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'.

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".

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'.

Enter the drone zone

I'm back on deck, and you can tune in to SoundScape to hear some wonderful ambient music this Thursday (Feb 9) from 9 pm on Yarra Valley FM 99.1 or get it streamed live from the website.

We will feature some music by Sheila Chandra, who was born in London, of Indian descent.

She started of singing pop numbers, but soon became dissatisfied with keeping that up.

Chandra went on to release a number of albums in the 1980s, at times experimenting with her voice as an instrument through a range of techniques. In the 1990s she released three albums on Peter Gabriel's Real World label, these were in the minimalist ‘solo voice and drone’ style which she developed especially for live performances, so that she could perform alone on stage with only the occasional taped drone for accompaniment.

Vocal stamina issues caused her to abandon live performances in 1994 and she only returned to the concert stage in 2007.

Our Goon Show will be 'The Policy'.