Convergence Zone

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  • Episode 044 – longer days are on the way

    Jim Causey
    first aired 02.13.2024

    Edging toward longer days with new music from LEATHERS, Garden of Magic, Leslee Smucker, Steve Roach, Erik Wøllo, Jill Haley, and Deborah Martin

    Great regional releases by Patricia Wolf, Panabrite, Echo of the Low Light, Omni Gardens, and more

    Convergence Zone arrives every Tuesday night at 10:30pm PT on 90.7 KSER-FM, 89.9 KXIR-FM, streaming at kser.org

    KSER playlist link for Episode 044 (opens in new tab)

    Artist / Song / Release / Duration / Released

    Patricia Wolf / Pacific Coast Highway / See – Through / 6:00 / 2022

    Echo of the Low Light / Shipwreck – Instrumental / Shipwreck (Instrumental) / 4:42 / 2019

    Still Corners / Midnight Drive / Strange Pleasures / 4:24 / 2013

    Slowdive / shanty / everything is alive / 5:47 / 2023

    Talk Talk / Such a Shame (Remastered 1997) / It’s My Life (Remastered 1997) / 5:36 / 1997

    Echo & The Bunnymen / Lips Like Sugar / Echo & the Bunnymen (Bonus Tracks Edition) [2004 Remaster] / 4:52 / 2004

    LEATHERS / Crash / Artoffact Records / 3:26 / 2024

    Drab Majesty / Induction / The Demonstration / 0:59 / 2017

    Drab Majesty / Dot in the Sky / The Demonstration / 5:26 / 2017

    New Order / Dreams Never End (2019 Remaster) / Movement (Definitive) [2019 Remaster] / 3:15 / 1981

    Soft Release / Broken Number 13 / Broken Number 13 – Single / 4:07 / 2023

    FM Attack / Mixed Signals / Dreamatic / 5:45 / 2009

    Caroline Polachek / Butterfly Net (feat. Weyes Blood) / Butterfly Net (feat. Weyes Blood) / 5:33 / 2024

    Panabrite / The Air-Conditioned Forest / Paramount Hexagon / 3:21 / 2009

    Omni Gardens / Wild Marionberries / Golden Pear / 3:19 / 2023

    Paul Speer & David Lanz / Rain Forest / Natural States / 4:18 / 1985

    Sumner James, Robert Chamberlain, Volcano Lazerbeam & Saroon, / Attenuation / Dive 1: Refraction / 4:06 / 2024

    Pauline Anna Strom / Morning Splendor / Trans-Millenia Consort / 6:06 / 2023

    Garden of Magic / Feel / Feel (Single) / 5:05 / 2024

    The Detroit Escalator Co. / Point Of Entry / Black Buildings / 5:11 / 2002

    Deborah Martin & Erik Wøllo / Fort Apache Meadowlarks / Kinishba / 5:34 / 2024

    Jill Haley & Eykamp String Quartet / Athabaskan / Alaskan Soundscapes: Music for Wrangell-St. Elias and Kenai Fjords National Parks / 4:19 / 2023

    Leslee Smucker / Fixed Hills / Breathing Landscape / 4:06 / 2024
    Steve Roach & Erik Wøllo / Stream of Thought 13 / Stream of Thought / 6:46 / 2008

    Elbow / Mercy Street / Mercy Street / 5:37 / 2010

    André 3000 / Ants To You, Gods To Who ? (excerpt) / New Blue Sun / 6:42 / 2023

  • Episode 043 – anniversaries and Grammys

    Jim Causey
    first aired 02.06.2024

    Convergence Zone arrives Tuesday nights at 10:30pm PT on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR, streaming around the world at kser.org – archives at https://www.mixcloud.com/farpointer

    Nakhane – Do You Well (feat. Perfume Genius) – 00:00
    LCD Soundsystem – Get Innocuous! – 01:37
    ACTORS – L’appel Du Vide – 08:11
    The Cure – Just Like Heaven – 11:57
    Ladytron – Ladybird – 17:23
    Kraftwerk – The Model – 21:47
    Lemonade – Ice Water – 25:25
    Depeche Mode – Enjoy The Silence – 2006 Digital Remaster – 31:09
    Destroyer – It Just Doesn’t Happen – 35:34
    Hibou – Amethyst – 40:35
    Holy Ghost! – Epton on Broadway, Pt. 1 – 44:43
    Holy Ghost! – Epton on Broadway (Part II) – 49:10
    Massive Attack – Blue Lines – 2012 Mix/Master – 52:15
    Style King of the Week – Eerie Blvd. – 56:37
    Little H Collective – Avalanche Pass (radio edit) – 01:00:22
    Soft Mirage – Courtyards of Atlantis – 01:06:45
    Andreas Vollenweider – Night Fire Dance – 01:11:42
    Pat Metheny Group – The First Circle – 01:16:23
    Vijay Iyer – Tempest – 01:26:31
    Matthew Halsall – Calder Shapes – 01:33:42
    Colin Chin – The Alluvial Plains – 01:40:40
    Arin Aksberg – Homecoming feat. Sam Rosenthal – 01:49:21
    Eydís Evensen – Dreaming of Light – 01:55:52

    KSER archive link

  • Episode 042 – one more month of winter

    Jim Causey
    first aired 01.30.2024

    This week on Convergence Zone, I’m stoked for recent and upcoming live shows by regional artists – music by Mt. Fog, FUNERALHOMES, Steve Roach, Suzanne Ciani

    Brand new songs from Conchúr White, naafi, Hollan Holmes, Nacht Plank,  and Brian Eno x Nicolas Jaar x Grizzly Bear

    New sounds for the long rains by Jeff Greinke, and from Summer James, Volcano Lazerbeam, Robert Chamberlain, and Saroon – and looking back with Ray Lynch and Corey Holms

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

    KSER playlist link – Episode 042

    Corey Holms – Containment Dilation – 00:00
    Mini Disc – Frutiger Aero – 05:55
    Martin Gore – Europa Hymn – 08:55
    Hello Meteor – Dusk Weather – 12:22
    Checkfield – Through the Lens – 16:47
    Azymuth – Quiet Storm – 21:18
    Yuri Misumi – The Wonderful Star’s Walk Is Wonderful (ステキ星のさんぽはステキ) – 25:50
    Mt Fog – Dreams are Heavy – 26:44
    FUNERALHOMES – Santa Cruz – 30:19
    Conchúr White – Red House Parlour – 32:17
    Naafi – Magnolia – 37:06
    Byron Metcalf – A Teacher Appears – 40:08
    Suzanne Ciani – Session 074 – 50:47
    Grizzly Bear – Sleeping Ute (Nicolas Jaar Remix) – 59:43
    Hollan Holmes – Drawn To An Intangible Energy – 01:07:13
    Steve Roach – The Desert Winds of Change, Pt. 3 – 01:14:40
    Nacht Plank – Lorotheato (Moss Garden Repaint) – 01:21:07
    Sumner James, Robert Chamberlain, Volcano Lazerbeam & Saroon – Bathypalegic – 01:28:44
    Jeff Greinke – Late Rain at the Station – 01:32:07
    Benoît Pioulard – Ink Scrape – 01:41:01
    Ketil Bjørnstad & David Darling – The River 7 – 01:42:17
    Ray Lynch – Drifted In A Deeper Land – 01:51:00

  • Episode 041 – Remembering Iasos

    Jim Causey
    first aired 01.23.2024

    Convergence Zone arrives every Tuesday night at 10:30 pm PT on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR, and streaming around the world at kser.org

    KSER playlist link – Episode 041

    Destroyer – Savage Night at the Opera – 00:00
    The The – Slow Emotion Replay – 03:14
    Pure Bathing Culture – Devotion – 07:01
    Slowdive – kisses – 10:20
    Tori Amos – Caught a Lite Sneeze (Remastered) – 16:11
    Cocteau Twins – Ivo – 20:31
    Soft Release – Find You Later – 24:24
    Joy Division – Transmission – 28:18
    Hello Meteor – The Northern Rim Archipelago – 33:32
    Zak Vortex – Afterhours – 36:50
    FM Attack – City Lights – 40:09
    Hollan Holmes – Order Out Of Chaos – 43:24
    Palancar – Voice from the Outer World – 49:00
    Norm Chambers – Patternmusik – 52:37
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Check Your Translation – Hrishikesh Hirway Remix – 58:11
    Cool Maritime – Secret of the Megafauna – 01:01:11
    Bruce Mitchell – Dharma – 01:06:41
    Iasos – Rainbow Canyon – 01:10:06
    Iasos – Lagoon Night – 01:15:04
    Iasos – Ulura Lagoon-S – 01:17:51
    Constance Demby – Om Mani Padme Hum – 01:23:31
    Extraworld – Trireme Approach – 01:32:36
    Hello Meteor – Device Security – 01:38:45
    Robert Rich – Galvanic Response (Live) – 01:43:52
    Steve Roach – Spirals of Compassion (Live) – 01:52:05

  • Top music of 2023

    Jim Causey

    Compiling a list of some of my favorite albums and singles from regional artists and beyond, along with links to buy the albums

    You can find music from these albums and much more on my
    Best of 2023 Playlists for Spotify and TIDAL, as well as in two “Best of 2023” episodes of Convergence Zone (archive links below)

    Albums from PNW Artists
    Omni Gardens, Golden Pear, Moon Glyph
    Mount Maxwell, Littlefolk, Hotham Sound Recordings
    Hello Meteor, Earth Journos
    FM Attack, Cosmic
    AeTopus, Cup, Spotted Peccary Records
    Terminus Void, APEIRON, Groove Unlimited
    Dreamstate Logic, Latent Images and Distant Dreams
    Pure Bathing Culture, Chalice
    Saloli, Canyon, kranky
    Erwilian, Cascadia
    Paul Ellis, Music for the Space Between Atoms, Cyclical Dreams
    Methods Body, Plural Not Possessive, Beacon Sound
    Brass Clouds, Escape Vessels, Bathysphere Records

    Singles from PNW Artists
    Echo of the Low Light, Disco
    Soft Release, Find You Later
    Little H Collective, Avalanche Pass
    LEATHERS, Fascination

    Albums from other regions
    Suzanne Ciani and Jonathan Fitoussi, Golden Apples of the Sun
    Frore, Biome
    Siren and the Sea, Gravity Wave
    Various Artists, The Stone Tape: analyzing a ghost by electronic means
    Eydis Evenson, The Light
    Pabellión Sintetico, Mies van der Rohe’s Dreams
    David Arkenstone, Winterlüde
    One Arc Degree, The Forest and the Milky Way
    Various Artists, The NID Tapes: Electronics Music from India 1969-1972
    Caterina Barbieri, Myuthafoo
    Ryuichi Sakamoto, 12
    Chuck van Zyl, Gwynedd
    Ki Oni, A Leisurely Swim to Everlasting Life

    Spotify playlist: Top music of 2023
    Best of 2023 part 1 – first aired 12.12.2023
    Best of 2023 part 2 – first aired 12.26.2023

  • Episode 040 – dance sets to welcome 2024

    Jim Causey
    first aired 01.02.2024

    Welcoming us all to 2024 with danceable sets and remixes – including Romare, Mylo, Lusine, New Order, The Cure, Drab Majesty, and much more

    Convergence Zone arrives every Tuesday night at 10:30 pm PT on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR, and streaming around the world at kser.org

    KSER playlist link

    Lusine – Cut and Cover – 00:00
    The Cure – A Forest – Tree Mix [Remastered] – 02:55
    New Order – Dreams Never End (2019 Remaster) – 08:50
    Nation of Language – Across That Fine Line – 12:40
    Drab Majesty – Induction – 18:27
    Drab Majesty – Dot in the Sky – 19:13
    Garbage – Cities in Dust – 24:28
    Romare – Dreams – 28:07
    Classixx – Hanging Gardens – 33:35
    Mylo – In My Arms – Radio Edit – 38:40
    Holy Ghost! – Bridge & Tunnel – 42:15
    Giorgio Moroder – Chase – 46:18
    Donna Summer – I Feel Love – 12″ Version (Excerpt) – 54:08
    Khruangbin – Time (You and I) (Put a Smile on DJ’s Face Mix) – 59:47
    Brothertiger – Everybody Wants to Rule the World – 01:09:09
    Holy Fuck – Free Gloss (feat. Nicholas Allbrook) – 01:12:32
    Deep Forest – While the Earth Sleeps – Long Version – 01:19:05
    The Shamen – Move Any Mountian – 01:25:23
    Influx – Revel Dub [Influx] – 01:29:52
    Belinda Carlisle – Heaven Is a Place on Earth (Heavenly Version) – 01:34:19
    Roosevelt – Everywhere – 01:40:00
    Information Society – Peace and Love, Inc. – 01:43:14
    Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down Again – Eric Prydz Remix – 01:47:23
    Orbital – The Girl with the Sun in Her Head – Lone Remix – 01:54:08

  • Winter Solstice 2023

    Jim Causey
    first aired 12.19.2023

    Humans have honored midwinter since times immemorial, with feasts and festivals, rituals and magic –   The festive season can be a time for connection and ecstasy as well as melancholy and isolation, and these moods inspire musicians from our region and around the world

    This week on Convergence Zone, music for the solstice and inspired by the season — from Michael Stearns, Erwilian, Clannad, David Arkenstone, Benoît Pioulard, Carbon in Prose, George Winston, Steve Roach, the Fischersund project, and more

    Convergence Zone arrives on Tuesdays at 10:30pm PST on 90.7 KSER in Everett, 89.9 KXIR in Freeland, and streaming around the world at kser.org, TuneIn, and smart speakers everywhere

    KSER Playlist (opens in new tab)

    Fleet Foxes – Can I Believe You (Solstice Version) – 00:00
    Pure Bathing Culture – 2000 Miles – 04:02
    Caroline Polachek – So Cold You’re Hurting My Feelings – 07:01
    Future Islands – Last Christmas – 10:11
    Cocteau Twins – Frosty The Snowman – 14:51
    Sally Shapiro – Holiday – 17:13
    Khruangbin – Christmas Time Is Here – 24:38
    Clannad – Newgrange (2003 – Remaster) – 28:04
    Friedemann – The Man From Caesarea – 32:10
    Erwilian – Whiteout – 37:19
    Ralph Towner, Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber, Jon Christensen – Winter Solstice – 48:10
    Jose ‘Juicy’ Gonzales Trio – O Tannenbaum – 52:55
    David Arkenstone – Darkening Skies – 54:35
    Low – Little Drummer Boy – 58:32
    Ryuichi Sakamoto – MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE – ELECTRIC YOUTH REMODEL – 01:03:24
    Michael Stearns – Corridors of Time – 2022 Remaster, Film Printmaster Stereo Fold-down – 01:05:47
    Paul Ellis – Blue Ice – 01:13:45
    Dreamstate Logic – Transmissions From Alcyone – 01:16:51
    Steve Roach – Kingfisher Flight. – 01:23:20
    SUSS – Winter Was Hard – 01:30:20
    Luke Wyland – Pendulum (Live) – 01:33:27
    Sin Fang/Kjartan Holm/Fischersund – In The Bleak Midwinter Re-Imagined – 01:39:03
    Mount Shrine – Moon’s Distrust – 01:42:17
    Benoît Pioulard – The accident of nature – 01:48:00
    Carbon In Prose – The Cold Sea – 01:53:20
    Fischersund – Heims Um Ból Re-Imagined – 01:56:10
    SUSS – Winter Was Hard, Reprise – 01:58:28

  • Best of 2023 – Part 1

    Jim Causey
    first aired 12.12.2023

    Part 1 of my review of the best music from 2023 – tracks by Hello Meteor, Omni Gardens, Future Islands, Erwilian, Pure Bathing Culture, David Arkenstone, Mount Maxwell, Terminus Void, Dreamstate Logic, and much more

    Convergence Zone: ambient soundscapes of the Pacific Northwest and beyond; every Tuesday night at 10:30pm PT on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR, streaming at kser.org – more information at https://convergencezone.fm

    KSER playlist (opens in new tab)

    FM Attack – Timeless – 00:00
    NAVVI – Clemency – 04:38
    Future Islands – The Tower – 09:56
    Hibou – Night Fell – 13:28
    Echo of the Low Light – Disco – 19:30
    Altin Gün – Rakıya Su Katamam – 23:36
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – The Silver Cord – 27:16
    Pure Bathing Culture – The Memento – 33:35
    Crumb & Melody’s Echo Chamber – Le Temple Volant – 37:22
    NCY Milky Band – Aphex Twin – 39:17
    Hello Meteor – Earth Journos – 43:59
    Saloli – Waterfall – 47:00
    Pabellón Sintético – Bauhaus – 51:25
    Brendan Pollard – Steel Blue Sphere – 59:31
    Dreamstate Logic – Lost But Not Forgotten – 01:02:34
    AeTopus – Sundial – 01:11:17
    Omni Gardens – Rain Jacket – 01:18:19
    Volcano Lazerbeam – At Sea – 01:21:14
    Terminus Void – Flow of Order – 01:29:46
    Erwilian – Masters in This Hall (Live) – 01:36:15
    Makushin – No More Rush Hour – 01:43:20
    David Arkenstone – Darkening Skies – 01:49:29
    Mount Maxwell – Sky Eye – 01:53:07
    Hotel Pools – Metro 地​下​鉄 – 01:58:17

  • Episode 036 – atmospheric rivers

    Jim Causey
    first aired 12.05.2023

    This week on Convergence Zone, music for atmospheric rivers and  grey-on-grey skies.  Regional artists channel the life-bringing moisture of our damp winters along with the shadows cast on our moods during these long dark nights — these inspirations lie at the heart of the Convergence Zone

    Brand new music from Echo of the Low Light, Mount Maxwell, Hello Meteor, Sam Rosenthal & vidna obmana, Ken Martin, Still Corners, Ancient Astronaut,  and Volcano Lazerbeam; recent pieces by AeTopus, Frore & Shane Morris, Blackford Hill, Rayo Hunters, Tara Clerkin Trio, and more

    Convergence Zone pours in tonight and every Tuesday night at 10:30pm PST on 90.7 KSER-FM, 89.9 KXIR-FM, and streaming around the world at kser.org, TuneIn, and other fine internet radio services

    KSER playlist

  • Episode 035 – Littlefolk

    Jim Causey
    first aired 11.28.2023

    This week on Convergence Zone we dive into the remarkable new album “Littlefolk” by Mount Maxwell — it’s a journey beyond his Vancouver BC home with effortless moves between timbres and tonality, field recordings and folktronica, and beats and bloops

    We will continue the journey with recent music from Mary Lattimore, Lusine, K Leimer, Pure Bathing Culture,  Steven Wilson, Mike Reed, and some vintage Erik Wøllo and Harold Budd

    We may also hear some Roxy Music without Brian Eno, and Brian Eno without Roxy Music

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

    KSER playlist