Secret Music News, end of 2012

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 25
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 performance, 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.            

  This year is just about over, and I want to take a moment to reflect on
what's happened. As usual, some good, some bad. We always look towards
the future with the hope that things will get better. It certainly was a good year for music,
and some interesting times here on Secret Music. Most importantly, I
celebrated the 25th anniversary of Secret Music back in June. Not a lot of
hoopla this time around, but it's still quite an achievement. I don't know
if I've got 25 more in me, but I'm not planning on leaving anytime soon.
In fact, there are some things I'm working on to improve things. I'd like
to thank the people that came in for interviews and performances this
year, mainly Bas Broekhuis, Detlef Keller and Mario Schonwalder, Markus
Reuter and Kevin Keller. They were all great people and I'm privileged to
have them on the show. Thanks to everyone who listens in, and especially
to those who donated during our annual pledge drive. It's nice to know
people appreciate what you do. And thanks to the artists and labels for
giving me great music to play. Remember that especially in this day and
age, it helps more than ever to support the artists and labels who work
hard to play the music you love.

  There's a new service out called DAR.fm. which allows you to record
radio shows (like mine). The website has more info. but it's basically a free service much
like a Tivo, which allows you to select and record radio shows for future
listening. Finally something for those of you who aren't around to listen
in on a Sunday morning.              

  For more info or weekly playlists, check out my website below. I'm also
on Facebook, so look for me there too. Here's my top 20 playlist for December 2012, as
well as my top 25 albums for 2012. Enjoy! 


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

newage@secretmusic.net


 WVKR-FM "Secret Music" Top 20 Playlist
     December, 2012

1. A Viberatto - B - King Of Beasts
2. V/A - Imaginational Anthem 5 - Tompkins Square
3. Stephen Parsick and Markus Reuter - Lament - Iapetus
4. Radiant Mind - Sense - Periphery
5. Kelli Rudick - We Would Love Each Other - Self Released
6. Ramp - Astral Disaster - Doombient
7. Perge - Dyad - Self Released
8. Sophie Hutchings - Night Sky - Preservation
9. Peter Brown - Kinsfolk - Self Released
10. The American Dollar - Ambient Three - Yesh
11. There Is No Teenage Love - There Is No Teenage Love - Self Released
12. Javi Canovas - Transfiguration - Musiczeit
13. Dave Luxton - Collected Ambient Works - Wayfarer
14. Louis Landon - Peaceful Solo Piano from the Heart - Landon Creative, Inc
15. Steven Lance - East Setting Sun - Self Released
16. Chuck Cape - In The Spirit Of Christmas II - Self Released
17. Glyn Lloyd Jones - Chaotic Attraction - Musiczeit
18. Olan Mill - Home - Preservation
19. Panabrite - The Baroque Album - Preservation
20. Broken Harbour - The Geometry Of Shadows - Relaxed Machinery


  WVKR-FM "Secret Music" Top 25 Albums of 2012

1. Jeff Pearce - In the Season of Fading Light - Jeff Pearce Music
2. Various Artists - The Gathering - West River Records
3. A Viberatto - B - King Of Beasts
4. Thought Guild - Third Voyage - Harmonic Resonance Recordings
5. Thomas Ronkin - Precursors - Periphery
6. Parallel Worlds and Dave Bessell - Morphogenic - DiN
7. Alexander Turnquist - Like Sunburned Snowflakes - VHF
8. Merge - Secret Life Of Machines - Self Released
9. Dead Can Dance - Anastasis - Pias Recordings - Diquela
10. itsnotyouitsme - everybody's pain is magnificent - New Amsterdam
11. Shane Morris and Mystified - Epoch - Lotuspike - Spotted Peccary Music
12. Various Artists - Manikin Records Second Decade - Manikin
13. Ramp - Steel And Steam - Doombient
14. Various Artists - Take To The Trees - Sound For Good
15. Ben Kettlewell - Retrospective - Lyrebird Media
16. Broekhuis, Keller & Schonwalder - Level Four - Manikin
17. Symmetry - WMD - Self Released
18. Forrest Fang - Animism - Projekt
19. Icebreaker - Apollo - Cantaloupe Music
20. Steve Roach - Quiet Music: The Original 3-Hour Collection - Projekt
21. Sundog - Insofar - Editions Penguin Cafe Ltd.
22. Loreena McKennitt - Troubadors On the Rhine - Quinlan Road-Universal Music
23. Ian Boddy & Erik Wøllo - Frontiers - DiN
24. Caul - Let The Stars Assume The Whole Of Night - Hypnos
25. Cyber Zen Sound Engine - Cooperation - Self Released

Secret Music Playlists, December 23 and December 30, 2012

Hi -

  I hope everyone had a good holiday and I wish everyone a happy new year.
I was away visiting family, so I'm finally getting around to catching up on my email.
Here's my playlists for December 23 and December 30. The December 23 show
was my annual holiday music special, with lots of older music. The December 30 show
was my best of 2012 retrospective, looking back at my top albums of 2012. See you
next year with lots of great new music. Enjoy!

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

newage@secretmusic.net


   Secret Music Playlist, 12/23/2012

   Artist            Song            Album

Kaur/Evenson/D'Rachael        What Child Is This?    What Child Is This?
Loreena McKennitt    In Praise Of Christmas        To Drive The Cold Winter Away
Therese Schroeder-Sheker    In Dulci Jubilo        In Dulci Jubilo

Radhika Miller            Magi Minstrels        Blossoms In The Snow
Kim Robertson            Jesos Ahatonhia        Celtic Christmas II
John Doan            Infant King        Wrapped In White
Ed Gerhard            O Holy Night        On A Cold Winter's Night
Kevin Burke & Michael O'Domhnaill   On A Cold Winter's Night    Celtic
Christmas

Paul Winter            Wintersong        Wintersong
Paul Winter        Tomorrow Is My Dancing Day    Solstice Live!
R.Carlos Nakai & William Eaton    The First Snowfall    Winter Dreams
Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel    O Come O Come Emmanuel    The Gift
Friedemann            The Man From Caesaria    Narada Christmas Collection

Robin Spielberg            In The Heart Of Winter    In The Heart Of Winter
Tom Barabas            Magic In December    Magic In December
Peter Kater            Arms Open Wide        The Season
Jim Bajor            An Intimate Christmas    An Intimate Christmas
James Galway            I'll Rock You To Rest    Celtic Christmas II

Meg Bowles            Solstice Chant        Solstice Dreams
Sensitive Chaos      Remembering Chestnuts, Icy Cold, And Bells 
Remembering Chestnuts, Icy Cold, And Bells
Jonn Serrie            The First Noel        Upon A Midnight Clear
Jonn Serrie            O Come O Come Emmanuel    An Evening Under The Stars

John Gorka            Christmas Bells        A Winter's Solstice III
Nightnoise            Snow Is Lightly Falling    A Winter's Solstice III
David Qualey        Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring    A Winter's Solstice
Michael Manring            Sung To Sleep        A Winter's Solstice II
Will Ackerman            Just Before Dawn    A Winter's Solstice IV

The Roches            Star Of Wonder        We Three Kings
Uncle Bonsai            Silent Night        The Essential Uncle Bonsai
Blackmore's Night        Christmas Eve        Winter Carols
Loreena McKennitt    The Seven Rejoices Of Mary    A Midwinter Night's Dream
Leslie Ritter & Scott Petito    If Mary Knew        This Christmas Morning
Enya                Journey Of The Angels    And Winter Came



   Secret Music Playlist, 12/30/2012

   Artist            Song            Album

Shane Morris & Mystified    Cambrian Explosion    Epoch
Broekhuis, Keller & Schonwalder    The Streets Of Culemborg   Level Four

itsnotyouitsme    the fate of the world rests in the hands of a tiny animal
everybody's pain is magnificent
Todd Fletcher            Monterey Cypress    Take To The Trees
Steve Roach            Something In Tears    Quiet Music

Ben Kettlewell            Kanji            Retrospective
Forrest Fang            Tailing Wind        Animism
Thought Guild            The Ebbing Universe    Third Voyage

Ramp                Steel And Steam Part 2    Steel And Steam
Wadephul            Sun Gate        Second Decade
Symmetry            Moon Dance        WMD

Dead Can Dance            Anabasis        Anastasis
Sundog                The Heart Waits        Insofar
Loreena McKennitt        Bonny Portmore        Troubadours On The Rhine
Icebreaker            An Ending (Ascent) I    Apollo

Parallel Worlds & Dave Bessell    Above The Snow        Morphogenic
Merge                August 14th        Secret Life Of Machines
Thomas Ronkin            Interactive Sanctum    Precursors

Jeff Pearce            Autumn & Regret II    In The Season Of Fading Light
Alexander Turnquist        Fall            Like Sunburned Snowflakes
A Viberatto            Ancient Forest        B
Masako                Glastenbury, Vermont    The Gathering

Ian Boddy & Erik Wollo        Trek            Frontiers
Caul                Radiance Falls        Let The Stars Assume The Whole Of Night
Cyber Zen Sound Engine        No East, No West    Cooperation

Secret Music Playlist, December 16, 2012

Hi -

  Here's my playlist for Sunday, December 16, 2012. Enjoy!

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

newage@secretmusic.net


   Secret Music Playlist, 12/16/2012

   Artist            Song            Album

Adam Hurst            Dusk            Passages

Sophie Hutchings        Between Earth And Sky    Night Sky
The American Dollar        Heavy Eyes Ignite    Ambient Three
Radiant Mind            Inner Dimension        Sense

Glyn Lloyd-Jones  The Dimensions Of An Impossible Perspective    Chaotic Attraction
Javi Canovas            Projection        Transfiguration

A Viberatto            Colorado        B
Kelli Rudick    If Only Either Could Solve Everything    We Would Love Each Other
Danny Paul Grody        Lookout Point        Imaginational Anthem 5
Peter Brown            Silver Bells        Kinsfolk
Chuck Cape            Gesu Bambino        In The Spirit Of Christmas II
Louis Landon            My Joyous Soul        Peaceful Solo Piano From The Heart

Ramp                Forever Returning    Astral Disaster
Stephen Parsick & Markus Reuter     Below Ice        Lament
Perge                Falknis

Robert Rich            Requiem            Below Zero
Peter Gabriel            Dressing The Wound     Birdy
Ravi Shankar            Friar Park        Tana Mana

Liz Story            Greensleeves        The Gift
Michael Hedges            What Child Is This?    The Carols Of Christmas
Will Ackerman        This Clearness Of LIght        A Winter's Solstice VI
Alex DeGrassi        It Came Upon A Midnight Clear    A Winter Solstice Reunion
Barbara Higbie            Coventry Carol        On A Winter's Night
George Winston            Peace            December

Secret Music Playlist, December 9, 2012

Hi -

  Here's my playlist for Sunday, December 9, 2012. Enjoy!

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

newage@secretmusic.net


   Secret Music Playlist, 12/9/2012

   Artist            Song            Album

Broken Harbour            Superliminal        The Geometry Of Shadows

Olan Mill            La Sanda Verde       Home
Panabrite            Interfrequencies           The Baroque Album
Sophie Hutchings        Half Hidden        Night Sky

Radiant Mind            Sense Two         Sense
There Is No Teenage Love    The Golden Mean        There Is No Teenage Love
Stephen Parsick & Markus Reuter     Hoarfrost        Lament

A Viberatto            Ancient Forest        B
Dave Luxton            Shadow Clouds        Collected Ambient Works
The American Dollar        Faces In The Haze    Ambient Three

Eric Carbonara    Through A House Of Violet Abandon       Imaginational Anthem 5
Kelli Rudick        This Ocean Is Too Big For You    We Would Love Each Other
Peter Brown            We Three Kings        Kinsfolk
Chuck Cape        Hymn For The Appalachians    In The Spirit Of Christmas II
Louis Landon            Twilight        Peaceful Solo Piano From The Heart

Steven Lance            NRK            East Setting Sun
Perge                Volder Grauspitz    Dyad
Ramp                Astral Disaster        Astral Disaster

Isadar                Good Christian Men    Christmas
Wayne Gratz            I Wander        Christmas Whisperings
Wall Matthews        We Three Kings Of Orient Are    Christmas Guitar
Ken Elkinson    Brightest And Best Of The Stars Of The Morning    Ambient
Holidays Vol.1 Robin Spielberg            Chanukah Prayer        American Chanukah Paul
Sullivan            Headed Home        Christmas In Maine               

Pete Namlook            Part I            Winter
Pete Namlook & Klaus Schulze    Wish You Were There Part II   The Dark Side
Of The Moog

Secret Music News, December 2012

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 25
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 performance, 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.           

  The year is winding down, but still time to go. Thanks very much to
Kevin Keller for coming back in for an interview. I haven't seen him in years, so it was good to
catch up. I have another one I'll be taping for later broadcast soon. I'll
leave the identity a secret for now. It's someone else I haven't talked to
in quite some time, so I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully the world
doesn't end on the 21st, as I'm going to Cape Cod to visit family for the
holidays. I hope everyone has a great holiday season.

  There's a new service out called DAR.fm. which allows you to record
radio shows (like mine). The website has more info. but it's basically a free service much
like a Tivo, which allows you to select and record radio shows for future
listening. Finally something for those of you who aren't around to listen
in on a Sunday morning.             

  For more info or weekly playlists, check out my website below. I'm also
on Facebook, so look for me there too. Here's my top 20 playlist for November 2012. Enjoy!


www.secretmusicwvkr.blogspot.com


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

newage@secretmusic.net


 WVKR "Secret Music" Top 20 Playlist
  November, 2012

1. Parallel Worlds and Dave Bessell - Morphogenic - DiN
2. Alexander Turnquist - Like Sunburned Snowflakes - VHF
3. Sundog - Insofar - Editions Penguin Cafe Ltd.
4. Nils Frahm - Screws - Erased Tapes
5. Darshan Ambient - Falling Light - Lotuspike
6. The Circular Ruins - The Birth Of Tragedy - Dataobscura
7. Loscil - Sketches From New Brighton - Kranky
8. Kaki King - Glow - Velour
9. Robert Rich - Nest - Soundscape Music
10. Craig Padilla / Zero Ohms - When the Earth is Far Away - Lotuspike
11. James Blackshaw - Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death - Important
12. Bryan Carrigan - Windows - Peonies Music
13. Michael Neil & Graham Getty - Retrochet III - Musiczeit
14. V/A - Awakenings 2012 Volume 1 - Ambientlive
15. Har & Altus - Shadow District - Earth Mantra
16. Mingo - Kailasa - Sonarweb Communications
17. Mingo - The Light That Bends - Sonarweb Communications
18. Phillip Wilkerson - Complex Silence 23 - Treetrunk
19. Phillip Wilkerson - Highlands - Free Floating Music
20. Remy - Planet Of The Arps - AKH Records

Secret Music Playlist, December 2, 2012

Hi -

  Here's my playlist for Sunday, December 2, 2012. Lots of great new stuff
this month, new local music, and holiday tunes as well. Enjoy!

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

newage@secretmusic.net


   Secret Music Playlist, 12/2/2012

   Artist            Song            Album

Javi Canovas            Transfiguration        Transfiguration

Radiant Mind            Sense One         Sense
There Is No Teenage Love    Four Ghost        There Is No Teenage Love
Stephen Parsick & Markus Reuter     Weightless Particles    Lament

Ramp                Rather Far Out        Astral Disaster
Perge                Schesaplana        Dyad
Steven Lance            Viewing Infinity    East Setting Sun

A Viberatto            Blowing Leaves        B
Dave Luxton            One Instant In Time    Collected Ambient Works
The American Dollar        Steeltown        Ambient Three

Alexander Turnquist   Standing At The Entrance Of A Hidden City   
Imaginational Anthem 5
Louis Landon            Vision Quest    Peaceful Solo Piano From The Heart
Kelli Rudick            Darling            We Would Love Each Other
Peter Brown            O Holy Night        Kinsfolk
Chuck Cape            Sharon's Gift    In The Spirit Of Christmas II

Sophie Hutchings        Shadowed        Night Sky
Olan Mill            Salar De Uyuni        Home
Panabrite            Spetses            The Baroque Album

Al Petteway & Amy White       Breakin' Up Christmas    Winter Tidings
Louis Landon            Icicles            Peaceful Christmas
Kyle Pedersen        O Come O Come Emmanuel        12.25
Chuck Cape        For The Beauty Of The Earth    In The Spirit Of Christmas
Peter Janson        As The Snow Moon Wanes        Winter Gifts

Glyn Lloyd Jones    Reflections Of Perpetual Abstraction    Chaotic Attraction