PGM 058R "THE PEARL"

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PGM 058R : "THE PEARL"
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PGM NOTE : classic ambient spacepiano and electronic atmospheres
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FEED DATE : 5-16-08
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INTRO: This week we continue our retrospective series
"25 YEARS IN SPACE," celebrating our 25th year of national
broadcasting.

This time it's another classic program from the mid 1980s —
the halcyon days of ambient and electronic music, a decade
when new instruments and recording techniques were breeding
new sounds and even new genres of atmospheric music.

The aim was to slow down, dematerialize, and spatially expand
instrumental music... in the words of the seminal English artist,
theorist and record producer BRIAN ENO, "to create calm,
and a space to think."

Eno not only popularized the term "ambient music" to describe
the style, he created or produced a number of its defining
albums...including our featured album THE PEARL, a 1984
collection of elegant miniatures for expanded piano and
synthesizer by California ambient/avant-garde composer
HAROLD BUDD and BRIAN ENO.

The warm, subtle sheen of THE PEARL...on this edition...
of Hearts of Space.

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MYCHAEL DANNA and TIM CLEMENT
Stars and Spells <>9:09 >
: SUMMERLAND; Fortuna 17035-4; 1984/1986 — out of print
: Info: www.oasisproductions.com

HAROLD BUDD and BRIAN ENO
Late October <>13:46 >
The Silver Ball <>17:16 >
Against the Sky <>22:07 >
Lost In the Humming Air <>26:27 >
Dark Eyed Sister <>31:07 >
Their Memories <>34:02 >
The Pearl <>37:12 >
Foreshadowed <>41:05 >
Still Return <>45:15 >
: THE PEARL; Editions EG EEGCD 37; 1984
: Info: www.enoweb.co.uk (fan site);
www.myspace.com/haroldbudd

JONN SERRIE
Fantasy Passages (part) <>51:41 >
And the Stars Go With You <>58:59 >
: AND THE STARS GO WITH YOU; Miramar MPCD 2001; 1984/1987
reissued by New World Music (NWCD 032) in 2002
: Info: www.newworldmusic.us; www.vipinfo.com/jonn

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PRODUCED BY : STEPHEN HILL and ANNA TURNER
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BAY AREA WEATHER : prostration
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(c) 1984-2008 Hearts of Space
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