Back in the 80's sometime I was a young boy with a transistor radio, late at night tuning in to all sorts of far away stations. Where I lived up north you could only get 2 different stations during the day and otherwise it was all static. At night this all changed due to atmospheric condition, and you could pickup stations from thousands of miles away. One night I was "surfing" the FM dial and happened upon some sort of dreamy "Space Music" program. The sound was like nothing I had ever heard before. It was a different sort of music.... abstract, soothing and wonderful. It stimulated my imagination and evoked emotions and mental imagery. The closest to this I had encountered in other music would be Bach's organ music. Each week the host of the show had a different selection of what he called space music. I was able to find the program for many weeks but eventually for some reason it could not be found anymore. As this was before the Internet there was no easy way for me to even find out where it had come from and where it had gone. I gave up on it and moved on.
Not long ago, for some reason I thought of this space music again and tried googling it and stumbled upon the "Hearts of Space" website. I was pleased to discover that this was the same program I had heard over 20 years ago! Fortunately for me it was a Sunday and the website offered a free Sunday show and I was immediately listening to those beautiful sounds from so long ago. It was like a void had been filled in my soul. There was a space in my heart for this music and it is now filled again. For a while I listened to their free Sunday show every week but this was not enough. I recently subscribed to their radio channel which gives me a 24/7 stream of wonderful space music at home and at work using my laptop. Thank you to Stephen Hill and his team for producing this amazing program and allowing me to enjoy it over the Internet.Visit the Hearts of Space website at http://www.hos.com
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