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
Today on Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour #587 we present an hour of visionary acoustic improvisation music featuring the Gaea Star Band with Mariam Massaro on vocals, acoustic guitar, ukulele, mandolin, Native flute and shruti box, Bob Sherwood on piano and drums and Ludimirra Ozdemir on vocals and Saz. Recorded live at Singing Bridge Studio in Worthington, Massachusetts, today’s dynamic show begins with the driving, syncopated “Know Yourself”, a varied groove with a fine vocal from Mariam. “Alive In The Beauty” is another driving, swinging piece that finds a powerful confluence between western and eastern modalities and “Find Your Rhythm” features dynamic saz figurations decorated with soaring Native flute from Mariam and driving, unrelenting drums rhythms from Bob. “Tall Trees” is a gorgeous, languid, reverent tone poem built around Bob’s modernist, minimalist piano work that ascribes interesting variations to Mariam’s fine vocal and lyrical Native flute and “I Found You” is a fantastical, Dyonisian celebration with Mariam’s mystical lyric, circling, diving Native flute, Ludimirra’s winding string work and Bob’s driving, surprising hand drum grooves. “Tall Trees” is a gorgeous, minimalist folk song with a pretty, repetitive harmonic framework set up by Mariam’s chiming mandolin and Bob’s stately piano that is repeatedly, seductively pulled into the minor with Ludimirra’s eastern modes on the saz. “I Found You” is a triumphantly successful hybrid of western 12 tone modes and eastern modal drone driven by Ludimirra’s questing, questioning Saz with Gershwinesque piano comments from Bob supporting a powerful, unwinding lyric from Mariam. One of today’s standouts is Mariam’s “Calling Us Home” from the “Release” album, presented powerfully and imaginatively by the band and supporting a fine vocal from Mariam. We conclude today’s show with a languid, rich coda of “Calling Us Home” that showcases beautiful Native flute from Mariam and virtuosically rendered Saz from Ludimirra.
Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour #586 is an hour of visionary acoustic improvised music played by The Gaea Star Band with Mariam Massaro on vocals, Native flute, marimba, mandolin, 8-string ukulele and harmonica, Bob Sherwood on piano and percussion and this week’s special guests Dan Morningstar on acoustic guitar and vocals and Ludimirra Ozdemir on vocals and Oud. Recorded live at Singing Bridge Studio in Worthington, Massachusetts in August of 2024, today’s show begins with the intensely rhythmic, hypnotic “Oh, May The Music Flow”, a powerful piece built around Mariam’s insistent, tight marimba figures braiding with Bob’s sinuous percussion and ornate, intricate lines from Ludimirra. “Leyllm Ley” is a Turkish song from Lou, a beautiful, striking drone with propulsive percussion from Bob and Mariam. “To Reach The Moment” begins with a dramatic, expressive vocal from Mariam above a bed of mandolin and Oud and unfurls into a gorgeous song of steppes and rainbows above a shifting, mind-bending modern classical setting of piano, Oud and mandolin. “Ten” is a formal structure that features a complex, soaring conversation between Native flute and Oud and Mariam’s sparse, dramatic “I’m Walking” swells from a whisper, building a powerful, psychedelic journey as Mariam leads us through the caves of our souls. “Youldum”, another rich journey into Turkish folk from Ludimirra, is a rich, powerful exercise with tight, interlocking rhythms from Mariam’s dance of Native flute and marimba. A tight ensemble and fine vocals from Mariam and Bob create a mesmerizing tapestry on the dancing, racing “Solare” and the lovely, spacious, unhurried “Bring It All Home” wanders and returns, featuring fine contributions from the whole ensemble and lush vocals from Mariam and Ludimirra.
Learn more about Mariam here: http://www.mariammassaro.com