One Hundred Seventy Three

This week we'll look at the Zeitgeist. This moment in time, our collective meme and the era of uncertainty. It's an era that portends the age of human technology while celebrating a kind of spirtitual nostalgia. On this episode of Idyllic Music we'll hear from seven artists reflecting "the spirit of the times". They are Esza Kaye, All India Radio, Andreia Dacal, Daybehavior, Aphone, Giyz and Curly Jefferson. I'm Jim Nye.


We'll begin in Los Angeles with vocalist Esza Kaye exploring the relationship humans have with technology in 'Tinged With Machine'


Check out the much more at www.eszakaye.com
Here are the narcotic musical textures of All India Radio from the album 'Free Me'. This is 'The Time'

Visit allindiaradio.bandcamp.com for more


From Rio, here is singer Andreia Dacal and producer Rafael Aragon 'Meu Hino' or My Hymn

Look to www.fresh-poulp.net for more

Up next is Swedish trio Day Behavior featuring vocalist Paulinda Crescentini. Here is 'Silent Dawn'

For more visit at www.daybehavior.com

From Brussels, here is Radio Vibration Aphone with 'Good Old Days'

that was Giyz and a track called 26 May. Check out both Aphone and Giyz at Electrobel.org


we'll close with sounds and feel of a bygone ere from Curly Jefferson and His Orchestra. It's 'Rhythm of the Rain'


Download the entire Ooh La La!! release at dedpop.net
You can also find the complete archive of show notes, links to all the artists featured on the podcast over the years and lots of free streaming audio at idyllicmusic.com. You can download Idyllic Music directly to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with our iTunes app. Look for links at idyllicmusic.com.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred Seventy Two

This week, we'll ponder the summer travel season. The world's a mighty big place filled with destinations that can be both beautiful and dangerous, often times in the same city. We'll hear from six artists with a musical itinerary stretching from Copenhagen to Christchurch, Calcutta to Brixton. Leading our tour on this edition of Idyllic Music are Jordan Reyne, Secret Archives of the Vatican, Tikki Masala, Project 5am, My Bubba & Mi and Chris Pettit. I'm Jim Nye.


We'll begin with vocalist Jordan Reyne and 'The Keening Song'

Find much more at www.jordanreyne.com

From the 'Barbary Lion' release here are the Secret Archives of the Vatican with 'Veiled Beauty, Dark Magic'

Look for more at brokendrumrecords.com and links to the Secret Archive podcast at musicpodcasting.org

This is Tikki Masala and 'India in the Modern Times'

Find links to their first album 'Dill Ka Desh' at be.electrobel.org

Jason Haye records Floydian psychadelia as Project 5am. This is 'Quixotes Of Moons Fight The Windmills Of Brixton'


That was a trio out of Copenhagen called My Bubba & Mi and a song called 'Gone' from their 'How it's done in Italy' release

Check out mybubbaandmi.com for tour dates and videos and Project 5am at www.monotonik.com

From the UK this Chris Pettit from his Pariah EP and 'She's Thinking'


Listen to more at www.bfwrecordings.com/releases/ChrisPettit/Pariah

You can find the complete archive of show notes, links to all the artists featured on the podcast over the years and lots of free streaming audio at idyllicmusic.com. You can download Idyllic Music directly to your android device, iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with our app. Look for links at idyllicmusic.com.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred Seventy One

This week we'll look at women and men and the equally compelling perspectives they bring to music. We have come a long way from days when gender roles were specific and restricting. Now we find even in parts of the world where traditional divisions between men and women remain, within the arts those walls are collapsing. Helping illustrated that on this episode of Idyllic Music are Endless Blue, Boleros En Femeni, Fuji Kureta, Babbaracos, The Crisis Project and Sarah Fimm. I'm Jim Nye

We'll begin with a band featured on the very first episode of Idyllic Music. Here is Endless Blue featuring Chanca. This is 'Sin & Lips'

Look for more at www.reverbnation.com/artist/song_details/1566646

From Spain, Boleros En Femeni is an all female quartet mixing the new with the ancient. Here is 'Om Namo Naranayana'

Visit mandrakesproductions.com/artistes/boleros-en-femeni/ for more music and videos.

Fuji Kureta is an electronica duo from Istanbul. Here is 'Lux'

Check our more at www.fujikureta.com/

Here is Belgian producer Babbaracos and a track called 'Saint Jude"

Download more tracks at be.electrobel.org
From Bristol in the UK, this is The Crisis Project with 'White Expansion'

Look to www.myspace.com/thecrisisproject for more.
We'll close with Woodstock-based vocalist Sarah Fimm from her new CD 'Near Infinite Possibilities' This is 'Invisible Satellites'

Here more from this powerful singer at www.sarahfimm.com

You can find the complete archive of show notes, links to all the artists featured on the podcast over the years and lots of free streaming audio at idyllicmusic.com. You can download Idyllic Music directly to your android device, iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with our app. Look for links at idyllicmusic.com.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred Seventy

This week, we'll consider the contemplative life most often associated with religious devotion. On this episode of Idyllic Music we'll focus instead on the secular. The conscious decision to notice things. The little details of life that we often skip right past. We get help from Orange Crush, Natalie Walker, Motionfield, Vitamins for You, Text Adventure and Asaguare. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin in Norway with Orange Crush and 'Invocation'

Look to www.myspace.com/orangecrushmusic for more

From her Urban Angel CD, Natalie Walker looks more closely at a failed relationship with 'Quicksand'

Check out natalie-walker.com/ for more

Here is Motionfield and 'Indian Summer'

Look for more at www.myspace.com/353722662

We last heard from Winnipeg's vitamins for you back on episode 36. Here are the 'Six O'Clock Whispers'

Hear more at www.archive.org/details/os045

Text Adventure is David Roy and Steven Scott from Glasgow. From their Fantastic Disaster EP this is 'Kill Meow'

Download Fantastic Disaster for free at www.archive.org/details/os036

We'll close with German producer B.O.Rasch recording as Asaguare. 'On My Island'

Find more at raschedv.net/audasa.html

You can find the complete archive of show notes, links to all the artists featured on the podcast over the years and lots of free streaming audio at idyllicmusic.com. You can download Idyllic Music directly to your android device, iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with our app. Look for links at idyllicmusic.com.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred Sixty Nine

This week, we'll look at deceptions and delusions and how the two often blend into the other in a sort of symbiotic fashion. It requires the need to believe and ultimately deceive. It is one of our most powerful tools in coping with emotional pain. Providing a bit of regression therapy for us on this episode of Idyllic Music are PlanetsCitizens, Naoned, Dave Gerard, Floating Spirits, Ovalys and AlikProject. I'm Jim Nye

We'll begin in Belgium with PlanetsCitizens and a track ft. German vocalist Yvy Demina called 'So Much Hate'

Look to www.reverbnation.com/planetscitizens for more

Here is French DJ Naoned with 'Walk On'

Download Naoned's CD 'Alway Alone' for free at www.netlabel.be/english/alb_naoned.php


From Hertfordshire, this is singer/songwriter Dave Gerard with 'Under Veiled Light'

Find more from this talented musician at davegerardmusic.com/

Here are Floating Spirits and 'Tempered'

Check out the raft of indie artist including Floating Spirits at pavillon36recordings.blogspot.com


Up next is Ovalys' mix of Mid-Eastern chill. This is called 'Melting Pot'

Check www.jamendo.com/fr/album/44948 for a free album download.

We'll close with a return to the podcast by AlikProject and 'Moon Project'

You'll find much more from this inovative producer at www.myspace.com/alikblog

You can also find the complete archive of show notes, links to all the artists featured on the podcast over the years and lots of free streaming audio at idyllicmusic.com. You can download Idyllic Music directly to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with our iTunes app. Look for links at idyllicmusic.com.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred Sixty Eight

This week, we'll explore the search for self. Looking for the light that makes us strive for something better. It might be the agonizing reappraisal of one's efforts and motives over a lifetime or the search for enlightenment contained in so many faiths. Finding your true self is so daunting a project that many simply never try. We'll hear from six of the bold ones on this episode of Idyllic Music. They are Dr Freebs, Cling, Twin Muses, PiliPili, Merlune and Dub One!

We'll begin with Dr Freebs and a track called 'Luce'

That was new from Cling called 'Long Time'

Visit cling.bandcamp.com for more and www.ideology.de for more Dr. Freebs.

From their French Afrocentric EP, this is Twin Muses and 'Dirt'

That was French beatist PiliPili's'New Sofa'

look to www.electrobel.fr for many more tracks and dustedwax.org/dwk063.html for more Twin Muses.

Here is Merlune with 'Yellowstoned'

That was 'Wise Man´s Dub' by Dub One!

Check out a ton of free downloads at www.ideology.de and the entrie 'Yellowstoned' release by Merlune at
www.archive.org/details/DWK014

You can download Idyllic Music directly to your android device, iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with our app. Look for links at idyllicmusic.com.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred Sixty Seven

This week, we'll explore the belief that all that we know of God can just as easily be attributed to the sun. Of course, sun worship is as old as civilization and even in an Old Testament context, the sun can be just as punishing or life sustaining as God. So rather than worship, we'll marvel at the hope and happiness, love and warmth we get from the sun with help from Adam and Alma, Artemis, Blear Moon, Massive Attack, SackJo22 and Sunspot and Sect23. I'm Jim Nye

We'll begin in Stockholm, with the sun-kissed pop of Adam & Alma. This is 'Smile For Me, Sun'

Download more free music for free people at www.23seconds.org
Here is long time podcast favorite Artemis and 'Easy'

Hear more at www.artemis.fm
From the Sauvignon Valley EP by Blear Moon this is 'Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears'

That was Gui Boratto's Remix of Massive Attack's 'Paradise Circus (feat. Hope Sandoval)
All things Massive Attack can be found at massiveattack.com
and Blear Moon at umpako.com
This is a ccMixter collab by SackJo22 and Sunspot called 'Demanding Hope and Happyness'


You'll find the unadorned versions at soundcloud.com/sunspot and
mrsjosephskitchen.blogspot.com/

That was Sect23. 'For Floria'
Find more at www.musicalley.com
You can also find the complete archive of show notes, links to all the artists featured on the podcast over the years and lots of free streaming audio at idyllicmusic.com. You can download Idyllic Music directly to your android device, iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with our app. Look for links at idyllicmusic.com.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.