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Hearts of Space for April 28, 2008
10:30 PM - 11:30 PM
[Program Website]
Today's Highlight: "American Primitive"
The rich, slow, slightly dissonant acoustic guitar harmonies of WILL ACKERMAN. It's the sound that launched the Windham Hill label in 1976 and re-energized what pioneering steel string guitarist JOHN FAHEY called the "American primitive guitar."
Primitive because the emphasis was on personal experimentation and emotional authenticity; American because it drew upon our complex melting-pot of musical traditions — hymns, folk and popular songs, blues, jazz, maverick classical, ethnic rhythms and immigrant genres — a panorama of musical sources, freely reinvented.
With 30 years perspective, we can see that Ackerman struck a deep vein in American culture and enriched it with a new level of quality. His success inspired a generation of acoustic musicians to trust their instincts, stick to their instruments, keep it simple... and from the heart.
On this transmission of HEARTS of SPACE, another acoustic excursion in the American soundscape called AMERICAN PRIMITIVE.
Hearts of Space brings you the ancient resonances of drums, bells, and flutes, the exotic tones of gongs and gamelans, and the digital sounds of the new Ambient frontier. As it moves into its third decade, the program continues to chronicle the best of the contemplative sound experience, with spacemusic from near and far out.
Hearts of Space grew out of producer Stephen Hill’s fascination with space-creating, contemplative music. Beginning in the early 1970s, Hill hosted a weekly late-night radio program in the San Francisco Bay area. What began purely as a labor of love eventually became the most popular contemporary music program on public radio. Over the intervening quarter century, Hearts of Space evolved into a multifaceted production and broadcast company encompassing radio, record production, and internet streaming.
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