At over 600 shows - continuing the sonic tradition of other-worldly offerings to end your week on an atmospheric high note... heard in Melbourne each Sunday night, 8:30 - 10:00 pm, on 106.7 PBS FM, presented by Andrew Hollo
Atmospheric and ambient Sunday night sounds. Crossing boundaries into experimental, jazz, chamber and fourth world music
the artists
The orbs: azure = on site link, cyan = external link, bleak = no link yet, let us know!
luscious deep ambience
Alio Die's deep, evocative experimental ambient and
electro-acoustic soundscapes New and old work from guitarist, producer and master
hybridiser, Michael Brook The father of the ambient piano, Harold Budd Rare recordings from the man who started it all, Brian Eno Beautiful, floating electronic pulses from the Fax label's
Tetsu Inoue & Pete Namlook Subtle, langourous masters of electric guitar, Labradford Vidna Obmana's themes of calm, solitude, grief, and introspection Pauline Oliveros's improvisation, electronics, ritual, teaching
and meditation Nuts & berries stored by British electro-primitives O Yuki Conjugate Shimmering textures and lush tribal rhythms from Robert Rich, Steve Roach and TUU Paul Schutze's sprawling, icy, challenging ambient and
electro-acoustic music Epic, meditative analogue synth soundscapes by Klaus Schulze &
Tangerine Dream
atmospheric songs from around the world
The sparkling poetic wit & musical inventiveness of Laurie Anderson Kooky atmospherics and oblique pop creations of Holger Czukay & Can Medieval tribal atmospherics by Dead can Dance Rusty, sultry and tropical songs by Cesaria Evora Sax and Songs from many millennia by Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble Serene but passionate Middle Eastern songs by Sister Marie Keyrouz Soaring spiritual qawwali of the late, great Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn The ethnic atmospheric dilittantism of Stephan Micus Meredith Monk's seductive ululations and trills Otherworldy songs by Tuvan singer Sainkyo Namtchlak Belgian convenors of the surreal and improbable, Pablo's Eye Emotion laden deep vocals by David Sylvian Vas's invigorating Iranian-American hybrids Ethnic collaborations from French master producer Hector Zazou
jazz and fourth world fusions
Atmospheric jazz & world fusions from oud masters Rabih Abou Khalil, Anouar Brahem & Thierry Robin Fertile desert music from Israeli multi-instrumentalist Yair Dalal From Miles Davis' deep melting pot of jazz atmospherics Lush kora from Toumani Diabate's West African homeland 4th world muted trumpet and rhythms of Jon Hassell Fascinating highly-processed Middle Eastern exotica from Richard Horowitz & Sussan Deyhim Abdullah Ibrahim's mystical and engaging solo and small group piano Virtuoso solo and trio pianist Keith Jarrett The earliest world-jazz hybridisers: Yusef Lateef, Randy Weston, Tony Scott, Sun Ra Minimalist piano, bass & drums trio, The Necks Smoothly assembled sounds from everywhere by Steve Shehan Moody clarinet, sax and synth from jazz legend John Surman Complex multi-layered Turkish percussion and melody by Omar Faruk Tekbilek Textural electric guitar stylist, Steve Tibbetts Sensitive Jewish chamber jazz from New Yorker, John Zorn and his Masada Ensemble
post classical ambience
Stately orchestral and chamber music of Gavin Bryars Gentle, spare, timbral pianissimo from Morton Feldman Progenitor of post-classical masterpieces, Philip Glass Composer of hypnotic extended works for mulitiple pianos, Simeon ten Holt The ubiquitous Kronos Quartet, who can play anything with strings Deeply spiritual choral works from Estonian composer Arvo Pärt Quirky chamber orchestral snippets of Penguin Café Orchestra Superb interlocked percussive repetition and mesmerism from Steve Reich The man who put minimalism onto the map next to honky tonk piano, Terry Riley
fragments of sound
Chilled out atmospheric micro-melodies of Aphex Twin Minimalist electronic staccato by Oval Gothic industrial clankings and groanings by SPK David Toop's found sounds, field recordings, electro-acoustics, and digital manipulation Towering Inferno's rabbinical chants, ambient synthesizer, and Eastern European folk singing Surreal schizophonic semiotics by Gregory Whitehead Otomo Yoshihide's scratched, crunched and snapped vinyl looping The organic mind-expanding cerebral concrete of Zoviet France
ambience and atmosphere from melbourne
Sensuous Balkan enthusiasm of Adana Vast lonely tracts of Aether's electronic haze Opaque and tenuous chamber minimalism by James Gordon Anderson Blip's sublime, surging, repetitive keyboards and percussion Complex and exhilarating piano and electronics from Bill Canty Engaging chamber dub by David Chesworth and Ensemble Eternal Choir's cavernous and spacious harmonic singing Andrew McGregor's bamboo shrine to the power of breath Controlled chaos from the febrile imagination of Alistair Riddell Frogs, beacons and short wave radios assembled by Sean Rigney The multi-octave range of wikka singer and spell-maker, Wendy Rule The microsurgery of sound, operated upon by Philip Samartzis Shinjuku Thief / Darrin Verhagen explore the inner world of sonic corporeality Eccentric electronic ectoplasm of Signal to Noise Gorgeous vocalising and tabla in the songs of Vilambit 6
CD Universe is a general music retailer, but with low prices and reasonable airmail costs Ear-Rational is a one-man show, with slow but reliable service and a vast range of hard to get music Eurock, a radio and music retailing institution, sells electronic, progressive and space music
in Melbourne I buy my music from:
Discurio, 113 Hardware Lane Melbourne 3000 Basement Discs, Block Place, off Lt Collins St, near Elizabeth St, Melbourne Peril Undergound, Flinders Alley, off Elizabeth St near Flinders St, Melbourne Blue Moon Records, Johnston St, near Nicholson St, Fitzroy Collector's Corner, Swanston St, near Little Bourke St, Melbourne Dixon's Secondhand - Prahran, Camberwell, Blackburn, Dandenong
Some "on-line communities" with links to a vast range of electronic and ambient music resources:
have any links that I haven't been able to find, have music or information that might interest me or Hybrid listeners, want to send any CDs for airplay on Hybrid, or want to give feedback on the show!
Hybrid, 8:30 - 10pm Sunday, 106.7 PBS FM, Melbourne, Australia Most biographies and artist pictures are taken from All Music Thanks to Gavin for the graphics. Page by Adam.
Nuts & berries stored by British electro-primitives O Yuki Conjugate
Otherworldy songs by Tuvan singer 
