I Scream Sunday

We’re looking to the stars on this edition of I Scream Sunday, hosted by ʞu¡0ɹʞS. Especially as the nights grow colder and the skies clearer, the stars feels as though they’re closer. Journey with us as we look outward.

Phillip Wilkerson: “Among the Nebulae – Ambient Mix” (The Stars and Afterward)

Robert Logan: “Binary Star” – (Sculptor Galaxy)

Simon Wilkinson: “Birth of a Distant Star” (Birth of a Distant Star)

Robert Carty: “Galaxy Dreams” (Starlight Volume 2)

Ishq: “Arcadian Star” (Moonflower)

Carbonates On Mars: “Omega Centauri” (Cosmic Connections One: Stars, Clusters & Nebulae)

Bing Satellites: “Star Trails (Ambient World version)” (The ambient world of Bing Satellites)

The live set in the second hour is called Drifting Between Stars.

Today’s I Scream Sunday will be I Whisper Sunday, as I, Whispering Cosmos, takes over the radio broadcast instead of Skro!nk as she cannot do her show. Leading with this beautiful view of the city where I grew up, Málaga, focusing on the horizon, that will be our theme for today. Gaze upon where land, sea and sky join together while we listen to the music of artists like Kuutana, Sevish, Chromadrift, Dreamhub, Luna Firma, Jack Hertz, Cousin Silas, Thom Brennan and Robert Rich. And for the second hour we will have a live section by Whispering Cosmos. Hope to see you all there!

Our lives constantly test us, and if we still breathe, we have passed the test. Existence is a beautiful balance of pain and joy, and having our mettle tested over and over again makes the joyful moments all the more precious. Today’s program explores strength in several forms:

Cousin Silas: “Crystallized Steel” (The Snow Imposed Silence)

Giles Reaves: “Uruz (Strength)” (Wunjo)

Bing Satellites: “Tall Trees” (Song of the Hummingbird)

Saul Stokes: “Slowing into Shimmering Steel” (Metacollage)

Tange: “Steel Waves Part 3” (Steel Waves)

Der Spyra: “Tired Steel” (Live In Berlin.de (Elevator To Heaven Pt. I / Remaster 2016))

Matt Borghi & Loneward: “Lifted, Held Firm” (The Still Guardian)

The live set in the second hour is called Heavy Mettle.

The darkness closes in as Autumn advances and Winter approaches. We explore the descending darkness that happens both within and without.

m00m: “Into the Dark” (Sun Rise)

Alpha Wave Movement: “Dark Meridian” (Kinetic)

Darkened Soul: “An Ominous Fall” (Seasons of Dark and Light)

Cousin Silas: “Down the Darkening Hills” (The Sound of Silas)

Dan Pound: “Darkness Falls” (Dreams that Take You)

Altus: “Umbra” (Dark)

Headzic: “Waiting for the Dark” (Safe Harbour)

The live set in the second hour is called Descending Dark, and is an exploration of the inner darkness that sometimes keeps pace with the outer.

The Veil is thin this time of year, and especially around the end of October and early November. We say goodbye to those we have lost, and honor all the ancestors who have gone before.

Different Skies: “The Voices Behind the Veil” (Strange Lines and Distances)

Michael Brückner: “My Veil of Darkness” (Ombra – Revisited)

Tony Gerber: “Ancestors Across the Bridge” (Sound Medicine for Now)

Peter Phippen: “Beyond the Veil” (Into the Ancient)

Arcanum: “Shadowland” (The Ancient Saga)

In the second hour, the live set is called The Thinning Veil.

The light in autumn is its own phenomenon: on crisp days or hazy, it takes on a golden hue. Reflecting from the changing leaves, and as an effect of the lengthening shadows, it feels… precious. Nature gives us this fleeting gift of gold before her grey cloak settles across the land for winter. RadioSpiral artists have been inspired by autumn over the years, and composed some truly great music, so today’s program celebrates them.

Bing Satellites: “The Colours of Autumn” (Twilight Sessions Volume 8)

Altus: “Green to Gold” (Autumn Breeze)

Cobalt Rabbit: “autumn hymn” (fall apart beautifully)

Lucette Bourdin: “Autumn Light” (Rising Fog)

The Color of Sleep: “Autumn Red IV” (AutumnRed)

Scott Lawlor: “The Autumn Sky” (Pianissimo)

Caul: “Just one autumn for ripe songs” (Let the Stars Assume the Whole of Night)

Juta Takahashi: “Autumn Bringer” (Light and Shadows)

Daniel Robert Lahey: “for Autumn (thing_821) (2020 Vision)

George L Smyth: “Splitting Autumn’s Sky” (Haiku Music – Volume 2)

Una Voce: “Autumn Alchemy” (Butterfly Phantasmagoria)

Cousin Silas: “Blue Autumns” (Cousin Silas)

Focusing on a single point in space can help establish visual perspective; the same is true of mental perspective, and musical as well. Today we examine the centers of things — earth, movement, one’s own heart.

Vir Unis & Saul Stokes: “Kinetic Center” (Thermal Transfer)

SPACECRAFT: “Center of the Earth” (Inside the Inside)

Carbon Entity: “The Center of Nowhere” (Within the Cosmic Void)

Spheric Lounge: “The Heartbeat Centers While In a Dream” (Session 69 14.12.2006)

Robert Scott Thompson: “Center of It” (Alphabet of the Trees)

Different Skies: “Snap to Focus” (Arcs & Angles)

In the second hour, the live set is called Focal Point. It is a tour through a museum, so we’ll hear a series of vignettes — a distant cousin and homage to Pictures at an Exhibition, if you will.

Birds

Landscape

Portrait of a Lady

Battlefield

Still Life

Heaven

Antiquity

Hell

Cats large and small are an endless source of fascination — and sometimes entertainment! (But don’t ever tell them that; they rarely have a sense of humor about themselves.) Today’s episode explores the cat:

Endorphin: “Running Cats” (Red EP)

QX#55: “Cats Could Catch Cough” (After Technic There Was Music)

usr sbin: “Cats Paw” (Unreleased [Live in Second Life])

jarguna: “Twilight, Grasshopper, Cat…” (A Peaceful Granular Day)

m00m: “Cat That Ate the Stars” (Sun Rise)

Ma Ja Le: “Alley Cat Sings Midnight Blues” (Dreams In the Orchards of Saturn)

ontol: “Small Black and White Cat, Missed.” (photocopies)

Tone Ghost Ether: “Ming Ling Cat” (Hydrogen 2 Oxygen)

In the second hour, the live set is called Consider the Cat.

A circle can be a metaphor for many things. As a noun, “circle” can refer to one’s orbit of friends, or the planets, or protection; as a verb, it can be an embrace, a threat, or a comfort. Today we explore many different circles.

Kit Watkins: “Circle of Rain” (Circle)

Different Skies: “Circle for Position” (Arcs & Angles)

Max Corbacho: “Three Circles” (The Talisman)

Erik Wøllo: “Circle Dream” (Different Spaces)

Robert Rich: “Circle Unwound” (Echo of Small Things)

Robert Scott Thompson: “Stone Circles and Carin” (As First Star Wakes, She Wanders There)

Arcanum: “Circle of Dreams” (Man In The Mirror)

In the second hour, the live set is called Circles on the Ground. Especially in such maddening, fragile times, we need to remember to remain close to the earth, close to one another; touch the things we can, draw peace and strength from these connections.

- The Gathering

- Ritual Dance

- The Family We Choose

Tomorrow is the Autumn Equinox in the northern hemisphere so, predictably, we’re doing a show about it. In the Southern Appalachians, the nights are cooling and the days are pleasant. The leaves are starting to turn and we’re trying to find our balance in a world gone crazy. The equinox is a perfect time to seek that balance and focus on finding both personal and collective equilibrium. Music is a great way to do that!

Ishq: “Autumn Still” (In Memoriam)

C. Reider: “Crickets fall silent in Autumn” (Disappointment Engine)

Fanger & Kersten: “Autumn Kiss” (Splashdown)

Shane Morris: “Equinox” (Equinox)

Lucette Bourdin: “Spirit of the Equinox” (Nordic Waves, Vol. 4: Autumn)

Sequentonal: “Autumns Dawn” (Autumns Dawn)

In the second hour, we’ll feature another live collaboration between yours truly and Al Baldwin, aka Pallid Mask — the joint project is The Third Course, and the live set is called Helios and Nyx.