HEY, VENUS! RADIO

A collection of shoegaze exotica and ambient jazz for the firefly hunter within. Ingredients: a tumbling marshmallow waltz, flying in your dreams, extra set of keys, magic mirror steam engines.

Music by The Sweet Enoughs, Oscar Lang, and an extensive dose of Misha Panfilov. Introducing the work of Wudubeam, The Maseru Imada Trio, and a handful of other exquisite favorites from our archive.

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"Thigh smack. Avowal. Warm. Sweetheart. Ah, lure! Alluring. A jumping rose on satiny breast of satin, rose of Castile. Trilling, trilling: Idolores. Peep!"

As I clumsily sketched out the Ulyssian-esque chanting into my notebook, I knew in that moment why Luciano Berio’s album was going to keep me up until the break of dawn. Electronic Music III is forthright and dizzying. The greatest sound-poem ever recorded onto tape? A sound phenomena: the system of arbitrary symbols, through which we give a certain form to our own way of being in the world. 

Return to the womb of sound and explore a labyrinth of the Italian avant-garde. Also includes music by Peter Jenkin and Gede Yudis. Warm up your butternut squash lasagna, for good luck.

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On the menu: passiflora seedling cake, rye bread toasted with homemade lilac butter. Howling through their branches, drawing prisms at the river bed. To drink…rose petal schnapps, strawberry milkshakes. 

A little haunted jazz and ethereal wave to set the mood. Wear bells on your toes if you’re feeling at home…

Dream induced soundscapes include the playfully tender Misha Panifilov, the ever so hypnotizing Mapache slays/sways…and yet clearly lucid are the effervescent piano interludes of little known Okonski. Of course, we’ll feature the work of other fine feathered prognosticators dipping their beaks in the molecular hot sauce. 

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Crimson-blue azaleas fall from above. A strawberry sunset may sound something like this: Goethe’s meadowy monologue circa 1779, soothsayer’s secret universe divine, sparrows spend the nite, bending-time, fluffy hair’d coworker, the palace overlooks the sea (ninth song on the moon). 

Melodious incantations include compositions by meka, Patrick Watson, Henryk Górecki and other soundscapes surrendering to Babaji’s petunia garden.

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Where embers are set aflame and feline daisies bare ones name. A magnetic echo-chamber; the luminous metaphor, drenched in a thundering troposphere, inhaling enigmatic reveries, an ancient language for pollinating hiccups. Or, cosmic incantations for those sleepless September nights at the river of celestial perseverance.

Stay until the very end for velvety tunes by Natasza Zylska, Hareton Salvanini, Brooklyn Express and many others. 

Welcome to your Friday morning swoon session, dear Venusian.

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A lush collection of tracks deep from within the archive i.e. lullabies dedicated to the mischievous midnight-er seeking auditory solace in-between mealz. Tunes by Lemongrass, Salami Rose, Cocteau Twins and many other serendipitous serenades melting at dawn. 

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Whilst reminiscing on the true meaning of home, we'll conduct a much overdue tarot reading in honor of lady moon's butterfly garden...could you tell how I sang heliotrope petals into your potion? 

ingredients: full moon chalice, drizzling duality, sliced pears and honey mustard, the ace of pentacles on channel 9, deja vu my boo, Queequeg's amaranthine memoir is sixteen pages long (woof woof), if you ever need a bite. 

Stay until the tail end of our improvised incantations for tracks by CV Vision, Calypso Mama, Phosphorescent and a curious auditory visitation from a familiar filmic gem revealing a prodigious wisdom from decades ago. 

Welcome to your Thursday morning mixtape <3

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Known for its advantageous persona of a snake radiating in vast arctic skies, the Aurora Borealis is far superior to humans -and in ways which still to this day we find enormously mystifying. Some say that the ends of land and sea are bound by an immense abyss. And, if you listen ever so closely...ancient molecules have been documented to whisper back.  

Join us as we procure a quaint midnight session exploring a curious little book; Akasofu's Aurora Borealis: The Amazing Northern Lights. I packed the following: a cloud sandwich, a soft pillow, hot mushroom tea, bubble machine, spooky sunflower spell, and a shēngrì hat for my pet bunny.

Stay until the very end of our monologues for music by Sasha Vinogradova, Passiflorez, The Arctic Chamber Orchestra of Alaska and other songs for levitating accordingly into the milky way.

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...(y)our wish has been granted; the Bristly Greenbrier grows alongside each dazzling ember, by chance creating shadow puppets who whimsy across a field of red diamonds.

ingredients: magnificent musical prisms, bougainvillea care-bare binoculars, add banana and cinnamon, bark berry pails, all aboard here-to-stay flames, gallop closer winged lal khargosh, whisper in unison "the Grand Chawhee to win." An additional twirl for the Salmonberry Blossom Pixie and her research partner, Tlingit Kadjuk. 

Effervescent tunes by Florist, Puma Blue and other breezy melodies from our ever expanding archive. 

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Clouds giving way to mainly starry skies, a low of 58° tonite. Wind gusts of up to 22 miles per hour. Amidst estuary-roaming trilliums (of magenta hues), the conjurer is especially shimmering. Descending past the genesis, slowly devoured by vapors. If by chance you require an umbrella while updating your hard drive, I was gonna say the same thing. 

Observations: Drenched (delicious)! A warm sky swarmed with moths seal their envelopes, beseeching a surrender. The can-elope tree when and where. See also: a fuzzy whirling realm for mugwort enthusiasts (the keeper of dreams has spoken).

Featuring the music of Peter Kraus, Molinder Kaur Bhamra, Explosions In The Sky and a few other exquisite favorites from the archive. Into the eve of my heart shall you soar, my celestial firefly. 

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