Idyllic Music Podcast

Welcome to the Idyllic Music Podcast featuring the melodic and rhythmic, the charmingly simple and deceptively complex. Idyllic Music can be Trip Hop or Ambient, Jazz, Dub or Downtempo. In short, headphone electronica. Music as cool as a gentle summer stream.

This week, we'll look at the life giving and restorative power of water. While water is the most abundant molecule on Earth's surface and nearly 60% of the human body is water, we often take for granted is enormous importance. Since all water is essentially the same, it is what is dissolved into it that accounts for the differences we consume whether our freshwater comes from deep in Lake Baikal or from the muddy Mississippi. Having recovered recently from a lingering flu virus, I can tell you that water, and drinking huge amounts of it, were instrumental in ridding me of that illness. And so the show is all about water. Drink up.

We'll begin with program stalwart USB making his 5th appearance on Idyllic Music with the icily beautiful 'We dream in fields of crystal'

You'll find much more from this talented musician at www.soundclick.com/bands/usb

Liverpool's Fran Kapelle and Paul Addie make waves as the core of Tracing Arcs. This is from their brilliant 'fin' release. It's 'Icefloes'

Look for more at www.myspace.com/tracingarcs

James Kirsch marshals the beats as General Fuzz have a taste of 'Liquid Jazz'

There is much more at www.generalfuzz.net

This podcast can be heard in more than 100 countries. Look for the list at myspace.com/idyllic music

Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them.

And look for all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

'Idyllic Music' is a weekly Podcast