Down the rabbit hole

Tune in to SoundScape from 9pm Thursday March 21 on YVFM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.

After 4 weeks of debuting new music that was very calming and peaceful, I will be going back through the archives and revisiting some of the more 'adventurous' ambient artists.

Listen in for the likes of Voice of Eye, KK Null, O Yuki Conjugate, Deepchord, Nightmares on Wax, Shinjuku Thief, The Irresistible Force, Blackfilm, Haxan Cloak, Ghost Marrow and Panaramaroid.

The Goon show will be 'The History of Communications'.

Tripping

Tune in to SoundScape (Thursday Jan 31, 9pm) on YVFM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.

This week we will explore some of the more mind bending ambient tracks, by the likes of Voice of Eye, Altus, Biosphere, d.Darkwater, Bowie, David Gilmour, This Mortal Coil, The Haxan Cloak, Dark Souls, Dead Can Dance, d.Darkwater, k k Null, Magi, Vincent Giles and more.

The Goon Show will be 'The Silver Doubloons'.

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?"

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'.

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'.

Voice of Eye (and more...)

This Thursday (Sept 1) on SoundScape we can enjoy some more wonderful ambient music. Tune in to Yarra Valley FM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.

First up we will have Voice of Eye, an experimental ambient music duo whose members are Bonnie McNaim and Jim Wilson. Formed in 1991 in Houston, Texas, their sound is one that blends electronic soundscapes, drones, and world music, particularly with Middle Eastern overtones, and tends to evoke an atmospheric or shamanistic quality. Many of the instruments used are home-made or heavily modified. Using this "odd palette of instrumentation," their music has been described as "largely indescribable, but totally inviting."

A local ambient/electronic artist, Mike Baum, once gave me a cd of his computer composed music. Untitled and unreleased, we will hear a couple of his numbers.

We will also be playing some music by KK Null, who was born Kazuyuki Kishino in Tokyo, Japan. Composer, guitarist, singer, mastermind of ZENI GEVA and electronic wizard. One of the top names in Japanese noise music and in a larger context, one of the great cult artists in experimental music since the early 80's. In 1981 KK NULL studied at Butoh dancer, Min Tanaka's "Mai-Juku" workshop and started his career by performing guitar improvisations in the clubs in Tokyo. Null joined the noise/progressive rock band Ybo2 in 1984, issuing several albums and EPs throughout the remainder of the decade. Later he founded more bands, such as Absolute Null Punkt (aka ANP) and his most well known one, the self-described "progressive hardcore trio" Zeni Geva. Altogether Null has released more than 100 albums.

The Goon Show this week will be "The Rent Collectors" at 10 pm.