	Improvisation on Four Sequences at Festival Antigel	Suzanne Ciani	2020	Live in Seattle on Saturday May 20, 2023! Reflections (ageofreflections.com)
1:20:33	Three Views of a Japanese Garden Pt 2	Moonwater	Rudy Adrian	07.2006	Live improvisation on a single synth – the Yamaha SY77
1:31:16	Shinkansen North	Node Live (DiN55)	Node	02.27.15	London Royal College of Music in 2015
1:45:07	Continent in View (Excerpt)	Steve Roach Live Trans-Sonic Festival (subscriber exclusive)	Steve Roach	05.30.86	May 1986 Trans-Sonic Festival – Harrison Audiitorium at University of Pennsylvania
1:47:36	Levels	Steve Roach Live Trans-Sonic Festival (subscriber exclusive)	Steve Roach	05.30.86	May 1986 Trans-Sonic Festival – Harrison Audiitorium at University of Pennsylvania
1:59:00	Show	Ends

First aired May 16, 2023

Tags #ambient, #convergencezone, #gothic, #livemusic, #spacemusic, #synthpop

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Convergence Zone.009

Post author By Jim Causey
Post date 05.09.2023

Listen now from the show archive

The dark palettes of the Pacific Northwest evoke vibes of gothic music and synthwave for many area artists, and this week on Convergence Zone we embrace that vibe

Brand new music from Frore and Locsil with Lawrence English; recent tracks by Bart Hawkins and Remote Vision

Vancouver BC cityscapes from FM Attack and LEATHERS

Gothic classics from A Covenant of Thorns, New Order, Sisters of Mercy, and Depeche Mode

With more surprises in store

Convergence Zone arrives Tuesdays at 10:30pm PDT on 90.7 KSER-FM, 89.9 KXIR-FM, and streaming at kser.org, smart speakers, TuneIn, and all fine internet radio services

Time	Track Name	Album Name	Artist Name	Notes
0:00	To Ride A Pterodactyl	Entering the Axis Mundi	Bart Hawkins	2023 album from Oregon artist
11:06	Elegia	Low-Life	New Order
15:49	Closedown	Disintegration	The Cure
19:52	Marian – Version	First and Last and Always	Sisters of Mercy
30:07	Precious	Playing the Angel	Depeche Mode
34:34	Numb	Black	A Covenant of Thorns	Darkwave project Scott-David Allen, originally from Seattle
38:17	Give Me a Reason	The Runner (OST)	Boy Harsher	soundtrack to a short horror film written, produced, and directed by the duo
38:54	Highrise	Highrise	LEATHERS	Solo electro-pop from Shannon Hemmett from ACTORS in Vancouver, BC
42:18	Sleepless Nights	Dreamatic	FM Attack	Vaporwave pioneer from Vancouver, BC
48:41	The Girl with the Sun in Her Head	In Sides	Orbital
59:00	End Segment One
1:00:00	Brainless	Results, Not Answers	Young Scientist	Seattle trio formed in the 1970s – James Husted, Roland Barker, Marc Barreca
1:13:41	The Architect	The Architecture of Time	Remote Vision
1:20:29	Trapped in Amber	Biome	Frore	Paul Casper – “inspired by the interconnectedness of a forest, how one small swath of nature can contain infinite microbes, many components that comprise the whole”
1:29:58	Fundamental Values	Tripping with Nils Frahm	Nils Frahm
1:43:12	Closed Circuit	FRKWYS Vol. 13 – Sunergy	Suzanne Ciani Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
1:52:45	Violet	Colours of Air	Loscil,Lawrence English	“collection of recordings of a century old pipe organ housed at the historic Old Museum in Brisbane, Australia, which were then processed, transformed, and elevated into eight majestic electro-acoustic threshold devotionals”

First aired May 9, 2023

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Convergence Zone.008

Post author By Jim Causey
Post date 05.02.2023

(First aired: May 02 2023)

Listen from the show archive

on this week’s Convergence Zone, songs from the acts touring this spring — like synth pioneer Suzanne Ciani, New Age polymath David Arkenstone, and experimental wizard Arushi Jain

more touring artists — Colloboh with Qu’ran Shaheed, legends like Suso Saiz and Bitchin Bajas, LA acts Classixx and Matthewdavid, and neo-jazz icons Gogo Penguin

also – brand new music from Vancouver’s Noble Oak, Italy’s Jarguna and Seattle cozywave artist Hello Meteor, and a 2021 live excerpt from Howard Givens, Madhavi Devi, and Craig Padilla

Convergence Zone arrives Tuesdays at 10:30pm PDT on 90.7 KSER-FM, 89.9 KXIR-FM, and streaming at kser.org, smart speakers, TuneIn, and all fine internet radio services

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Show Comments
Noble Oak	Anywhere but Here	When It Finds You	Last Gang Records	Space-pop from Vancouver, BC – When It Finds You due out July 8 2023
Classixx	Hanging Gardens	Hanging Gardens	Innovative Leisure	2013 debut; 10-year anniversary shows May-July across the country
CHVRCHES + Robert Smith	How Not to Drown	Screen Violence	Glassnote	2021 single featuring leader of The Cure
Future Islands	For Sure	As Long as you Are	4AD	2020
Colloboh ft. Qur’an Shaheed	Mystic You	Saana Sahel EP		Colloboh and Qur’an Shaheed each open for Suzanne Ciani in different cities
Gogo Penguin	Saturnine	Everything is going to be OK	XXIM Records	Performing live in Seattle May 2 2023
Hello Meteor	Earth Journos	Earth Journos		New cozywave from Seattle
Suso Saiz	Linda Cubana	Odisea	Music from Memory	On tour spring 2023
Pat Metheny Group	Phase Dance	Pat Metheny Group	ECM	1978, signature track – Pat Metheny on acoustic and electric guitars, Lyle Mays on piano and synth
Howard Givens, Madhavi Devi, Craig Padilla	Vibrance of Life	Precipice of a Dream – Live from Soundquest Fest 2021	Spotted Peccary	Part of three-day festival, 45-minute live set Composed with a formidable array of mono and poly synthesizers, modular synths, electric harp, Tibetan Bowls and bells, and an assortment of sequencers and effect devices
David Arkenstone	Ancient legend	Valley in the Clouds	Narada Equinox	2023 tour in May; dates include Bellevue, Enumclaw, Seattle, Tacoma, Vancouver BC, Victoria BC, Portland…
Fleetwood Mac	Seven Wonders	Tango in the Night	Warner Bros	RIP to Christie McVie
*End*	*Segment*	*One*
Norm Chambers	Crossing Over	Holodeck Vision One	Holodeck Records	Late Seattle musician on 2018 compilation album for Holodeck Records
Suzanne Ciani	Tide Pools	Tide Pools	Deutsche Grammophon	Final piece from Project 12 – one single from a different artist each month. Composed primarily on the Moog One, along with her signature Buchla 200e modular Live in Portland May 13, Seattle May 20
Marc Barreca	Shopping	Music Works for Industry	Freedom to Spend	Wayward music series stalwart
Bitchin Bajas	Amorpha	Bajascillators	Drag City	On tour 2023 – new age revivalists
Shannon Hayden	Blown Away	Solid State Cello		Tours with Simrit, session musician with cello, looping pedalboards, synths…
John Coltrane	Pt 1 – Acknowledgement	A Love Supreme	Impulse!	Recorded in one session on December 9, 1964 – McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, Elvin Jones on drums …also recently released as a live 1965 recording at Penthouse in Seattle
Jarguna	A Perfect Hazy Day	Granular Day in the Blue	Projekt	Italian sonic alchemist Marco Billi performs as Jarguna, due out May 2023
Matthewdavid	Zithertronix	Mycellium Music	Leaving Records	Brand New – inspired by the vast subterraneam fungal network through which plant-life communicate; opened for Suso Saiz in 2023
Arushi Jain	Is it Love	With & Without		Opening for Suzanne Ciani Seattle May 20
*End*	*Convergence*	*Zone*	*008*	*Please support KSER with your donation*

First aired May 02, 2023

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Convergence Zone.007

Post author By Jim Causey
Post date 04.24.2023

first aired: April 25 2023

the creators and fans of contemplative music have always gravitated to explorations of deep space — both in science fiction and through the efforts of astronomy and science. In my generation, many of us first came across space music through the works of Vangelis on the TV documentary Cosmos, hosted by the late great Carl Sagan

on this week’s edition of Convergence Zone, we’re putting the “space” in space music, with a show focused on space exploration, space travel, and plotting the depths of the human imagination in the great void

recent music from Seattle artists Hello Meteor, Terminus Void, and Hello Meteor transport us to Jupiter and to contacts with civilizations beyond our imagination

extended travels to distant stars with ARC, and nearby destinations with Caterina Barbieri and Public Service Broadcasting

Convergence Zone departs to the sky and the sun, the moon and Jupite, and outbound to the Tannhäuser Gate — Tuesday night at 10:30pm PDT

90.7 KSER-FM, 89.9 KXIR-FM, and streaming around the world at kser.org and on other internet radio services

Artist	Song	Album	Label	Notes
Hello Meteor	Reitoru Skyport	Earth Journos		Feb 2023 ambient cozywave
Vangelis	Heaven and Hell Part 1 (excerpt)	Heaven and Hell	RCA	Opening music to “Cosmos” by Carl Sagan
Public Service Broadcasting	Sputnik	The Race for Space	Test Card Recordings	Includes signal from Sputnik 1
Vangelis	Atlas Push	Juno to Jupiter	Decca	Includes audio from NASA’s Juno launch
Vangelis	Apo 22	Juno to Jupiter	Decca	Samples from JPL control room
Terminus Void	Inception	Origins Unknown		Brand new! Includes audio recorded by NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Ganymede
Vangelis	Albedo 0.39	Albedo 0.39	RCA	The Earth’s reflecting power is 39%, or Albedo 0.39
Pink Floyd	Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun	Saucerful of Secrets	EMI	We set the controls for the heart of the sun, one of the ways we show our age
Steve Roach	The Sky Opens	The Sky Opens	Projekt	Live in Pasadena, CA, 2019
Dreamstate Logic	First Contact	Starbound		Brand new from Seattle’s Colby Sixx
End	Segment	One	Segment	End
Public Service Broadcasting	The Other Side	The Race for Space	Test Card Recordings	Apollo 8 – first human orbit of the moon
Public Service Broadcasting	Go	The Race for Space	Test Card Recordings	Apollo 11 moon landing
Remote Vision	The Temporal Sequence	The Architecture of Time	Synphaera	Dedicated to the electronic pioneers
Vangelis	Blush Response	Blade Runner	Atlantic	Do you like our owl?
Transponder	Running Binary Nightside	Starmaps, Vol 1	Synphaera	Steve Pierce and Don Tyler
Caterina Barbieri	Closest Approach to your orbit	Ecstatic Computation		2019 LP from Italian composer
ARC	Arcturus Pt 1	Arcturus (DiN 19)	DiN	Live at the Hampshire Jam, October 2004
Vangelis	Tears in Rain	Blade Runner	Decca	I’ve seen things you humans wouldn’t believe

first aired 4.24.2023

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Convergence Zone.006 playlist

Post author By Jim Causey
Post date 04.18.2023

(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
Break
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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First aired: April 18 2023