PGM Note: searching for the slow, mellow heart of summer First Broadcast: 08.07.05 Info: Size: 58 MB Format: MP3 160 kbps
Summer — gets our motors running, as Americans hit the road in our annual quest to relax, expand, squander fossil fuel and warm the atmosphere. It's a time for stretching boundaries, expanding the envelope, exploring. Yet below the dynamic
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PGM Note: a warm-blooded journey in the Latin soundscape First Broadcast: 17.06.05 Info: Size: 58 MB Format: MP3 160 kbps
When COLUMBUS sailed to the new world for the king and queen of Spain in 1492, he couldn't have known that he would begin the most successful transfer of culture in history. Today, Spanish is the 3rd most spoken language in the world, the guitar is
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PGM Note: dreamy, twangy, timeless and deep First Broadcast: 17.06.05 Info: Size: 58 MB Format: MP3 160 kbps
Dreamy — twangy — timeless — and deep. Yes, spacefans, it's another installment of our long running love affair with the expanded, dematerialized version of the electric guitar. On this transmission of Hearts of Space, a journey in the infinite ec
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PGM Note: the vibrant intersection of Indian music and electronica First Broadcast: 10.06.05 Info: Size: 58 MB Format: MP3 160 kbps
New York Times columnist TOM FRIEDMAN says the world is flat — because India's electronics and software companies can now compete with American and European firms. But electronic musicians discovered Indian music 40 years ago, and a
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PGM Note: on the 4th-world night train to Babylon First Broadcast: 27.05.05 Info: Size: 58 MB Format: MP3 160 kbps
It's always cause for celebration when a new recording arrives from American composer and trumpeter JON HASSELL. For the last 20 years, he's been a source of insights that have inspired the artistic direction of this program — and influenced a wid
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PGM Note: a flute powered excursion in the Native American soundscape First Broadcast: 20.05.05 Info: Size: 58 MB Format: MP3 160 kbps
Anthropologists tell us that our "Paleo-Indian" ancestors have lived on this continent for up to 40,000 years. In the history of Native American musical instruments, first comes the drum, then the rattle, then bone whistles, and then
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PGM Note: an inner-toxicating journey in the Sufi soundscape First Broadcast: 13.05.05 Info: Size: 58 MB Format: MP3 160 kbps
Sufism is a tradition of Islamic mysticism with a long and fascinating musical history. Devotional at its core, like western evangelical religions it aims to transport the seeker to states of spiritual intoxication and union with God. Over the cent
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PGM Note: an ambient-electronic journey First Broadcast: 29.04.05 Info: Size: 58 MB Format: MP3 160 kbps
When music turns electronic, the twist of a knob can change everything. Sound has hidden dimensions that can transport you to new, virtual environments. In fact, we have a whole genre based on this quality called Ambient music. Fuele
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(Harold Budd Retrospective) PGM Note: a retrospective of the dean of ambient keyboard composers First Broadcast: 08.04.05 Info: Size: 58 MB Format: MP3 160 kbps
Who would have believed, when it was written in 1972, that the delicate chamber music that begins this show was actually an act of defiance. "When I told people" says HAROLD BUDD. "t
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PGM Note: fresh melodies and lush harmonies for spring First Broadcast: 01.04.05 Info: Size: 58 MB Format: MP3 160 kbps
Spring creeps in with delicate leaves and fragrant flowers. The winds sweep through, the rains wash away the accumulated debris of winter, and we bathe in new light and energy. It's a time for music that flows with grace and
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