Atmospheric soundscapes from the PNW and beyond | Tuesdays 10:30pm PT | 90.7 KSER
This week, Convergence Zone explores contemplative sounds for a hot summer
New music by regional artists like Bart Hawkins, Little H Collective, and Arkham Sunset
Ambient for summer by Sophos, Marconi Union, IDRA, and Tim Story
…and much more when Convergence Zone arrives, Tuesday night at 10:30pm PDT on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR, streaming at kser.org - archive on Mixcloud linked in bio
This week on Convergence Zone I’ll premiere new space music from Seattle - Dreamstate Logic just released the gorgeous full-length album “Cosmic Logic” on August 2nd. It’s a real stunner and I can’t wait to share it with you.
I’ve also got brand-new ambient by zaké & Angela Winter; their new LP is called “Mid Sky” .
Regional sounds from Lyndsey Alguire, Patricia Wolf, ACTORS, Playback Head, Mega Cat, and Emma Ruth Randle; new music as well by TR/ST, Point Surrender, and SUSS
And plenty of surprises - Convergence Zone arrives Tuesdays at 10:30pn PDT on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR, and streaming around the world at kser.org; you can also ask your smart speaker to send you TJ the Convergence Zone, just say “play K-S-E-R FM” at just the right time
Or check out the archive links in bio
This week on Convergence Zone - celebrating the limited-edition repress of Terry Riley’s fantastic 1975 album “Descending Moonshine Dervishes”; that comes out August 9 on Beacon Sound (Portland)
Music from artists performing live in our area - regional musicians like AMULETS, Domenica Diavoleria, Afrocop, Arushi Jain, William Basinski, and French duo Air (touring for the 25th anniversary of the album “Moon Safari”)
New music from Arkham Sunset, Soft Release, Karaffa Sound, and Henrik Meierkord
Convergence Zone arrives Tuesday nights at 10:30pm PDT on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR, streaming around the world at kser.org - archive and playlist links in bio
Tuesday night, for the KSER Summer Membership Drive, I’ll present a special episode of Convergence Zone exploring the ambient soundscapes of video game soundtracks
As the creative scope of games have expanded across genre boundaries, the music accompanying them has also pushed creative boundaries - exploring ambient, contemplative, space music, and much more
Join me on a journey through game soundtracks by composers from the Pacific Northwest and beyond - and help power KSER by renewing your membership
I’ll have video game scores by regional artists like Japanese Breakfast, Jon Everist, Lena Raine, Spencer Doran (Visible Cloaks), and Symbion Project - along with gaming soundtracks by 65daysofstatus, Tangerine Dream, Roxy Music, Tim Shiel, Hrishikesh Hirway, Future Sound of London, Austin Wintory, and much more
Soundtracks spanning indie and blockbuster games and nearly 40 years - including Homeworld, Kentucky Route Zero, Sable, Nidhogg, Journey, Mass Effect, No Man’s Sky, The 7th Guest, Celeste, Katamari Damacy, and much more
Convergence Zone celebrates ambient video game soundtracks for the KSER Summer Membership Drive - Tuesday, July 23 at 10:30pm PDT on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR, streaming around the world at kser.org
Tonight on Convergence Zone, premiering brand new music from Portland’s Brass Clouds and from Vancouver’s Playback Head
Celebrating upcoming live performances by Lane Lines, Brothertiger, Afrocop, Soft Release, and Pure Bathing Culture
More new music from Volker Rapp, Inquiry, Colin Fisher, and A Lily; great regional sounds by Theda, mattesque, and Dreamstate Logic
Convergence Zone arrives Tuesday nights at 10:30pm PDT on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR, streaming around the world at kser.org
Archive and playlists in bio
Back in the booth live for Convergence Zone tonight at 10:30pm PDT - new music from Patricia Wolf, Hello Meteor, ann annie, Pabellión Sintetico & Lucas Tripaldi, Purple Decades, Lars Leonhard, and more
Beautiful ambient Americana vibes with new music by SUSS and pieces by Little H Collective, Daniel Lanois, Terry Riley, AMULETS, Active Dark Filament
Come savor the short, warm nights in the Convergence Zone - 10:30pm Tuesdays on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR, streaming at KSER.org
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Thursday, June 20 marks a rare conjunction of blessings - the summer solstice, the appearance of the full Strawberry Moon, and a special overnight episode of Convergence Zone
Join me tomorrow at 11pm PDT a six-hour journey though the ambient soundscapes of the Pacific Northwest, and influences and contemporaries from around the world. Whether you’re observing the ancient mysteries of cosmos, manifesting a more compassionate future, or simply drifting off for a night of deep sleep and refreshing dreams, this mix has you covered.
Join me overnight on Thursday, June 20 - 11pm to 5am June 21 PDT. Broadcasting on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR, and streaming across the heavens at kser.org.
Tuesday on Convergence Zone, we chase summer vibes with new regional music from Sandcastles and MIDI Janitor, along with new music by Purple Decades, Bluhm, and Sverre Knut Johansen
I’ve also got more regional flavor from LEATHERS, Broken Social Scene, Somafree Institute, Noble Oak, Destroyer, and Domenica Diavoleria
And don’t forget to join me on Thursday for the Convergence Zone Summer Solstice special - six more hours of regional and global progamming. Inspired by the playlists I’ve crafted for psychedlic therapy, we’ll take a trip beginning in a summer party, continuing into deep space, and rising with the will to create a more compassionate world - for others and for ourselves
Including new music from Afrocop and a re-release by Brass Clouds, along with an excellent live piece by the late Norm Chambers; I’ll also have FCS North, marine eyes, Tangerine Dream, Mount Maxwell, Visible Cloaks, Siren and the Sea, Terminus Void, Pabellón Sintético, and so much more
Join me in the Convergence Zone - Tuesday night at 10:30 pm, and Thursday night at 11pm - 90.7 KSER Everett, 89.9 KXIR Freeland, streaming around the cosmos at kser.org
Archives and more linked in bio
We’re just one week away from the Convergence Zone Summer Solstice special!
Join me Thursday, June 20 at 11pm Pacitic Time; I’ll ring in the solstice with six hours of contemplative, electronic, ambient, and atmospheric music from the Pacific Northwest - and beyond. Perfect for your summer solstice party, your personal journey into the wonders of the universe, or even just a great night of sleep and fantastic dreams
Convergence Zone Summer Solstice 2024 - Thursday, June 20 - 11pm until 5am Friday - all Pacific Time.
I’ll also be on the air at the normal time - Tuesday night at 10:30pn
Suggestions? Requests? Hit me up via DM or send me an email at [email protected]
Scroll right for images from some of my favorite Seattle concert moments of the last few years
Image 2: chilling with Steve Roach, Terminus Void, and Dreamstate Logic - as one does
Image 3: Jean-Michel Jarre playing laser harp at the Paramount
Image 4: le peloton est regroupé with Kraftwerk at the Paramount
Image 5: Mt Fog focusing on their energy at Black Lab Gallery in Everett
Image 6: exploring “Valley in the Clouds” live with David Arkenstone in Monroe
Image 7: date night with Eydís Evensen at the Triple Door
Image 8: feeling you with Depeche Mode at Key Arena
Image 9: walking a fine line with Nation of Language at the Crocodile - my first post-lockdown concert
Image 10: hanging with all my beautiful friends and LCD Soundsystem at the Paramount
Image 11: sweating like a pig while volunteering at KEXP for Evie’s Halloween show
Tuesday night at 10:30pm PDT - Convergence Zone arrives along with long, warm days - and brand new music from Mt. Fog, Erik Wollo, S1gns of L1fe, Jesse Beaman, Color of Time, Etelin, and John Scott Shepherd
Regional atmospheres from Meridian Arc, Robert AE**US Myers, Cool Maritime, and Paul Ellis… and more music from Faten Kanaan, latome2, and Tara Clerkin Trio
Don’t forget, next week features two nights of Convergence Zone on KSER! Tuesday 10:30pm-12:30am, and a special overnight Summer Solstice program on Thursday, June 20 from 11pm to 5am on Friday. That’s eight hours of atmospheric music to welcome the longest night of the year…
This week on Convergence Zone, inching closer to the summer with new music by Hello Meteor, Dark Sky Alliance, Bluhm, Serena Gabriel, and Paul Ellis
Looking ahead to live shows by Soft Release and Domenica Diavoleria, and celebrating birthdays for André 3000 and Stevie Nicks, and the anniversary of Roxy Music’s “Avalon”
Convergence Zone - two hours of musical atmospheres from the PNW and beyond, arriving Tuesdays 10:30pm PDT on 90.7 KSER, 89,9 KXIR, streaming around the world as kser.org - archives and more info in bio
Join me Thursday, June 20 for a special Summer Solstice edition of Convergence Zone
The party kicks off at 11pm Pacitic Time; I’ll ring in the solstice with six hours of contemplative, electronic, ambient, and atmospheric music from the Pacific Northwest - and beyond. Perfect for your summer solstice party, your personal journey into the wonders of the universe, or even just a great night of sleep and fantastic dreams
Convergence Zone Summer Solstice 2024 - Thursday, June 20 - 11pm until 5am Friday - all Pacific Time. (that’s in additional to Convergence Zone’s normal slot on Tuesday)
Suggestions? Requests? Hit me up via DM or send me an email at [email protected]
On this week’s episode of Convergence Zone, I’ve got new regional music from MIDI Janitor, Afrocop, Dark Chisme, and ACTORS; I’ve also got regional ambient music from Oregon’s Richard Ahlstrom and Julianna Barwick, and from Vancouver’s Mattesque
More new music with the debut solo album by Beth Gibbons, lead singer of Portishead - and from Liam Boyle
New Age classics from AE**US, David Arkenstone, and Kay Gardner
Convergence Zone arrives Tuesday nights at 10:30pm PDT on 90.7 KSER-FM, 89.9 KXIR-FM, streaming at kser.org KSER fm - archive links in bio
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This week on Convergence Zone, I’ve got new music from Domenica Diavoleria, somesurprises, FM Skyline, Ascendant, Marine Eyes, and darungara
More regional sets with WMD, Omni Gardens, Daryl Groetsch, Hello Meteor, and more
I’ll also celebrate birthdays for Jonsí and Robert Smith
Convergence Zone arrives Tuesday night at 10:30pm PDT on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR, streaming around the world at KSER.org
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Last week, I experienced the total solar eclipse - this week I return to the Convergence Zone with new music from SUSS, and I’m also premiering new music from Michael Whelan’s upcoming album “Watercolor Sky”, along with a special limited release by Lisa Bella Donna, “Total Eclipse” - and a new release from BC artist Nova Pon and New World Ensemble
More music for the eclipse from regional artists like Bart Hawkins, Dreamstate Logic, and from legendary figures like Mark Banning, Steve Roach, and Suzanne Ciani
Recent releases from Rudy Adrian, Transponder, Mathias Grassow & Heikki Lindgren, Avi C. Engel, and much more
Enter the Convergence Zone - tonight at 10:30pm PDT on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR, streaming at kser.org
This week on Convergence Zone - brand new music by Mt Fog, Shannon Hayden, Arushi Jain, The Home Current, and Still Corners
Great regional stuff from Camp of Wolves, Loscil, Conjure One, Visible Cloaks, and much more
Convergence Zone arrives Tuesday nights at 10:30pm PDT on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR, streaming online at kser.org - archive links and more in bio
Special thanks to David Haldeman from for filling in on last week’s show!
This week marks Convergence Zone’s 50th episode - and the second week of KSER’s Spring Drive. We approach the season of rebirth and renewal - with music from Philip Glass, David Bowie, Psychic Temple, Mary Halvorson, Lori Goldston and Stefan Christoff, Norm Chambers, and Colin Chin
Celebrating upcoming regional performances with Afrocop, EarthtoneSkytone, AeTopus, and much more
Please take the time to make Convergence Zone and the rest of KSER’s music and news programming possible - visit KSER.org to make your donation. If you visit the desktop version of the site, you can mention your favorite shows :)
Convergence Zone rises up from the underworld and faces the sun - tonight at 10:30pm PDT on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR, streaming at kser.org
Tuesday, March 19 marks the vernal equinox, the beginning of Year Two for Convergence Zone — as part of KSER’s Spring Drive for 2024
KSER brings news from around the world and music programmed by human DJs - a mix you can’t hear anywhere else. We need your support to make this possible - donate today at kser.org - click the big red DONATE NOW button, click the link for desktop mode, and you can mention my show in the Comments field if you value the mix of ambient atmospheres from the Pacific Northwest and beyond :)
For this Spring Equinox edition - I’ll have a surprise from my friends at Beacon Sound Records in Portland, along with regional music for the transition - by Select Level, Hello Meteor, Pure Bathing Culture, Terminus Void, AeTopus, and George Winston
Brand new music from Rudy Adrian, Steve Roach, David Helping & John Jenkins, Christian Fiesel, and more
Anniversaries from Depeche Mode and The Cure
Convergence Zone arrives on the spring equinox - Tuesday March 19 - 10:30pm PDT on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR, streaming at kser.org
This week marks the one-year anniversary of Convergence Zone’s launch on KSER. I’m celebrating with a special program honoring International Women’s Month — ambient, new age, experimental, and space music by women and femme artists from around the world
Regional selections including Grouper, Jennifer Butler, Lena Raine, Raica, Saloli, and Domenica Diavolera
Legendary figures like Wendy Carlos, Pauline Anna Strom, Suzanne Ciani, Lisa Bella Donna, and Constance Demby
Music from Marine Eyes + ISKRE, Faten Kanaan, Mary Lattimore and Julianna Barwick, and Sign Libra
Convergence Zone celebrates its one year anniversary - Tuesday night at 10:30pm PDT on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR, and streaming at kser.org
Tonight on Convergence Zone - new music from regional artists like Hello Meteor, Domenica Diavolera, and LEATHERS
Getting into some awesome upcoming live performances with music by Alex Johnston, Midnight High, Lane Lines, and Mt. Fog
Steve Roach is in town next week so I’ll have something from an album you may have heard of called “Structures from Silence”
Convergence Zone - two hours of atmospheric music from the Pacific Northwest and beyond, Tuesday night at 10:30pm PT on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR, streaming around the world at kser.org - archive and more in bio
It’s Bandcamp Friday - best day of the month to support great artists and buy their music, as Bandcamp waives their revenue share!
I’ve picked eleven albums that I’ve got on repeat right now, including several artist that you can see live this month in the Pacific Northwest!
Click on the link in bio to read mini-reviews and then click through to Bandcamp to buy music and get tickets to their live shows
Swimming Lessons - Midnight High - closing out Freakout Weekender on Sunday March 3
Santa Clara - Cartas de Japón
Feel- Garden of Magic
Night Supply - Hello Meteor
Cancelled Plans - Lane Lines - March live dates in Bellingham, Seattle, Everett, and more
Disco - Echo of the Low Light
Structures from Silence - Steve Roach - March 15 in Seattle and March 16 in Portland
Spells of Silence - Mt Fog - Forest Cats tour all over the PNW in March
Balm of Gilead - INTERVALES
Vestige House - Corey Holms
Invisible Sounds for Kenny Wheeler - Ingrid Jensen & Steve Treseler
This week on Convergence Zone, I’ve got great new music from Portland’s Daryl Groetsch (the talent behind Pulse Emitter), and from Saroon, deepspace, and a fantastic new album by Cartas de Japón
I’m highly stoked about upcoming concerts from Laaraji, Steve Roach, ann annie, Mt Fog, Lane Lines, KMRU, and Midnight High, so I’ll try to make room for all
Remembering the late Mark Hollis on the anniversary of his passing
Anniversaries also for Dead Can Dance, Public Service Beoadcasting, Tears for Fears, and much more
Convergence Zone arrives Tuesday night at 10:30pm PT on 90.7 KSER-FM, 89.9 KXIR-FM, streaming around the world at kser.org
Tuesday, February 20 marks the 50th anniversary of Tangerine Dream’s masterpiece, “Phaedra”, released on Virgin Records in 1974.
Convergence Zone airs on that very date, and I’m thrilled to honor this vital album — a crackly original vinyl copy introduced me to the Berlin School of space music many years ago, as it surely has with so many others over the decades.
“Phaedra” was a surprise sensation on release — despite virtually no airplay, the album reached #15 on the UK album charts and stayed there for 15 weeks. “When Phaedra went into the LP charts, it was one of the great moments of my life,” said famed BBC Radio 1 presenter John Peel to an audience at London’s Rainbow Theatre in 1974, where he was introducing Tangerine Dream.
The album features the band’s strongest lineup, with Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke, and Peter Baumann — it defined the sequencer-driven form they realized throughout the 1970s during their golden age on Virgin Records.
This week on Convergence Zone I’ll honor “Phaedra” with tracks from the album along with homages, interpretations, and distant inspirations by Amon Tobin, Bernhard Wöstheinrich, Suzanne Ciani, Caterina Barbieri, Perge, Redshift, Alvin Curran, Panabrite, and more
Convergence Zone revels in the legacy of Tangering Dream and the 50th anniversary of “Phaedra” - Tuesday February 20 at 10:30pm PT on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR; streaming at kser.org
This week on Convergence Zone - edging towards longer days with new music from LEATHERS, Garden of Magic, Leslee Smucker, Steve Roach, Erik Wöllo, Jill Haley, Deborah Martin, and a compilation of the early works of Pauline Anna Strom
Great regional releases by Patricia Wolf, Panabrite, Echo of the Low Light, Omni Gardens, and more
Convergence Zone arrives every Tuesday night at 10:30pm PT on 90.7 KSER-FM, 89.9 KXIR-FM, and streaming around the world at kser.org
This week on Convergence Zone, I’m stoked for recent and upcoming live shows by regional artists - music by Mt. Fog, FUNERALHOMES, Steve Roach, Suzanne Ciani
Brand new songs from Conchúr White, naafi, Hollan Holmes, Nacht Plank, and Brian Eno x Nicolas Jaar x Grizzly Bear
New sounds for the long rains by Jeff Greinke, and from Summer James, Volcano Lazerbeam, Robert Chamberlain, and Saroon, and looking back with Corey Holms and Ray Lynch
Convergence Zone arrives Tuesday night at 10:30pm PT on 90.7 KSER-FM, 89.9 KXIR-FM, and kser.org
Links to archive in bio
This week on Convergence Zone, I’ll welcome 2024 with danceable sets of electronic music from the 70s through today — expect everything from Moroder and Jarre through Pet Shop Boys, Orbital , Holy F**k, Classixx and Romy — with remixes by Psychemagik, Kelly Lee Owens, and a lot more
Please enjoy this AI art inspired by the coming dance party — Convergence Zone arrives Tuesday night at 10:30pm PT on 90.7 KSER, 89.9 KXIR, and kser.org
Convergence Zone - Top Albums from Beyond the P W, Part Two
David Arkenstone, Winterlüde
Song titles and gorgeous sounds evoking the best winter brings us — walks in the snow, sights and smells, the soft sounds of the hibernating forest, the crisp icy cold and warmth awaiting us back home - getting to meet David this year was a lifetime highlight
One Arc Degree, The Forest and the Milky Way, Synphaera
Scintillating electronic patterns travelling from deep space to the inner realms of the woods — and of the human heart
Various Artists, The NID Tapes: Electronic Music from India 1969-1972, The state51 Conspracy
Must-listen pioneering explorations from the earliest days of Indian electronic music featuring technical mastery along with classic regional instruments
Caterina Barbieri, Myuthafoo, light-years
Fierce sequences from this sister album to 2019’s “Ecstatic Computations”, weaving together the intense power of the organic and electronic - confident, at times overwhelming, always powerful
Ryuichi Sakamoto, 12, Milan Records
Pensive, gorgeous solo explorations — final LP release before Sakamoto-san passed away of cancer. Hearing his breath on this intimate album broke my heart
Chuck van Zyl, Gwynedd
Philadelphia’s Chuck van Zyl helped us stay sane during the lockdown with his legendary radio program Stars End and with the live performances he curated - and his own performances, - this set from 2022 shows his prowess at weaving joy from the firmament performing live on hardware instruments
Ki Oni, A Leisurely Swim to Everlasting Life, AKP Recordings
Chuck Soo-Hoo pays tribute to his late grandmother with the latest from his Ki Oni project, a serene repast blending field recordings with improvised ambience — a stunning reflective journey, not to be missed
Top Albums of 2023 - beyond the PNW - Part 1
Suzanne Ciani & Jonathan Fitoussi, “Golden Apples of the Sun”, Transverales Disques
The hands of the legendary Suzanne Ciani joining those of Parisian sound artist Fitoussi, on a hypnotic record evoking ocean breezes and deep internal journeys
Frore, “Biome”, Spotted Peccary
At times brooding, others soothing, always hypnotic - a lush landscape of electronic and natural instruments that sends the listener to a lush, green world
Siren and the Sea, “Gravity Wave”, Bathysphere
Multi-genre musician and producer (and co-founder of Bathysphere Records) Cristina Cano with an ambient tour-de-force, conjuringthe next evolution in her “swimwave” art form — perfect for contemplation, relaxation in the tub or elsewhere, and also for sleepy time
Various artists, The Stone Tape: analyzing a ghost by electronic means, Hidden Britain Tapes
Modern soundtrack for the 1972 supernatural thriller ‘The Stone Tape’ - experimental, spooky vibes that lull you into a vulnerable state to be haunted at the edge of madness
Eydís Evensen, The Light, XXIM Records
Deliberate, thoughtful, introspective, merging the composers skills as a neoclassical pianist with tasteful injections of chorus and electronics, each piece on the album rewards your time with a stunning journey - her warm 2023 solo live set in Seattle was a highlight of the past several years
Pabellión Sintetico, Mies van der Rohe’s Dreams, Cyclical Dreams
Argentine co-founder of the Cyclical Dreams label, channeling his love of architecture and his skill with electronic instruments into a tribute that blends precision and heart, much like the creations of the album’s namesake. Pablo’s live set for this album is also highly recommended
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