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Echoes, the daily two-hour music soundscape, distributed by Public Radio International and broadcast on 130 radio stations from Maine to California added and played the Emerging Transparency title track “Emerging Transparency” on Echoes Program 00908A – Monday, February 23rd and 0906A – Monday, February 9th.

Echoes has featured the previous Sensitive Chaos CD Leak back in 2007 with appearances on 10 programs from January through September.

The playlist for the 2/23 show is:

Echoes Program 0908A – Monday, February 23rd
Start Time	Group Name	Song Name	Album Name
First Half Hour
0:01:00	Fritz Heede	Passages	Illuminated Manuscripts / CDBaby
0:06:00	Wolfert Brederode Quartet	Frost Flower	Currents
0:10:52	Martine Lund Hoel	Sadly Missed	Hidden Shore
0:16:15	Erik Scott	Proper Son	Other Planets / CDBaby
0:20:37	Paul Ellis	Cascade	The Sacred Ordinary
0:29:00	break
Second Half Hour
0:30:00	An Interview with Jon Hassell
0:37:46	break
0:38:01	Jon Hassell	Blue Period	Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street
0:45:32	Madredeus	Ecos Na Catredral	Electronico
0:49:40	Peter Kater and Dominic Miller	What Lies Within	In a Dream / CDBaby
0:54:46	Tony McManus	Slaibh na mBan	The Maker’s Mark
0:59:00	break
Third Half Hour next day’s playlist>>
0:01:00	Emil Montgomery	El Bosque de Maia	Nomada
0:06:00	Saul Stokes	Blaze	Villa Gallaxia
0:11:55	Misc.	Chocolate Noir	Happiness is Easy
0:16:34	Sensitive Chaos	Emerging Transparency	Emerging Transparency
0:23:44	Brian Keane and Omar Faruk Tekbilek	Desert Twilight	Fire Dance
0:29:00	break
Fourth Half Hour
0:30:00	Ray Montford	Blind to Beauty	A Fragile Balance
0:34:22	The Guarneri Underground	Mango Twister	Captive
0:40:36	B.J. Cole	Window on the Deep	Transparent Music
0:48:36	break
0:49:06	Carl Weingarten	Western Overnight	Lost in the Air  / CDBaby
0:53:51	Robert Schroeder	Sweets of Paradise	Taste It

The playlist for the 2/9 show is:

0:01:00	Peter Janson	A Clear Stillness	Firelight Moonlight
0:06:00	Johann Johannsson	The Rocket Builder	Fordlandia
0:12:19	David Darling	ShoeStrings	Prayer for Compassion
0:14:44	Ayala/Redhouse/Clipman	Monsoon	Sonoran Nights
0:20:05	The Malah	Counting Days	Sound Spectrum
0:29:00	break
Second Half Hour
0:30:00	A Living Room Concert with International Guitar Night
0:31:34	Cecilia Zabala	Maravilla (live)	International Guitar Night 3 (v/a)*
0:35:55	Pierre Bensusan	Voayage to Ireland (live)	International Guitar Night 3 (v/a)*
0:38:45	Brian Gore with Pierre Bensusan	Long Walk Home (live)	International Guitar Night 3 (v/a)*
0:45:25	Ben Verdery	Philipe’s Center (live)	unreleased
0:50:30	Ben Verdery with Cecilia Zabala	Mobile (live)	International Guitar Night 3 (v/a)*
0:56:30	Brian Gore	Zen Scream (excerpt)	Vapor Trails: The Echoes Living Room Concerts Vol. 14 (v/a)*
0:59:00	break
Third Half Hour
0:01:00	Pat Thomi	Arctic Glow	Fairytales
0:06:01	Codona	Like That of Sky	The Codona Trilogy
0:16:53	SETI Alpha 5	Mountains in the Sun	Mountains in the Sun
0:20:11	Sevara Nazarkhan	Erkalab	Sen
0:24:44	Ray Montford	Remember	A Fragile Balance
0:29:00	break
Fourth Half Hour
0:30:00	Martine Lund Hoel	Sadly Missed	Hidden Shore
0:35:25	Sensitive Chaos	Emerging Transparency	Emerging Transparency
0:42:32	Carl Weingarten	Cambodian Waltz	Lost in the Air / CDBaby
0:46:54	break
0:47:24	Vil	Atlantis	Light Streams
0:52:33	Dan and Sandy Adler	Bird Song	Wind of the Spirit
0:57:08	Neil Jacobs	Amish Autumn	12-String Guitar / CDBaby

YLE Radio 1 – Space Junk Finnish Broadcasting Company radio station (electronic/ambient/space format)- played “Fifty Light Years From Home” from the new Sensitive Chaos Emerging Transparency CD on their February 15, 2009 show.

Avaruusromua 15.2.2009
Ennenkuulumatonta musiikkia Suomesta, Islannista ja Amerikasta.
MATTI INKINEN: Hiljainen haltioituminen (demo)
MATTI INKINEN: Loputon ajomatka (demo)
JUSSI VAARALA: Melodic Relax 6 (Soundspaces-Mindspaces 5)
JUSSI VAARALA: Sakraali (Soundspaces-Mindspaces 1)
EVIL MADNESS: La Casa di Satana (Demoni Paradiso)
EVIL MADNESS: L’Agonia del Controllo della Mente (Demoni Paradiso)
SENSITIVE CHAOS: Fifty Light Years From Home (Emerging Transparency)

ESITTÄJÄ: Sävellys (Albumi)

Radio Despi 107.1 FM in Barcelona, Spain, La Otra Orilla show, February 9, 2009, plays “Emerging Transparency.”

10:00 PM

John Adorney – Celebration – Beckoning [EverSound EVM-3503] 1998 Label 805.496-3996 Artist Ancient Future – Flirtation: Forest Frolic – Planet Passion [Ancient-Future.Com Records AF-2010] 2001 Artist Ancient Future – Flirtation: Simsimay Panima – Planet Passion [Ancient-Future.Com Records AF-2010] 2001 Artist Mariah Parker (w/ Matthew Montfort) – Sangria – Sangria [Ancient-Future.Com Records AF-2017] 2009 Cadence Spalding (w/ Mars Lasar) – Kyrie Eleison – Save The World [Sound Manipulations SM CAD01] 2009 Miten w/ Deva Premal – So Much Magnificence – Songs for the Inner Lover [Prabhu Music (Bells Associates Ltd) - Silenzio Music CD 14008] 2003 Artist Sarva-Antah – Peace for the World – Om Shanti Om [Oreade Music ORM 62762] 2005 Label Alicia Bessette – Under Water Looking Up – Reservoir [Wachusett Records WR-1000] 2002 Label 508.869.2846 Artist Alicia Bessette – Stone Through Water – Orchard [Wachusett Records WR-1001] 2008 Label 508.869.2846 Artist

11:00 PM

Keiko Takeda – lost river – Poemas [Viagem Records VR-102] 1995 Pete Solomon / Art Alm – Knowledge – A Day in the Now [Self Released SOLM 701] 2008 Byron Metcalf, Mark Seelig and Steve Roach – Nada Terma Part 2 – Nada Terma [Projekt PRO00222] 2008 Alpha Wave Movement – slow motion halo’s – Terra [Harmonic Resonance Recordings HRR060823] 2008 Artist Sensitive Chaos – Emerging Transparency – Emerging Transparency [Subsequent Records SR002-02] 2009 Russel Walder – Gift of Fire – Rise [Nomad Soul Records NSCD001] 2007 Patrick O’Hearn – resourceful adaptation – Glaciation [patrickohearn.com Music 1006-2] 2007 Artist Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Tim Story – Inlandish – Inlandish [Grönland Records CDGRON64] 2008 Artist Michael Brant DeMaria – The Dream – Siyotanka [Ontos Music MDM5812] 2008 Artist Ancient Future – Quiet Fire – Quiet Fire [Narada CD-1012] 1986 Label 414-961-8350 Artist

WXDU 88.7 FM New Frontiers radio show (new age, ambient, smooth jazz, world music, college), Durham, NC, played “Fifty Light Years From Home” on Februrary 14, 2009.

9:00 AM

AOMusic – Nahaye – Twirl [AO Music AOM0906] 2009 Label Artist Jessica Lurie Ensemble – Number 6 – Shop of Wild Dreams [Self Released ] 2009 Artist Phoenix Rising – Ascension – Ascension [Copus Music cm1001] 2008 1-800-882-9931 Artist Coyote Poets of the Universe – Tender – Callin’ You Home [Square Shaped Records SSR 104] 2008 801.162.0721 Ancient Future – Seduction: Ne Po Pogrebu Bockonochek – Planet Passion [Ancient-Future.Com Records AF-2010] 2001 Artist Lila Mayi – De Mais Ninguem – Gypsy Woman [Paradise Music PMCD0101] 2008 Cadence Spalding – Save the World – Save The World [Sound Manipulations SM CAD01] 2009 Eden – Metamorphosis – Return to Innocence [Intentcity ICCD 80025] 2008 Label 1-714-630-0202 Mariah Parker – Debajo de la Lluvia – Sangria [Ancient-Future.Com Records AF-2017] 2009 Eric Tingstad Nancy Rumbel – Chinese Lullaby – Leap of Faith [Cheshire Records CT107] 2009 Artist Valerie Mih – Interwoven – Meridians [Self Released ] 2008 Artist

10:00 AM

Timothy Cooper – Circles – East Wind [New Piano Age Music ] 2008 Label 202 361-0989 Artist Keiko Takeda / Ed RosenBerg – RYU (Stream) – shikisokuzeku (all is vanity) [Viagem Records VR-103] 2008 Nick Farr – Not If, But When – The Ever Present Now [Riverboy WW 3282] 2009 Label Artist Matthew Montfort – Purple Raga – Seven Serenades for Scalloped Fretboard Guitar [Ancient-Future.Com Records AF-2008] 2009 Neil Jacobs – The Ghostrider Medley “Russian Cowboy Medley” – 12-String Guitar [Adena Productions ] 2008 Sensitive Chaos – Fifty Light Years From Home – Emerging Transparency [Subsequent Records SR002-02] 2009 A.R.S.(e) ashley/roedelius/story – incubator – errata [Nepenthe Music and Publishing AMC08019] 2008 Label Artist Knitting By Twilight – Venus for Everyone – An Evening Out of Town [it's Twilight Time eve-5] 2008 Label 401-438-1923 Raphael – Divine Passion – Music for Love [Hearts of Space 2-HOS-11420] 2008 Artist V/A: – Manana – Buddha Cafe 2 [Intentcity ICCD80023] 2008 Label 1-714-630-0202

NPR member station WDIY 88.1 FM, Allentown and Bethlehem, PA, 93.9 FM in Easton, PA and Phillipsburg, NJ, 93.7 FM in Fogelsville and Trexlertown, and webcasting on the internet has played the Emerging Transparency track “Bazaar Behavior” played on Galactic Travels show #618, February 5, 2009.

WDIY now has the distinction of being the first radio station to play both Emerging Transparency AND Leak as they were released in 2009 and 2006, respectfully.

The new Sensitive Chaos CD Emerging Transparency is now available from CD Baby.

This second solo effort from Atlanta-based producer and performer Jim Combs contains six new tracks expanding upon the eclectic, electronic palette he established on Leak, the first Sensitive Chaos album released in August of 2006.

Combs re-enlisted Leak soprano saxophonist Brian Good for the songs “Fifty Light Years From Home” and “Bazaar Behavior” (which also features Finnish multi-instrumentalist Otso Pakarinen on synthesizers, synth guitar, and synthesized percussion work).

“There are a few songs on the new CD that date from the Leak sessions, and a few that were created and refined over the past year,” says Combs. “This CD is kind of an homage a broader range of my electronic music influences, and brings in elements of electropop, Berlin-school space rock, and even a bit of avant jazz/reggae/dub. The beats are a bit heavier and the arrangements are a bit thicker.”

U.K. photographer Andrew Lee supplied evocative photographs for the album cover art. Andrew’s impressionistic image processing and subject matter conveys a message of resource conservation that resonates with Combs’ political outlook.

ABOUT THE SONGS

The title track “Emerging Transparency” starts the CD with an ambient drone that soon reveals sequenced ostinato and counterpoint phrases, driving drums, and vintage synth melody lines. Combs originally composed this piece at the 2007 Different Skies music festival, where it saw its live debut. This studio version contains several elements of the original, but has been rearranged with extended themes.

“Erase Yourself” is an instrumental synthpop tune, with a wink and a nod to Vince Clarke.

Brian Good makes his first appearance on the CD’s “Fifty Light Years From Home”, which begins in spacey ambient sounds with a chorale of bells, evolves into more symphonic tones and saxophones, and then devolves into a beat-heavy, ring modulated, electronic quagmire.

Otso Pakarinen joins Combs and Good on “Bazaar Behavior”, a world-beat, jazz-dub, fusion-rock number with lots of ethnic percussion, Otso’s tasty guitar/synth and Brian’s soprano sax work.

“Luck Of The Draw” is another instrumental synthpop homage, drawing its influence from the darker side of the genre.

And closing out the album is “Tanzen Filter”, which tries to decide whether it’s leaning toward Miami, New Orleans, or Detroit.

With the exception of his collaborators’ original tracks, sessions for the CD were done at Combs’ Common Sound Studio in Decatur, GA. “I rely upon my custom Sequentix P3 sequencer for creating most of the initial compositions, then record track-by-track into MOTU Digital Performer for arrangements and mixing. The sounds come mostly from my current live rig of a Roland JD-800, Novation SuperNova, Roland JV-1080, and three different Korg Electribe drum machines, plus my collection of old hardware synthesizers like my Moog Minimoog, Yamaha CS-50, and Fender Rhodes. And there’s a few softsynths in the mix, mostly Reason and Korg Analog Legacy.”

ABOUT SENSITIVE CHAOS

Sensitive Chaos, a solo project of Atlanta-based producer and electronic musician Jim Combs, was voted Atlanta’s “Best Local Electronic Act” 2007-2008 by readers of Creative Loafing.

Leak was the first album from Sensitive Chaos and was selected as a “Top Visionary Music of 2007″ by KKUP 91.5 FM in Cupertino, CA, and as New Age Reporter’s “Top 12 Best Ambient/Spacemusic/Electronica Recordings of 2006″.

Current internet radio airplay for Sensitive Chaos Leak album cuts includes StillStream.com, Space Station SomaFM, and SomaFM cliqhop idm.

Other terrestrial and internet radio airplay for Leak includes Public Radio International-distributed Echoes (broadcast on over 145 stations across the US), KEVL FM 89.9 in Memphis, TN,  NPR member station WDIY 88.1 FM, Allentown and Bethlehem, PA, WREK 91.1 FM in Atlanta, GA, WFIT 89.5 FM in Palm Bay, FL, WDBX 91.1 FM in Carbondale, IL, KKUP 91.5 FM in Cupertino, CA, Radio Despi 107.1 FM in Barcelona, Spain, WXDU 88.7 FM in Durham, NC, WWSP 90 FM in  Stevens Point, WI, CoolStreams Ambient Caverns, WUSM 88.5 FM in Hattiesburg, MS, WTUL 91.5 FM in New Orleans, LA, AMBiENT PiNG RADiO out of Toronto, Canada,  KRFC in Colorado, 106.7 FM WETX in Johnson City, TN, WVKR-FM in Poughkeepsie, NY, YLE Radio 1 in Finland, Aural Innovations Radio, and KTUH FM 90.3 FM in Honolulu, HI.

Press for Sensitive Chaos and Leak includes:

Atlanta Creative Loafing, Best of 2007 Awards

CoolStreams Ambient Caverns

Electroambient Space

Guts Of Darkness (Canada)

Hypnagogue Ambient Music News & Reviews

Johnson City Press and Go Tri Cities

Melliflua (UK)

Music Beyond The Lake

New Age Reporter

Ping Things (Canada)

Secret Music

Sequences Music Magazine (UK)

Sonic Curiosity

Southeast Performer Magazine

Stomp and Stammer Magazine

Sensitive Chaos Leak is available at CDBaby.com and iTunes.

Information on Sensitive Chaos can be found at sensitivechaos.com or www.myspace.com/sensitivechaos

Information on Jim Combs can be found at www.myspace.com/jimcombs

Information on Brian Good can be found at sundaggermusic.com

Information on Otso Pakarinen can be found at ozoneplayer.com

Information on Andrew Lee can be found at www.flickr.com/focusman5