Idyllic Music Podcast Archives

One Hundred Seventy Three

2011-08-13T13:27:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-10T23:03:00.000-07:00

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

2011-08-03T21:47:00.000-07:00

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

2011-08-01T21:44:00.000-07:00

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

2011-07-07T07:05:00.000-07:00

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

2011-07-05T19:55:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-04T14:35:00.000-07:00

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.

One Hundred and Sixty Six

2010-12-04T14:12:00.001-08:00

This week, we'll look at abbreviations and acronyms. You see them everywhere from texts and licence plates to government forms and love notes. They might be cute and clever or confusing and inscrutable but these brevis or shortenings have become the bane of writers and lovers of language across all cultures. We'll hear from six artists PDQ use them in name and title only. LOL They are 2%, The Reverend Shortboy, WEED, Alien S, Alec Troniq and Rho. I'm your MC Jim Nye.

We'll beging with 2%. That is Trenton McElhinney. Here is 'Glory'

Hear more at www.myspace.com/2pourcent

This is The Reverend Shortboy with 'Spooked'

Find more at www.soundclick.com

From Romania, this is WEED from their 'Visionary Sessions' cd and 'Ace'

Hear more of their shamanic pop at www.cct-records.co.uk

Here is Alien S with 'Jonah Creek'

Look for more Alien S at www.mixgalaxyrecords.com

From the German netlabel Broque here is Alec Troniq with `Brisa'

Download a Gigs of electronica at broque.de

Steve Setzepfandt and Josh Wittmanare Rho. This is new from the Cedarleaf CD called 'Day Into Night'

Find the whole Cd at archive.org/details/NS015

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 and Sixty Four

2010-12-04T14:10:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at the unbearable sadness that marks the end of relationships. Whether the result of the discovery or admission of infidelity or the euphamism of 'growing apart', the cold numbness deep inside of those unaware and most pained lives on in a hundred ways. Its never about them as protested but the left behind deal in anger and recriminations, self-doubt and what-ifs. It is a sadness that lessens over time but never heals. Seven heartbreaking tales are offered up this week by Delgarma, Garmisch, Cobrider, Billy Cote and Uniit Carruyo, Tumc, and Full source. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin in France with the 2nd release from Delgarma and a song of desperation called 'Sweet as a Cat'

You can download their entire cd for free at www.lclweb.org

Malmö, Sweden's Garmisch tries to temper the anger while "Doing Time'

This album is also freely available at blocSonic.com

Vincent Delbaen records as Cobrider. Here is 'Still Continuing'

That was Billy Cote along with vocalist Uniit Carruyo with 'I Don't Want To Fight Tonight' Find it at www.last.fm/music/Billy+Cote+and+Uniit+Carruyo and
Cobrider at www.myspace.com/thesnowfactor

We'll close with two acoustic tracks that reflect the deep and permanent sorrow of love lost. This is tumc with 'Autumn Leaf'

That was Boston-based artist Full-Source with 'Cold Wind' (feat. Caleb Moon)

From the compilation 'Hey You, Choose Your Own Adventure'

Look for links at www.full-source.com and more from Tom at
myspace.com/theumc

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com with archives

at idyllicmusic.blogspot.com. If you can't get enough Idyllic Music click the Chillinks tab for hours of streaming Trip Hop,

Ambient, Jazz, Dub and Downtempo music.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

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One Hundred and Sixty Three

2010-12-04T14:09:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll breathlessly await a world of possibilities. The future is more open, blended and diverse than it was even a generation ago. That means there is more opportunity for progress and enlightenment even in the face of reentrenchment. The tide is inevitably against the forces of the status quo. It's called progress and it's not limited to the macro. Everyone has the possibility of growth. Moving forward this week are Raja, Calander Girl, Arze Kareem, Pili Pili, Nu Shooz Orchestra, Tracing Arcs and Jah Wobble. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin in Hessen, Germany with Raja's remix of Calander Girl's July offering called 'Maybe'

You'll find more at www.rajamusic.de
This is Arze Kareem with 'Free Kah'

That was called 'Dark Hop' by Pili Pili found at electrolbel.fr. and look for Arze Kareem at www.audiocast-productions.co.uk

Here is Portland's Nu Shooz Orchestra with Valerie Day's soulful vocals on 'I Can't Wait'

Check out www.nushoozmusic.com for more
Here are Tracing Arcs.

That was Jah Wobble and The Nippon Dub Ensemble from the 'Japanese Dub' CD from 30Hz Records and iodapromonet and just before that Tracing Arcs with 'Deep Breath'. Find more at sites.google.com/site/tracingarcs

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com with archives at idyllicmusic.blogspot.com. If you can't get enough Idyllic Music click the Chillinks tab for hours of streaming Trip Hop, Ambient, Jazz, Dub and Downtempo music.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Sixty Two

2010-12-04T14:08:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll try to fathom the hidden world of Esotericism. It's a fool's errand, really, because the point is that certain things are kept by a narrow circle of the "enlightened" or "initiated" away from the rest of us. The most obvious are in the government or religious arena but the idea cascades down to much smaller things like school or office politics. Holding the torch whilst we search the catacombs are

the x-structure, Tang Kai, Dive Index, Sister Overdrive, Sekotis and Secret Archives of the Vatican. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin in South Africa with the x-structure from their Doxology release with 'God And Man'

There is much more at thexstructure.com

Mikael Fyrek and vocalist Jenny Tang Kai record simply as Tang Kai. Here is something from their 'Fly Away from This Place EP. It's called 'I Will Lead You Home'

Find more Tang Kai archive.org/details/camomille067

From the 'The Surface We Divide' CD, here is Dive Index with 'Cut'

Check out www.neutralmusic.com for more on Dive Index

This is Sister Overdrive and 'Hoover'

To download more go to www.memoryformat.net

Sekotis is British musician Tom Stokes. Here is 'Littlefield'

That was Secret Archives of the Vatican with 'Secret Archive'

Look to brokendrumrecords.com more secrets

and you can download the complete Sekotis 'People in Grass Houses' cd for free at full-source.com/nosource/netlabel

Also check out Vince's Secret Archives of the Vatican podcast at vincemillett.libsyn.com or follow the link from the Association of Music Podcasters website at musicpodcasting.org. You will also find a link to our home page at idyllicmusic.com where you can download our iPad app for the show. Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye

One Hundred and Sixty One

2010-12-04T14:07:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at the wars men wage with all its glory and tragedy. How something so awful can be a source of honor and how napoleonic ego can lead us into horrific conflict. It's the story of mankind for better or worse and war's moral paradox largely defines the human race. Informing us in ways large and small are Kate Martin, Drifting In Silence, Jelle, Bill Laswell, CC Asia and Peter Gabriel. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin in Australia with Kate Martin from her 'Synthetic Shoes, Leather Boots' CD. This is 'The Fall'

Hear more at myspace.com/katemartinmusic
Nashville's Derrick Stembridge records as Drifting In Silence. Here is 'Uphillbattle'

Find more from Derrick at tonatom.net/releases/tA_E_disld/

Here is Jelle with the pre-Hindu 'Ahamkara'

You can find more Jelle at www.electrobel.be
From his 'Hear No Evil' CD this is Bill Laswell looking for Lost Roads

Thanks to iodapromonet for that. Here is Angi Bee's 'Crossing the Pond'

ccMixter producer, Vo1k1 remixed that CC Asia track ft. Anji Bee, Laura Eason and Snowflake. You can find links at anjibee.com

Peter Gabriel teams up with Karl Wallinger and others for the 'Whole Thing'

That was part of the Big Blue Ball project from the early nineties Peter Gabriel, Tim Finn, Karl Wallinger, Andy White, Sinead O'Connor, Billy Cobham Vernon Reid and others. Find more on this extraordinary project at http://bigblueball.realworldrecords.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 iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with our iTunes app. Look for links at idyllicmusic.com.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Sixty

2010-12-04T14:05:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll lay back and taking in Camus' invincible summer. In times of ambiguous environments, artificial seasons, climate controlled offices and 24 hour shopping malls, its nice to revel in the easy season. Summer. Its sprinklers, beaches, vacations and slower pace.

We'll begin in Indiana where the warm humid summer air caresses the thigh high sweet corn and the nights are filled with the imaginative noodling of Guitorb. 'It'll Blow Your Mind'

You can find more at www.myspace.com/guitorb

Here are German sun-worshipers Sunburn In Cyprus with 'If It’s Good For Me'

That was talented UK producer Incidental Fusion with 'Summertime Bliss' You can more from her at www.last.fm/music/Incidental+Fusion and visit www.sunburnincyprus.de for dozens of free downloads.

From 'The Missing Link Of The Lo Fi' here are Peach Stealing Monkeys with the classic 'Summertime'

There's lots more at www.peachstealingmonkeys.com

From the netBloc Volume 1 compilation call 'The Opening' That was This One with 'No Time For Lookin' Back'

Download the whole CD at www.archive.org

From Innsbruck we'll close out the season with John E. Flash and 'Almost the End'

You can find more from John at autark-net.org

Don't forget to download the 2 CD ready mixes or our 100th episode at www.Idyllicmusic.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 as well.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye

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One Hundred and Fifty Nine

2010-12-04T14:03:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at Promises and Lies. When Ali Campbell sang of the sorrow and pain from the serpent's song of a lovers deceptiveness, he also implied that acknowledging those lies led to hope and healing. Setting down that road this week are Sabian, Vela, Null Device, Wordless Poem and Lucky Cat. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin with a release from German netlabel Konsum productions called 'Donkey Work'. This is Sabian featuring Ellen Vate with 'If I Could'

Download the EP for free at konsum-productions.com

From the U.K, here is producer James Vela and 'Gladiator'

Find more at www.myspace.com/velasound

Null Device returns to Idyllic Music with a track from their 'Recursions' CD called 'I Promise'

Visit nulldevice.bandcamp.com for more
From his 'Devotional Songs' release, this is French filmmaker Wordless Poem with 'the Bluebell'

Look to www.radiowordlesspoem.com for more.

New York's Michael Tuminello records as Lucky Cat. This is 'Start Again'
Discover much more at luckycatmusic.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. And visit musicpodcasting.org to hear other great podcasts...of all stripes

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Fifty Eight

2010-12-04T14:02:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll marvel at the plant world. Turning the sun's energy into life from nutrients in the soil and atmosphere is so fundamental to our existence that its hard to believe we would do anything to disrupt it. Taking us through the first Trophic level are Rho, Hands Upon Black Earth, Analog Fury, Sitchin, and Seth Master. I'm Jim Nye

We'll begin with a track from the NetLabel Coalition Volume 1
This is Minneapolis-based duo Rho 'And More Rain'

Hear more of their Electroacoustic sounds at www.myspace.com/rhotunes

Bobby Cochran records with a coterie of vocalists as Hands upon Black Earth. This is 'Vinsandaan'

Find links to a variety of download sources at www.handsuponblackearth.com/

This is Analog Fury with 'Lonely'

You can download this solitary track at www.archive.org/details/Lonely

From Belgium Tom Sajdak is Sitchin poignantly asking 'What If'

Look to www.myspace.com/sitchin for more

Here is Seth Master's 'Botanique'

Check out much more of his work at www.electrobel.be

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com with archives

at idyllicmusic.blogspot.com. If you can't get enough Idyllic Music click the Chillinks tab for hours of streaming Trip Hop,

Ambient, Jazz, Dub and Downtempo music.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

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One Hundred and Fifty Seven

2010-12-04T14:00:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at tall tales. Stories and fables of exaggeration and entertainment some fantastic and others with morals. They often contain a morsel of truth spun out to the absurd across every culture but reaching a zenith in 19th century American folktales like Paul Bunyan, Brer Rabbit, Little Babaji and John Henry. Ixtlan, Erosops, Refrag. Sounda, Botany Bay and Capt. Beefheart. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin with Swedish experimentalists Ixtlan for 'Punjab Night Vision'

You can find much more at www.23seconds.org

French C&P glitch producer Erosops is next with Autumn Spring - Automne Printanier

Listen to more at www.electrobel.fr

Refrag returns to Idyllic Music with 'Get it Down You'

Look for more at www.soundclick.com

That was Craig Sounda Brown with 'Sometimes My Heart Is Sad'

Hear more at www.myspace.com/sounda

This is new from Botany Bay and 'How Much Can You Take?'

Visit botanybay.bandcamp.com

This is the legendary Capt. Beefheart mixed by Chenard Walcker with 'Salt Water'

That was taken from Heartbreak Pain Cafe [fsz036] Download all his C&P work www.chenardwalcker.com

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye

One Hundred and Fifty Six

2010-12-04T13:59:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at migrations and aspirations. For millennia, people have moved from one place to another seeking better lives. Whether it was for better hunting, soil or jobs the migration was like rivers to the ocean, constant and inevitable. The sorrow of leaving behind the old and struggle to establish the new have marked every one of us. Immigrant and resident alike.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own. - Cesar Chavez

We'll begin with this stunning ambient piece by Mar.ch called 'They Are Looking For A Country Of Their Own'

Kristian Wølner and Louise Fraser explore the distance between loved one with 'Miss You '

Check out www.louisefraser.com and www.soundclick.com/sirknorway for more.

From the Flow.ers compilation (Sutemos008) Here is Yagya and 'We Reject The Now'

Download the CD at www.archive.org

“We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.”

This is USB with ‘Dreams Half Remembered' and Heartical with 'Declaration of Dub'

You can find USB and Heartical at soundclick.com

and much much more from Dutch dubmeister Heartical at
http://dubroom.org/music/netalbums-heartical-joiedevivre.htm

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. And visit musicpodcasting.org to hear other great podcasts.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye

One Hundred and Fifty Five

2010-12-04T13:55:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at at the sweet and lowdown. It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. Ellington knew it and Irving Mills codified it but many of today's singer-songwriters from Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Nora Jones and notably Amos Lee's "Sweet Pea" have taken it to heart. From it's pre-war origins, swing music's rhythmic style based on a triplet subdivision of the beat was what moved hips out on the dance floor. On this edition of Idylic Music we'll take a 21st century spin out on the tiles with MudVille, Sliptone, Gone, King Dubby, graphiqsgroove and Terence Blanchard. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin in the Big Apple, arguably, the birth place of swing with
Mudville and 'Blown'

Find more at www.mudvillemusic.com

From Athens, Gone, Gone Gone swings with phat beats as if 'Nothings New'

Download the entire release for free at dustedwax.org

UK producer Tom McNab keeps it crispy recording as Sliptone. Here is 'Don't Stop'

That and more at Hungarian netlabel www.budabeats.com/bube009.htm
Here is King Dubby.

That was 'Phases Dub' The King reigns at archive.org

Japanese drummer Hoshi is Graphics Groove. This is 'Rosewood'

Listen to more at myspace.com/graphiqsgroove
We'll close with Trumpeter Terence Blanchard's 'New World Created Inside the Walls of Imagination'

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Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

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One Hundred and Fifty Four

2010-04-10T13:12:00.000-07:00

This week we'll scan the skies of high altitude air travel. Nothing strikes the imagination like following contrails left behind a jet aircraft in the late afternoon sky. Who is on board? Where are they going? Are they beginning an adventure or heading home? Looking up can bring a touch of envy. Providing the lift for us this week are The Twombley Spiders, The Atomica Project, Ray Garrido, Metastaz, Boneshaman and Innereyefull. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin our trip so many others at the airport. Here are The Twombley Spiders with 'The Sun Setting On LaGuardia'

You'll find more from this unique band at www.notype.com

From Chicago, The Atomica Project features Lauren Cheatham's sultry jazz inflected
vocals for a McLachlanesque a song they call 'Jetstreams'

You can find their latest effort at www.theatomicaproject.com

This is Mexican multi-instrumentist Ray Garrido with the very cool 'Mantra'

Listen to more at myspace.com/raygarrido

From Lyon’s vibrant dub scene, Thomas Simoes records as Metastaz. Welcome aboard the Orient Dub Express. This is 'Ghost & Assassin'

Visit metastaz.bandcamp.com to download the entire release

Boneshaman simply numbers his work like 'project022010'

Look to www.soundclick.com/boneshaman for more.

From the Blunted Soul EP, this is Innereyefull and 'Be Cool'

Check out more at archive.org/details/DWK049 and Dusted Wax
This podcast can be heard in more than 100 countries. Look for the list at myspace.com/idyllic music

Look for show notes, links to all the artists featured on the podcast over the years and lots of free streaming audio at idyllicmusic.com.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Fifty Three

2010-04-10T13:10:00.001-07:00

This week, we'll examine the drought. At any one time a goodly part of the world experiences Meteorological Drought with consequences measured in tens of thousands or even millions of lives. The images of drought, the cracked and barren soil, the dust clouds and snapshots of fishing boats stranded in a dry lake bed speak to the loneliness of emotional drought. So too do the 6 songs on this edition of Idyllic Music. I'm Jim Nye,

We'll begin with Entertainment For The Braindead from Julia Kotowski's new 'Roadkill' CD. This is 'Wastelands'

Find much more at entertainmentforthebraindead.com or aaahh-records.net

Here is German producer Enjumi's 'Joy in Melancholie'

Download Enjumi's Der Morgen Davor release at www.archive.org/details/ego008

"morning mist settles gently, thirsty earth drinks her down"
Here is Artemis from her latest 'Auralei' release

Check out www.artemis.fm for more

From the UK, here is the utterly unique Peterloo Massacre and 'Warm Body'

There is more at www.myspace.com/peterloomassacre from there click on vocalist kin's site for a variety of other tracks by the goat-voiced girl.

Sebastian Borg records as Stockfinster on the Lithuarian netlabel Sutemos. This is 'Daypusher'

Download his entire Dead Line CD at www.sutemos.net

This is Synaecide from the Scientifica release and Venom (feat. Emané)

Look for more at www.myspace.com/synaecide

This podcast can be heard in more than 100 countries. Look for the list at myspace.com/idyllic music

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.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Fifty Two

2010-04-10T13:08:00.000-07:00

This week we'll look at chapters. Readers know how an author uses them to pace a story, setting up cliffhangers, jumping storylines and setting natural breaks at the end of a sitting so you can go to bed but we chapters are even more appearent in our life stories. The titles of the 7 songs we'll hear on this episode of Idyllic Music simply sound like chapters and ,perhaps, they are. They come from New Haven, Hungry Lucy, Alik Project, Youth Reference, Usted No!, Rude Corps, and Massive Attack. I'm Jim Nye. We'll begin with podcast stalwart Orange Crush's new project called New Haven. This is 'The Road'.

Hear more New Haven at www12.nrk.no

This a a classic Hungry Lucy from 2005 called 'Into Pieces'

Listen to more tracks and their podcast at hungrylucy.com
Here is the Alik Project with 'The Wrong Window'

You'll find more at www.electrobel.fr

This is Chicago's Youth Reference with 'Alms for Kiki'

Find more Youth Reference at myspace.com.youthreference

From Santiago, Claudio Perez records as Usted No! This is 'Fortaleza'

That was Rude Corps' 'Rollback' For many more tracks check soundclick.com/rudecorp

We'll close with something new from Massive Attack (featuring the magnificent Horace Andy) 'Girl I Love You'

That can be found at www.rcrdlbl.com/artists/Massive_Attack/music

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com with archives at idyllicmusic.blogspot.com. If you can't get enough Idyllic Music click the Chillinks tab for hours of streaming Trip Hop, Ambient, Jazz, Dub and Downtempo music.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Fifty One

2010-04-10T13:06:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at life along the world's great rivers. Despite the fact that nearly every major inland city is located along side a major water way, life down on the banks is often rough, hard scrabbled and often dangerous. McCarthy's Cornelius Suttree personifies the descent from sophisticated urban living to the hand to mouth life along the river. He's not alone. we'll hear from Eugene Kha, Double6project, Electrobone, Arnolds Records and Psilodump. I'm Jim Nye

We'll begin with Muscovite net-label pioneer Evgenij V. Kharitonov also records as Eugene Kha. Here is 'The River Song'

Hear the complete River cycle at www.myspace.com/eugenekha

Rene Wimberger records as Electrobone from the Netherlands. This is the The whimsical 'Thishshong'

You can listen to more at soundcloud.com/electrobone

From along the River Hooghly Double6project finds the 'Deva Dasis'

That was the 'Circulatory difficulties in aqueous medium' Look to Arnolds Records for his complete works.

We'll close with Psilodump from his 'The Night I Lost You All' release. This is 'bak8'

Look for the whole CD at www.archive.org/details/CANDY017

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists as well as the band Idyllic, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them.

Look for all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix. If you can't get enough Idyllic Music click the Chillinks tab for hours of streaming Trip Hop, Ambient, Jazz, Dub and Downtempo music.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Fifty

2010-04-10T13:03:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll celebrate Idyllic Music's 150th episode by looking forward. Fifty shows ago we offered up two CD ready mixes of the best vocal and instrumental tracks of the previous 100 programs. This time around we enter the new decade having kicked over the last and not looking back. I'm Jim Nye.

MisoSoundz Screenatorium Eskazed Stemvelta PiliPili Korogho

One Hundred and Forty Nine

2010-03-27T16:53:00.000-07:00

This week we'll look at beauty and terror as seen in the mythology of women. Stories though out history mostly told by men of power and tragedy, love and treachery featuring the likes of Aphrodite, Xi Shi, The Gorgon Medusa and goddess Kali. These tales are endlessly fascinating yet rarely illuminating of the lives of actual women. So we'll hear from six songs offering a modern twist to these myths. They come from Jen Gloeckner, First Rebirth, Zoe Leela, Swoon, A Beautiful Curse and Ruxpin. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin with Jen Gloeckner from her 'Mouth of Mars' CD. This is 'Pulse'

Look for more at jengloeckner.com

From Russia Anton Chirtsov produces dark triphop as First Rebirth. Here is 'Last Runaway'

Download more tracks at enoughrecords.scene.org

Zoe.LeelA and 'Destroy She Says'

Look for her release 'Queendom Come' at rec72.net

From Baden, Switzerland Elias Kohli records as Swoon. This is 'Crystal Night'

You'll find more Swoon at www.archive.org/details/earxp09

Drummer Kenny James' latest project is A Beautiful Curse. This comes from his 'As It Should Be' release. It's 'A Lot Like Diamonds'

Check out more at www.abeautifulcurse.com

From Iceland Jonas Thor Gudmundsson puts together ethereal beats as Ruxpin. 'You Look Lovely In This Spacesuit'

Hear more at www.sutemos.net

This podcast can be heard in more than 100 countries. Look for the list at myspace.com/idyllic music

Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them.

And look for all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Forty Eight

2010-03-27T16:50:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at five artists making deeply layered dense and hypnotic electronica. In the early part of the decade Minimalism, glitch and even chiptunes were a reaction to what became a pretty predictable set of recordings featuring 4 chord progressions and pedestrian beats. Now finding a new mix of drama and subtlety are Ed Drury, Melorman, Northcape, Bitbasic and Wordless Poem. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin in Oregon with multi-instrumentalist and Didgeridoo master Ed Drury. This is 'Jawidge"

Find a massive selection of his work at www.eddrury.com

From Athens, Melorman creates melodies with granular ambience and chilled beats. This is the lush 'You Are'

Hear more from Melorman at www.archaichorizon.com

Here is another Brighton's Northcape from his 'Some Bright Valley' release it's 'A Part of The Forest'

Look for much more at www.northcapemusic.co.uk

This is Bitbasic feeling 'Blueish'

Download the entire 'Sprinkling Rainbows' CD at www.archive.org/details/mtk213

We'll close with mystical love and devotional song. Here is Wordless Poem with the mesmerizing 'kanakasaila'

Listen to more at www.electrobel.fr
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. And visit musicpodcasting.org to hear other great podcasts

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Forty Seven

2010-03-27T16:49:00.000-07:00

This week we'll look at known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns. For several weeks, half a dozen great songs have lingered on the desktop as I've looked for ways to include them on the show. They are by unknown, unsigned artists, well known indie bands and arena popular stars. All podsafe. This week I'll string them together and let you guess who they are. Film at 11.

Few artists can paint a more vivid musical picture like legendary street troubadour Tom Waits. We pulled that from his 'Real Gone' release. Find more at www.epitaph.com/artists/artist/186

We started with Dub disco titans The Orb from The Dream' CD. Check out episode 111 for a more extensive look at the band and the orb.com. That was followed by New York's 46 Bliss, a band gaining a big following in indie circles. Find more from this great group at www.myspace.com/46bliss. It was followed by newcomer Ellen Vate's 'Deeply Loaded' from the German net label http://konsum-productions.com. We also heard from Ann Wilson and Elton John covering Flash in the Pan's late 70's indie hit 'Where to now St. Peter' and The Entry's 'Life Cabaret Severin 24's remix' found at www.alpinechic.net.

Don't forget all show notes and artist links can be found at Idyllicmusic.com. Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Forty Six

2010-03-27T16:47:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at the downcast and sorrowful. Baruch Spinoza defined sadness as the transfer of a person from a large perfection to a smaller one. All the songs on the show this week have an underlying sadness. They are small vignettes of personal loss and helplessness and yet they are not uncomfortable or painful. There is a soul cleansing purging quality that makes you feel raw and renewing. We'll heard Idmer, Owen, Aydio, Gilo, The Sugar Clouds and Aereal. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin with French producer Idmer with 'Echos du Coeur'

Find many more tracks from Idmer at www.electrobel.fr/profile/863

One of the most satisfying forms sadness takes is self-pity. Here is podcast stalwart Owen and 'Dig Your Own Hole'

From his Deltitnu EP, From London, this is Aydio and 'XHD'

You'll find more beats at myspace.com/theaydio and dustedwax.org

Here is Portuguese Trip Hopist Gilo and 'Unity'

Listen to more at myspace.com/gilotrue

From Detroit these are The Sugar Clouds myopically and 'All I See is You'

Look for more at myspace.com/thesugarclouds

From his Transitions EP, this is UK idm producer Aereal and the lugubrious 'Bacurex'

Check out myspace.com/aerealsounds for more

You can still download the 2 CD ready mixes or our 100th episode at www.Idyllicmusic.com. And 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 as well.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Forty Five

2010-02-23T06:44:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at the final day. It's something we all have in common. The fact that everyone of us will die. To some it's simply a transition from one world to another. While others see it as the moment our atoms are dispersed back into the universe. How we choose to approach the final day defines almost everything we do in all the days that precede it.

We'll begin in northwestern Russia, not too far from the border with Finland where Alexandr Veli-kosel-sky patches together bits of found sound for live shows under the moniker Cycle Hiccups. Here is Rainy Day Renegade.

Listen for more at myspace.com/cyclehiccups

Munich's Markus Dolic records dub as Nulleins. It's 'Another day'

Find many more Creative Commons tracks at www.thinner.cc

Here is another track from Mumbia's Omnisine called 'Over'

Download more at www.soundclick.com/omnisine

Lithuanian drum and bass producer Kiri Nami finds all is 'Wind'

That was part of a compilation found at www.archive.org/details/ronincollective015

From Detroit Matt Borghi and Michael Kirson-Goldapper team up as Kosik. This is 'Signals'

Download a live set at www.archive.org/details/KOSIK_Plastic_Piano

We'll close with Rs3 'I am the fallen'

This podcast can be heard in more than 100 countries. Look for the list at myspace.com/idyllic music

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.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Forty Four

2010-02-20T10:45:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at enormity and scale. Whether it's astrophysical or personal, size and distance is often difficult to gauge. Everyone has seen artist renderings of the solar system depicting the sun and planets but the scale of those drawing can't begin to reflect the actual distance between those satellites. The same is true with opinions and feelings. Often we feel so distant when in fact we share much more in common with each other than not. Other times not so much. Offering a guide this week are Blisaed, Bersarin Quartett, God Is An Astronaut, Kesakoo and Messian Dread. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin in San Diego with Matthew Centonze recording as Blisaed. This is 'Cold'

Look for more at www.myspace.com/blisaed

We turn now to Germany's Bersarin Quartett with a track translated roughly as More than everything else.

'Mehr Als Alles Andere'

Find free downloads at www.myspace.com/bersarinquartett

From the The Silent Ballet webzine: Volume II compilation it's Irish etherealist giants God Is An Astronaut with 'Tempus Horizon'

Explore www.godisanastronaut.com for more.

Here is kesakoo's mix of Calender Girl's 'September'

www.calendarsongs.com

Check out his other work at www.myspace.com/kesakooelectra

We'll close with Christafarian Dubmaster Messian Dread in the 'House Of Dub'

All things dreadful can be found at dubroom.org

Don't forget to stop by www.idyllicmusic for show notes, scripts and links to the artists including iTunes, CDbaby and eMusic. Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Forty Three

2010-01-24T20:08:00.000-08:00

This week, we marvel at the July 20th 1969 landing on the moon. Although this achievement took place 40 years ago and great strides have been made is subsequent years on furthering our reach into the stars, It continues to awe and inspire. Celebrating with us this week are Canola Tenderfoot, the silk demise, Makaras Pen, Anonymous Horses and Gabriel.

From Bristol, Canola Tenderfoot has released a very cool EP called 'The Light Still Flickers' This is vocalist Viki Shirley and 'Vilnius

Download this release for free at www.canolatenderfoot.co.uk

Bill Litshauer and Edie Marshall are two of Toronto's most creative exports together as the silk demise. Longtime fans including this podcast can now a collection of unreleased material called 'unlocked' as well as their newest release 'Midnight Eyes' at thesilddemise.com. This is 'Splendid Legacy'

Here is evolving Buffalo-based band Makaras Pen featuring vocalist Jenn Manganiello 'Observing the Empty'

Look to myspace.com/makaraspen for more

Seattle's Franklin Lask records as Anonymous Horses. This is 'A Far Moon Stride'

Gabriel Kreps asked Grim on Mbient to remix much of his work. The reult is 'The Gabriel Sequence'

You can download the entire sequence here

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. And visit musicpodcasting.org to hear other great podcasts

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Forty Two

2009-12-12T11:29:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll examine the Phoenix. The Firebird, Fêng-Huang, Ho-oo, Benu, or Yel. The myth of this self- rejuvanating bird cuts across almost every ancient culture often symbolizing death and rebirth; for the Phoenix is said to consumed by fire very 500 years only to be reborn among its own ashes. Aphone, Eigenheimer, The Orientalist, Phour Trakk, Hands upon Black Earth and Ecovillage

We'll begin in Brussels where Aphone's 'On Fire'

Find more from this tallented producer at www.myspace.com/aphone

Eigenheimer reflects on the fact that there are Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Egyptian, and Native American stories of the Phoenix. 'This World is Little'

Check out much more at www.myspace.com/eigenheimer

First heard on the The Dub Zone's 2nd anniversary podcast, this is French Producer The Orientalist with 'Islamatronic Cantilliation'

Look for more at www.myspace.com/1000soundslotus

After the fire Phour Trakk offers something cool to drink. A 'Bhang Lassi'

Download the entire album from the link at www.myspace.com/zengineers

From their new CD Translucent comes a tapestry of sound from Hands upon Black Earth and 'Ashes'

That was Ecovillage from their new release Phoenix Asteroid with 'Arise From Ashes' Listen to more of their hazy dream pop at www.myspace.com/ecovillagemusic

look for 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. And visit musicpodcasting.org to hear other great podcasts

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Forty One

2009-12-08T20:22:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at Angels and derivations, warnings and votaries. These nine artists are unafraid the bare the unvarnished, emblazon their influences and balance the devilish with the angelic. Some of the tracks are complete others remain ideas to be fleshed out but all compel. We'll hear from J.S. Marti, Idyllic, Will Kriski, Tronic Koi, Scarlet Hideout, Half Past Sun, The Flavor Foundation, One Blue Nine and Jardín Solar. I'm Jim Nye

We first heard J.S.Marti on the Association of Music Podcasting music digest AMPed a few weeks back and haven't been able to shake this song loose. It is simply called 'Angels'

That was Idyllic and 'Waking (in an Angel's Bed) Checkout downloads at idyllicmusic.com and www.myspace.com/jsmartimusic

Here is Will Kriski with 'Zanzibar in Dub'

That was Scarlet Hideout with 'Herbivores' find more at

www.archive.org/details/LOKW-002
and Tronic Koi's 'heaven or the kingdom of god' at virb.com/kristellar and finally
'Zanzibar in Dub' at www.willkriski.com/

Here is Half Past Sun channeling Ero and Wire with 'Don't Get Too Close'

That was The Flavor Foundation with Masala look for the link at Idllicmusic.com also T.K. Major's Humbert Humbert plea as One Blue Nine and "Rachel, Tell Me No at www.onebluenine.com and Visit halfpastsun.bandcamp.com

Jardín Solar sports many of their 80's influences out front with 'Todavía Temprano'

Find more from this Peruvian Duo at www.archive.org

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. And visit musicpodcasting.org to hear other great podcasts

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Forty

2009-11-26T10:54:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at the increasingly antiquated idea of old world versus new world especially in music and art. Cultures measured by millennia rather than centuries are borrowing and incorporating sounds and instruments in ways that unthinkable in the past

We'll begin in the quintessentially new world city of Miami with one of our favorite new beatists. Chris Martin's mix of pastoral hip-hop, soulful samples and glitch mark this bridge between the new and old. Here is 'Love Takes Time'

Find more at www.myspace.com/c85music
Ryan Parmer records as Phasen straddling both worlds with A Night in Verona'

Download the entire Phasen II: Progressions CD at breathe-comp.com

That was French producer Degiheugi with 'Argentina Turntables'

Much more at www.degiheugi.com

This is the Second collaboration of Azzurro, Hyqo and Volfoniq on LCL net label.
It's 'A Love Riddim.

Find more at www.lescristauxliquident.org

Auckland's Refrag returns to the podcast with 'We don’t need no stinking badges'

A treasure trove of Refrag can be found at www.soundclick.com/refrag.

This is All India Radio and 'Echo Other'

Garry Hughes and Andrew T. Mackay have put together global project called the Bombay Dub Orchestra. This is Rare Earth.

Thanks to the folks at IODA Promonet for that. Don't forget to stop by www.idyllicmusic.com for show notes, scripts and links to the artists including iTunes, CDbaby and eMusic. Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Thirty Nine

2009-10-03T10:46:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at the human tendency to put off until later what we could do today. It is the period of time between when we can exercise influence over events and that moment when they are decided for us. That fine line between free will and fate.

We'll begin in West London with Turntablist Mister Frendo. We last hear from him back on episode 69. This is 'The Return'

Find more at www.myspace.com/mrfrendo
Welsh Producer Steve Klik records his own dub and dance influenced music under the moniker Subtronix. This is entitled 'Later'

Look for more from Steve at www.myspace.com/subtronix

From Teesside, CD personalizes the Bristol sound and promises to 'Follow Thru'

www.myspace.com/cdsolo

Colab 'A Second Opinion on Love'

That was Stockholm native Mikael Hansson's Colab remix of 'A Second Opinion on Love'. Find it at ccmixter.org/files/colab/16114

UK anarchy proliferates under Rude Corps right'Under the Streetlight'

Listne and download dozens of tracks at soundsclick.com and www.rudecorps.co.uk

That was The Chill Conspiracy and 'Zeitgeist'
Hear more from this brilliant band at myspace.com/thechillconspiracy

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. And visit musicpodcasting.org to hear other great podcasts

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Thirty Eight

2009-09-28T19:42:00.000-07:00

This week, it's world studies as we look at education and educators from around the world from ancient Greece to the local school down the street. The syllabus is wide open as we hear from Bangguru, Nobara Hayakawa, Artemis, Jikjax, Elam, PiliPili and Bruce McCosar. I'm Jim Nye

We'll begin in Lisbon with the Portuguese band Bangguru reviewing the catalog for 'Andology'

Hear more at www.myspace.com/bangguru

This is the title Nobara Hayakawa's new release 'Trail'

Download the entire Trail EP for free at www.intervall-audio.com/ia_releases/index.html

This is something new from downtempo chanteuse Artemis called'Charmin Gun'

Find more at www.artemis.fm

From Martinique, it's Jikjax studying 'Easternity'

Australian turned World denizen Elam at the 'Bhangra Bash'

Check www.worlddominationrecords.com for more

This is PiliPili's 'Blue Dream'

Look for more at www.electrobel.fr/artist/806

We'll close with Native American Bruce McCosar a member of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation This is 'Heartbeat of the Desert'

Discover more at bmccosar.wordpress.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. And visit musicpodcasting.org to hear other great podcasts

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Thirty Seven

2009-09-20T07:41:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at memories and the way we twist them inside out sometimes to serve our own purposes. Looking back on this episode of Idyllic Music are 46 Bliss, Pierre the Moon, MoVox, Screenatorium, Classic SciFi and Catsauce. I'm Jim Nye

David Cooper, Clare Veniot and Jack Freudenheim are NYC's 46bliss. Here is 'In a Long Time'

Find more from this great band at www.myspace.com/46bliss

This is Pierro the Moon with 'Plaindre Ou Etre Plaint'

From the Tunguska Grooves compilation, a Russian label, it's MoVoX with 'Eternal Memory'

Download the cd or free at tunguskagrooves.com

From Lyon, Djeh remixes a Screenatorium track called 'Summer Rain'

myspace.com/screenatorium

Download the Audimat album at www.netlabel.be

We last heard from Classic Scifi back on episode 48. This is 'Chill Under'

That was Catsauce and 'Peptic Relief

Find more at www.electrobel.be

This podcast can be heard in more than 100 countries. Look for the list at myspace.com/idyllic music

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.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Thirty Six

2009-09-12T14:09:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at the great American art form as it finds its way into the 21st century. Jazz continues to evolve in ways that are both striking and familiar. Just as Charlie Parker and Charlie Christian took popular music and stripped it to its core before radically making it their own, today's musicians are taking the cut and paste technology of hip hop and using it to disassemble, rearrange and rethink the process of improvistion. As Frank Zappa famously said "Jazz is not dead...it just smells funny"

We'll start off with Bernd Burnson from his CD The Jazz Massacre and a 'Brave New World'

Hear the rest at www.last.fm/music/Bernd+Burnson

Kristin Mainhart and Khromozomes return the program with a track from their 'Stranger Things' CD called 'Turn the other Cheek'

Look to myspace.com/khromozomes for more

Up next is French duo Kesakoo and 'Bazouria'

Check out more at myspace.com/kesakooelectra

This is Skipless from his Rooftops CD It's 'Alter'

Find more at dustedwax.org

We'll close the episode of Idyllic Music with a bit of the 60's, the 90's and alot of the 21st century. This is Beatropolis and '3 Dope Boys and an Opium Sack'

Listen up at www.beatropolis.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. And visit musicpodcasting.org to hear other great podcasts

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Thirty Five

2009-09-08T21:03:00.001-07:00

This week, we'll look at solids. The two hardest things to grasp about them are that objects that appear to be solid are made up of molecules that are never actually in contact with each other and that because solids have thermal energy, their atoms vibrate. Firming up this concept for us are Mujaji, Proviant Audio, The Orb, DJ Limpet, Dr. Ektoplazmic and Lofi Mood. I'm Jim Nye

We'll begin in southwest Canada with producer Mujaji's and 'Stable'

You'll find doZens of tracks at mujaji.com

From Tønsberg, Norway, this is
Proviant Audio with 'Welcome Wilderness'

Look to www.aquavelvas.com for more

This is The Orb and 'High Noon'

Listen to the entire album at www.reverbnation.com/theorb

Next up is Australian DJ Limpet and 'The Valley Below

Find much more at www.machinepop.com

More research now from Dr Ektoplazmic. This is 'Iron Side

Check out his other tracks at www.myspace.com/drektoplazmic

That was Lofi Mood 'In Solid Darkness'

Listen to more of this at www.headphonica.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. And visit musicpodcasting.org to hear other great podcasts...of all stripes

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Thirty Four

2009-04-11T14:37:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at the shortcomings and foibles of the post modern character. Not nearly the deadly sins but some common universal human weaknesses we all can recognize. Pointing them out to us on the episode of Idyllic Music are Band of Mad Women, Margareds, Mat's,Gosprom, Stockfinster and Line. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin with Bulgarian quintet Band of Mad Women and 'Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves'

Download the entire 'Rodopted' CD at www.ouim.net

Goosia Dziemitko and Red Czerwinski return the program this week as Margareds with 'Anxiety Disorder'

Find more at www.margareds.com or www.myspace.com/margareds

From Tahiti comes Polynesian producer Mat's from his A Light In The Abyss release. This is 'Ethnic Meeting'

Look for the full album at www.deepindub.org

From the Ukraine, Gosprom's vocalist Marianna knows 'Lazy'

Check out this unique band at www.myspace.com/gosprom

Therefore Swedish beatmaster Stockfinster moves beyond with 'Ergo'

Find the rest at www.archive.org/details/sute011

That was the 'Space BoomBox by Line from the Feels Like Something EP.

Visit dustedwax.org/dwk028.html for more

The same goes for this podcast look for show notes, scripts and links to the artists by stopping by www.idyllicmusic.com

Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them. There is also a book corner with where you can browse through 20 great music books including Miles Davis's autobiography and the Trouser Press Guide to Music. And look for all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.

Thank you for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Thirty Three

2009-03-11T07:28:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at the unlikelihood of finding true love. Not that it doesn't happen all the time, it's just that's it's amazing that it happens at all. Bookstores are filled with attempts to explain how and why relationships succeed or fail. The odds of finding someone with whom you are truly compatible with is daunting. Taking the plunge anyway are Cris Tanzi, Prototype 68, CDK, The Reverend Shortboy, Steen Throtrup and iambic. I'm Jim Nye

We'll begin Italian singer-songwriter
Cris Tanzi teaming up in the U.K. with Alex Scaturro for 'Enough'

Hear much more at www.myspace.com/cristanzi

Prototype 68 is an altered ego of producer Mr. Moods. Here is 'Caberet

Find more at www.myspace.com/prototype68

CDK counsels realism with 'Open Your Eyes' (in the name of love)

Hear more collaboration at www.ccmixter.com

Unrealized expectations take their toll with Welsh producer
The Reverend Shortboy and 'I Want More'

Look to www.soundclick.com/TheReverendShortboy for more

Here is another Chillbar track from Germany by Steen Thottrup and 'To You'

Check out this cool netlabel at www.sine-music.com

We'll close with London's Guy Andrews is Iambic² with 'Moment'

Hear more of Guy's music at www.iambicmusic.com

Look for show notes, streaming audio and links to all the artists at idyllicmusic.com where you can help support many of the artists you hear on the podcast by buying a song or CD from them.

There is also a book corner with where you can browse through 20 great music books including Miles Davis's autobiography and the Trouser Press Guide to Music.

And look for all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Thirty Two

2009-03-08T19:55:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at the many aspects of melancholia. In particular, German Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer engraving of the same name. We can linger over the many symbols of mathematics and alchemy portrayed in the work but ultimately it's all about how one feels. Expounding and deflecting for us this week are All India Radio,
Plastik Joy, Matisse and Deeper Sublime, Eskazed, Blind Divine and Gate Zero. I’m Jim Nye

We'll begin in Melbourne with Martin Kennedy and Leona Prue as
All India Radio and the heartbreaking sadness of 'chameleon'

Find all their releases at www.allindiaradio.com.au

Cristiano Nicolini and Fannar Ásgrimsson meld Italian and Icelandic Stoicism as Plastik Joy. This is 'True Norwegian Black Metal'

Listen to more at www.myspace.com/plastikjoymusic

From Sine Music's Chillbar compilation this is Matisse & Deeper Sublime with 'Long Way Home'

Hear more at www.sine-music.com

From Paris this is Eskazed with 'The Blighter'

Look for more at www.myspace.com/eskazed

Tucson, Arizona's Paula Catherine Valencia and Daniel Martin Diaz are Blind Divine. Fro their Queen of Venom CD it's the very cathartic 'Letting Go'

Check out www.blinddivine.com for more

We'll close this episode of Idyllic Music with Gate Zero. This is 'Green'

There is much more to be discovered at www.gatezero-music.de

This podcast can be heard in more than 100 countries. Look for the list at myspace.com/idyllic music

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.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Thirty One

2009-03-03T19:18:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at the life giving and restorative power of water. While water is the most abundant molecule on Earth's surface and nearly 60% of the human body is water, we often take for granted is enormous importance. Since all water is essentially the same, it is what is dissolved into it that accounts for the differences we consume whether our freshwater comes from deep in Lake Baikal or from the muddy Mississippi. Having recovered recently from a lingering flu virus, I can tell you that water, and drinking huge amounts of it, were instrumental in ridding me of that illness. And so the show is all about water. Drink up.

We'll begin with program stalwart USB making his 5th appearance on Idyllic Music with the icily beautiful 'We dream in fields of crystal'

You'll find much more from this talented musician at www.soundclick.com/bands/usb

Liverpool's Fran Kapelle and Paul Addie make waves as the core of Tracing Arcs. This is from their brilliant 'fin' release. It's 'Icefloes'

Look for more at www.myspace.com/tracingarcs

James Kirsch marshals the beats as General Fuzz have a taste of 'Liquid Jazz'

There is much more at www.generalfuzz.net

Karl Endreson's native Norway is awash in lakes, glaciers and waterfalls. Here is Orange Crush with 'Across The Rivers'

Look for more at www.myspace.com/orangecrushmusic
We'll close this episode with Japanese artist Lili Hirakawa and 'Waterwards'

Find more of Lili's ambient electronica at http://www.myspace.com/peopleused2
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. And visit musicpodcasting.org to hear other great podcasts

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Thirty

2009-03-02T19:37:00.001-08:00

This week, we'll look at the need to move beyond our troubled pasts and embrace hope for the future. Each of these tracks evokes a specific moment particular to American history over the past 25 years. We'll hear from Downliners Sekt, Naoned, Sans Edge, Tryad and Silence. I'm Jim Nye.

Well begin with
Downliners Sekt with vocalist Emma Louise Yohanan from their 'Statement of Purpose' CD this is 'Weather Underground'

Find their free downloads at www.downliners-sekt.com

Here is multi-culturist producer Naoned with 'Beirut West'

Check out more from this talented French producer at www.electrobel.fr/profile/612

We last heard from American musician Sans Edge back on Episode 35. This is 'Sin'

Listen for his full catalog at soundclick.com/SansEdge or www.myspace.com/sansedge

Tryad's loosely-knit communal approach to music lends itself to a wide variety of styles all neatly ties together in this 'Waltz Into the Moonlight'

Look to www.tryad.org for more

Belgian producer Vincent Girès creates complex, brooding music under the name Silence. Here is 'Follow me'

You'll find much more volume at www.silence-world.tk

Look for show notes, streaming audio and links to all the artists at idyllicmusic.com where you can help support many of the artists you hear on the podcast by buying a song or CD from them.

There is also a book corner with where you can browse through 20 great music books including Miles Davis's autobiography and the Trouser Press Guide to Music.

And look for all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Twenty Nine

2009-03-01T17:50:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at the path to redemption. Waiting to hit bottom to know when to climb back up often ignores the notion that the journey may well be circular. Redeeming themselves for us this week at Owen, DigiTube, Argon 40, Vate, 33Canales and Babbaracos. I'm Jim Nye. We'll begin in Brussels where we'll find singer producer Owen 'Drunk'

You can hear more of his moving electronica at www.electrobel.be
Rhode island's Scott Lachance records as DigiTube. This is 'Going with the Flow'

Find more from Scott at www.abbywaystudio.net/DigiTube/
New York singer/songwriter Heather Greene and guitarist A. Williams make up Argon 40. This is the sadly soulful 'When I Fall’

Check out more at www.myspace.com/argon40

This is the first of two tracks from Mexican minimalist Vate pulled from the net label Breathe compilation. It's 'Afrodita'

Go to the source at www.vate.com.mx

Next up is another Breathe track. It's an Internet collaboration linking Tijuana, Mexico City and Barcelona. Here is
33Canales with 'Reflex Zion'

Download both compilations at breathe-comp.com

This is Babbaracos 'Nothing makes any Sense'

Get a clue at www.myspace.com/babbaracos

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. And visit musicpodcasting.org to hear other great podcasts

One Hundred and Twenty Eight

2009-02-28T15:20:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at the mind-expanding possibilities of travel. Whether global or microbiological, it the movement of bodies, objects and, ultimately, ideas, that allow us the benefits of progress. And so we'll hear from enLounge, Victoria Mosley and The Sublimes, Indidginus, Null device and Electric Salmon. I'm Jim Nye.

From the Nivel Del Mar collection 'Sounds for Soulsurfers' this is
enLounge beginning our journey with your ' Morning Espresso'

Look for more at www.aquavelvas.com

Victoria Mosley & The Sublimes consider the enormity with 'Sublime'

Check out more at www.garageband.com/artist/sublimes

Cape Town's Michael Martin records as Indidginus mixing cultural touchstones for effect with 'Transgenesis

Hear more from Michael at www.deviantdidg.com

We last head from Eric Oehler and Eric Goedken back on episode 31. This is Null Device and a 'Walk in London'

Download this EP for free at www.nulldevice.com

We'll close with idyllic fav Electric Salmon exploring the 'Pyramids'

Find more at www.soundclick.com/electricsalmon

look for 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. And visit musicpodcasting.org to hear other great podcasts

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Twenty Seven

2008-11-13T21:12:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at a human weakness. Whether physical, emotional or spiritual, we all make blunders and mistakes. It's what we do afterward that counts. We'll hear from five artists who realize this and take the next step toward growth and healing. We'll begin with something new from Peach Stealing Monkeys. It's called 'Addiction'

Hear more at www.peachstealingmonkeys.com/
From Boise, Patrick Benolkin creates eerie ambient electronica as Electricwest. From the 'Divine de Vice' release. Here is Gabriel's mix of 'Bruises'

Look for more at www.myspace.com/electricwest

German singer Julia Kotowski finds beauty in regret and retrospection as Entertainment for the Braindead. This is from her brilliant 'Hydrophobia' CD. Here is 'Fences'

Download the complete album at entertainmentforthebraindead.com

French beatist Picou is next with 'Nitar'

Find more at www.electrobel.fr

We'll close with Chicago-based produced Dep from his new 'nothing to undo : nothing to redo' CD. It's 'Found in Translation'

Discover much more www.myspace.com/justdep or justdep.com

Don't forget to download the 2 CD ready mixes or our 100th episode at www.Idyllicmusic.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 as well.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Twenty Six

2008-10-15T16:31:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at what's underneath. Not necessarily inferior, lesser, or subordinate but from the unique perspective of looking up. Gazing upward are Dive Index, Alikproject, Under, Asa Zen'Sei and Nenes. I'm Jim Nye. One of this years stand out releases is the collaborative project called Dive Index. Now there is a collection of revisions titled 'Collisions - The Mid/Air Remixes' This is the The Album Leaf Remix of 'Sole Fisherman' featuring UK vocalist Merz

Find more at www.myspace.com/merzuk or www.neutralmusic.com

This is the 'Moon Project'

The is more AlikProject at www.electrobel.fr/artist/702

Under's Electronic Pop Noir includes this eponymous track.

Hear more from Under at www.underthemusic.com

From the EP 'Homegrow' by AlikProject This is 'Sodium Sunshine'

There is much great Euro-dub to be heard at www.myspace.com/asazensei

We'll close with French producer Nenes from the 'Teasers' CD and 'From Bristol with Love'

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. And visit musicpodcasting.org to hear other great podcasts

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Twenty Five

2008-10-11T11:12:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll take a look at idea that the visible world is pervaded by invisible forces or spirits, which affect the lives of the living. It's a belief that predates most mainstream religions and remains in many ways we may not immediately recognize. Much of today's electronic club music employs many techniques shared by shamanism. The beat, repetitive vocal samples and binaural beats. There is a reason we call it Trance. Displaying some of this otherworldliness are Kmotiv, Secret Archives of the Vatican, Bone Shaman, Banderlog and Sara Ayers. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin with an artist we first heard from way back on episode eight. Here is Kmotiv from 'The Abstraction Agenda' release and 'One After Five'

Hear more at www.kmotiv.com and archive.org
Now to the transglobal beats of the Secret Archives of the Vatican. It's 'Budayeen 3am'

Much more is revealed at www.brokendrumrecords.com

Here is the Bone Shaman with 'Project 42'

Look to www.soundclick.com/boneshaman for more.
This is Banderlog.

That was 'Everlasting Now' by Antwerp-based producer Banderlog. Check out dozens of free tracks at electrobel or www.myspace.com/bandarlog

Sara Ayers' ethereal organica is a richly textured mix of voice, guitar and sonic electronic atmospheres. Here she teams with Japanese dark ambient experimentalist Ryuta.K for 'This Is What I Wanted'

Find more at www.saraayers.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. And visit musicpodcasting.org to hear other great podcasts

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Twenty Four

2008-10-10T19:47:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at Strange Overtones. It's not only the title of a new collaboration between modern music Giants, David Byrne and Brian Eno but also in a harmonic sense, it's a complex and intriguing musical tone. We'll hear from six artists who take this familiar but different approach to their sound. There is Dikital, Cling, Lesley Dodd, David Byrne and Brian Eno, J- CLX and Vincent Wood. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin in Macedonia with drummer Dimitar Dimceski recording as Dikital. This is 'Rain'

Find much more from this accomplished artist at www.soundclick.com/dikital

This one's new from Cling. It's called 'Groovyshoes'

Get more at www.clingmusic.co.uk

More pure pop from Chilliwack, BC. This is Lesley Dodd with 'Sweet Sweet Lullaboy'

Hear more www.soundclick.com/lesleydodd

This is David Byrne and Brian Eno from their 'Everything That Happens Will Happen Today' release.
This is 'Strange Overtones'

Look for more at www.everythingthathappens.com

This is Ontario's J-CLX with 'Night Out"

Check out more of his melodic hip-hop at http://www.j-clxmusic.com

We'll close this episode of Idyllic Music with Irish producer Vincent Wood from his 'Overarching' CD this is 'Which Cave?'

Find more at myspace.com/maccoillemusic

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. And visit musicpodcasting.org to hear other great podcasts

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Twenty Three

2008-10-08T17:32:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at cosmetics or altering the appearance without affecting the body's structure or functions. It's by definition superficial but can change perceptions of oneself and others often for the better but not necessarily. Musical remixes are in essence cosmetics but so are tattoos and eyeliner. Setting the foundation for us are Pipo Pegoraro, Obedientbone, Mavro, ElodieO and Crystal Palace. I’m Jim Nye.

We'll begin in Brazil with Pipo Pegoraro and 'Varal'

Look to myspace.com/pipopegoraro for more

We return to Dartmoor for last look at the now defunct Obedientbone. This is 'Felt Tipped'

Check www.obedientbone.com for more

To the east over in Brighton, it's Mavro and 'Home'

Find more at www.myspace.com/mavromusic

Now to french expatriate ElodieO from her 'Stubborn' CD It's 'Unexpected So'

Hear more at elodieo.com

We'll close with Montreal's Crystal Palace. See if you can 'Put Your Finger On It'

You can find the 1.0 release at www.crystalpalacemusic.com

You can still download the 2 CD ready mixes of our 100th episode at www.Idyllicmusic.com and find a complete archive of show notes, links to all the artists featured on the podcast over the years and lots of free streaming audio as well.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Twenty Two

2008-09-24T19:06:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll listen to the percussive side of World Music. Seven bands will add subtle electronics to the inherently primitive act of striking a note. Providing the variation for us are Sub Dub, Conduct Unbecoming, Fraud Fix, Lendi Vexer, DJ Diganta, Queenie and Siberian Newspaper. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin in New York with Raz Mesinai and John Ward better known as Sub Dub. This is 'Dawa Zangpo'

Look for more at www.theagriculture.com

Bryan Harris creates dark soundtracks as Conduct Unbecoming. Here is 'Not Like Before'

Find more of Bryans work at myspace.com/conductunbecomingbryan

Mike Dennis deftly mixes the acoustic with electronics as Fraud Fix This is'Moontrapped'

Hear more at www.soundclick.com/fraudfix

From Buenos Aires, Natalie Naveira and Diego Guiñazu lead a brilliant Argentinean music scene as Lendi Vexer. This 'Nothing Was Special (remixed)

Explore much more at www.lendivexer.com

From Bangalore, DJ Diganta continues with 'Riyas for Perfection'

Hear more DJ Diganta music.download.com

This is Queenie and 'Narcissus

That was Japanese Septet Siberian Newspaper with 'New Delhi Stream'

You can get much more of them at http://www.siberian-newspaper.com and more from singer/guitarist Queenie at http://www.queeniemusic.com

look for 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. And visit musicpodcasting.org to hear other great podcasts

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Twenty One

2008-09-23T20:27:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at the essential symbiosis of independent artist and podcaster. This mutualism is best put forward by an association of cooperative relationships. In particular, an Association of Music Podcasting. Visit myspace.com/musicpodcasters to learn how artists and podcasters can help each other in a world of tight play list and tighter labels. We'll hear from Anneke Laurent, Yimino, Gilo, Nihaya Tree and Annie Goliath. I'm Jim Nye

We'll begin in Berlin with the soulful minimalism of Anneke Laurent and 'Simms Dup'

Find more at www.auflegware.de

London-based duo Yimino continues with a track from their 'Bulbuss' release. This is 'Firen'

Hear much more of Gerald and Henry's IDM tracks at myspace.com/yiminomusic or futureproofrecords.com

This is Gilo with 'Lei 4'

Look for more at www.archive.org

This is Nihaya Tree with'Au Bord De La Mer'

Check myspace.com/nihayatree for more

Here is Annie Goliath with 'Damaged Valentine'

There is much more from this great talent at myspace.com/anniegoliath

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. And visit musicpodcasting.org to hear other great podcasts

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Twenty

2008-09-10T20:06:00.000-07:00

This week, it's the many flavors of America's great art form. Jazz. For more than a century this style of music has refused strict categorization. From Bop to Rag, Funk to Swing the cool sounds of Jazz are always mixing with and attaching itself to other genres. Today the polyrhythms, syncopation, and blue notes blend seamlessly with electronic beats, bass and melody. Exploring this musical confluence are Avatar, Psychedelicious, Sharon Robinson, Chillerstadt, Groove Inc and Beatropolis. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin in Kerry, Ireland where James Kennedy and Tony O'Flaherty have created a fusion of 70's Dub Reggae and Jazz.
Where King Tubby meets Gil Evans. This is 'Summa Iru Dub'

Find more from this brilliant band at www.amarumusic.net

Jazz has long dark history of wine, women and junk. Here is
Psychedelicious and 'Drunk'

Hear more at www.archive.org

The Blues informs Grammy-winner Sharon Robinson work. From her 'Everybody Knows' CD this is 'Party for the Lonely

Discover Sharon's collaborations with Leonard Cohen at www.myspace.com/sharonrobinsonmusic

Chillerstadt returns to the show with Michael Fulte on Contrabass and Wolfram Zitt on Fluegelhorn at the 'Seven Eleven'

Look to www.chillerstadt.com for more

This is Groove Inc. with ‘Just Jazz"

Hear more at dustedwax.org or www.myspace.com/masterofdagroove

San Francisco's Beatropolis closes this episode of Idyllic Music with a track that called 'Autumn Breeze'

There are many great tracks to hear at www.beatropolis.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. And visit musicpodcasting.org to hear other great podcasts...of all stripes

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Nineteen

2008-07-24T18:39:00.000-07:00

This week we'll try unlikely pairings. Nowhere are they more readily accepted than in music. When Joe Venuti's violin first played jazz, or Kraftwerk hit the top of the charts with computer music, listeners nodded and said "Yeah". When Kate Bush brought the mystery of Eastern European harmonies to the west or the Beatles covered Little Richard new rock n' roll music, the world got a bit smaller, less separate and more inclusive. Today we listen to songs by people from across the globe we would, likely, not have had a chance to hear in a lifetime.

We last heard from Bulgarian producer
Antony Raijekov back on episode 62. We'll begin with a track from his 'Views' release. This is 'Lightin'

Download more at music.download.com

Gabriele Mendi, Fabio Macor, Elena Pongolini record as Dildo. This is 'Febbre'

Listen to more at www.laverna.net

Budapest's g (hu) cross-pollinates with 'IndoHungarian'

Hear more at www.soundclick.com/ghu

Dutch Dubmaster Messian Dread rolls 'Stones Of Fire

All things dreadful can be found at dubroom.org

Here is Finnish duo Moosefrog from their Come EP and 'Coffee with Cream'

Download tons of free songs at moosefrog.net

Meme comes from Brighton in then U.K. with 'Cassiopee'

Find more from Meme at www.archive.org/details/commie049

This podcast can be heard in more than 100 countries. Look for the list at myspace.com/idyllic music

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.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Eighteen

2008-07-17T17:40:00.000-07:00

This week, it's feedback and reverb, the mathematics of sound and physics of music. Looking into this super symmetry are Way, The Stringed Theory, postscript, Roll Film and Ronan Dec. I'm Jim Nye

Beginning in Southwest France, this is Way.

Find more from Way at www.electrobel.fr

Dustin Frelich records as The Stringed Theory. Here is 'Quark'

There are more avenues to explore at www.thestringedtheory.com

From his 'Infectus' CD this is postscript and 'Take Me Home'

Look to www.postscriptmusic.co.uk for more.

Roll Film is the songwriting project of Matt Resovich for 'Now It´s Over"

Check out the Acoustic Electronica release at the aerotone netlabel

We'll close this episode with Ronan Dec and ‘Supernova'

You'll find more at www.archive.org

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com with archives at idyllicmusic.blogspot.com. Also visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song from them at iTunes. If you can't get enough Idyllic Music click the Chillinks tab for hours of streaming Trip Hop, Ambient, Jazz, Dub and Downtempo music.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Seventeen

2008-07-16T20:18:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at artists in exile. Not those forced from their homes through political or legal turmoil but the more romantic expatriation of the kind envisioned by Henry Miller, Ernest Hemingway and Graham Greene. The 'Lost Generation', living in hotels, on allowance and awaiting inspiration. Finding their muse this week are Azoora, Kesakoo, My Toys Like Me, Juliet Hotel, Darren Scott Nesbit and The Chill Conspiracy. I'm Jim Nye

We'll begin in the U.K. with Azoora from the Revelations EP and 'She's Coming '

Find more at www.soundclick.com/azoora

Mixing sub-continental beats away from his home in the south of France is Kesakoo this is 'The Wipifougitare Dimension'

Hear more tracks at www.myspace.com/kesakooelectra

We last heard from eclectic duo My Toys Like me back of episode Forty Five. This is 'Bats'

Imagine whiling away the days and languishing at the Juliet Hotel when in comes a 'Bomb in a Suede Smoking Jacket'

Look for more Juliet Hotel at www.myspace.com/104362952

Producer Darren Scott Nesbit finds 'Ghosts in Exile'

There are several free songs to be had www.daznez.com

Time to return home with The Chill Conspiracy and 'The Shadow Escape Plan'

Hear more from this very cool band at www.myspace.com/thechillconspiracy

Don't forget to stop by www.idyllicmusic.com for show notes, scripts and links to the artists including iTunes, CDbaby and eMusic. Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Sixteen

2008-07-13T20:48:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll examine the creative process. Painter Kimberly Brooks offers up and octet of stages of which six match the songs on this episode of Idyllic Music. They are Vision and Hope. Excitement, Clarity, Obsession and Resolution. Look for these in music of Screenatorium, Lasswell, Synthetic, Electric Hippies, Fauna and Endlos. I'm Jim Nye We'll begin in Lyon with trip hop trio Screenatorium from their Blue Morning EP. This is 'Memories'

Sample much more for from these guys www.myspace.com/screenatorium

Lasswell takes a turn now at remixing another cool Trifonic track. Here is 'Pink Clouds'

Find more more at ccmixter.org

Up next Denver's Synthetic teams with Wisconsin cellist Heather Anderson and Dutch graphic artist and mixer Norbert Croonenberg for this variation of 'Old man in a Teahouse' called 'You Know'

Hear the other four versions at ouim.net

Here are Electric Hippies with SilviaO and 'Trampa Animal'

Find more at ccmixter.org

Here is another great track from Fauna called '14th floor'

Download this release for free at homework.polarnet.ru or www.myspace.com/faunaproject

We'll close with Leipzig-based duo Endlos and a live track called 'Renne durch dein Leben.

Find more at www.endlos-toene.de

Don't forget to download the 2 CD ready mixes or our 100th episode at www.Idyllicmusic.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 as well.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Fifteen

2008-07-12T23:13:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at the tension created when fashion comes full circle. As Massive Attack's Tricky points out you have "A dread of the past and fear of the future. You're brand new, You're retro" Finding that singular point for us on the edition of Idyllic Music are Polished Chrome, Return To Mono, Letters In Numbers and Cassettes Won't Listen. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll start with German producer Marc Chrome reveling in 'First Experience'

Hear more Polished Chrome at sine-music.com

This is San Francisco-based trio Return To Mono with 'Give Me Something'

Find more at www.myspace.com/returntomono

Here is Letters In Numbers with the epic 'Hooked'

Look to myspace.com/lettersnumbers for more

We'll close with the decidedly analog Cassettes Won't Listen and 'Paper Float'

Listen to more from Jason Drake pop creations at www.myspace.com/cassetteswontlisten

For more on this podcast and a link to submit music from your band log on to www.Idyllicmusic.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 as well.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Fourteen

2008-07-11T18:28:00.000-07:00

This week we'll spotlight mendacity. There was a time, not long ago, when you could assume a benchmark of truthfulness. Not from everyone or about everything but you could feel fairly secure in the notion that you weren't being lied to about the big things, all the time, With a straight face. Exploring the sad state of this tendency to lie are Trifonic, QuiOui, the silk demise, Orange Crush, DRT, Humus Luminus-Quinslonn and Tacet. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin in San Francisco with Brian and Laurence Trifon recording as
Trifonic. Here is karmickill's CCMix of 'Lies'

Listen to their brilliant 'Emergence CD at www.trifonic.com

This is the Sadness of Ghent's QuiOui and 'La Tristesse'

Find much more at www.myspace.com/quioui

Here is The Silk Demise and the 'fuel to the fire' mix of 'Bound'

Hear more www.thesilkdemise.com

Karl Endreson makes a return the the program as Orange Crush It's 'Burrowhead'

Look for more at www.myspace.com/orangecrushmusic

From Japan producer DRT teams with the Urban Jam Collective for the circular 'The End is the Beginning is the End'

Hear more at www.soundclick.com/drt

We'll close with Humus Luminus Quinslonn and 'Q'

That was Tacet Theme of Emi

Hear more at ccmixter.org/people/tacet

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists as well as the band Idyllic, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them.

Look for all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix. If you can't get enough Idyllic Music click the Chillinks tab for hours of streaming Trip Hop, Ambient, Jazz, Dub and Downtempo music.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Thirteen

2008-07-10T22:51:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at ruins and relics. Places long abandoned for more promising prospects. Whether ancient or post-modern they recall a measure of greatness that evokes more sadness than nostalgia. Leading our tour on this episode of Idyllic Music are Steric Hindrance, NeiLicis, Clear Plastic, Rude Corps, Sardinia Bass Legalize and Electric Salmon. I'm Jim Nye

We'll begin in Brooklyn with Alexey Sparavalo recording as

Steric Hindrance among the moai of Easter Island

That was NeiLicis lost among the rust belt monuments of the 'Chicago Skyline'

Hear more at www.electrobel.fr and more from Alexey at www.soundclick.com/StericHindrance

Here is Clear Plastic with 'Quiet City'

Find more at the Podsafe Music Network

This is Rude Corps following 'Orbital Paths

You'll find much more from this prolific outfit at www.soundclick.com/rudecorps or music.download.com/rudecorps
We last heard from Sardinia Bass Legalize back on episode 64. This one comes from their 'Visions of my Land' CD It's 'Nightview'

Download several free tracks at www.sardiniabasslegalize.com
We'll close with podcast friend Electric Salmon high in the Andes amongst the ruins of Machu Picchu

Look to www.soundclick.com/electricsalmon for more

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com Visit
the revamped Cornershop where you can help support many of the
artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them. There is also a book corner with where you can browse through 20 great music books including Bob Marley's biography 'Catch a Fire', and Jazz: A History of America's Music. And look for all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Twelve

2008-07-06T22:13:00.000-07:00

This week we'll explore the edge of the world. A point on the horizon that marks the end of what is known and all that lies beyond. It's a gray, ill-defined area that defies the usual measurements. Making concerted efforts to try this week are The Uberkids, The Artificial Sea, Monotronaut, Dive Index, onkgusD, Stabilizer and Schev. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll start with The Uberkids and an I Am Robot And Proud Remix of 'Count To Six'

Look for more at www.observatoryonline.org

Kevin C. Smith and Alina Simone are The Artificial Sea. Beyond lies 'The Outpost'

Find more on this very cool band at artificialsea.info

We last heard from Grant Browning back on episode 12. He records from Ontario as Monotronaut. This is 'Prosthetic Prospects'

That's Monotronaut. Listen for more by him at www.soundclick.com/Monotronaut

Will Thomas teams with Natalie Walker for Dive Index's look at the horizontal edge. It's 'Between Sky And Sea'

Listen to more Dive Index at www.neutralmusic.com

This is onkgusD.

There is a lot more at onkgusd.free.fr

Here is Stabilizer with vocals by Morgan Long and 'Grey to Green'

Hear their latest at www.myspace.com/stabilizer

We'll close this episode of Idyllic Music in the south of France with Schev. 'O falls the rain'

Drop by www.electrobel.fr/artist/438 for more

Don't forget to download the 2 CD ready mixes or our 100th episode at www.Idyllicmusic.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 as well.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Eleven

2008-06-22T11:27:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll feature the music of the Orb. Of all the bands that inspired us and helped formulate the scope of this program, it was The Orb's determination to move the mind as well as the hips. Blending the pioneering electronica of Tangerine Dream and the beats of Chicago's warehouse scene with the deep dub of scratch Perry and Byrne and Eno's Bush of Ghosts sampling, The Orb remain a central pillar of today's electronic music. And so dawn breaks for 'A Beautiful Day'

That comes from The Orb's 2007 release 'The Dream' but 'The Truth Is'

Look for more at www.theorb.com

The Orb virtually invented the electronic genre known as ambient house, resurrecting slower, more soulful rhythms and providing a soundtrack for early-morning ravers once the clubs closed their doors. The group popularized the genre as well; by appearing on the British chart show Top of the Pops and hitting number one in the U.K. with the 1992 album U.F.Orb. Frontman Dr. Alex Paterson's formula was quite simple: he slowed down the rhythms of classic Chicago house and added synthwork and effects inspired by '70s ambient pioneers Brian Eno and Tangerine Dream.

The Orb's first actual foray into ambient house appeared in October 1989. The 22-minute single "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld,” actually hit the U.K. charts that year.

In June 1992, the single "Blue Room" hit the British Top Ten. The longest single in chart history at just under 40 minutes, it earned the Orb a spot on Top of the Pops.

A dozen albums plus singles later the Orb made its 'The Dream' album available to podcasters at the Podsafe Music Network. Here is 'Codes'

This is The Orb special on Idyllic Music.

Alex Paterson's Orb is a more free-form collective, taking in associates like Jim Cauty and Killing Joke bassist Youth, Thomas Fehlmann, Kris Weston as well as Gong guitarist Steve Hillage and Jah Wobble. The links are often actual, sometimes sampled and occasionally involuntary. The orb remains one of the most important bands of the last 25 years. This is 'Katskills'

You'll be able to hear the complete 'The Dream' album at www.reverbnation.com/theorb and find more links at www.idyllicmusic.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 as well.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Ten

2008-06-20T17:34:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at the great choice each of us must make between the physical and the moral, happiness and virtue. How we choose to define the greater good sets the path we follow in life. The great challenge is to find a way to bring these mutually exclusive, incompatible values together and find some way of reconciling them. We'll hear from Canola Tenderfoot, Salaryman, Scanlan, I Awake and Elika. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin in Bristol with the Viki & Owen Shirley. They record as Canola Tenderfoot creating a blend of soulful cleansing melodic grooves. Here they help define the greater good with 'Summum Bonum'

Find the rest of their Malicious Damage release 'Winning Is For Losers' at canolatenderfoot.co.uk
Lyon-based Dee Jay Salaryman sets out on the path with 'Seekness'

Hear more of his D & B tracks at www.myspace.com/djsalaryman
We last heard Scanlan’s soulful smoky vocals back on Episode 70. Consider the promises of 'I've Been Told'

Find more at www.myspace.com/scanlanmusic

From Sweden, I Aware begins the process of self-knowledge and 'Reflecting impulses'

You'll hear more of Thomas Huttenlocher subtle ambience at www.myspace.com/iawake

We'll close this week with Elika, 'To The End'

Look for more of Brian & Eva’s hazy psychedelica at elikamusic.com

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com Visit
the revamped Cornershop where you can help support many of the
artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them. There is also a book corner with where you can browse through 20 great music books
including Bob Marley's biography 'Catch a Fire', and Jazz: A History of America's Music. And look for all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Nine

2008-06-14T15:39:00.000-07:00

This week, it's another globetrotting episode of Idyllic Music as we find inspiration in 3 continents in a mashup from 5 countries including Italy, Senegal, The U.S. Sweden and the Netherlands. We'll hear from Ten and Tracer, l’Orchestre A-Dakar, Black Era, MarinuZz and Please. I'm Jim Nye

We'll begin stateside in Denver with Ten and Tracer and the pastoral electronica of 'A Distant Monarch'

Hear more great sounds at myspace.com/archaichorizon or tenandtracer.com

Mola, Baz and Frans are l’Orchestre A-Dakar. Their musical alchemy melds the best of Western Europe with West Africa. This is 'LayLay'

Find more from this creative multi-cultural force at myspace.com/orchestreadakar

Italian Trip-Hopists Black Era make a return to the podcast with a Floydian instrumental called 'Shielded'

There is more to discover at www.aquietbump.com/blackera.html

From Rotterdam, MarinuZz is 'Daydreaming'

Hear more at www.electrobel.nl

Based in Malmö, Sweden, Please creates delicate and stark electronic pop music with subtle hooks and warm harmonies. From their Suture EP this is 'Signal to Noise

Hear the rest of Suture at www.myspace.com/pleasesweden

Look for show notes, scripts and links to the artists by stopping by www.idyllicmusic.com

Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them including all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Eight

2008-06-04T22:36:00.001-07:00

This week, we'll take a poke at Satan, The Devil, Beelzebub or El Dablito. Whether or not you think he is an actual being or a manifestation of our universal need to personify evil, the concept of hell is as pervasive an idea as there is. From Robert Johnson to the White Stripes, there is no denying the fear or promise of hell has been a part of music for a long time. Sorting it all out for us this week are Inadubstate, Soo P and the Outsider, Yamasaki, Dr. Awkward, Atomica, Jah Wobble and Foa Hoka. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin with a demonic overture from French producer Inadubstate. This is 'Hybride'

Find more at parisdubactivitys.free.fr

Here is Soo P and the Outsider with' R'elyah Rising'

From Portsmouth that was Yamasaki's 'Gecko' and Soo P

They have many more tracks at

music.download.com/yamasaki and www.myspace.com/soopandtheoutsider

The U.K.’s Dr. Awkward knows few good things arrive with a 'Midnight Caller

Visit www.drawkward.net

The out-of-towners once defined hell as 'One Day In New York City' Here is Atomica.

www.theatomicaproject.com

Jah Wobble understands redemption lies 'On The Right Road'

That's from Alpha One Three courtesy of www.iodapromonet.com

We'll close in Kiev with legendary Ukrainian underground band Foa Hoka and 'Sekret Yogo Svizhosti'

Download much more at www.arterija.org

Don't forget to stop by www.idyllicmusic.com for show notes, scripts and links to the artists including iTunes, CDbaby and eMusic. Thanks for listening. Be good. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Seven

2008-05-31T12:18:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at metaphors, similes and allegories. These Figures of Rhetoric color our languages and influence the way we describe music. Adding relish and piquancy to this addition of Idyllic music are Iambic, Karmacoda, Plastercluster, TCK and Rafael Aragòn. I'm Jim Nye.

Guy Andrews records in London as
Iambic creating a new and evocative sound mixing the ambience of the Cocteau Twins with the subtle electronic hooks of Boards of Canada. His 'under these stars, we’ll sleep again' release is a revelation. Here is 'Touch the Sky'

Download this CD for free at www.iambicmusic.com
Follow the clever wordplay of Karmacoda on 'Make Like Mine'

Find more from the extraordinary band at www.karmacoda.com

Sit up straight! This is Plastercluster with 'Ergonomy'

Look for more of his nu Jazz at www.myspace.com/plastercluster

From Bordeaux, TCK evokes the stillness of early morning and the 'Arrival Of The Dub In The Peaceful Mountain'

There is much more from Thomas at www.myspace.com/whitetck

Parisian Rafiralfiro teams Wi-Ni 2.0 for a track recorded live at Favela Chic. This is 'Intoxicated'

Find more from Rafael at http://www.myspace.com/rafrafraf

Don't forget to download the 2 CD ready mixes or our 100th episode at www.Idyllicmusic.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 as well.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Six

2008-05-08T22:41:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at the excitement, obsession, twists, and serenity of first romance. “The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end” Exploring the first time on this edition of Idyllic Music are Kristin Hersh, Merlune, Weigl and Hoffman, Telafonica, Mudville and SoundShifter. I'm Jim Nye.

This is an especially creative time for indie stalward Kristin Hersh. Last year, her 'Learn to Sing Like a Star' release was hailed as the Best CD of 2007 by the Oakland Tribune and her efforts toward fair trade music, the CASH Music Project, is making good on the promise with several new songs in a series called Speedbath. Here are the tensions and twists of 'Torque'

Find out more about Kristen Hersh from Idyllic Music Episode 82 and www.throwingmusic.com

From Geneva, Swiss beatist Merlune is incredulous asking 'Do You Really'

Find more trippy tracks at www.myspace.com/merlune

Here is the ambient pop of Phillip Weigl and Micheal Hoffmann with 'Confided'

Hear more from Weigl and Hoffman at www.ideology.de

and now Telafonica and 'The Man With The Golden Sickle'

Find more at www.4-4-2music.com

This is another from Mudville's brilliantly eclectic CD Iris Nova. It's 'Wicked'

Look for more at www.mudvillemusic.com

From Soundshifter's 2nd release on sofasound, here are the soulful vocals of Lady Chris on 'One Night Stand'

Find more from Soundshifter at www.sofasound.de

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists as well as the band Idyllic, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them.

Look for all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix. If you can't get enough Idyllic Music click the Chillinks tab for hours of streaming Trip Hop, Ambient, Jazz, Dub and Downtempo music.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Five

2008-05-05T17:59:00.000-07:00

This week, the chill out continues in the land of the long winters. Five artists from the Baltic region provide the heat for this frigid episode of Idyllic music. They are Fauna, Milieu, Sirk, Bersarin Quartett and Margareds. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin in the Russian Federation with downtempo quartet Fauna from their Emptiness EP. This is 'Dreamless'

Download this release for free at homework.polarnet.ru or www.myspace.com/faunaproject

From his 'Wasted Magic in the Sound' CD, Brian Grainger applies his distinctive style and reinterprets Helsinki-based Badloop's track 'Lumme'

Hear more of Milieu's remixes at archaichorizon.com and the original at www.badloop.com

From Norway, Sirk looks to the end of winter and dreams of summer. Here are 'The Wildflowers'

Look to music.download.com/sirk for more

Here is Bersarin Quartett's ode to 'St. Petersburg'

Find more www.myspace.com/bersarinquartett

We'll close with Polish duo Margareds from their outstanding 'Kingdom of Patience' CD. This is 'Stillborn'

Find more from vocalist Goosia Dziemitko and Red Czerwinski at www.margareds.com or www.myspace.com/margareds

Don't forget to download the 2 CD ready mixes or our 100th episode at www.Idyllicmusic.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 as well.

Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them including all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Four

2008-05-03T13:07:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at the coming and going, beginnings and ends and the state of things at those two points. Starting and stopping with us on this episode are Korev, Artemis, Lex Nasa and Savoir Vivre. I'm Jim Nye.

Simon Lemaire records in France as
Korev with 'Leave Montreal'

Find more at lemaire.simon.free.fr

From her brilliant Gravity CD this is Artemis at the 'Inception'

Listen for more at www.artemis.fm

Lex Nasa is just one of several projects by Alan Morse Davies. Here is the epic 'Moist'

Discover more at www.at-sea.com

Vienna's Savoir Vivre looks to loosen up with 'Let Go'

Know to live at www.myspace.com/savoirvivremusic

Don't forget to download the 2 CD ready mixes or our 100th episode at www.Idyllicmusic.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 as well.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Three

2008-04-22T22:12:00.001-07:00

This week we'll consider the boarding house. Where people of all stripes rent rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes weeks, months and years. Boarders who otherwise would have nothing in common might share evening meals and a common living room. And so this week's Idyllic lodgers include Fringe, Musetta, Jamdeluxe, Minor Chill, Echo TM and Peach Stealing Monkeys. I'm the proprietor, Jim Nye.

We'll begin with Dublin's Holly McGowan and a lovely, thoughtful track her debut release 'Chairs' that weaves, pulses and slides through different rooms echoing with activity down the hall.

Download this incredible release by Fringe for free at alphabetset.net/abcnet/abcnet009.html

We last heard from Musetta back on episode 16. This is 'Peace and Melody'

Listen to more from Musetta at www.musetta.co.uk or myspace.com/musettamusic

Here is an older song from Switzerland's Jamdeluxe. It's called 'King Laugh'

Find more great tracks at www.jamdeluxe.ch

Mika Koistinen records in Finland as Minor Chill. Here is 'Drifter'

Find more at mikseri.net/minorchill

Here are mysterious Polish producers Echo TM with 'Dub Culture'

Hear more Euro-dub at http://afterbeat.org
Finally, it's Peach Stealing Monkeys covering Ledbelly

There is much more to discover at www.peachstealingmonkeys.com

Don't forget to download the 2 CD ready mixes or our 100th episode at www.Idyllicmusic.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 as well.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and Two

2008-04-21T08:25:00.000-07:00

This week, it's adventure. The kind imagined by the great turn of the century authors like Kipling, Burroughs, Wells and Verne. 100 years hence on Idyllic Music, we offer Sublimatus, Daakoon, Conrad Belfort, Juno6, Orbique and Synthastazia. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin in the footsteps of Marco Polo with
Sublimatus crossing the 'Khyber Pass'.

Hear more from Zena Hagerty and Andras Hornic at myspace.com/sublimatus777

Montreal's Daakoon initiates 'First Contact'

You can find more of his cool electronica at dustedwax.org/dwk008.html

From Toulouse, Conrad Belfort reflects on the 'The Sadness of Tarzan'

Find more at www.electrobel.fr/artist/548

Leipzig's Stefan Schultz records electro-colia as Juno6. Here is '100'

Find much more at 1bit-wonder.com

Polish Minimalist Orbique continues with 'Girl'

Look for more at www.myspace.com/djorbique

In the spirit of H.G. Wells it's Synthastazia and 'Large Fruiting Bodies'

You'll find more at www.myspace.com/edhallborg

Don't forget to download the 2 CD ready mixes or our 100th episode at www.Idyllicmusic.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 as well.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

One Hundred and One

2008-04-20T17:48:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at the Sun. The periodic table lists 117 elements in the universe yet the sun is mostly just hydrogen and helium. Its simplicity belies its enormous life giving value in both a physical and spiritual sense. Exploring this paradox for us on this edition of Idyllic Music are Cling, Omihoshbin, Subtronik, 2 Bone Giants, Vim Cortez and Amanda Jayne. I'm Jim Nye.

London-based Cling has a reputation for dreamtime elemental music. From their Sonic Spells CD, this is 'Slipping Away'.

You can hear more great music at www.clingmusic.co.uk

Belgium-based producer, Omihoshbin muses over 'Konstruqutoral Konsiderations

There is more at www.myspace.com/omihoshbin

U.K. Versionist Subtronik touches on the fiery aspects of the soul with 'Spiritwise'

Find more at www.subtronix.co.uk

We'll continue with two Bulgarian brothers recording as 2 Bone Giants on the Dusted Wax netlabel. This is 'Gear Down'

Dig more at www.myspace.com/2bonegiants

From Paris, Vim Cortez records remarkably complex music that manages to evoke calm. Here is 'Much Though I Like You'

Hear more at http://vimcortez.com

Barcelona's Amanda Jayne closes with 'Blueprints' to the sun.

Check out her 'Swoon' CD at www.myspace.com/amandajayneswoon

Don't forget to download the 2 CD ready mixes or our 100th episode at www.Idyllicmusic.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 as well.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Ninety-Nine

2008-02-14T20:29:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll contemplate the patient ear. The following five tracks require time. At least they did for me. Each one finds its stride at precisely the right moment for that song and that make them special. Taking their own sweet time about it are HerbalJ, Audiokonstrukte, Terence Blanchard, Wurlitztraction and Misosoup. I'm Jim Nye. At the end of the program, I'll have a few words about our 100th episode and give away.

We'll begin with DJ HerbalJ and 'Break Zone'

Hear more at www.myspace.com/djherbalj

Up next we'll turn to German producer Audiokonstrukte for 'Sensitive Poem'

Download the "Smart Echoes For Sensitive Ears" CD at www.1bit-wonder.com

Here is another from New Orleans native
Terence Blanchard's song cycle of anger, compassion, melancholy, and beauty. A TALE OF GOD’S WILL (a requiem for katrina)

This is 'In Time Of Need'

Find more at www.terenceblanchard.com

Wurlitztraction is the latest project from Sound Designer Chris Reid. This is 'if you could leave your body for one night where would you go'

Download the entire The Starlit Numbers On Her Fingers at www.creidsonics.co.uk/wurlitztraction/music.html

From Lyon, This is an untitled collaboration between Misosoup and Pitch.

Look to www.electrobel.fr for more.

Coming up on the 100th episode of Idyllic Music, we'll look to honor the many regular listeners to this podcast with two CD ready mixes of the best vocal and instrumental tracks heard on the show over the past two years. Don, Mika, Stephen and I have gleaned the archives and will offer up these two mixes unencumbered by the usual patter so that you can burn them directly to the blank CD of your choice. The playlists and artist links will be available, as always, at www.idyllicmusic.com

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye

Ninety-Eight

2008-02-13T19:07:00.000-08:00

This week, East meets West for a soft clash or happy mesh of global culture. It's the musical migration that may be our best hope toward understanding and acceptance of each other. Helping us along are DubDriver, Tokyo507, Omnisine, Mystic Village and Soma Sonic. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin in Berlin with the Floating ethno-beats of Drummer/Producer Stefan Koran. This is 'Dotted Diary'

Look for more at www.dub-diver.com

TOKYO507 is the trans-global collaboration of Mark Southeron and Hayden Turner based in Sydney and London. This is 'Eden'

Find more of Mark and Hayden's work at www.myspace.com/tokyo507

We last heard from Mumbai's Omnisine on episode 37. Here is a taste of his sub-continental downtempo ft. Varsha with 'Mora Piya'

Paul Brown and Mike Canto continue with this earthy electronica as Mystic Village. Here is 'Fresh Dirt'

Hear more at www.mysticvillageemerge.com

Ontario's Francois and Dominic Paterson close this episode with a cinematic bossa offered by Soma Sonic. It's 'Memories'

Hear more at www.somasonic.com

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them.

Thank you for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Ninety-Seven

2008-02-12T18:57:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at fair-trade music. Over the past several years, three things have changed the course of popular music, for better or worse. First came the marriage of music and video and the overwhelming marketing power it presented. It was an expensive tool requiring serious funding by record labels loathe to take chances on what they viewed as a commodity. Next was the advent of personal digital recording allowing bands to record professional quality music on a shoestring and finally the Internet offered the ability for bands to market their own music. Fair-trade music acknowledges this and offers a new relationship between artist and fan. Embracing the new paradigm are Laki Mera, The Chill Conspiracy, Lich, to the sea with me and Radio Orphans. I'm Jim Nye.

From a Glasgow warehouse studio Laki Mera define D.I.Y by writing and recording their debut album 'clutter' free from outside interference and pressures. This is 'How Dare You'

Download the entire 'clutter' cd on the honor system at www.lakimera.co.uk

The Chill Conspiracy is a Swiss Downtempo collective featuring the bass and turntablist talents of LiquidBass and DJ Psion augmented by Bulgarian drummer Apo and Swiss vocalist Lucy. Here is 'Trees'

There is much more on The Chill Conspiracy at www.myspace.com/thechillconspiracy

Polish violinist Kaska Paluch teams with producer Dopehead from the 'Rise of the Zwitch Kings' ep. Here is Lich.

You'll find that release for free at www.aquietbump.com and more from Kaska at www.myspace.com/kaskapaluch

to the sea with me is an online collaboration between electronic producer Estrechez and vocalist Jehn Cerron. Here is the ethereal 'waiting 4 sleep, ready 2 dream rewound'

Hear more at www.soundlift.com

Finneaus and Jaw Knee are Radio Orphans scrounging sound for musical puzzles. The is 'Ides of March'

Listen to their more tracks and their cool podcast at radioorphans.blogspot.com and look for show notes, scripts and links to the artists by stopping by www.idyllicmusic.com. You can find many of the songs heard on this show at eMusic, CDBaby or iTunes where you can also subscribe for free weekly downloads. Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Ninety-Six

2007-12-16T09:08:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look beyond the Lost Horizon for the mythical places, hidden and elusive. They are known by names like El Dorado, Shangri-La, Avalon, Atlantis or Utopia. Guiding our way on this episode of Idyllic music are AguaFlames, Neko Neko, Alu, Neil Smith, Indidginus and Orange Crush. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin in the Russian Federation with a quartet of hugely talented Muscovites called AguaFlames. Their mix of ancient rhythms and electronics start us on the journey down the 'Lost Highway'

Find more free downloads at aguaflames.com

Manchester's Neko Neko returns with the magical 'Peacock cave'

Hear more from Neko Neko at www.myspace.com/anniseed
California chanteuse Alu evokes Guinevere over brush work for Avalon'

You'll find more great songs at www.alumusic.com/
Just as Hugh Conway traveled the world looking for Shangri-La, Cincinnati's Neil Smith continues to 'Seek'

There are dozens of free downloads to be had at neilsmithmusic.com
Cape Town's Michael Martin has been playing didgeridoo for more than a decade. He records as Indidginus and this is 'Dubliminal'

Hear much more at www.myspace.com/indidginus
From Norway, Orange Crush closes this edition of Idyllic Music with 'Dawn Breaker'

Find Karl Endreson's catalog at www.archaichorizon.com and Orange Crush.

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com with archives at idyllicmusic.blogspot.com. Also visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song from them at iTunes. If you can't get enough Idyllic Music click the Chillinks tab for hours of streaming Trip Hop, Ambient, Jazz, Dub and Downtempo music.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Ninety-Five

2007-12-13T11:37:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at transportation. It's the getting from one place to another that takes up so much of our time whether it's physically or spiritually. So we'll explore the conventional and not so conventional ways of getting around with the help of USB, Under, Crisopa, Aquanaut and HypNo. I'm Jim Nye.

UK-based producer USB picks the speediest way to get there with all the blur of sensations of the 'Bullet Train'

Find much more at soundclick.com/bands/usb and his full album at cdbaby.com/cd/usbmusic

From San Francisco, Under's Jen Triano considers the futility but will still 'Keep on Moving'

Hear more from Under at www.underthemusic.com

Santi Lizón records hazy, dreamtronica from Madrid as Crisopa. For those willing to stop and ask directions, take the road that leads "North Left'

Find more from this remarkable artist at www.myspace.com/crisopa

Traveling by train is romance beyond most other modes. With names like the Orient Express, Indian Pacific, Northern Lights and the Twilight Express. Here is Aquanaut and 'Daystar'

Look for more at www.soundclick.com/aquanaut

From Strasbourg, HypNo creates dark, minimalist beats and warns there is no return ticket. This is 'Non Retour'

Hear more at www.myspace.com/hypnomn

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them. There is also a book corner with where you can browse through 20 great music books including American Music: Photographs
by Annie Leibovitz and Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

And look for all four Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.
Thank you for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Ninety-Four

2007-12-11T21:43:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look for the lost, the secret, the rushed and hypnotic with the help of four bands who have made distinctive contributions to independent music in their home countries. They are Bluba Lu, Kalahari Surfers, QuiOui and Volfoniq. I'm Jim Nye.

Bluba Lu is one of the oldest existing underground groups in Bulgaria. Listen for vocalist Roni Popova's World Melancholy on 'Lost Song'

Find their sophisticated orchestral mix of Eastern European influence and trippy beats at www.blubalu.net

We last heard from Warrick Sony's Kalahari Surfers back of episode 51. This is 'The Secrecy of Science'

There is much more at www.africandope.co.za

Here is Belgian quartet QuiOui with a deceptively trick track called 'Rushes'

Find much more at www.myspace.com/quioui

From France comes Volfoniq. It's 'Hypno Dub'

Hear more of their electrodub stylings at www.volfoniq.com

And look for show notes, scripts and links to the artists by stopping by www.idyllicmusic.com

Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them including all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Ninety-Three

2007-12-09T19:18:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at city life and the effort it takes not to be overwhelmed by it. Taking us through the structure, disorientation, density and sanctuaries of respite are DJ Shiro, Dive Index, Confused Man, Danieto and Macrostructure. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin with the consecrated, modern beats of DJ Shiro keeping the vow of the 'Urban Nazirite'

Hear more at www.myspace.com/djshiro

Will Thomas teams with former Pale Saint Ian Masters for Dive Index's tribute to Japanese urbanity. 'Hoko Onchi

Listen to more Dive Index at www.neutralmusic.com

Dirk Bepperling finds disconnect in the city as Confused Man. This is 'Koon-po-ha'

There is more Confused man at www.sofasound.de

Daniel Nieto from Chile continues with this spacious dub called 'El Piolinista'

Find more Danieto at www.impar.cl

We'll close with the sonic urban infestation of Macrostructure. This is 'Insects'

Find more of their complex multilayered sound at www.macrostructure.net

Don't forget to stop by www.idyllicmusic for show notes, scripts and links to the artists including iTunes, CDbaby and eMusic. Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Ninety-Two

2007-12-06T21:09:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at the brusque and abrupt. It seems as if we live in a time of rapid change, speeding up yet halting in fits and jerks. It is demonstrated in the area of climate change, where the theory of abrupt, tipping point change is becoming more widely accepted. On this episode we'll hear 7 songs whose precipitous changes and Unexpected endings represent that new reality. They are from Alif Tree, I am Open, Krael, Gisela, Jeff Mallon and Anji Bee. I'm Jim Nye

We'll begin with a taste of French Cuisine and the remarkable sounds of Alif Tree featuring Anna Karina. This is 'Belle'

Find more at alexalif.free.fr

Here are the shifting tempos of Dutch artist Iam0pen and 'Feet Of Fire'

Hear more at www.electrobel.nl

This is Krael with 'Origin of Life'

Here is Gisela with 'This is how it Goes'

Download other great tracks at www.hellosurprise.com/gisela.html
Here is a short one from Jeff Mallon called 'Worm'

Look to www.myspace.com/jeffmallonmusic for more.
Something a little different from Anji Bee now called Heartstrings - ft. DJ Pain 1 and El Guante

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists as well as the band Idyllic, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com. Click the Chillinks tab for hours of free streaming Trip Hop, Ambient, Jazz, Dub and Downtempo music.

Don't miss Bazooka Joe's Solipsistic Nation special on the Dub Beautiful Collective at solipsisticnation.com
See you next week. I'm Jim Nye.

Ninety-One

2007-12-05T06:39:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at the One and no other. Novelist Iris Murdoch said 'The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries" It explains how years after love goes sour, you can be haunted by that failure. Accepting no substitutes this week are Blind Divine, Chris Martin, Dive Index, Countertop Hero and Lemonchill. I'm Jim Nye.

Tucson's Paula Catherine Valencia and Daniel Martin Diaz are Blind Divine from their 'Devouring The Beautiful' CD. Here is 'Something Magical'

Find more at magnatune.com/artists/blind_divine

Chris Martin's new CD "Prologue" confirms his top tier status in the world of electronica. This is 'Lovestruck'

Look for more on Chris Martin at music.download.com/chrismartin

Producer Will Thomas has brought some of the indie world's greatest talents together for a collaborative project called Dive Index. Here is Cat Martino's 'For Centuries'

Other indices include Natalie Walker, Merz, and Ian Masters. Hear more at www.neutralmusic.com

From Greenville, NC, deconstructionist Josh Gaudioso puts things together and takes them apart in this untitled piece as Countertop Hero.

Find more from Josh at www.soundclick.com/CountertopHero

Israeli producer Lemonchill mixed beats to moods with 'Missing Souls'

Hear more Ethereal beats at www.myspace.com/lemonchill1

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them. There is also a book corner with where you can browse through 20 great music books including Lady sings the blues by Billie Holiday and I Me Mine by George Harrison

And look for all four Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.
Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Ninety

2007-11-17T09:02:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at the blue side of love. The agonizing reappraisal that comes after infatuation with the help of Big Wheel, Kristin Mainhart, The Banjo Consorsium, Fez Dispenser, Velvet Chain and Deerfoot. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin in the U.K. with Dave Clough's jazzy electronica. He records as Big Wheel and this is 'Curve'

Find more at www.soundclick.com/bigwheel

New York's Kristin Mainhart matches a fiddle with a strident beat while examining a static relationship that's become 'Comfortable'

Look for more at CDbaby and www.myspace.com/khromozomes

The Banjo Consorsium comes out of Sherbrooke, Quebec led by multi-instrumentalist Jacques-Philippe Lemieux Leblanc. Here is the exquisitely delicate 'Talk About You'

Hear more at www.thebanjoconsorsium.com

Matt Thorne records eclectic Trip-Bop as Fez Dispenser. From his Ant Rifle CD this is 'I Lost My Way'

Hear more at www.fezdispenser.com

The groove rolls on with Erika Amato and Velvet Chain. Here is 'Sea of Tranquility'

Hear more from this great band at www.velvetchain.com

We'll close of a more upbeat note with Deerfoot, a Canadian quartet influenced by jazz, rock and funk. Groove to the nutty sounds of 'Elves on Patrol'

There is much more at www.ilovedeerfoot.com

Look for show notes, scripts and links to the artists by stopping by www.idyllicmusic.com

Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them including all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Eight-Nine

2007-11-15T08:33:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll hear five songs by artists and musicians who have internalized the sounds of their adopted homes or stepped outside their native cultures to embrace the beats of another. They are Amanda Jayne, Virculum, Suzanne Vega, Stervhia and the Lion of Joppa Soundsystem. I'm Jim Nye

We'll start on the streets of Barcelona with Amanda Jayne Wright from her brilliant 'Swoon' CD and 'Stupid For Your Love'

Find more at www.myspace.com/amandajayneswoon

Australian expatriate Mark Lau works the studios of Manhattan as Virculum. This is 'Wwlit Alma'

Hear more at virculum.com

Raised in New York's Spanish Harlem, Suzanne Vega returns with a new CD called 'Beauty & Crime'

Check out www.suzannevega.com for more

Mexico City's Stervhia trips out with 'Breath Remains' featuring vocals by Elizabeth Solana

Hear more from this unique band at www.stervhia.com or www.myspace.com/stervhia

We'll close out this edition of Idyllic Music in suburban Edinburgh and the Lion of Joppa Soundsystem. This is 'Tempo Dub'

Hear more of Ali's bonny dread at www.myspace.com/lionofjoppasoundsystem

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com Visit the revamped Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them. There is also a book corner with where you can browse through 20 great music books including Miles Davis's autobiography and the Trouser Press Guide to Music.

And look for all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.
Thanks again to Stephen, Mika and Don for research, correspondence and other web stuff. Thank you for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Eighty-Eight

2007-11-14T06:40:00.000-08:00

This week, we'll look at sister cities. Not in any formal sense but closely related nonetheless. We have four bands and four cities whose cultural and artistic proximity could just as easily be one. They are Mavro, Chill Factor-5, Tricky and Bubblelawn. I'm Jim Nye

We'll begin in the U.K. and Brighton with Mavro and the cinematic beats of 'Gum San'

Find more at www.myspace.com/mavromusic

Chicago's Chill Factor-5 mixes their free jazz roots with heavy beats. This is 'When I was 4'

Hear more of Maurice Oliver's Chill Factor-5 at www.electronfarm.net

From Bristol, Massive Attack's Tricky warns of her 'Crazy Claws'

Find his entire solo catalog at www.trickyonline.com

St. Louis-based producer Bubblelawn brilliantly captures the feel of moving water with 'Float'

You can find a variety of downloadable mp3's at www.bubblelawn.com

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them.

There is also a book corner with where you can browse through 20 great music books including Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd
by Nick Mason and No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins

And look for all four Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.
Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Eighty-Seven

2007-10-24T20:17:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at foreknowledge and hindsight. The ability to know what might happen and inability to profit from that knowledge. Like Camus' unused train ticket found at his fatal car crash or lyrics of a song made clear over time. We'll visit that paradox with Jamdeluxe, Nihaya, Owen, Tryad, and Coil. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin on the shores of Lake Geneva in Lausanne, Switzerland with Jamdeluxe featuring the soulful vocals of MANOO. This is 'My Declaration'

Find more great tracks and a chance to collaborate at www.jamdeluxe.ch

Looking back fondly is Nihaya with 'Nostalgik Player'

We last heard from Owen on Episode 45. This is 'Broken Down'

Owen has dozens of free songs at www.electrobel.be/artist/3528

Here is the Seattle-based collective Tryad, channeling Tricky with 'Seduction'

Hear more at www.tryad.org

Stephen Thrower, the late John Balance and Throbbing Gristle's Peter Christopherson are the seminal experimental band Coil. We'll close with the prescience of 'The Last Amethyst Deceiver'

You will find the full Coil discography at www.brainwashed.com/coil

For more on this program including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com
Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them. If you enjoyed this podcast consider adding a link to it from your webpage. Don't forget to subscribe at iTunes for weekly updates.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Eighty-Six

2007-10-23T20:02:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll search for the empty space, the gap or missing part. A spot devoid of all things but meaning through the help of the definitive Lacunae, Aaron the cutter, DS-Art, Max Cavallera and Egon. I'm Jim Nye.

Kasten Searles, Arson Bright, A. Peluso have never met. They collaborate over the Internet from home bases in Philly, Concord and Columbus yet the distance between is what makes them great. That's not always the case as in the 'Loneliness of Lovers'

Find more at www.lacunaemusic.com

Aaron the cutter and Emeline find safety in distance with 'Voodoo'

Hear more from Aaron at www.electrobel.fr/profile/525

Munich's Dusan Sevic paints music for picture listeners. Early on the 'Beast Preludes Fashion'

Look for more DS-Art at www.sofasound.de

German Technologist Max Cavallera examines the space between 'Planets'

Check out www.myspace.com/broquenetlabel for more

From theSlovak Republic Egon crosses the gap by 'Bridge'
That comes from Egon's Petition Of The Kindness CD. Find more at www.myspace.com/egon2

For more on this program including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com
Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them. If you enjoyed this podcast consider adding a link to it from your webpage.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Eighty-Five

2007-10-12T08:10:00.000-07:00

This week we'll look at points in time that determine an endless series of possibilities. Paths that diverge then meander back and cross again. The future may be unwritten but which future. Presenting their respective cases are Motionfield, Ecovillage, SAHR, Peach Stealing Monkeys, Waverider and Gabriel. I'm Jim Nye

We'll begin with two Scandinavian offerings. Motionfield is musician and sound designer Petter Friberg. His latest CD is called 'Movements'

Find more Motionfield at www.stadtgruenlabel.net

Here is the remarkable Swedish band Ecovillage with 'Rays of a Thousand Summers'

Hear more of their warm sounds at www.myspace.com/ecovillagemusic

Ukrainian quartet SAHR plays reflective, cerebral instrumental music. Here is 'Oblast Nigde'

Find more SAHR at www.archive.org

From their The Missing Link Of Lo Fi release here are Peach Stealing Monkeys featuring the Holidayesque vocals of Christine Lunaire and 'The Joy Is Gone'

There is much more to discover at www.peachstealingmonkeys.com

Montreal's Waverider make a return to Idyllic Music with 'The Midnight Dub'

Find more of François' dreadful sounds at www.soundclick.com/waverider

This is Gabriel and 'Passin You By'

Find the entire Good Old Days release at Archaic Horizon Records

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists as well as the band Idyllic, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them.

Look for all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix. If you can't get enough Idyllic Music click the Chillinks tab for hours of streaming Trip Hop, Ambient, Jazz, Dub and Downtempo music.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Eighty-Four

2007-10-11T14:46:00.000-07:00

This week, we look at ones and zeros, the choice of on or off. Calculations for a digital age where the earthly pursuits of the past are but nostalgia. Forging on and remembering the old at Jeankal, Synthastazia dot exe, Frank Molder, Mabafu and Jah Wobble. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin in the east of France with Jeankal, a young producer with a gift for blending melancholy with a hopeful touch. Here is 'Binary'

His spot on the web is www.myspace.com/jeankal

Buffalo's Ed Hallborg teams with vocalist Alison Bellinger as Synthastazia-dot-exe This is 'Orange Flow'

Find more at soundclick.com or www.psychosomaticbreakdown.com

German netlabel OneBit Wonder mainstay Frank Molder new release is called 'Orbital Movement'

Hear much more at www.1bit-wonder.com

We last head from Mabafu back on episode 35. It was worth the wait for 'Hermano Camaron'

Hear more Mabafu at www.sofasound.de

Former PIL bassist turned world citizen Jah Wobble closes this episode of Idyllic Music from his 'Inspiration Of William Blake' CD with reading of the beauty and horror of one a the world's more perfect beasts.

Look for more from the legendary Jah Wobble at www.30hertzrecords.com/home.html

And look for show notes, scripts and links to the artists by stopping by www.idyllicmusic.com

Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them including all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Eighty-Three

2007-10-07T12:49:00.000-07:00

This week's Rorschach looks at things that might have been .had we taken the time to see what was hidden in plain sight. Providing the hindsight without recrimination are Calm, Mr.S, Peeping Tom, Two Loons for Tea and Terence Blanchard. I'm Jim Nye

Calm is the German duo of Michael Peidl and the singer Katja Wirtz. From their 'Impressions' CD. This is 'Mover'

Hear more at www.calm-be.de

Idyllic Music fav Mr.S continues with a new EP. Here is 'Acoustically Illustrated'

You'll find more by this talented Pole at artificialbliss.com or at myspace/monsieuresse

Barcelona's Peeping Tom is actually Vincent Hänni and Gabriel Scotti with 'Capitalism'

Download the entire 'Slowly' CD fro free at www.petitpouletrecords.com

From Washington State, Two Loons for Tea are the remarkable pair Sarah Scott and Jonathan Kochmer. This is 'Sunset Room'

Look for at live video of that track at www.twoloons.com

We'll close with New Orleans native Terence Blanchard's song cycle of anger, rage, compassion, melancholy, and beauty. A TALE OF GOD’S WILL (a requiem for katrina) This is 'Funeral Dirge'

Find more about this brilliant album at www.terenceblanchard.com and look for show notes, scripts and links to the artists by stopping by www.idyllicmusic.com. You can find many of the songs heard on this show at eMusic, CDBaby or iTunes where you can also subscribe for free weekly downloads. Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Eighty-Two

2007-10-05T07:39:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at sustainability and cooperation. One of the searing truths of the music you listen to is that it don't come easy. Musicians create and if they are good enough or plain lucky, they can take their songs on the road and sell a few tickets. Independent artists ask only a bit of cooperation from us. This podcast is entirely dependent on the bands that offer up their music for us to play for free. In turn, they ask only that you buy a ticket or a song or a CD directly from them. One of these is the enormously gifted songwriter Kristen Hersh. Her blog at myspace.com lays out the many challenges an indie faces bringing a new CD to the public while remaining true to the music. And so we cooperate and sustain with the music of Kristin Hersh. From Sky Motel, this is 'Echo'

That was 'Me and My Charms' from the 'Strings' EP. We're featuring the music of Kristin Hersh on Idyllic Music. Highlighting the relationship between musicians and listeners. Here is one from her latest 'learn to sing like a star!' It's 'vertigo'

From Strange Angels, that was 'Like You'. You'll find tour dates and the rest Kristin Hersh's catalog at www.throwingmusic.com

Here is a duet with Michael Stipe from the Hips and Makers CD called 'Your Ghost'

That was another from Strange Angels called 'Heaven'

Many of you may take the time and effort in your own daily lives to go green for a sustainable world or buy fair trade coffee at the market but now an effort is underway to bring you fair-trade music. That means No record labels, no distributors, no middlemen. An agreement between the consumer and musician that the entertainment they provide needs listener support. It could be songs by subscription or donation directly from the artists. Many bands offer quality music via net labels for free. Others have their own websites with shopping carts. It's a direct way to ensure great new music in the future. It's a cleaner business model. A Cleaner Light.

'A Cleaner Light' comes from Sky Motel and 'Winter' from Kristin Hersh's brilliant new album 'learn to sing like a star!' Look for more on the Coalition of Artists & Stake Holders at www.throwingmusic.com and find links to many free net labels at www.idyllicmusic.com.

Thanks to Kristin Hersh for making her music available to us. Remember to support independent music. I'm Jim Nye.

Eighty-One

2007-10-04T14:33:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll explore the essentials. In fact, The Sun and water are the key ingredients for life, as we know it. I'd like to suppose cool music to that short list as well. We'll hear all three in the voice of Portal, Surbahar, Omihoshbin, Band of Mad Women, and The HellBus. I'm Jim Nye.

From the U.K., Scott Sinfield's signature gauzy sound heralds his project
Portal along with vocalist Rachel Hughes. From their Tristesse CD. This is 'Even The Sun'

There is much more at www.portal-music.com

Bulgarian multi-instrumentalist Pavel Stoychev's records as Surbahar. Bathe in the warmth of 'Radesha'

Find Pavel's many creative efforts at www.artmospheric.org

From Belgium, Omihoshbin takes up the CCMixter challenge and reworks Calender Girl's 'Underwater'

That was ' Water Song' by Band of Mad Women. Download the entire 'Rodopted' CD at www.ouim.net and look for 'Underwater at calendarsongs.com

Here is The Hellbus.

Sadly, Jon Cockner has put the brakes on this great project. Drop him a line at www.soundclick.com/hellbus if you'd like to put in a good word.

The same goes for this podcast look for show notes, scripts and links to the artists by stopping by www.idyllicmusic.com

Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them. There is also a book corner with where you can browse through 20 great music books including Miles Davis's autobiography and the Trouser Press Guide to Music. And look for all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.

Thank you for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Eighty

2007-09-06T20:31:00.000-07:00

This week, it's the current state of electronic music. It's become the laziest handle for a genre since Alternative. For a long time it was defined as music played on synthesizers but that time has come and gone. Today's electronic music is so broad as to defy easy categorization but for one element. It is, more often than not, assembled digitally. So, we'll peer into the electronic future with the help of MoShang, Ikarus, K-Shan, The Silk Demise, The Twombley Spiders and Toneless Symphony. I'm Jim Nye.

From a brilliant new album called Asian Variations - Various Artists Remixed by MoShang. Here is Viba and a mix of 'In the Orchard Lies a Secret'

Find the entire album at asianvariations.com
Wolfgang Stindl is a sound collagist without peer, piecing together the exotic as Ikarus. This in 'Bassment'

You can get more music from Wolf at www.ikarusmusic.com

From the United Kingdom, K-Shan blends the ambient with acoustic on his Memory and Dust release. This is 'Tears of the Moon'

Hear more at www.k-shan.com
Toronto’s The Silk Demise obscure the definition of electronica with 'Corridor Fog'

Look for more at www.thesilkdemise.com
Katia Perdoni and Eryk Salvaggio are The Twombley Spiders with 'A Thousand Pinwheels'

Find more of their beguiling compositions at www.notype.com

We'll close with the elegant sounds of Toneless Symphony and 'The Electronic Future.

Visit Ben at www.myspace.com/tonelesssymphony

Don't forget to stop by www.idyllicmusic for show notes, scripts and links to the artists including iTunes, CDbaby and eMusic. Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Seventy-Nine

2007-08-26T22:36:00.000-07:00

Just as a sad movie can raise your spirits and the blues make you joyful sometimes being alone can be rejuvinating, This week we'll feel out the many aspcts of being alone through the music of Simone and Flu, Grove of Hellion, All About Max, Hungry Lucy, Chico Correa and Ici Aussi. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin in Rio with the electro/acoustic bossa of Simone and Flu here is 'Depressa'

Find more of Flu's collaborations at www.musicartistry.de

Kentucky's Kaelin Curtsinger records as Grove of Hellionand 'Believe'

An album's worth of free downloads can be found at www.soundclick.com/groveofthehellion

From Italy comes All About Max and the wistful sadness of 'Tomorrow 'I'll Be Alone'

Look to www.muertepop.com/artists/allaboutmax.htm for more

The solitary sounds continue with Hungry Lucy and 'A Girl Alone'

There is much more to this band at www.hungrylucy.com

We last heard from Chico Correa and his electric band back on episode 40. Here is 'Coco de Elevador'
Hear more cool tracks at www.musicartistry.de

Aleksandra Plavsic and Myriam Bâ are Ici Aussi with the emotional desolation of 'Silent Train'

Find more at www.myspace.com/iciaussi

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com Visit the revampedCornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them. There is also a book corner with where you can browse through 20 great music books including Miles Davis's autobiography and the Trouser Press Guide to Music.

And look for all 3 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.
Thanks Stephen, Mika and Don for research, correspondence and other web stuff. Thank you for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Seventy-Eight

2007-08-18T19:15:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at that short period between emerging from sleep to actually opening your eyes. A state of near consciousness through the music of Natalie Walker, cognitive dissonance, Karmacoda, A Weekend At Lesters, Blue Vitriol and Org.

We'll begin with the achingly plaintive vocals of
Natalie Walker whom we last heard from back on episode 14. This is 'Waking Dream'

Find more at www.natalie-walker.com

This is CoGnItIvE dIsSoNaNcE with 'Esoteric'

Look to www.soundclick.com/CoGnItIvE dIsSoNaNcE (USA)

This is San Francisco's Karmacoda from their 2003 'transistory' EP. Here is 'Firefly'

Find all this great bands music at www.karmacoda.com

From the south of England, A.W.A.L is short for A Weekend At Lesters This is 'Scintillate, Stimulate'

Look for more at www.awalmusic.co.uk

Bay-area dubsters Josh and Jacob are Blue Vitriol. Here is 'Re-Entry Dub'

Hear more at bluevitriol.com

This is the revealing electronica of Org and 'Nude Art'

Find more unusual dance music at www.taktalsmittel.com

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them. There is also a book corner with where you can browse through 20 great music books including Lady sings the blues by Billie Holiday and I Me Mine by George Harrison

And look for all four Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.
Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Seventy-Seven

2007-08-15T19:03:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll examine the illusion of contact. The sheer counter-intuitiveness that on a sub-atomic level nothing actually touches anything else. Whether it's the landing of a boxer's blow or the gentle lapping of waves on a shore, contact remains elusive. On this episode we'll hear from Robert Stephan, Blacker, Siksha, Phasen, Mark.Nine and Matera. I'm Jim Nye.

From Philadelphia, Robert Stephan creates a range of sounds and moods. This is 'Ocean Meets The Land'

Hear more from Robert at www.myspace.com/zrobertstephanz

Neapolitan downtempo trio BlackEra is next with 'The Tunnel'

Find more at www.aquietbump.com or at www.myspace.com/theblackera

This is Siksha and 'Ali'

Here are the down-tempo, psychedelic sounds of Phasen from his Yesterday Was Tomorrow release. It's 'Getting Even'

Look for more Phasen at ionetlabel.com

Mark.Nine is an independent electronic music composer from Texas. Here is 'From All Things Depending'

Find Marcus and other great electronic artists at www.ionetlabel.com

Mario Marino records as Matera This is '2004'

Hear more at www.materaelectronics.com

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them. There is also a book corner with where you can browse through 20 great music books including Lady sings the blues by Billie Holiday and I Me Mine by George Harrison

And look for all four Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.
Thanksfor listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Seventy-Six

2007-08-13T13:49:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll explore tongues and grooves from 5 bands that build on individual contributions to realize a vision beyond a single person. They are Chillerstadt, prod13F, Messian Dread, William Lamy and Alchemy Groove. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin with a sound ringing clear and a sultry groove. Here is Chillerstadt and 'Heat'

Hear more at www.chillerstadt.com

prod13F combines the talents of Lunalyss, Kronos, 6-phoniQ and Aïram for 'Mes Larmes Ne Coulent Plus'

Find more at 13fprod.com

Here is the nearly ubiquitous Dutch Dubmaster Messian Dread with 'Thunder Dub'

That was from Messian Dread's Hardcore Dub Sessions. You'll find a plethora of reggae music at dubroom.org

William Lamy's electronica balances cool beats with sly humor. This is 'Tribal City'

You'll find a decade worth of songs at www.williamlamy.com

Columbian bassist Oscar Rodriguez surrounds himself with a variety of collaborators from his home in Switzerland.
This is Alchemy Groove and a track called 'Feeling'

Hear several samples of their energetic style at http://www.myspace.com/alchemygroovestudio

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists log on to www.idyllicmusic.com Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song from them at iTunes. Look for all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix. If you can't get enough Idyllic Music click the Chillinks tab for hours of streaming Headphone Electronica.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Seventy-Five

2007-08-11T13:53:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll revel in elegance. To some it's an antiquated old world charm but in troubled times it really more a last stand against barbarism in all its forms. Showing their poise on this episode of Idyllic Music are Elsiane, Big Wheel, Conduct Unbecoming, Radium88 and Bitkit. I'm Jim Nye

We'll begin with Montreal's Elsiane from their gracefully beautiful 'Hybrid' CD. This is 'Across the Stream'

Hear more at www.elsiane.com

From the U.K., comes the rich sound of Big Wheel. Here is 'Prism'

Hear more from the 'Rollin' CD at www.soundclick.com/bigwheel

Bryan Harris creates colorful electronica with lucidity and wit as Conduct Unbecoming. Here is 'While You Were Out'

Hear more from him at www.myspace.com/conductunbecomingbryan

Radium88's latest is a collection of elegant ambience. This is 'Lullaby'

Find more at www.radium88.net/

Gunter Wyckmans records from Belgium as Bitkit. This is 'Harmonics'

Listen up at www.bitkit.be/

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com Visit the revampedCornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them. There is also a book corner with where you can browse through 20 great music books including Hip Hop America by Nelson George and the Trouser Press Guide to Music.

And look for all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.
Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Seventy-Four

2007-07-16T07:41:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll tour the American West, where the sunsets are purple and red and yellow and on fire. A west not of Wayne but McCarthy with a myth of epics and truths in small stories. So with a narrative bass, we'll hear the tales from Amy Abdou, Judith Owen, Beatropolis, DRY and Blip Blop. I'm Jim Nye.

We'll begin with American expatriate Amy Abdou traveling 'Muddy Water'

Hear more at www.amyabdou.com
Judith Owen with Keb Mo look behind the glitter of tinsel town with 'Train Out of Hollywood'

Look for more www.judithowen.net

San Francisco's Beatropolis provides a version of their track 'Cowboy Song' from the 'Drop' Cd it's 'Cowboy Dub'

Check out this innovative nujazz trio at www.beatropolis.net

Didier Louppe and Roland Fastrés capture this snapshot as DRY. This is 'The Girls at Maas'

Find more at www.myspace.com/69dry
From Chino Hills, this is Blip Blop and 'Sweety Cakes'

Look for more of Keith Kehrer jazzy electronica and downtempo at kamakazemusic.com/blipblop

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists as well as the band Idyllic, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com with archives at idyllicmusic.blogspot.com. Visit the revampedCornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them.

Look for all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.
Thanks everyone who wrote in this week to provide valuable ideas and thank you for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Seventy-Three

2007-07-07T08:23:00.000-07:00

This week, we look at the summer beach novel, preferably a mystery with clues, characters, steamy scenes and exotic locales. We'll find all that and more with the help of Indy, Compulsive Behavior, Sexmusic, Benzene Vapours and Grzyb. I'm Jim Nye

We begin in Canada with Victoria-based producer Indy who asks 'The Question'

Find more at www.soundclick.com/indy

From the streets of Paris its Compulsive Behavior and... 'Saisa Kanage'

Hear more at jacquesperetti.com

That was sexmusic and 'Ecstasy'
Hear much more at www.soundclick.com/bands/sexmusicus

From Chester and Warrington, come the U.K. duo Benzene Vapours and 'Solar Fjords'

Look for more at www.benzenevapours.com

Polish producer Peter Grzyb closes out with 'Nikita'

That was from Peter's 'Autodestrukcja' CD Find more by him at www.myspace.com/pgrzyb

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.com Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them. There is also a book corner with where you can browse through 20 great music books including Lady sings the blues by Billie Holiday and I Me Mine by George Harrison

And look for all four Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.
Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

Seventy Two

2007-07-02T13:33:00.000-07:00

This week, we'll look at home, a place both physical and emotional. Where you want to return to when away and get away from whilst there. Your feelings may be warm, cold, nostalgic or presently realistic. Everyone has a home whether they admit it to themselves or not. So we will hear from Puracane, Acid42, Mudville, Syrin, Susis Männer and Datassette. I'm Jim Nye.

We begin with Puracane's violin flavored downtempo featuring British expatriate Ali Rogers in the moment. This is 'Sand'

There are many more grains at www.puracane.com

Lionel Valdellon's ethnotronica combines local instrument samples from the Philippines with modern beats as Acid42. Here is 'Future Sound Of Lamuan'

Hear more at qed.acid42.bluechronicles.net

Marilyn Carino and Ben Rubin's latest CD is out called Iris Nova. It's Mudville and 'Brooklyn'

James Terrell's Syrin project is next. This is 'Nowhere to go Time Ripples'

Find more at soundclick.com/syrin

From the Popcorn and Hollywood CD, this is Munich's Susis Männer and 'Melancholie'

Hear more from Susie Sunshine and the band's "Popmusik mit deutschen Texten" at www.myspace.com/susismaenner or www.trnd.com/tunes

From London, The Datassette project is a series of electronic music recordings by J M Davies that reference the rise of 80's synthpop This is 'Hexagons'

There are lots of free downloads at www.datassette.net

For more on this podcast including show notes, scripts and links to the artists, log on to www.idyllicmusic.comVisit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them.

There is also a book corner with where you can browse through 20 great music books including Frank Zappa's autobiography and Jazz: A History of America's Music.

And look for all four Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix. If you enjoyed this podcast please add a link to it from your webpage. Everyone gains.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.