11-24-22 Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour #510 was recorded live at Singing Brook Studio in Worthington, Massachusetts in November of 2022 and is an hour of visionary acoustic improv music featuring the Gaea Star Band with Mariam Massaro on vocals, Native flute, 8- and 4-string ukuleles, acoustic guitar, Nashville-tuned guitar and sitar, Bob Sherwood on piano, Craig Harris on Native drums and congas and Cevher Demirel on flute and bongos. Today’s show begins with the lush, jangling folk song “Healing Ways Are Rising”, driven by Mariam’s delicate Nashville guitar and inspired vocal, decorated by evocative flute passages from Cevher. “Oh Sun” is another fine, driving folk song featuring Mariam’s silvery 8-string ukulele, again with Mariam’s gorgeous vocal in conversation with Cevher’s percussive flute. “Life Is Love, Love Is Life” begins as a sedate meditation built around Mariam’s acoustic guitar and grows in intensity until taking wing as a driving, powerfully percussive medicine song, a lush melody surrounded by powerful drumming from Craig and Cevher. “It Will Always Make You Smile” is a whispering, minor folk ballad that again picks up in intensity and drive with a powerful rhythm section and “May The Waters Bubble Up From The Depths” is an ever-changing, gorgeous improvisation driven by percussion and Bob’s deft, improvising piano supporting a powerful vocal from Mariam and “To Keep In The Oneness” completes today’s powerful journey as a beautiful raga featuring Mariam’s lush, mystical sitar and fundamental shruti box drones from Cevher.
Learn more about Mariam here: http://www.mariammassaro.com
