Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour #178

08-21-15  Gaea Star Crystal Radio Hour #178 is recorded at Singing Bridge Studios in Worthington, Massachusetts and features the Gaea Star Band presenting several improvs and songs from Mariam Massaro.  We begin with Mariam on baritone ukelele, harmonica and vocals, Craig Harris on congas and Robert Sherwood on piano for the languid, leisurely, bluesy “Common Sense”.  For the Hawaiian-flavored “Merrily We Flow Around” Mariam picks up the little uke and Dameron Midgett joins us on Kalimba for the mysterious, floating “Goldenrods and Day Lilies”.  We return from the break with Dameron on mandolin, Mariam on the Celtic harp and Craig moving to marimba on the moving, African-flavored ballad “Rushing Water”.  Echoed piano melds with the harp in a beautiful, delicate evocation of the river.  “Eternity” is today’s mult-movement epic, alternately ancient and modern, distinguished by Mariam’s work on native flute and Craig’s foundational congas.