
Thursday & Friday
11am&11pmET
Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour with Mariam Massaro
On the Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour, singer/songwriter Mariam Massaro and composer/producer Robert Sherwood collaborate with Craig Harris and special guests to produce a unique live musical experience where pure inspiration is interwoven with dynamic and unusually sensitive musical expression. The show features completely original songs created in the moment from Mariam’s inspirations, often from dreams and feelings based on current life experiences here and throughout the world as well as from the beauty of nature, blended with intergalactic channelings from her Twin Flame lover Ashento. Starting in January 2012 The Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour has attracted over 450,000 listeners from all corners of the globe. As The Gaea Star Band enters their fourth year they’re excited with the release of their latest album “Who We Are” on Applehead/Sony Films and Records. “Who We Are” is a unique collection of tracks pulled from the last couple of years of shows that reflect an upbeat, original spirit with a global medicine rock flavor.
Broadcasts Weekly Thursday & Friday 11am/11pmET
Mariam’s Musical Inspiration This Week
Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour #615 is an hour of intrepid, creative, compelling live music played by the Gaea Star Band with Mariam Massaro on vocals, Native flute, shruti box, 6- and 12-string acoustic guitars, ukulele and kalimba, Bob Sherwood on piano and Craig Harris on low Native drum and congas. Recorded at Singing Brook Studio in Worthington, Massachusetts in April of 2025, today’s show begins with the hypnotic, mystical “Oh, Radiant Is Our Love”, a gorgeous ballad underpinned by Mariam’s shruti box drone, hushed vocal and soaring Native flute, heartbeat drum and postmodern soul piano figurations. “It’s A Bright Light” begins with hushed piano, chiming kalimba and Mariam’s beautiful, minimalist melody before developing into a Beethovenesque art song and “Sailing Ever Stronger (Because We Can)” is a pretty gospel folk song with an uplifting melody, virtuosic piano, chiming ukulele and dancing, grooving congas from Craig. “Ganesha” is a prayer to the Hindustani Goddess rendered as a beautiful, reverent raga built on Mariam’s suspended-chord shruti box drone. “Codes Of Light”, directed by Mariam’s propulsive acoustic guitar, has a misty, 50s feel as it slowly refines into a beautiful minimalist ballad with a powerful vocal and we complete today’s show with an unusual, gorgeously exotic take of Mariam’s “Sing Down The Walls” from the “Gaea Star Crystal” LP, all chiming 12-string, powerful low drum and mournful, reaching piano.
Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour #614 is an hour of dynamic, visionary acoustic improvised music played by The Gaea Star Band with Mariam Massaro on vocals, Native flute, acoustic guitar, 4- and 8-string ukulele and shruti box, Bob Sherwood on piano and Craig Harris on congas and Native drum. Recorded live in late March of 2025 at Singing Brook Studio in Worthington, Massachusetts, today’s show begins with the beautiful, meditative “Magenta Golden Rose” a languid, rich song with fine vocals and Native flute, throbbing Native drum and imaginative piano. “The Mists Are Rising” is a fast-paced nature travelogue driven by Mariam’s chiming acoustic guitar and Craig’s driving congas and “Morning, Morning” is a pretty folk song with a fine vocal from Mariam above energized piano and congas. “The Last Time” begins with peaceful, dancing ukulele and Mariam’s pretty melody and adds gospel, folk and rock touches as it grows into a powerful, dramatic prayer of peace and “Let’s Begin Again” grows beautifully, mystically from the embers of the preceding song into a rich, powerful raga supporting a languid Native flute and vocal ballet from Mariam. “Spirit Of The Forest”, originally recorded for the “Release” album, is given a stately, unhurried reading featuring tight conga work and a soaring, affection vocal from Mariam. Today’s hour closes with “Returning Back Home”, a meditative, mesmerizing raga underpinned by Mariam’s shruti box drone and enriched by imaginative piano directions and Native drum accents and rolls.
Learn more about Mariam here: http://www.mariammassaro.com