On air from 19h till 20h

Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope,” – Ursula K Le Guin

Point of departure is Ursula K Le Guin’s Music and Poetry of the Kesh. The album is the documentation of an invented Pacific Coast peoples from a far distant time, and the soundtrack of Le Guin’s novel Always Coming Home. It is a music that is modern and archaic at once—reaching back to ancient hymns for the earth to repair the toxic damage we’ve done to it. Connecting it to Jon Hassell’s ideas of music as “a unified primitive/futuristic sound combining features of world ethnic styles with advanced electronic techniques” this show brings together some ambient electronica that hovers on that strange territory between the ancient and the futuristic.

TRACKLIST
  1. Ursula K. Le Guin – speech for National Book award
  2. Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton – Long Singing
  3. Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton – A Music of the Eighth House
  4. Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton – Heron Dance
  5. Jon Hassell – These Times…
  6. Jungle sounds
  7. Ursula K. Le Guin – interview for The Nation
  8. Susumu Yokota – Gekkoh
  9. Biosphere – Strandby
  10. Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton – Dragonfly Song
  11. Susumu Yokota – Azukiiro No Kaori
  12. Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton – A Teaching Poem
  13. John Lemke – Grass Will Grow
  14. Visible Cloaks – Bloodstream
  15. Ursula K. Le Guin – interview for The Nation
  16. Mica Levi – Solos
  17. Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton – Twilight Song
  18. Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton – A River Song
  19. Biosphere – Geatkejávri
  20. Demdike Stare – We Have Already Died
  21. RAMZi – chonki
  22. Tala Drum Corps – Clear Fall
  23. Jon Hassell – Empire I
  24. Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton – Lullaby – Lahela
  25. Mark Pritchard – Circle of Fear
Ambient downtempo soundtrack