I Scream Sunday

On this episode of I Scream Sunday, we explore the underworld, darkness, hell (and they're not always the same), and more.

Reese Burgan: "The Fury of Hell" (Eighth Day)

Thaneco: "Underworld" (Journey to Ithaca, Vol. 1)

Syndromeda: "Too Hot in Hell" (Last Days on Earth)

John DuVal: "Hell's Canyon" (Hell's Canyon Suite)

Spheric Lounge: "Hades" (Session 60 19.08.2006)

Medicine Man: "Into Darkness" (The Ether)

Paul Nagle: "Tomb in Darkness" (Red Book)

The live set in the second hour is called Persephone.

Today we fly! This episode is designed in hopes of inspiring dreams of flying.

Bing Satellites: "Flying Dream" (Twilight Sessions volume 11)

Christopher Short - Guitartronic: "Flying Leisurely in the Sunshine" (Winter Soundscapes 2014)

Cousin Silas: "I Often Dream of Flying" (The Silas Sampler 2 - The Twang Projects)

Meg Bowles: "Nocturnal Flight" (A Quiet Light)

Saul Stokes: "Nesser's Night Flight Home" (Objects and Phenomena)

Hope Street House: "Flight and Formation" (Collected Singles)

Dan Pound: "Night Flight" (In a Hummingbird's Dream)

The live set in the second hour is called Dream Flight.

Given that this station is called RadioSpiral, and is run by Mr. Spiral himself, this episode pays homage to the spiral, with tracks that include "Spiral" in the name, or by acts that include it.

Phillip Wilkerson: "Endlessly Spiraling" (The Stars and Afterward)

jarguna: "Spirals of Rosemary" (A Peaceful Granular Day)

Robert Carty: "Spiral Vibrations" (Microspirals)

mindSpiral: "Ecliptic" (The 1 is Silent)

Mr. Spiral: "Cold Blue Night 1 - Prelude in Fugue (Machine)" (Edges of Solstice)

The live set in the second hour is called Spiral of Fifths and plays on the musical concept of the circle of fifths.

Finding the balance between head and heart can sometimes be a challenge -- in either direction. But on this episode of I Scream Sunday, we focus on the heart and all it has to say.

Robert Carty: "Heart Waves" (The Mystic Choice)

Dan Pound: "Heart's Core" (Heart's Core)

Lingua Lustra: "How Deep is the Heart" (Ice Age)

Jarguna and Friends: "The Heart of the Earth" (Trapped Vol. 1)

Chris Russell: "From the Heart" (Aralu)

Swartz et: "The Abundance of the Heart" (Desert Meditations)

Alpha Wave Movement: "Gaia's Heartbeat" (Concept of Motion)

In the second hour, the live set is called Songs of the Heart:

Heartbeat

Heartwarming

Heartsick

Heartened

Heartbreak

Raging Heart

The April Pink Moon happens this weekend.

The Full Moon in April is named the Pink Moon for the flowers that bloom in spring. It is also called the Breaking Ice Moon, Budding Moon, Awakening Moon, Egg Moon, and Paschal Moon. This episode of I Scream Sunday honors them all. Greet the moon as the harbinger of hope and growth.

Tantroniq: "By the Light of the Moon" (Music from Inside Time)

usr/sbin: "Moonrise Across the High Plains" (Wolf Moon Rising)

Gregg Plummer: "Luna" (Luna)

Alpha Wave Movement: "Luna Lamentabilis" (Echoes in the Vacuum)

MindPhaser: "Valle de la Luna" (Singles)

The live set in the second hour is called The Chalice of the Moon.

This time of year, the weather is wildly unpredictable: there can be snow or sun, cold or heat, or anything in between. Today we’ll explore many forms of spring and new growth. I’ll take a break from playing live today.

Conni St. Pierre: “Snow on Lilacs” (Flower Spirits)

Mäläskä: “Dialogue Between Birches & Oaks” (First Day of Spring)

Arcticology: “Deep Spring” (Deep Spring)

Cousin Silas & Walter Fini: “Run Towards Spring” (Cousin Silas & Walter Fini)

poemme: “melting streams” (Blooming Spring)

Charles Denler: “The Spring” (One Drop Became an Ocean)

Fringo Chills: “Welcome Springtime” (…cooled)

Lucette Bourdin: “New Growth” (Under Currents)

usr/sbin: “Serene the Spring Air” (Lenten Moon)

Shane Morris: “April Pink Moon” (The Full Moon Series)

EugeneKha: “Return to Green” (Green Quest)

Jack Hertz: “Moss” (Green Mist)

Natural Life Essence: “Sun Energy (seeds growing)” (Seeds and spores)

Phillip Wilkerson: “And Lilac Too” (Swiftly the Sun)

“Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.”

- Hildegard von Bingen

Music can help us achieve a kind of stillness that's elusive in the modern world. Out of the silence comes inspiration, motivation, wonder, awe. We'll hear music that's all about quiet and silence on this week's episode of I Scream Sunday.

Juta Takahashi: "Silence" (Silence)

Lomita: "Place of Silence" (This Music Plants Trees 2)

Phillip Wilkerson: "Unfolding Quietly" (Complex Silence 23)

Divided by Two: "The Silence Beyond" (Electromagnetism)

In the second hour, the live set is called The Shores of Silence.

Days and nights are in balance for a moment, and the season tips toward spring and new growth. After a difficult winter, the change is welcome. Time for spring cleaning!

We’ll hear from a variety of artists today who honor the Spring Equinox in different ways.

Shane Morris: “Equinox” (Equinox)

Kuutana: “Equinox” (Waking Sun)

Lucette Bourdin: “Crossing the Equinox” (Nordic Waves, Vol. 2: Spring)

Conni St. Pierre: “Trillium (Wake Robin)” (Flower Spirits)

Mäläskä: “Song for the World” (First Day of Spring)

Spheric Lounge: “Before Spring” (Session 87 01.03.2008)

Jack Hertz & Wolfgang Gsell: “Spring Thaw” (Sleeping Trees on Earth)

In the second hour, the live set is simply called Equinox (also now available on Bandcamp).

Last week’s show about water inspired me to put together one about the Ocean. It is the subject of poetry, prayer, and music, and our artists have often taken the subject and run with it. We’ll hear tracks from Lexicon of Sound, Re-Think, Dave Riddell, Sheleah Nahshon, Gregg Plummer, Max Corbacho, Robert Rich & Markus Reuter, and Daniel Robert Lahey, plus as usual a live set in the second hour.

lexicon of sound: “the endless ocean” (the lighthouse)

Re-Think: “Ocean of Dreams” (Cloaked in Thunder)

Dave Riddell: “Ocean Light” (This Music Plants Trees)

Sheleah Nahshon: “Joyful Ocean” (SANCTUARY)

Gregg Plummer: “Ocean Abyss” (Invisible Bird)

Max Corbacho: “Shoreless Ocean” (The Ocean Inside)

Robert Rich & Markus Reuter: “These Storms Cast Shadows on the Ocean” (Lift a Feather to the Flood)

Daniel Robert Lahey: “ocean deep ocean (thing_075)” (once upon a thing)

In the second hour, the live set will be called The Thundering Voice of the Ocean.

The water has many voices: gentle, turbulent, deep, shallow, restorative, destructive... On this edition of I Scream Sunday, we explore some of those voices with music of Altus, Christopher Short, Janne Hanhisuanto, Robert Rich, Dan Pound, grum~pe, M.NOMIZED, Audraulic, and John Vorus. In the second hour there will be a live set exploring the sounds and voices of water.

Altus: "Overture for Water" (Water)

Christopher Short: "Reflections on Moonlit Water" (Narration of Butterflies and a Crystalline Sky)

Janne Hanhisuanto: "Deep Blue" (Water Stories)

Robert Rich: "Amrita (Water of Life)" (Geometry)

Dan Pound: "Moon on the Water" (Drift)

grum~pe: "Five Ways to Water" (The Eye of Salar)

M.NOMIZED: "Cry Under Water" (Squares and Circles)

Audraulic: "Sunken Waters" (Planned Obsolescence)

John Vorus: "Creatures of the Back Water" (Foot of the Crow)

In the second hour, I'll play a live set called Into the Deep:

Snow

Stream

River

Ocean