Hearts of Space #1044 Ethnotronic (5-16-2014)

Ethno-Ambient Fusion - Instrumental - Meditative


"A grove-centric tribal-ambient journey"
This is the current week's one-hour program from Hearts of Space Radio Station. The music is beautiful - perfect for those who choose to meditate to Eastern / Indian music, or for those who wish to pray. Absolutely wonderful music! Music split to MP3s at VBR, and FLAC files also. Voiceovers have been suppressed, but the Program Notes are included in the Tracklist, as usual.

Program Notes by Stephen Hill, Producer
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.

On this transmission of Hearts of Space...ethnic instruments join electronic ambient...on a program called ETHNOTRONIC.