Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Secret Music News, late August 2011

Hi -

My name is Scott Raymond, and for those of you who don't know me, I'm a New
Age/Ambient/Electronic music DJ with WVKR-FM. WVKR is a 3700 watt non -
commercial station broadcasting from Vassar College to the greater Hudson Valley region. My show, "Secret Music", has been on for over 24 years and has a large and devoted audience. The show airs every Sunday from 9AM to 12 noon EST. For more information or to listen in online, check out our website at www.wvkr.org. I'm always on the lookout for new and interesting music to play on my show. If you have something you think I'd be interested in, feel free to send it to the address below or email me for more info. If you're a local musician or just passing through the beautiful Hudson Valley region and you'd like to stop by for a live interview and/or performace, drop me a line and we'll work something out. Also, if you'd like to send me downloads of your releases in lieu of actual CD's, that's fine with me, too. Just
send me an email and let me know. Thanks.

I hope everyone is well and enjoying the summer. Been quiet on this end. Coming
soon in September, WVKR will have its annual fundraiser, right after Labor Day. We're a non- commercial college station that gets some funding from the college, but we rely on listener donations to keep us going. If any of you want to help out by donating CD"s or other stuff we can give to people as premiums, it'd be greatly appreciated. Email me for more info.

I'm looking to book some live interviews/performances for the show in the
upcoming months. If you're in the area and want to come by on a Sunday morning, let me know and we'll work something out.

There's a couple of upcoming shows in the area that I recommend to anyone who
enjoys electronic music. I'll be at both, so let me know if you're coming to either.
First is Electro Music 2011, which is September 9-11 near Port Jervis, NY. It's a lot of fun and there'll be a lot of great live music. For more info, here's the website:

http://event.electro-music.com/

The other is Equinoxygen 2011, a one day festival of electronic music presented
by Darren Bergstein of the One Thousand Pulses house concert series. It's on Saturday, October 1 in Hackensack, NJ. The lineup is amazing. For more info, here's the website:

http://onethousandpulses.com/index.php/equinoxygen-festival/

I'm still on Facebook, both as Secret Music and as Scott Raymond. And the
website stays the same, too. Have a look if you want to know more.

http://secretmusicwvkr.blogspot.com/

Here's my top 20 playlist for August, 2011. Enjoy!

Scott Raymond
WVKR-FM
16 Penn St.
Fishkill, NY 12524

newage@secretmusic.net

WVKR-FM "Secret Music" Top 20 Playlist
August, 2011

1. Various Artists - For Nihon - Unseen Records
2. Various Artists - Home Patterning - Periphery
3. Richard Bone - Xessex - Quirkworks
4. Richard Lainhart - Polychromatic Integers - Periphery
5. Diatonis - Because Words Can't Take You There - self released
6. Loscil - Coast/Range/Arc - Glacial Movements
7. Jacob Newman & Devin Underwood - The Vivid Unmapped - Dataobscura
8. Julia Kent - Green And Grey - self released
9. Olafur Arnalds - ...and they have escaped the weight of darkness - Erased
Tapes Records
10. Peter G.Brown - Ten Years Of Dust - Slobor
11. Kevin Keller - Dvija - Kevin Keller Productions
12. Hammock - Longest Year - self released
13. Hauschka - Foreign Landscapes - Fatcat
14. Brian Henke - A Child's Garden - Divine Wind
15. Benjamin Dauer - Burning Of Wine - Distance
16. The Ideal Setback - The Ideal Setback - self released
17. The Electric Golem - Sky Snails - Periphery
18. Palancar - Crooked Little House - Earth Mantra
19. Jim Kirkwood - Dreaming In Amber - Dark Age Music
20. Altus - Sleep Theory Volume 1 - self released

Monday, August 22, 2011

Secret Music Playlists, 8/21/2011

Hi -

Here's my playlist for Sunday, August 21, 2011. Enjoy!


Scott Raymond
WVKR-FM
16 Penn St.
Fishkill, NY 12524
secretmusic09@gmail.com


Secret Music Playlist, 8/21/2011

Artist Song Album

Altus Session 1 Sleep Theory Vol.1

Palancar Crooked Little House Crooked Little House
Richard Bone Drawn Onward (fwd) Xessex
Richard Bone Drawn Onward (rev) Xessex

Jacob Newman & Devin Underwood Memory Canyon The Vivid Unmapped
Peter G.Brown Empty Graves Ten Years Of Dust
Diatonis Peering Into Another World Before Friday Because Words Can't Take You
There

Richard Lainhart The Rising Night Polychromatic Integers
Malcolm Cecil & The Electric Golem July 17 2010 Home Patterning

Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd And We Enter The Night For Nihon
Taylor Deupree For A Morning When For Nihon
Loscil Black Tusk Coast/Range/Arc

Mic Holwin Brujo Starting To Remember
Michael Hoenig Sun And Moon Departure From The Northern Wasteland
Tyndall Sudwind Sonnenlicht
Bognermayr & Zuschrader Erdung Erdenklang

Julia Kent Missed Green And Grey
Hauschka Union Square Foreign Landscapes
Olafur Arnalds Kjurrt And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness
Kevin Keller Sitarkha Dvija
Ana Milosavljevic Reflections Reflections

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Secret Music Playlists, 8/7/2011 and 8/14/2011

Hi -

Here's my playlists for Sunday, August 7, 2011, and Sunday, August 14,
2011. Sorry for the lateness. Still having computer issues on this end.
Enjoy!


Scott Raymond
WVKR-FM
16 Penn St.
Fishkill, NY 12524
secretmusic09@gmail.com

Secret Music Playlist, 8/7/2011

Artist Song Album

The Electric Golem What Watson Doesn't Know Sky Snails

The Ideal Setback A Picture Of What You're Wishing For The Ideal Setback
Benjamin Dauer Hovering Light Burning Of Wine
Richard Bone In Words, Alas, Drown I Xessex

Diatonis A Kell For April Because Words Can't Take You There
Peter G.Brown Beacon Ten Years Of Dust
Jacob Newman & Devin Underwood Unconscious Movement The Vivid Unmapped

Dustin O'Halloran & Adam Wiltzie Opus 43 For Nihon
Rafael Anton Irisarri & Goldmund Dissolution For Nihon
Hammock Dark Beyond The Blue Longest Year
Loscil Stave Peak Coast/Range/Arc

Richard Lainhart The Naga Polychromatic Integers
Palancar Falling Free Crooked Little House
Eraldo Bernocchi April 10 2010 Home Patterning

Rubaja & Hernandez Icebird High Plateaux
Gershon Kingsley Illumination Much Silence
Garry Hughes Dead Sea Ancient Evenings

Julia Kent Pleiades Green And Grey
Olafur Arnalds Pu Ert Jordin And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness
Kevin Keller Keharwa Dvija
Brian Henke Angels Among Us A Child's Garden
Hauschka Mount Hood Foreign Landscapes
Brian Henke At The Garden Gate A Child's Garden

Secret Music Playlist, 8/14/2011

Artist Song Album

Jim Kirkwood The Shimmering Darkness Dreaming In Amber

Diatonis Whirling Above Our Heads Because Words Can't Take You There
Peter G.Brown The Gwynns Falls Ten Years Of Dust
Jacob Newman & Devin Underwood Early The Vivid Unmapped

Richard Lainhart An Open Hand Polychromatic Integers
Robert Rich May 15 2010 Home Patterning

Goldmund Nihon For Nihon
Bexar Bexar Gold 1 For Nihon
Hammock Cruel Sparks Longest Year
Loscil Fromme Coast/Range/Arc

Richard Bone Seveneves Xessex
The Ideal Setback In The Aging Afterthought The Ideal Setback
Benjamin Dauer Burning Of Wine Burning Of Wine

Franko Richmond I Need To Love Ivan's Song
Eric Watson Child In The Sky Child In The Sky
Paul Winter Icarus Common Ground

Jeff Pearce A Secret For The Moon Provision
Julia Kent Guarding The Invitations Green And Grey
Olafur Arnalds Tunglio And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness
Kevin Keller Tintal Dvija
Brian Henke Somewhere Over The Rainbow A Child's Garden
Hauschka Early In The Park Foreign Landscapes

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Secret Music News, August 2011

Hi -

My name is Scott Raymond, and for those of you who don't know me, I'm a
New Age/Ambient/Electronic music DJ with WVKR-FM. WVKR is a 3700 watt non
- commercial station broadcasting from Vassar College to the greater
Hudson Valley region. My show, "Secret Music", has been on for over 24
years and has a large and devoted audience. The show airs every Sunday
from 9AM to 12 noon EST. For more information or to listen in online,
check out our website at www.wvkr.org. I'm always on the lookout for new
and interesting music to play on my show. If you have something you think
I'd be interested in, feel free to send it to the address below or email
me for more info. If you're a local musician or just passing through the
beautiful Hudson Valley region and you'd like to stop by for a live
interview and/or performace, drop me a line and we'll work something out.
Also, if you'd like to send me downloads of your releases in lieu of
actual CD's, that's fine with me, too. Just send me an email and let me
know. Thanks.

Where to start? The last couple of months have been frustrating in some
ways. My desktop computer died (fortunately, I had a backup). This seriously messed up my email capacity for a while. I managed to make the change to Gmail, but now
I've finally got the desktop working properly again, so it's back to the
old email program. Basically, there are two email addresses that work for me:

newage@secretmusic.net
secretmusic09@gmail.com

Either one is fine for me, though I may go over to Gmail at some point.
Sorry for all the confusion. Been confusing on this end, too. I'm still on Facebook, both as Secret Music and as Scott Raymond. And the website stays the same, too:

http://secretmusicwvkr.blogspot.com/

In September, WVKR will have its annual fundraiser, right after Labor
Day. We're a non-commercial college station that gets some funding from the college, but we rely on listener donations to keep us going. If any of you want to help
out by donating CD"s or other stuff we can give to people as premiums,
it'd be greatly appreciated. Email me for more info.

I'm looking to book some live interviews/performances for the show in
the upcoming months. If you're in the area and want to come by on a Sunday morning, let me know and we'll work something out.

Since this is my 25th year, I've got some ideas in the works for my 25th
anniversary in June, 2012. I'll have more info in either September or October, but
interested parties (especially local musicians) can contact me directly.

There's a couple of upcoming shows in the area that I recommend to
anyone who enjoys electronic music. The first is Electro Music 2011, which is September 9-11 near Port Jervis, NY. It's a lot of fun and there'll be a lot of great
live music. For more info, here's the website:

http://event.electro-music.com/

The other is Equinoxygen 2011, a one day festival of electronic music
presented by Darren
Bergstein of the One Thousand Pulses house concert series. It's on
Saturday, October 1 in Hackensack, NJ. The lineup is amazing. For more
info, here's the website:

http://onethousandpulses.com/index.php/equinoxygen-festival/

Sorry for the length of this post, but it's been a while and there's a lot
to talk about. Thanks for reading and here's some playlists. I'm going
back a couple of months just to get people caught up.

Scott Raymond
WVKR-FM
16 Penn St.
Fishkill, NY 12524

newage@secretmusic.net


WVKR-FM "Secret Music" Top 20 Playlist
May, 2011

1. Blackmore's Night - Autumn Sky - Minstrel Hall
2. Ewan Dobson - II - Candy Rat
3. Various Artists - Sonic Frontiers I - Wayfarer
4. Spyra - No Beats For One Hour - Ricochet Dream
5. Montana Skies - Live - Self Released
6. Resonant Drift - Passages - Flow Space
7. Gregg Plummer - Luna - Self Released
8. The Glimmer Room - A Diary Of Occurrences - A Frame
9. Sans Serif - Unbound - Projekt
10. Free System Projekt & Gert Emmens - Legacy - Self Released
11. The Electric Golem - The Electric Golem - Ricochet Dream
12. Stellardrone - Sublime - Self Released
13. Stellardrone - Invent The Universe - Self Released
14. John Broaddus - Afield - Parnassus Nump
15. Time Being - A Dimension Reflected - Spotted Peccary
16. Air Sculpture - Before The Moon - Ricochet Dream
17. Susperia Electrica - Turmoil - Earth Mantra
18. Susperia Electrica - Intrinsic - Earth Mantra
19. Remy - I-dentity - Self Released
20. Ricochet Gathering - Okefenokee 2001 - Ricochet Dream


WVKR-FM "Secret Music" Top 20 Playlist
June, 2011

1. Alexander Turnquist - Hallway Of Mirrors - VHF
2. Dustin O'Halloran - Lumiere - Fatcat
3. Craig D'Andrea - ...and the B.L.T.'s - CandyRat Records
4. Jim Kirkwood - The Cello Tree - Dark Age Music
5. Zoe Keating - Into the Trees - Self Released
6. Michael Peck - Beneath Forever - Earth Mantra
7. Ian Boddy & Parallel Worlds - Exit Strategy - DiN
8. Antoine Dufour - Sound Pictures - CandyRat Records
9. Jeffrey Koepper - Arctisonia - Air Space Records
10. Markus Reuter & Zero Ohms - The Sun Is Just The Sun, But The Stars
They Call The Heavens - DiN
11. Anthony Paul Kerby & Tomas Weiss - Distant Shadows - Dataobscura
12. Robert Davies - Whispering Grove - Dataobscura
13. Steven Lance - Spacetime - Self Released
14. Antonymes - The License To Interpret Dreams - Hidden Shoal
15. Nils Frahm & Anne Muller - 7fingers - Erased Tapes
16. Steve Roach - Immersion Five: Circadian Rhythms - Timeroom Editions
17. Chris Russell & Disturbed Earth - The Approaching Armada - Relaxed Machinery
18. Monty Adkins - Fragile Flicker Fragment - Audiobulb
19. Nebulae - The Path Of White Clouds - Hypnos
20. Gregg Plummer - Three Graces - Earth Mantra


WVKR-FM "Secret Music" Top 20 Playlist
July, 2011

1. Penguin Cafe Orchestra - A Matter of Life - Edition Penguin Cafe
2. A Produce & Loren Nerell - Intangible - Hypnos
3. Redshift - Colder - Distant Sun
4. Adam Hurst - From Silence - self released
5. Azam Ali - From Night to the Edge of Day - Six Degrees Records
6. Steve Roach / Erik Wøllo - The Road Eternal - Projekt
7. Ozone Player & Matt Howarth - Long-Range Influence - Visual Power
8. Vicki Richards - She Vanishes - Temple Street Music
9. Sensitive Chaos - Seeker After Patterns - Subsequent Records
10. Steve Brand - Avatara - Hypnos
11. Steve Roach - Live at SoundQuest Fest - Timeroom Editions
12. redgreenblue - synaesthetic - self released
13. Steve Rose - The Diminishing Day - self released
14. Quiet Evenings - Transcending Spheres - Preservation
15. Takashi Suzuki - Resonance - Calm Records
16. Stanton Lanier - A Thousand Years - Music to Light the World
17. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Live - self released
18. David Parsons - Rainforest Dreaming - White Cloud
19. Mario Schonwalder and Frank Rothe - Filter-Kaffee 101 - SynGate
20. Black Swan - The Quiet Divide - self released

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Secret Music Playlist, July 31, 2011

Hi -

Here's my playlist for Sunday, July 31, 2011. Finally got the computer up and
running again (don't have to rely on old laptop for everything). Also, this time I
played all vinyl from my collection. Lots of great music that I haven't heard in ages. Enjoy!

Scott Raymond
WVKR-FM
16 Penn St.
Fishkill, NY 12524

newage@secretmusic.net


Secret Music Playlist, 7/31/2011

Artist Song Album

David Sylvian & Holger Czukay Premonition Plight & Premonition

Nightcrawlers Particle Dance/Interlude II/Shadows Of Light Shadows Of Light

Pete Bardens Seen One Earth Seen One Earth
Clara Mondshine Caesar In Camerun Memorymetropolis
Tomita Tristan Und Isolde Live At Linz

Ben Kettlewell Finale Charmed
Forrest Fang Lowland Dream Migration
K.Leimer Shallows Imposed Order

Laura Allan Waterfall Reflections
Brewer/Tingstad/Rumbel Fisherman's Dream Emerald
Pierre Bensusan De Trilport A Fublaines Early Pierre Bensusan
Allaudin William Mathieu Air In B Flat Streaming Wisdom

Jean Michel Jarre Equinoxe Part 3 Equinoxe
Synergy Phobos And Deimos Go To Mars Cords
Vangelis Albedo 0.39 Albedo 0.39

Paul Winter Sea Wolf Callings
Shadowfax The Watercourse Way Watercourse Way
Scott Cossu Kinsa Wind Dance
Ancient Future Bright Wind Visions Of A Peaceful Planet
Jerry Goodman On The Future Of Aviation On The Future Of Aviation