Hearts of Space #1076 Path to Stillness (May 8, 2015) Mother's Day USA Weekend

Chinese / Japanese Instrumental - Meditation


"A journey in the Chinese-Japanese soundspace"
This is the one hour program from Hearts of Space Radio Show for the current weekend, a time when Americans honor their mothers on this Sunday's "Mother's Day". The music is by artists from around the world, of course. Split to MP3s at 320 kBps. Tracklist and Program Notes included, of course.

Program Notes by Stephen Hill, Producer
The cherry blossoms are long gone here in California, but in Japan they bloom famously from early March through the end of April. It reminded us that it's been six years since we've done a program of Chinese and Japanese spacemusic, an omission we're going to fix on this edition of Hearts of Space.

Traditional Chinese and Japanese music goes back several thousand years, with hundreds of regional styles and dozens of exotic-sounding string, wind, and percussion instruments, like the pipa (a four stringed lute), the violin-like erhu. and the end-blown bamboo flute called the shakuhachi, used by Buddhist monks for meditation. It's a tradition that's been challenged in the dynamic environment of modern China and Japan, but there are dedicated native and western artists working to transform it for the 21st century. On this transmission of Hearts of Space, contemplative sounds from the edge of Asia, on a program called PATH TO STILLNESS.

Enjoy the lovely spring weekend, wherever you are, and Please SEEd!