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STAR'S END Fundraiser - 30 September 07
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Over its 30 years on WXPN, STAR'S END has featured works from an enourmous cross-section of musicians and overseen the emergence and development of several new styles of electronic and ambient music. What connects the
different generations, classes and nationalities is the enduring beauty and spirit present in this music. It is really quite extraordinary how well a 25 or 30 year old classic fits in alongside a newly minted piece.
Integral to the show's acheivements are the people listening. While the works of musicians shape STAR'S END, the audience defines it. STAR'S END has always been about making sleep more interesting, but for an increasing number of people it has become a sonic getaway from the stresses and distractions of 21st century life. The music creates an atmosphere; a tonal narrative within which the listener navigates on their own unique journey. The experience is at the very least singular, and at its most - expansive. Another aspect of the STAR'S END listenership is how supportive you have been over this unprecedented 30 year run. Compared to programs featuring mainstream music, the STAR'S END audience is small, and the number of those who support the show smaller still. It turns out that as universal as this music is, it is still not yet for everyone. But for those who do "get it" this music has great significance. WXPN and STAR'S END depend on you of this enlightened segment of the radio community to support our mission so we can continue presenting new and innovative music to the world. As a way of marking 30 years of STAR'S END WXPN has released the STAR'S END 30th Anniversary Anthology CD - a double CD which includes previously unreleased tracks recorded live on STAR'S END by Rudy Adrian, AirSculpture, Ian Boddy, The Ministry of Inside Things, Orbital Decay, Jeff Pearce, Radio Massacre Int'l, Robert Rich, Jonn Serrie and Erik Wollo. This CD is available as a thank you gift to those making a donation to WXPN. For details, call: 1-800-565-WXPN. STAR'S END 30th Anniversary CD Anthology Public Radio depends on listener support. At 30 years of continuous broadcast on WXPN, STAR'S END is one of the longest running and most renowned shows. On the 09.30.07 program you were asked for your support and asked to become an important part of STAR'S END and the presentation of a unique blend of Ambient, Space, Avant-Garde and Chillout music. The 42 listeners who made $3200.00 in donations to STAR'S END during the Fall 2007 Fundraiser are helping STAR'S END in its mission is to present the timeless and innovative music that makes up each broadcast, and have became part of the substance of non-commercial radio. Thank You! for your generosity!
Thanks also to the 09.30.07 STAR'S END phoneroom volunteers: John Garaguso, Ben Manes, Chuck Nixon, Bud Schoefer and co-host Jeff Towne. -Chuck van Zyl/STAR'S END - 4 October 2007
David Wright is considered one of England's leading exponents of melodic instrumental music. Since his debut album in 1989 Wright has released 18 solo works and earned respect as a live performer. His music is characterized as being atmospheric - flirting with the ambient and ethereal - while his melodies connect to jazz and eastern music. By combining electronic sonorities with emotional gravity, the resulting music is rich with unique ideas, refined ambient tones and elegant melodies. Wright's work spans a broad spectrum of styles but is always thematic with strong melodic structure. Combining romanticism, sequences, atmospherics and varied rhythmic elements, his music has been characterised as emotive and expressive. The gently rhythmic style is also laced with classical, rock, jazz and native influences making his albums as diverse as they are original. After his 29 September 2007 concert in Philadelphia at The Gatherings Concert Series, David Wright performed a live in-studio radio concert on the 09.30.07 broadcast of STAR'S END.
For more about David Wright, access the STAR'S END Profile
David Wright live in Concert - 29 September 2007 UK synthesist David Wright made his stateside concert debut in Philadelphia as part of The Gatherings Concert Series on Saturday 29 September 2007 at St. Mary's Hamilton Village. For details, please access: http://www.thegatherings.org | ||||||
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Thank You Gifts
Special premiums were available for those pledging on the 09.30.07 broadcast of STAR'S END, including albums from labels AD Music and Stillsounds and the group AirSculpture, as well as the STAR'S END 30th Anniversary Anthology CD from WXPN.
The premiums pictured were donated by the artist and available (in limited quantities) as thank-you gifts to those making a credit card pledge during the 09.30.07 fundraising broadcast of STAR'S END. More traditional premiums, including the STAR'S END 30th Anniversary Anthology CD furnished by WXPN, were also offered during this broadcast and throughout the Fall 2007 Fund Drive.
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| AD Music - David Wright | ||||||
     
David Wright is considered one of the UK's leading exponents of melodic instrumental music. Since his debut album in 1989 Wright has released 18 solo works and earned respect as a live performer. His music spans a broad spectrum of styles but is always thematic and with strong melodic structure. Combining romanticism, sequences, atmospherics and varied rhythmic elements, his music has been characterised as emotive and expressive with eastern and jazz tinged elements. In 1989 Wright founded the AD Music record label, which has since built up a roster of 12 artists and more than 50 CD releases. Wright has performed numerous concerts in the UK and Europe (both as a solo performer and with his group "Code Indigo"), including The London Planetarium (with Jonn Serrie), and Duisburg (with Klaus Schulze).
• AD Music Label Eight-Pack $360.00 or $30.00/month Credit Card Pledge | ||||||
| Stillsounds - Nelson Foltz & Tom Lynn | ||||||
   
It is a green cast which permeates the Ambient Music of Nelson Foltz + Tom Lynn. Their work creates an atmospheric journey through the emerald hued regions of Fourth World Music. An unguided tour, their shamanistic adventures provide nuanced yet detailed aural surroundings within which the listener may roam. Stepping out of the endless cycle of time as a voice from the now, their playing is lost in a sense of the present. Foltz + Lynn realize their music as they play it live, and are entirely taken over by the experience. Their Still Life series has risen out of a continual need for self-discovery - as they stumble around in the dark of themselves.
• Stillsounds Label Four-Pack in Special Velvet Bag $360.00 or $30.00/month Credit Card Pledge | ||||||
| TranceAtlantic by AirSculpture | ||||||
 
AirSculpture, the synth trio from the UK, made their east-coast concert debut in Philadelphia at The Gatherings Concert Series on 17 April 2004. Recordings of this concert, and that of their STAR'S END live radio concert later that night, were fashioned into the double CD TranceAtlantic and released in Autumn of 2005. Made up of Adrian Beasley, John Christian and Peter Ruczynski, AirSculpture has been using concert spaces to facilitate electronic experimentation since their first live event in September of 1995. Over the years they have found that the atmosphere of the venue, the attention of the audience and several other immeasurable factors, have a significant affect on the interaction between players and acts as a fuel for their performances. The music on TranceAtlantic is structured somewhat differently than on previous CDs. Dwelling more in the realm of Ambient Music, this release is a journey inward to the dark abstractions of the dreaming mind. With this work, AirSculpture explores the fabric of sound, its range of subtleties and the dramatic possibilities of music organized without a tonal center. A lilting piano improvisation opens each disc but soon the mood spirals downward into a shifting timbral plane. Drones build amongst a narrative of humming synthetic sound and constantly transforming tonal color. Set against these sections is the imaginative and engaging sequencer driven patterns AirSculpture is known for. Even here the group pushes beyond their earlier work and into new and unique depths of throbbing pulse, bouncing echoes and spacey beats. The result is a cool combination of inspired play, chance occurrence and the magnification of minute shadings of sound.
• AirSculpture TranceAtlantic CD plus Custom Printed 12" x 20" Color Photograph Signed by Adrian, John and Peter $240.00 or $20.00/month Credit Card Pledge | ||||||
| STAR'S END 30th Anniversary Anthology CD | ||||||
To mark 30 years of continuous broadcast of STAR'S END, WXPN has released the STAR'S END 30th Anniversary Anthology CD. This double CD contains over 120 minutes of live music from 11 renowned artists. The unique performances were culled from on-air in-studio radio concerts by some of our community's greatest talents. Included on the disc are previously unreleased live selections donated by: The Ministry of Inside Things, Orbital Decay, Ian Boddy, AirSculpture, Radio Massacre International, Robert Rich, Rudy Adrian, Jonn Serrie, Jeff Pearce, Saul Stokes and Steve Roach.
The STAR'S END 30th Anniversary Anthology CD is available for a $60 donation to WXPN, which includes membership and all of its benefits. Current WXPN members can receive the STAR'S END 30th Anniversary Anthology CD for a $25 donation. Access the online Pledge Form to support WXPN and aquire your CD. Call 1-800-565-WXPN or send an email to WXPN Member Services for details. CDs are currently being sent out to current donors by the WXPN Membership Department - which may be reached by telephone at: 1-800-565-WXPN or via email. Thanks very much for your support!
STAR'S END 30th Anniversary Celebration
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88.1fm WXPH Harrisburg, PA 90.5fm WKHS Worton/Baltimore, MD 104.9fm Allentown, PA and live on the world wide web at: http://xpn.org/stream.shtml | 
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