MIXCLOUD PODCAST: CLICK HERE TO LISTENMartian Gardens Episode 1231Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, MassachusettsJuly 2, 2025Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com Hour 1 SET ONEElicio Winds: Tom Robinson (Northern Mockingbird) (T. Hagen)Birds of Maycomb, Mvt. IIIConvergenceMusic & Cultural Legacy*Blue Griffin Recordings/2023Elicio Winds (flute: Virginia Broffitt Kunzer; oboe: Kathleen Carter Bell; bassoon: Conor Bell); recorded at Hinton Hall, […]

MIXCLOUD PODCAST: CLICK HERE TO LISTENMartian Gardens Episode 1230Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, MassachusettsJune 21, 2025Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com Hour 1 SET ONEGalen Trio with Zacharias Tarpagkos: Rain, Water and Life (V. Kennedy)a. Rain (1:27)b. Water (1:53)c. Life (2:22)EmbraceNeuma Records/2025flute: Zacharias Tarpagkos; Galen Trio (violin: Babis Karasavvidis; cello: Marina Kolovou; piano: Petros Bouras); recorded at National […]

MIXCLOUD PODCAST: CLICK HERE TO LISTENMartian Gardens Episode 1228Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, MassachusettsJune 2, 2025Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com Hour 1 SET ONEGuy Klucevsek: Samba D HiccupManhattan Cascade (various composers)Composers Recordings, Inc./1992accordion: Guy Klucevsek; composition year: 1986; time: 5:24 Guy Klucevsek: Hungarian HummingbirdTeetering on the Verge of NormalcyStarkland/2016violin: Todd Reynolds; accordion: Guy Klucevsek; recorded at […]

MIXCLOUD PODCAST: CLICK HERE TO LISTENMartian Gardens Episode 1227Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, MassachusettsMay 20, 2025Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com Hour 1 SINGLE PLAYSergei Rachmaninoff: The Flight of the Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakov)A Window in Time – Rachmaninoff Performs His Solo Piano WorksTelarc/1998piano: Sergei Rachmaninoff (recorded on piano rolls by Rachmaninoff c. 1920s); digital processing program: Wayne Stahnke, […]

MIXCLOUD PODCAST: CLICK HERE TO LISTENMartian Gardens Episode 1226Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, MassachusettsMay 11, 2025Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com Hour 1 SINGLE PLAYSusan Botti: River Spirits — PrologueRiver SpiritsNew Focus Recordings/2025voices: Katherine Lerner Lee, Mary Bonhag, Susan Botti; bass recorder, tenor recorder, zampogna bagpipes, Irish flute, sackbut: Dan Meyers; electric viol de gamba: Robert Eisenstein, […]

MIXCLOUD PODCAST: CLICK HERE TO LISTENMartian Gardens Episode 1225Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, MassachusettsMay 1, 2025Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com Hour 1 SINGLE PLAYPhilip Perkins: Go turn the owl aroundThirteen Feet Nine InchesLive recordings of computer-driven electrosonic works 2023-5Artifact Recordings/2025musique concrete techniques, synthesizers, guitar: Philip Perkins; recorded at the composer’s studio, San Francisco; time: 4:40 SET […]

MIXCLOUD PODCAST: CLICK HERE TO LISTENMartian Gardens Episode 1224Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, MassachusettsApril 20, 2025Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com Hour 1 SINGLE PLAYGeorge Crumb: Easter DawningComplete Crumb Edition, Volume FiveBridge Records/2001carillon bells: Don Cook; recorded at Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City, September 2001; composition year: 1992; time: 4:06 SET ONELou Harrison: Easter Cantataa. Sinfonia […]

MIXCLOUD PODCAST: CLICK HERE TO LISTENMartian Gardens Episode 1223Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, MassachusettsApril 10, 2025Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com Hour 1 SET ONEWilliam Bland: Piano Sonata No. 6 in C-Minor (selections)Bestiary-Con AmoreI. Bear Dance (4:09)II. Song of the Great Hawk (5:28)Sonata No. 6 & No. 15Bridge Records/2024piano: Kevin Gorman; recorded September 17 & 18, […]