Significant Releases of 2017 (non-ranking order)

A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Iris (Erased Tapes) John Luther Adams: Canticles of the Holy Wind (Cantaloupe) Johan Agebjorn/Mikel Ogren: We Never Came to the White Sea (Spotted Peccary) Aglia: Water Inside the Light (Hic Sunt Leones) Aidia: Sweet Dreams (self-released) Alio Die: An Unfathomable Convergance (Hic Sunt Leones) Alio Die: Imaginal Symmetry (Hic Sunt Leones) Alio Die/Aglia: Opera Magnetica (Hic Sunt Leones) Ambelion: The Cure (Where Ambient Lives) An Imaginal Space: Dreamings (self-released) An Imaginal Space: Loop 1702 Beyond (self-released) Arc: Fleet (DiN) Olafur Arnalds: Broadchurch - The Final Chapter (Kudos Film and Televison) Ascendant: Particle Horizon (Synphaera) B Ashra/Eru: Earth Frequencies (Klangwirkstoff) Richard Barbieri: Planets + Persona (K-Scope) Siddhartha Barnhoorn: Structures of Light (self-released) Siddhartha Barnhoorn: Semispheres (self-released) William Basinski: A Shadow in Time (Musex International) Eraldo Bernocchi/Netherworld: Himuro (Glacial Movements) Between Interval: Legacy (Spotted Peccary) Billow Observatory: II: Plains/Patterns (Azure Vista Records) Ian Boddy/Markus Reuter: Stay (DiN/DDL) Richard Bone: Age of Falconry (Mega Dodo Records) Steve Brand: Threshold (Pioneer Light) Steve Brand/Ishq: Spiritual Science (TXT) Steve Brand: Silence (Pioneer Light) Broekhuis Keller Schonwalder: Red Live @ USA (Manikin) Bvdub: Epilogues for the End of the Sky (Glacial Movements) Javi Canovas: Exilecself-released) Javi Canovas: Oscillations (self-released) Javi Canovas: One More Day, One Day Less (self-released) Carbon Based Lifeforms: Derelict (Blood Music) Chronotope Project: Ovum (Spotted PeccarySpotted Peccary) The Circular Ruins: Pathways (Databloem) Max Corbacho: Nocturnes (Silent Sun) Cosmic Ground: Cosmic Ground Live (Sunhair Music) Darshan Ambient: Lingering Day (Spotted Peccary) Datadrift: Live on Music with Space (self-released) Demen: Nektyr (Kranky) Deuter: Space (New Earth Records) Djam Karet: Sonic Celluloid (HC Productions) dreamSTATE: Drone Day (E-Space Editions) dreamstate vs Heiki: Stone Shore (Paper + Sound) Earthen Sea: An Act of Love (Kranky) Elegi: Bansull (Dronarivm) Brian Eno: Reflection (Warp) Eyes Cast Down: The White Island (Kalindi Music) Forrest Fang: Following the Ether Sun (Projekt) Fhloston Paradigm: After... (kingbrittarchives) Fictions and Poetics: Intersections (dataObscura) Sherry Finzer/Peter Sheridan: Traveler (Head Dance) Fourth Dimension: The Perfect Form (Synphaera) Free System Projekt: Five Suns (self-released) Frore: Last Place of Wonder (self-released) Frore/Shane Morris: Eclipse (Spotted Peccary) Tony Gerber: Secret Garden (Space for Music) Germind: Flows (Synphaera) Howard Givens/Craig Padilla: Being of Light (Spotted Peccary) The Glimmer Room: The Locked Box (Silent Rookery) The Greatest Hoax: Expiration Compositions (Serein) Matthias Grassow: Divinations (gterma) Robert Hakalski: Stereograph (Singularity) Hammock: Mysterium (Hammock Music) Daniel Hart: A Ghost Story (Milan Records) Chihei Hatakeyama: Above the Desert (Dronarivm) Havenaire: Rabot (Glacial Movements) David Helpling: A Sea Without Memory (Spotted Peccary) Jack Hertz: Andromeda Strains (Aural Films) High Plains: Cinderland (Kranky) Tom Holkenborg: The Dark Tower (Sony Classics) Hollan Holmes: Prayer to the Energy (self-released) Hotel Neon: Context (Fluid Audio) Hotel Neon: Context: Remixed (self released) The Irresistible Force: Kira Kira (Liquid Sound Design) Steve Jansen: The Extinct Suite (self released) Jarguna and Friends: Trapped vol 1 (Projekt) Jean-Michel Jarre: Oxygene 3 (Columbia/Sony) Sverre Knut Johansen: Secret Space Program (Spotted Peccary) Steven Kemner: Gradation Movements (Fluid Audio) Steven Kemner: Live at Mercy College (self-released) Bernd Kistenmacher: Disintegration (MI Records) Bernd Kistenmacher: Paradise (MI Records) Jeffrey Koepper: MantraSequent (Projekt) Jeffrey Koepper: Transmitter (Projekt) Lowercase Noises: The Swiss Illness (BC Media) Simon Lomax: A Strange Light (self-released) Lingua Lustra: Myst (Where Ambient Lives) Lingua Lustra: Self Released Works (Psychonavigation) John Lyell: Planetary Artifacts (self-released) Magnetron: Impulse Response (self-released) Johannes Malfatti: Surge (Glacial Movements) Manfred Hamil: Pigeonhole (self-released) Marconi Union: Ghost Stations Remixes (Just Music) K Markov: Golden Age (self-released) K Markov: Machine Learning (self-released) K Markov: Plattenspieler (self-released) K Markov: Soul Keeper (self-release) K Markov: Sound Color (self-released) Martin Nonstatic: Ligand (Ultimae) Cliff Martinez: The Foreigner (Sony Music) Lorenzo Masotto: Aeolian Processes (Dronarivm) Brian McOmber: It Comes at Night (Milan Records) Bear McCreary: The Walking Dead (Lakeshore) Stephan Micus: Inland Sea (ECM) The Ministry of Inside Things: The Gatherings 18 November 2017 (CIMA of PA) The Ministry of Inside Things: Trilogy (Indusrty8) Lorenzo Montana: Phase IX (Projekt) Lorenzo Montana: SlowaVes (self-released) Tim Motzer: Soak (1k Recordings) Tim Motzer: Unseen Universe (1k Recordings) James Murray: Killing Ghosts (Home Normal) James Murray: Floods Returned (Slowcraft) James Murray: Heavenly Waters (Slowcraft) Mystified: Morning City (Spotted Peccary) Neuronium: Lysergic Dream (Neuronium Records) No Mask Effect: Buddah Bowl (Psychonavigation) No Mask Effect: Ambient Wars EP (Psychonavigation) Ombient w/Chuck van Zyl: The Gatherings 20 May 2017 (CIMA of PA) Seamus O'Muineachain: Cloves (self released) Omrr: Devils for My Darling (Dronarivm) One Arc Degree: Cosmos in Flux (Synphaera) One Arc Degree: Ashore (Mindspring) Oneohtrix Point Never: Good Time (Warp) Jim Ottaway: Timeless E-Motion (self-released) Jim Ottaway: Deep Space Blue (self-released) Palancar: Many Worlds (Emergent World) Palancar: Shallow River Flows (Emergent World) Panoptique Electrical: Quiet Ecology (Sound in Silence) Pausal: Avifaunal (Dronarivm) Jeff Pearce: From the Darker Seasons (self released) Perge: Catharsis (self released) Phobos: Approaching Darker Space (self-released) TJ Porter: Andromeda (self-released) TJ Porter: A Brief History of Time (self-released) TJ Porter: Isolation (self-released) TJ Porter: Mechanical Eye (self-released) TJ Porter: Why Orwell Matters (self-released) Dan Pound: Dreams That Take You (self-released) Project X: The Broken Group (Flying Disc Music) Purna: Grachiel (AM800Sound) Pyramid Peak: Roots (Manikin) Quaeschning/Schnauss: Synthwaves (Azure Vista Records) ['ramp]: synchronize or die (Doombient) Markus Reuter/Ian Boddy: Memento (DiN) Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross: The Vietnam War (Universal) Robert Rich: Live at The Gatherings 2015 (industry8) Robert Rich/Markus Reuter: Lift a Feather to the Flood (Soundscape) Max Richter: Three Worlds: Music From Virgina Woolf Works (Deutsche Grammophon) Roedelius: The Roedelius Cells (Seventh Chance Recordings) Steve Roach: Empetus (Projekt) Steve Roach: Painting in the Dark (Timeroom) Steve Roach: Spiral Revelation (Projekt) Steve Roach: Fade to Gray (Timeroom) Steve Roach: Nostalgia for the Future (Timeroom) Steve Roach: The Passing (Timeroom) Chris Russell: Labyrinth (Spotted Peccary) Saafi Brothers: The Quality of Being One (Liquid Sound Design) Safe Creations: Images of Saturn (Anvil Creations) Ryuichi Sakamoto: Async (Milan Records) Scanner: The Great Crater (Glacial Movements) Arjen Schat: Skarce (self-released) Arjen Schat: Solstitium (self-released) Arjen Schat: Spectrum (Tresor D'argent) Ulrich Schnauss/Jonas Munk: Passage (Azure Vista Records) Robert Schroeder: Harmonic Decadence (Spheric Music) Klaus Schulze: Eternal (MIG) Secondface: Transitions (gterma) Mark Seelig/Sam Rosenthal: Journey to Aktehi (Projekt) Jonn Serrie: The Sentinel (New World Records) S1gns of L1fe: Pathways to Ascension (Synpharea) Slow Dancing Society: My Blue Heaven (Hidden Shoal) Slow Meadow: Costero (Hammock Music) Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: The Kid (Western Vinyl) Forrest Smithson: The Journey of the Outshining Source (self-released) Solaris: Aeon V (Synphaera) Sonogram: Telescopic (Simulacra) Staer: Syzygy (self-released) Stevens/Muhly/Dessner/McAllister: Planetarium (4AD) Saul Stokes: Local Crowd (Databloem) subtractiveLAD: Sustain/Release (self-released) Juta Takahashi: Albion (Lunisolar Records) Tale of Us: Endless (Deutsche Grammophon) Tangerine Dream: Particles (Eastgate) Tangerine Dream: Quantum Gate (K-Scope) Tapes and Topographies: Signal to Noise (Simulacra) Test Card: Rediffusion (Sound in Silence) Chuck van Zyl: Celestial Mechanics (industry8) Justin Walter: Unseen Forces (Kranky) Michael Whalen: Dream Cycle (Valley Entertainment) Stephan Whitlan/Ron Boots: Seven Days (Groove Unlimited) Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie: Salero (Erased Tapes) Erik Wollo: Different Spaces (Projekt) Erik Wollo: Cinematic (Projekt) Hans Zimmer: Dunkirk (Watertower Music) Hans Zimmer/Benjamin Wallfisch: Blade Runner 2049 (Epic) Various Artists: Greenosophy Chapter II (Ultimae) Various Artists: Polarity (Ultimae) Various Artists: Pop Ambient 2017 (Kompakt) Various Artists: This Music Plants Trees 2 (Aural Films) Various Artists: This Music Plants Trees 4 (Aural Films) 2017 in Review Broadcasts: 31 December 2017 Playlist - Part One 07 January 2018 Playlist - Part Two 14 January 2018 Playlist - Part Three 21 January 2018 Playlist - Part Four

Highlights From STAR'S END : 2017
01.01.17 Warp Records releases Reflection by Brian Eno and chooses STAR'S END to be among just a handfull of radio shows worldwide to air it in its entirety on the date of its release 01.05.17 The STAR'S END Website introduces the Sound Out Interview Series and an insightful Q&A Session with Ian Boddy 02.10.17 Sound Out Interview Series continues with Forrest Fang 02.12.17 STAR'S END Winter 2017 Pledge Drive is a success! Thanks to Everyone who called in and made a donation, and to our phone-room volunteers: Ken Anderson, Art Cohen, Walt & Cindy Crowder, and Jeff Towne! Thanks Also to all the labels and artists for their gifts of music! 03.15.17 Sound Out Interview Series continues with Vic Hennegan 03.19.17 Ron Boots performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 04.23.17 Guitar Pilots perform a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 05.07.17 Ombient w/Chuck van Zyl perform a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 05.14.17 Geoffrey Waterman performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 05.16.17 Sound Out Interview Series continues with Mike Hunter 05.16.17 Sound Out Interview Series continues with Robert Rich 06.04.17 Robert Rich performs an eight hour Sleep Concert at The Rotunda which is broadcast live on an extended edition of STAR'S END 06.18.17 Jeffrey Koepper performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END This concert recording was later released by Projekt Records as the album >Transmitter 07.23.17 Jason Sloan performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 07.07.17 Sound Out Interview Series continues with King Britt 07.30.17 Fhloston Paradigm (King Britt) performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END... later to be released as an album 08.08.17 Sound Out Interview Series continues with Stephen Parsick 08.13.17 Tim Motzer performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 08.17.17 STAR'S END host Chuck van Zyl introduces The Signal - an accomplished music review podcast 08.20.17 Guest Host Jeff Towne presents an astronomy themed program as Chuck van Zyl is away traveling and observing The Great Total Solar Eclipse of North America 09.10.17 Datadrift performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 09.17.17 Hotel Neon performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 10.01.17 Sound Out Interview Series continues with Jeff Pearce 10.08.17 Eyes Cast Down + Jeff Pearce each perform a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 11.12.17 The Ministry of Inside Things perform a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 12.03.17 & 12.10.17 STAR'S END preempted for WXPN's 24/7 1970s A to Z special programming 12.24.17 STAR'S END preempted for WXPN's Christmas special programming
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