This morning we celebrate the life of recently departed Indian tablā player and composer Zakir Hussain. Featuring his solo material and collaborations with British guitarist John McLaughlin and their Shakti incarnations, Mickey Hart, Diga Rhythm Band, Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer.
Zakir was prominent player of traditional Indian music and we will play his collaborations with Shivkumar Sharma, L Shankar, Hariprasad.
Alternating sets will include traditional Melting world music from The Band of Gypsys at the Fillmore East on 12/31/69, The Israelittes (Jamaica) Church of Hed (USA), Red Sun (Italy), Depth Charms (UK), Markus Reuter, new music from Electric Orange (Germany) and
Psychedelic Source Records (Hungary)

Winter Solstice celebration of darkness edition this morning with
Spacepsych from Nektar, Steve Hillage & Miquette Giraudy's Mirror System (UK),
The Bad Plus interpretation of Igor Stravinsky's "Rite Of Spring"
Lou Reed and John Cale early and later, film music from Alexandre Desplat (France)
Sequencer Synth from Cosmic Hoffman & Steven Parsick
Composers Aaron Martin, Stephano Guzzetti (Italy), Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays,
John Zorn and Jesse Harris.
Fusion with Allan Holdsworth, Mark Wingfield & Markus Reuter's The Stone House
In the Cosmic Hour we visit Cosmique Francias with Tarotplane,
Varient etherscape mix of Intrusion single "Amongst the Stars,
Deep ambient drift with Slow Taste Of Night Air

This morning’s show starting heavy and ending light
highlighting full musical dynamics.
Midnight brings Monster Magnet, Elder (USA), Elecrtric Moon (Germany),
Yuri Gagarian (Sweden), Sonic Demon (Italy), Karkara (France),
Arthur Brown, Krell (UK).
A few tracks from Hawkwind’s live conceptual 1995 Alien tour album
“Love in Space”
2:00am brings electronic synth with Brendan Pollard (UK), spaghetti western ambient from Delre (Italy),
tribal ambient from Byron Metcalf & Shane Morris (USA),
deep drift ambient with an extended single from Max Corbacho (Spain)

Melting World second segment starts with part two of Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick.
The early morning hours brings sequencer syth from Ron Boots (NL) in the Cosmic Hour followed by ambient from
Mount Shrine (Brazil), Misleading Structures (Greece),Pietro Zollo (Italy),
Christina Giannone (USA)

This morning's show is divided into two segments. In the midnight segment we check out some new Bandcamp Friday purchases, older and newer releases with the emphasis on the heavy.
Psycedelic Source Records (Hungary) recorded in a field at a goat farm,
Acid Mothers Temple (Japan) release on Riot Season Records, along with
Anchor and Burden (Germany), Ozric Tentacles (UK), Heironymus Dream (Greece)
then stepping back in time to one of my first 8 tracks,
Jethro Tull's Thick As a Brick part 1 (1972)

This morning we celebrate the British psychedelic-progressive-jazz fusion band Soft Machine with a few tracks from 1970's "Third", !974 "Live In Switzerland" and 2023's "Open Door".
In the Cosmic Hour we play Soft Machine keyboardist Mike Ratledge's obscure film documentary soundtrack "Riddles of the Sphinx" in it's entirety along with new music from Purl, Jaja and Aglaia. We Also remember recently departed British poet, musician and songwriter Pete Sinfield with a set from King Crimson, the band he cofounded with Robert Fripp recorded at the Fillmore West during thier first USA tour. Extended 5 hour show.

12-2am electronic psych out
This morning’s show is a return to psychedelic electronic foundations featuring Tangerine Dream’s 1975 groundbreaking sequencer and Mellotron opus “Rubycon” in its entirety.
More German E music from Micheal Rother, FD Project.
New music from Steve Hillage’s chill out project “Mirror System” (UK) and
Erik Wølllo (Norway)

Exploring all the vistas on the Melting World this morning.
Psych from Acid Rooster (DE), Edward Ka-Spel (UK & NL),
Progressive from Robert Fripp, Laurie Anderson, Trey Gunn,
Markus Reuter & Stephen Thelen (DE & Switzerland)
Experimental fom The Residents, Frank Zappa (USA)
Berlin School electronics from Pollard, Daniel, Booth (UK)
Ambient with Bruno Sanfillipo, Warmth (Spain), Mick Chillage (Ire)

Phil Lesh-part 2
This morning we continue the celebration of the life of Phil Lesh, bassist and founding member of the Grateful Dead. We feature a first set segment from NYC's Beacon Theater on 6/14/76, a tune from the Fillmore West on 2/1969 with Pigpen on the lead vocal, music from the Other Ones, Phil Lesh and Friends along with other bands close to and influenced by the Grateful Dead.

Phil Lesh 1940-2024 Part 1
This morning's show we remember the life and music of the late Grateful Dead bassist and founding member.
We will be playing select Grateful Dead set segments from 1969, 1973 and 1977 along with bands that are also part of the San Francisco psychedelic movement of the mid to late sixties as well as other bands and musicians that have shared the stage with Phil throughout the years.

Melting World 10/27/24
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Global electronic & ambient
Arc , Eat Static (UK), Karl Bartos (DL)
Paul Ellis & Daryl Groetsch (USA)
Eternell (Turkey), anthéne (Canada),
Max Corbacho, SLVBRD ((Spain)
Gustavo Denouerd (Argentina)

Psych exploration with
Legendary Pink Dots (NL & UK), Temple Fang (NL)
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard (Australia), Trigona (New Zealand),
Lush Worker (UK), Kiyazami (Hungary)

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This morning the archived third Melting World broadcast from 11/28/21.
King Buffalo, Acid Rooster, Pink Floyd, Barrett Elmore, Quarkspace, Ash Ra Temple from the 2000 reunion album Friendship,
Can first archive release from Stuttgart 1975,
Melting World back live next week.

Fall Radiothon
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This mornings show will feature psych with Porcupine Tree (UK), Abstraccíon (Spain), :nepal (Hungary), Santana (USA).
Zuuhl with Magma's 1973 album Mekanik Destruktiw Kömmando (France)

This morning a cosmic journey without synths.
Nik Bartsch’s Ronin, John Zorn’s New Masada Quartet,
John Scofield’s latest ECM release.
Henry Kaiser & Waddada Leo Smith electric Miles Davis project “Yo Miles”
Afrobeat with Fela Kuti and Egypt 80 live in Detroit 1986.

Prerecord this morning as I went to the Steve Roach concert in Brooklyn last night.
Dutch Electro Psych with Drone Assembly.
Cyclical Dreams 2023 fest with Philadelphia’s Chuck Van Zyl
New ambient from Robert Rich & Luca Formentini.
Tuluum Shimering covers series with Neil’s Cinnamon Girl

Progressive rock foundations with the
50th anniversary of the 1974 live
King Crimson, a legendary exploration in progressive improvisation with tracks from 1992’s release “The Great Deceiver”.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer instrumental mix of “Karn Evil 9”, Spock’s Beard,
Security Project reimagines Peter Gabriel,
and live Jethro Tull from 1977.

Eastern Scales in Psych, East-West Fusion
The new schedule for the Melting World is every Sunday 12-2am.
Our first show for the fall semester will feature Krautrock with Agitation Free,
Arabic influenced Jah Wobble and Deep Space recorded live,
Ry Cooder and VM Bhatt (USA & India)
Psych from Divine Soma Experience (UK), Pilot Voyager (Hungary), Karkara (France)

With Autumn on the horizon as well as a new semester and new beginnings we present another extended edition of the Melting World with an amalgam of disparate cosmic sounds with
Euro Psych from Magic Brother*Mystic Sister (Spain), My Brother The Wind,
Our Solar System (Sweden), Hypnodrome Ensemble (Germany),
The Obscure River Experiment (Hungary).
Kosmische with Micheal Hoenig & Manuel Göttsching (Germany)
4th World nwith Jon Hassell (USA), Micheal Brook (Canada), Nodens Ictus (UK).
Alice Coltrane at Carnegie Hall 2/21/71
Ambient From Robert Davies (USA)

Tonight's extended show we celebrate the life of Jerry Garcia with interviews and a focus on the 1974 PA system the Wall of Sound conceived by Owsley "Bear" Stanley and built by the sound and road crew from the Dead. We will play choice set segments that was fed into that magnificent PA between May-August 1974. Alternating sets will consist of bands that collaborated with and were in the same sphere as the Grateful Dead.