STAR'S END Update 15 September 2024
Live on Star's End 11.05.23Chuck van Zyl Nearly four decades into the pursuit of Electronic Music Chuck van Zyl seems to have more to express now than ever before. Carried out as the second of two substitution sets during the Back in Time six-hour special edition of Star's End Ambient Radio the album Live on Star's End 11.05.23 (54:01) reveals an artist occupied in a deep level of self-searching and discovery.

On 5 November 2023, as Philadelphians partook in the annual turning back of the clocks and returning their lives to Standard Time, Chuck van Zyl and his associates provided listeners with an extra-long live concert edition for one of the world's most persistent programs of Spacemusic. His Live on Star's End 11.05.23 was realized on-air between 5:00am-6:00am as the last of six sets in an extended broadcast of live-to-air performances.

The piece Lodestar was plotted and patterned to light up the small hours before dawn. Within its beautifully crafted opening zone of reverberant random piano we transition into a refined ethereal realm. Roaming on a moonlight moon-ray, soon a spare sequential pattern emerges. As the vague, drifting notes cautiously align and organize into mechanized pulsations, further in fluttering effects emit echo trails in swirling spacey traces of sound.

When random gives way to rhythm additional lines emerge - with sequencer runs overlapping, interweaving and wandering along the inevitable arc of this expanded nocturnal excursion. Developing in converging assemblies of broken chords, then mending and blending in circuits of synchronized signals, a tricky timing subtly slows the rate of the well-ordered patter - where the unwound, decelerating tones allow Van Zyl's lead line narrative to narrow in on the truth.

Seeking, striving, in it with all his heart, Chuck van Zyl's radio recital resolved at 6:00am in a soft Sunday morning landing back on Earth. In thoughtful repose the receivers of this epic transmission slipped further into their electric poetic galaxy vast dreams - waking later to wonder where and with whom had they travelled the long night before.

 

For more about Live on Star's End 11.05.23, please access: chuckvanzyl.bandcamp.com

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Additional Content:

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Live on Star's End 2021-2022 (2023) by Chuck van Zyl
Star's End (1987/2016) by Chuck van Zyl
Stars Landing (2023) by Chuck van Zyl
The Gatherings 9 December 2021 (2022) by Chuck van Zyl

 

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DiN Records marks its 25th Anniversary during 2024. To coincide with this milestone Star's End dedicated the entire five-hour program on Sunday 21st July 2024 to music from across DiN's deep catalogue of creative releases.

So impressed was label boss Ian Boddy that on Friday 9th August 2024 he made available the five one-hour mixes (minus the hourly announcements) as a "pay-what-you-wish" download through Bandcamp.

Accompanied by a separate PDF showing the artist names, notes, track titles, album names and start times, this release provides fans with a dreamy drift through the substantial music that elevated so many editions of Star's End while establishing DiN as a significant resource for innovative music.

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