Thursday, February 1, 2018

Secret Music News, January 2018

Hi -

  Sorry about the delay in sending this. Winter is not my time of year,
and it's been abnormally busy for me. So I'm trying to play catchup when I'm not hibernating. It's
a changing world, especially in the music industry. As it gets easier for
people to compose and release music, it gets harder for people to make
money from it. More and more it's becoming apparent that the real reason
one makes music, or any art form for that matter, is because it's driven
by passion.

  And perhaps that's the point. In today's world, passion is something we
need. I'm reminded of the story of Simon Jeffes and the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, He dreamed of
a dystopian world where everything was gray and soulless. But there was a
bar with bright lights and music and people smiling and enjoying
themselves. And he resolved to compose the music for the band in that bar.
Thus became the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. I'm not saying this is a gray and
soulless world, far from it. But a little more passion, a little more joy,
are certainly welcome. That's what drives you to create music, and that's
what drives me to play it. Not always the easiest thing for either of us,
but it's worth the effort.

  I've gotten some great new music lately, and I always appreciate it. If
you've got something new you'd like me to hear, just let me know. CD's are always appreciated,
but downloads are fine and dandy as well. Whichever you prefer.

  No scheduled interviews or performances at the moment, but I'm always
looking. If you're in the area on a Sunday morning, let me know and we'll work something out.

  Here's my address for those of you who need it:

Scott Raymond/WVKR
PO Box 146
Fishkill, NY 12524                   

  For more info or weekly playlists, check out my website below. I'm also
on Facebook, so look for me there too. Here's my top 20 playlists for December, 2017 and
January, 2018, as well as my top 25 albums for 2017. Enjoy!      

http://secretmusicwvkr.blogspot.com/

Scott Raymond
WVKR-FM

    WVKR-FM "Secret Music" Top 20 Playlist
        December, 2017

1. The Ministry Of Inside Things - Trilogy - Industry8
2. Arranged Marriage NP - Arranged Marriage NP - Team Love Records
3. Masako - Piano Sanctuary - Self Released
4. Richard Leo Johnson - Language - Blue Note Records
5. Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas - Ports of Call - Culburnie Records
6. Javi Canovas - Monochrome Time - Self Released
7. Max Corbacho - Source of Present - Silent Sun
8. Aglaia - Lunares Nectare - Hic Sunt Leones
9. Aglaia - Akupanga - Hic Sunt Leones
10. Palancar - Shallow River Flowing - Emergent World
11. Blackmore's Night - Winter Carols - 2017 - Minstrel Hall Music
12. Christen Lien - Elpis - Self Released
13. Robert Logan - Sculptor Galaxy - Projekt
14. Jarguna And Friends - Trapped Vol.1 - Projekt
15. Gregg Kowalsky - L'Orange, L'Orange - Kranky
16. Mathias Grassow - Divinations - gterma
17. Matt Marshak - Year's End - Nuance Music Group
18. Akikaze - Solstice - Spheric
19. Bing Satellites - Snow Day - Self Released
20. Altus - Winter Embrace - Self Released

    WVKR-FM "Secret Music" Top 20 Playlist
        January, 2018

1. Matteo Palmer - Opaline Sky - Self Released
2. Pauline Anna Strom - Trans-Millennia Music - RVNG
3. Sequential Dreams - Metamorphic Waves - Borders Edge
4. TM Solver - Atmosphere - Syngate
5. MTA Lab - In Luv - Syngate
6. Tastenklang - Polyphony - Syngate
7. Luna Firma - Falling Towards Atlantis - Borders Edge
8. Luna Firma - New Horizons - Borders Edge
9. Dan Pound - Dreams That Take You - Pound Sounds
10. Matthew Labarge - Spiriti - Cynelic Gast Music
11. Áine Minogue - In the Name of Stillness - Little Miller Records
12. Mis+ress - Mis+ress - Self Released
13. Ann Sweeten - Flying Solo Silhouette - Orange Band Records
14. Bing Satellites - Real Life and How to Avoid It
15. Robert Schroeder - D.MO Vol. 4 - Spheric Music
16. Bertrand Loreau - Finally - Spheric Music
17. Richard Dillon - Irish Mist - Self Released
18. Camille Nelson - Lead Me Home - Stone Angel Music
19. Andrew Douglas - The Voyage of Cassini - Self Released
20. Anaamaly - Urban Metta, Vol. 2 - Planet27music

     WVKR-FM "Secret Music" Top 25 Albums of 2017

1. FLOW - FLOW - LMB Music
2. Campfire's Edge - The Last Lighthouse - Bluehill
3. The Fragile Fate - Lilliam Ocean - Carpe Sonum
4. Antoine Dufour - Back & Forth - Candy Rat
5. Robert Rich and Markus Reuter - Lift a Feather to the Flood - Soundscape Productions
6. ARC - Fleet - DiN
7. The Ministry Of Inside Things - Trilogy - Industry8
8. Steve Roach - Spiral Revelation - Projekt
9. Air Sculpture - Vanishing Point Vol.3 - Self Released
10. Building Castles Out Of Matchsticks - Selected Works - Self Released
11. Carl Weingarten and Catherine Marie Charlton - Where There Is Light - Spotted Peccary Music
12. Forrest Fang - Following the Ether Sun - Projekt
13. Markus Reuter & Ian Boddy - Memento - DiN
14. Peter Calandra - The Road Home - PCM
15. Scott Helland - Never Mind The Rocket Century - Exotic Aquatic
16. Hammock - Mysterium - Hammock Music, LLC
17. Penguin Cafe - The Imperfect Sea - Erased Tapes
18. Robert Rich - Live at the Gatherings 2015 - Industry8
19. Sensitive Chaos - Live at the Mudlark Theater - Subsequent Records
20. Vangelis - Rosetta - Decca Records
21. Vidna Obmana - Refined On Gentle Clouds - Self Released
22. Jeff Pearce - From the Darker Seasons - Jeff Pearce Music
23. Stephan Micus - Inland Sea - ECM
24. Matteo Palmer - Embers - Self Released
25. Arranged Marriage NP - Arranged Marriage NP - Team Love Records














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