Released: 2 January 2026
Label: CIMA of PA

Attaining prominence as host of STAR'S END (WXPN's renowned radio program of Spacemusic dreamscapes) and as founder/coordinator of The Gatherings (Philadelphia's premiere concert series of innovative music), Chuck van Zyl has also been making his own unique style of Electronic Music since 1983.

The album The Gatherings 15 September 2024 presents the evening's improvised performance across two sets. Utilizing this venerable concert venue to transcend a system of instruments he realizes work that heads to a place in the listening mind where sensory detail becomes thought.

Using a variety of modern analog synthesizers & sequencers and operating at an emotional and enthusiastic pitch, Chuck van Zyl realizes music that possesses as much the buzz and crackle of electricity as it does the frigid depths of outer space. Enlightened in the immediacy of the live performance, before an informed, supportive audience he pushes and pulls, expands and contracts the music, establishing an engaging contour through various sonic scenarios and scenes... to attain a rare unity.

Offering vivid electronic timbres and synthesized sonorities the music's appeal lies in its connection to the values of the Kosmische Musik era, and in this musician's ability to realize an uncommonly imaginative, intimate and absorbing listening experience. Anyone in love with Spacemusic and its specific poetry will want to hear this concert journey.

- From the Press Release   2 January 2026

Proceeds from the sale of The Gatherings 15 September 2024 by Chuck van Zyl support the efforts of CIMA of PA, the IRS recognized, non-profit, all-volunteer organization administering The Gatherings Concert Series in Philadelphia