Hearts of Space #993 Catharsis (10-26-2012) (Re-Uploaded)

Halloween Gothic, Ambient


"An ambient noir journey for Halloween"
This is a re-upload (by request) of the Halloween program broadcast by Hearts of Space Radio Show on the weekend of October 26-27, 2012. This streamed recording is broken into MP3s by song at the natural points where pauses occur in the music. It has not been "tweaked" or adjusted in any way. Voice overs have been suppressed, but the program introductory notes by Stephen Hill are included in the Tracklist (a revision to the tracklist).

Program Notes by Stephen Hill, Producer
We owe our Pagan ancestors thanks for their recognition of the special days of late autumn — a time of restless spirits, spawned by all things dark and fear-full. The advent of the house of Scorpio each year brings the ambient genres of gloom, Gothic, and dark atmospheres to the fore.

This music displays a romantic quest for strangeness, a taste for the ominous, and a fascination with death and decay that's appropriate for the fall season, even celebrated on All Hallow's Eve by fans of the macabre, the ominous, the morbid, and the diabolical. It's a taste that's both aesthetic and cathartic: a willful immersion in our ancient limbic emotions of terror and fear...and (to look on the bright side of a dark picture) a reassuring exercise of our impulse for self-preservation. On this transmission of Hearts of Space...a Halloween experience called CATHARSIS.