Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour #245

01-12-17   Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour #245 was live at Singing Bridge Studios in Worthington, Massachusetts and features the Gaea Star Band with Mariam Massaro on vocals, celtic harp, native flute, acoustic guitar, ukulele and sitar, Craig Harris on congas and balaphone and Bob Sherwood on piano.  Today’s first piece is an improvisation based around Mariam’s tale of “Tiliana Mayweyho”, a weaver, shepherdess and healer who honors the ancient ways, the simple ways.  The piece is characterized by a deep and evocative conversation between Mariam’s vocal and her native flute.  “Hope Is In The Air” is a driving, melodically rich and complex piece featuring ambitious piano from Bob and Mariam’s driving acoustic guitar.  Mariam straps on the baritone ukulele for the contemplative, easygoing folky ballad “It’s All In The Way You See”, a piece that rises in intensity to a mystical, flowing and rich coda.  Today’s final piece finds Mariam playing her beautiful sitar as Craig moves to the tablas for an Indian-inflected improvisation that accompanies an excerpt by Mariam from her “Gaea Star Crystal:  Awakening the Tribes Of Light” tale called “Step Into The Fire”.