Thursday, December 27, 2012

Mellow out

Another year has passed, and I extend to all my listeners a Merry Christmas wish and hope you all have a safe and happy New Year.

For the show between Christmas and New Year, I will be playing a lovely selection of ambient tracks to suit the mellow time.

Tune in to YVFM 99.1 from 9 pm Thursday or get it streamed live from the website.


A listener sent me a tip on a wonderful ambient band, so I will play some pieces by Stellamara, and you can find them at their website.

This weeks Goon Show will be 'The Fifty Pound Cure'.

Monday, December 17, 2012

Ambient with Voice

Tune in to SoundScape this Thursday (Dec 20) for some great ambient music on YVFM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.


Much ambient music is purely instrumental, however, it is not always like that. This week I will be featuring a selection of ambient with voice. Items from Bjork, Enya, Ofra Haza, Brian Eno, Sheila Chandra, Katy Taylor, Storia, Maria Minerva, Hildegard of Bingen and even music from Dr Who.


The Goon Show this week will be 'A Christmas Carol'.


Monday, December 10, 2012

Chill out time

Tune in to SoundScape for some great ambient music this Thursday (Dec 13) on YVFM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.

With the passing of Ravi Shankar this week, I will play some of his music.



We've been able to hear a whole ream of new music the last few weeks, and this week is no exception. I have new music from Silvercord and Robert Carty to play, and I'll be bringing some blasts from the past  as well.




This week's Goon Show will be 'The Gold Plate Robbery'.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Turvey, Duc and Brubeck

Tune in to SoundScape on YVFM 99.1 this Thursday night from 9 pm for the best of ambient music, or get it streamed live from the website.


After arranging many guests to come in and have a chat on The Bat Cave (Monday nights) I've finally organised a guest for SoundScape :) This week we will have Gemma Turvey in the studio to have a chat and talk about her latest music and gigs. Gemma plays a blend of jazz/classical/ambient with a number of fellow musicians. You can check out her projects here.



Also this Thursday will be the debut of music from Catherine Duc's latest cd, Visions and Dreams.

In memory of Dave Brubeck, who passed away just a couple of days ago, I will play some of his performances.

The Goon Show this week will be 'The Tay Bridge'

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Tribute and new music

Tune in to SoundScape on YVFM 99.1 Thursday 29-11-12 from 9pm to catch some wonderful ambient music.


We will be doing a tribute to Mt Evelyn's 'Living Treasure' Doc Hardy who passed away last weekend, with a selection of his favourite artists.


Also featured will be some NEW music by Catherine Duc, Gemma Turvey and Tigerforest.

The Goon Show this week will be 'Quartermass OBE'.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Full Steam Ahead

Tune in to YVFM 99.1 this Thursday, Nov 22 from 9 pm for some great ambient music on SoundScape, or get it streamed live from the website.


I will be playing music from the likes of Brian Eno, C418, Jon Hallur, d.Darkwater, dreamSTATE, The Echelon Effect, Ghost Marrow, Insout and Sheila Chandra.

The Goon Show will be "Dishonoured Again".

Monday, November 12, 2012

Smooth

Tune in from 9 pm Thursdays to YVFM 99.1 to catch the best ambient music on SoundScape, or get it streamed live from the website.




This week (Nov 15) we will have a listen to some smooth Jazz from players such as John Coltrane, Astrud Gilberto, Brandy Callahan, Delihla, Dorothy Dandrige, Paul Grabowski, and more.



We will also hear from that wonderful Afro band Osibisa, who formed way back in 1969 and are still going.

Our Goon Show will be 'The Call of the West'.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Aussie Aussie Aussie

Tune in to SoundScape on YVFM 99.1 FM or get it streamed live from the website this Thursday from 9 pm to midnight.


We will concentrate on Australian ambient musicians this week. You will hear the offerings of Catherine Duc, David Hudson, Inauditus, Lotus, neoN, Pendulum, Shinjuku Thief, Steve Roach, James Morrison and Coolangubra.


I have also scored some new KK Null tracks, so that will be a nice segment as well.

This week's Goon Show will be "Who is Pink Oboe?"





Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Exterminate your stresses....

Tune in to YVFM 99.1 each Thursday night from 9 pm for three hours of the best ambient music on SoundScape - or get it streamed live from the website.


This week we will have ambient from the likes of This Mortal Coil, Vlor, Storia, Karl Verkade, Jean Jarre, Harold Budd and CCP.


The Goon Show this week will be 'Ned's Atomic Dustbin'.


Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Random Attack

Tune in to SoundScape every Thursday night from 9 pm to midnight on YVFM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.



I have gathered such a huge collection of great ambient music, that there will be no one featured artist this week, instead, I will be playing a large range of tracks from a variety of musicians.



The Goon Show will be "The Battle of Spion Kop".

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Elevating the elevator music

Tune in to SoundScape every Thursday from 9 pm to midnight for great Ambient music on Yarra Valley FM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.

I still meet people who don't quite understand what 'Ambient' music is or can be. Some of them imagine the hell of being stuck in an elevator for 3 hours...

So if you think ambient is tuneless void-noise with chirping birds, tune in and get elevated :)



This week (Oct 25) we will hear from Electric Bird Noise, The Echelon Effect, Fripp & Eno, Ghost Marrow, London Bridges, Lower Case Noises and Ortiz.



Our Goon Show will be "Queen Anne's Rain".

Monday, October 15, 2012

Jazz Eve

Tune in to SoundScape Thursday night from 9 pm on YVFM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.


This week, I will revisit music made for .... computer games, featuring Jón Hallur Haraldsson who composed the music for Eve.


We will also have a good segment on some lovely Jazz music.

Our Goon show will be 'The Seagoon Memoirs'.

Monday, October 8, 2012

Old, New, Borrowed and L'Orange

Tune in to SoundScape this Thursday on YVFM 99.1 from 9 pm or get it streamed live from the website.



I still have a wheelbarrow full of new ambient soundtracks from artists such as Lowercase Noises, Yume, Vlor, Storia, Silent Voices, San Martino, Resonant Waves, Purl and Panthan who haven't beed heard yet on SoundScape, so I will be giving them an airing, along with a small feature on L'Orange and his wonderful album 'Old Soul'.



I will also be playing a few tracks by local ambient artist Allan Pan.

This week's Goon Show will be 'The Childe Harolde Rewarde'

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Newer than New?

Tune in to SoundScape this Thursday (Oct 4) from 9 pm on YVFM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.

I will be playing a range of new ambient from artists like PonyVisation, Atempause, Cloudkicker, The Human Experience, C418 and L'Orange.




We will also have music played on the Earth Harp, and you can read more about that instrument here.

This week's Goon Show will be 'The Mountain Eaters'.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

New stuff :)

Tune in to SoundScape this Thursday (Sept 27) from 9 pm on YVFM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.


David Walters is The Echelon Effect, and we will hear a selection of his works.


Also being featured will be a variety of ambient tracks made by the great David Bowie.

This week's Goon Show will be "Pam's Paper Insurance Policy"


Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Feed your head....

Tune in to SoundScape, each Thursday from 9 pm on YVFM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.


This week (Sept 20) we will go just a little bit trippy... I'll be playing some tracks from Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Centre of the Earth, and also featuring music played using a theremin. Thankfully, one regular SoundScape listener, based in Canada, plays the instrument, so we will have music by Amethyste Spardel among others.

This week's Goon Show will be The One Million Pound Penny.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Old, New, Borrowed and Blue

Tune in to SoundScape this Thursday (Sept 13) from 9 pm to hear some wonderful ambient music. YVFM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.


We will have a section of the show celebrating the talents of some wonderful lounge singers, such as Norah Jones, Kate Ceberano, Caroline Loftus and Katie Noonan



We will hear a mix of ambient music this week from the likes of Woob, Perpetuum, Russell Brower, Coolangubra, Omnimotion, Jean Michel Jarre, Mike Baum, Rhian Sheehan and Atomic Skunk.

The Goon Show this week is "The Sahara Desert Statue".

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Talent and compassion


Tune in to SoundScape this Thursday (Sept 6) on Yarra Valley FM 99.1 from 9 pm, or get it streamed live from the website.

This week we will hear a selection of pieces composed by the legendary Alan Parsons.

Alan was involved with the production of several significant albums, including The BeatlesAbbey Road and Let It Be, as well as Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. He went on to produce a range of his own theme based recordings. 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination', 'I Robot' and 'Eye in the Sky'.

We will also have a rare guest in the studio, local councillor Tim Heenan, who is in the first week of a month-long stint of sleeping in a cardboard box in a local park to raise awareness of homelessness.

Our Goon Show will be 'I was Monty's Treble'.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Over The Moon

Tune in to SoundScape this Thursday (Aug 30) on Yarra Valley FM 99.1 from 9 pm to hear some wonderful ambient music. You can also get it streamed live from the website.

One of the main advantages of ambient music is it can transport your mind to far away places, calm your spirit and restore some equilibrium in an otherwise disordered world. 

This week we will be able to enjoy music that can transport you and calm your frazzled nerves.



To start the show, we will have a tribute to Neil Armstrong, with music by Brian Eno, used as background to the Apollo Mission. 

You can then hear from composers such as Small Life Form, Altus, Ben John Robertson, David Gilmour, dreamSTATE, John Stanford, Karl Verkade and Reinholt56.

This week the Goon Show will be 'The Vanishing Room'.

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Down and Dirty

Tune in to SoundScape this Thursday (Aug 23) from 9 pm on YVFM 99.1, or get it streamed live from the website.


This week  we will get a bit more down and dirty with some ambient by the likes of Shinjuku Thief, This Mortal Coil, Ash Ra Tempel, Steve Reich, Voice of Eye, Future Sound of London, Dub Tractor and The Haxan Cloak.

The Goon Show will be 'The Great Statue Debate'.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Winter Warmers

Last week we explored some chill ambient by the likes of Paul Collier, Altus, Robert Carty, Spatial Correlation (Ryan Hagerman), MWVM, Max Corbacho, Amethyste, Boxmaker, Bruno Sanfilippo, Lorne David Thomson, David Hykes and Diatonis.


This week we will have time to continue from where we left off, as I have plenty more nice relaxing ambient to play for you.

So get ready to be carried away by some very nice tunes that will get you 'in the mood', floating you away to soft clouds of satisfaction...

Our Goon Show will be "The First Albert Memorial to the Moon".

Tune in Thursday from 9 pm to YVFM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.



Sunday, August 5, 2012

Keep Calm and Carry Ambience

Tune in to SoundScape this Thursday (Aug 9) from 9 pm on YVFM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.


There as as many forms of Ambient music as there is Rock... and if you are a regular listener, you will know that I like to play some of the more 'darker' atmospheric ambient artists...


This week tho, I'm going all mellow, I'm gonna chill, get in touch with my inner peacenik, sit on a lotus and say Ohm a lot. This week, the music you will hear on SoundScape will carry you away to another dimension, it will sooth your soul, settle your mettle, float your boat, mellow your fellow and chill your thrill. If you dig what I'm sayin'....


So get prepared to go all transen-mental with artists like Paul Collier, Altus, Robert Carty, Spatial Correlation (Ryan Hagerman), MWVM, Max Corbacho, Amethyste, Boxmaker, Bruno Sanfilippo, Lorne David Thomson, David Hykes and Diatonis.


This week's Goon Show will be "The Evils Of Bushey Spon".

Sunday, July 22, 2012

In the Moment

Tune in to SoundScape on YVFM 99.1 this Thursday (July 27) from 9 pm to hear some great ambient music, or get it streamed live off the website.


If you trawl the net for pseudo phychology you may be told to 'Live In The Moment', whatever that means.... So this week, I'll be presenting ambient music from simply living in the moment during the show. 


Who knows what the moment will bring us...


The Goon show this week will be 'Tiddleywinks' (which is one I don't recall).

Sunday, July 15, 2012

New Music

Tune in to SoundScape this Thursday (July 19) on YVFM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.



I was contacted by ambient artists Amethyste and Tigerforest from Boston, USA, who sent me some of their music, and after listening to it, I'm going to open the show with some of their tracks, as they are so good.


I've also been able to source some new music that hasn't gone to air before, so I'll be bringing you unheard tracks by KK Null, Dead Can Dance, Alpha Wave Movement, Bass Communion, Voice of Eye and The Haxan Cloak.


This weeks Goon Show will be 'The Dreaded Piano Clubber'.

Saturday, July 7, 2012

A Walk on the Wild Side

Catch up with great ambient music on SoundScape every Thursday night from 9 pm on Yarra Valley FM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.



This Thursday (July 12) we will be taking a walk on the wild side, visiting the darker, spine tingling, neighbourhood of ambient music, where your sensibilities might get lured into a dark alleyway and relieved of their valuables...


Hear music by the likes of d.Darkwater, Hermetic, Perpetuum, This Mortal Coil, Alpha Wave Movement, Bass Communion, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Dead Can Dance, Delerium, Future Sound of London, The Haxan Cloak, Voice of Eye, and of course, the incomparable KK NULL.


This week's Goon Show will be 'The Spon Plague'.

Monday, July 2, 2012

Wonderful Women :)

SoundScape IS ambient music - YVFM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website each Thursday from 9 pm


This week (July 5) we will be concentrating on the musical offerings of  female ambient artists. Ofra Haza, Rena Jones, Sussan Deyhim, Anoushka Shankar, Enya, Mira Calix, Hildegard von Bingen, Sheila Chandra and Bjork.


The Goon Show will be 'The Great Bank of England Robbery'.

Monday, June 25, 2012

Music to get you in the mood ....

Tune in to YFVM 99.1 to listen to ambient music on SoundScape this Thursday June 28, or get it streamed live from the website.



We will hear some more tracks by local keyboardist and singer Tracey Roberts, also some nice tracks from Boxmaker, Thyzor, Will Ackerman, Voice of Eye, URBS, Tuu, Susumu Yokota, Roly Porter, The Orb, Moby and Max Richter.


Also, we will hear several tracks from Yeshe Reiner's new cd 'Roots & Wings'. Yeshe is currently touring with Harry Manx, and will shortly tour with Xavier Rudd.


This week's Goon Show will be World War One.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

local ambient

Tune in to SoundScape on YVFM 99.1 for some great ambient music, this Thursday June 21 from 9 pm or get it streamed live from the internet.


We will hear some wonderful  music by local singer / keyboardist Tracey Roberts (www.traceyroberts.com) as well as music from the likes of Persona 3, Martin Simpson, This Mortal Coil, Alpha Wave Movement, Woob, Voice of Eye, Tangerine Dream and Sounds From The Ground.


This week's Goon Show will be 'The Silent Bugler'

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Ambient Pot Pourri

Tune in to YVFM 99.1 or stream it live from the website.



This Thursday (June 14) SoundScape will bring you the ambient music of Bruno Sanfillipo, Anoushka Shankar, Cafe Del Mar, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Bass Communion, Blackfilm, Boxmaker, Caramel Prisoner, Diatonis and Dub Tractor.


This week the Goon Show will be 'The Man Who Never Was'.


We will also hear an interview from Ross Morgan, who talks about a weekend coming up for men who feel they need to rediscover their life's purpose - tune in for that, as it is well worth listening to.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

One With The Lot

Tune in this Thursday (June 7) to YVFM 99.1 to catch some great Ambient music, or get it streamed live from the website.


Playing this week on SoundScape will be artists such as Vidna Abmana, Traffic Experiment, This Mortal Coil, Sussan Deyhim, Snowman, Slow Dancing Society, Rhian Sheehan, Pitch Black and of course, the wonderful Pink Floyd.


This week's Goon Show will be 'The Internal Mountain'.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Blowing Your Horn

Tune in to SoundScape on YVFM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.


This week we will be celebrating Jazz, with a special interview with James Morrison, Australia's premier jazz musician.


We will also hear from the likes of Paul Grabowski, Katie Noonan, Archaeoptryx, Dave Brubeck, Kate Ceberano,Nina Simone and John Coltrain.


This week's Goon Show will be 'Ten snowballs that shook the world'

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Pot Pouri of Ambient

Tune  in to SoundScape this Thursday (May 25) from 9 pm on Yarra Valley FM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.



This week I will be playing some music by The Haxan Cloak (Bobby Krlic). A wonderful range of drone ambient that will take you on a journey. 


We will also have a range of artists for you including Aes Dana, Arafura, Blue Mar Ten, Chayak, Detroit Escalator Co., The Irresistible Force, Kabana and Leyland Kirby.


This week's Goon Show will be 'The White Neddie Trade'.