Idyllic Music

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.

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, BlackEra, Siksha, Phasen, Mark.Nine and Matera.

This week, we'll explore tongues and grooves from 5 bands who build on individual contributions to realize a vision beyond a single person. They are Chillerstadt, prod13F, Messian Dread, William Lamy and Alchemy Groove.

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.

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.

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.

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. whether your feelings are 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 Manner and Datassette.

This week,we'll look at perceptions and expectations. Bringing personal prejudice to the sensory world. The slate this week includes AMY B, The Drake Equation, Sr. Aye, Balun and Saurio.

This week we look and the ominous and foreboding. The unsettling feeling that something is about to happen. Filmmakers know the power of a soundtrack to convey this and so do the six artist on Idyllic Music this week. They include IamOpen, R. Stimpson, Zero State Reflex, USB, Scanlan and Rajaz.

This week we look at matchings, successful pairings in twos and threes through the music of Garden Hose Universe, Luminous, PNFA and Jotch, Finn The Giant Meets Sandmonk and Mr. Frendo.

This week we consider the glacier, a force of nature whose pace is so deliberate as to define slowness of movement yet whose disappearance is so rapid we may never truly know its relationship to the planet and ourselves. The chillout this week includes Bersarin Quartett, Dream LAX, Chris Martin, Sirk, Corwin Trails, Idyllic, The Dandelion Council and The Serendipitous Cacophonies.

This week we'll look at love, sex and romance in unusual places. Where lovers meet in body, soul and locale through the music of Your Hand in Mine, Subtronik, Cling, Der Grosse Reibach and Ice Sun.

Joni Mitchell once sang of seeing angels hair and feather canyons everywhere whilst looking at clouds and this week we'll look at this phenomenon musically through the work of The Projects, PAXX, I Am Dog Biscuit, Ekayani and Analog Chill.

This week we look at barriers, stumbling blocks and things that hold you back through the music of Neko Neko, Tricky, The Divine Madness, JT25, Estado Avanzado and Lily Lavandula.

This week, We give a nod to a loyal and substantial listenership in Europe. A number helped, in no small measure, by my comedic inability to correctly pronounce names and song titles is so many languages. Our exercise continues through the Music of Munkie, Noise Relations, Simon V, Sardinia Bass Legalize and Juno6.

This week, we 'Step It Up' as part of the worldwide effort to stem climate change as musicians and artists in hundreds, perhaps, thousands of places rally against pollution. We step it up with the help of Black Era, Orange Crush, Artemis, Dan West and Mist.

This week, we explore the world of the somnambulist, whose cycles of sleep and states of conscience are represented by Essenza, Sixx, Waverider, Zeos and Jules Nerve.

This week, we look at the remarkable windup music box. A device simple in design yet sophisticated enough to play everything from bedtime lullabies to Mozart. This episode's songs share those same qualities. They are by Winterstrand, Kryptide, Beatnik, Uniquetunes and Single Cell Orchestra.

This week, we look at the influence of the great international cities of New York, Leon, Montevideo and Hong Kong through the music of Mudville, Jeff D. Clark, Ema Walker, Saurio and Lex Nasa.

First a reminder that all show notes and band website links can be found at www.idyllicmusic.com where you will find a wealth of information about the music you hear on this and every other episode of Idyllic Music. This week, well hear from Velvet Chain, Tough Chic, Sunburn in Cyprus, Orange Crush and Misosoundz.