Hearts of Space #1044 ETHNOTRONIC 16-May-2014 MP3 320kbps

Hearts of Space #1044 ETHNOTRONIC 16-May-2014 MP3 320kbps

PGM NOTE : a groove-centric tribal-ambient journey

GENRE(s) : Ethno/Ambient, Spring, Summer, World Fusion

FIRST BROADCAST : 16-May-2014

The TRIBAL MUSIC TRADITIONS of Asia, Africa and the Americas stretch back to the mists of pre-history. For perhaps a hundred centuries, music was made with simple, even primitive instruments: flutes, rattles, drums and percussion; lyres, harps and strings; and wind instruments of various sizes and tones. It was an all-acoustic world, where music and instruments evolved slowly.

Then in the late 19th and 20th centuries, electricity and electronics began to transform the world and transform music. First came the telegraph and the telephone, then radio, then recordings, and then the instruments themselves. Guitars and pianos became electric...and then electronic. And finally, purely electronic instruments of dazzling variety and unlimited potential to create new sounds.

After the electronic music revolution of the 1960s and 70s, the entire studio became a musical instrument, and the sound of recordings has never been quite the same. Today, ethnic instruments and genres can be set in new Ambient soundscapes, a fusion of the old world and the new.