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This is the first Podcast since December of 2008! We are really sorry for the delay, but we hope this cast makes up for it. With spring-inspired music and important announcements, we are letting you know about our social media channels, Facebook, Twitter and the Space Music podcast (spacemusic.nl). Also, we are previewing a track from Terra Ambient’s upcoming release, Wanderlust.

Chapter / Track Listing:
Chapter 9: Ben Cox – Pray for Rain (from On Water)
Chapter 10: Erik Wøllo – Summer Tomorrow (from Guitar Nova)
Chapter 11: Darshan Ambient – Acre of Sun (from Autumn’s Apple)
Chapter 12 – PREVIEW: Terra Ambient – Myth (from upcoming release Wanderlust)

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A Special Holiday edition of LotusCast, featuring two special tracks by Ben Cox and Daniel Pipitone, as well as tracks by Chad Hoefler, Terra Ambient, Jeff Greinke, Between Interval and Erik Wøllo. Happy Holidays!

Chapter / Track Listing:
Chapter 3: Ben Cox – Cold Rain (unreleased)
Chapter 4: Daniel Pipitone – Winter Trail Pt. 1 (unreleased)
Chapter 5: Erik Wøllo – Frost (from Wind Journey)
Chapter 6: Terra Ambient – The Glass House (from The Darker Space)
Chapter 7: Johan Agebjörn – The Sound of Snowflakes Touching the Ground (feat. Lisa Barra, from Mossebo)
Chapter 8: Between Interval – Autumn Continent 1 (from Autumn Continent)
Chapter 9: Erik Wøllo – Winter Lake (from Wind Journey)
Chapter 10: Jeff Greinke – The Long Road (from Winter Light)
Chapter 13: Chad Hoefler – Snow Fire (from Quiet Glow)

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Your host Daniel Pipitone also plays tracks by Jon Jenkins, David Helpling, Craig Padilla, Erik Wøllo and a Darshan Ambient feature to celebrate his release of From Pale Hands to Weary Skies.

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Back in April, we received word from Michael’s wife, Nicky, that he had gotten ill very fast…and worse…he was in intensive care fighting a terrible infection due to an abscess in his liver. Over the course of the few weeks that followed, we all listened to updates from Nicky and watched for signs of improvement in Michael’s health. To follow this string of events, you can still read the entire thing courtesy of the folks at Hypnos Forum >

Today, Michael is back in contact with us and already making music again. As if there was any doubt?!

We wanted to take a few minutes and reflect on this, and we thought it only appropriate to share it with you all. We offer this small tribute…a visual vignette against the backdrop of music from Michael himself. The images you see are those captured with my miniDV camera while hiking and driving through an area of Virginia called Narrows, about 45 minutes outside of Blacksburg.

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- lotuspike (Ben, Jeff and Daniel)

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Lotuspike features Rudy Adrian and his debut release on Lotuspike Records, MoonWater.

Rudy also discusses his previous releases and the influences on his work.

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On April 23, we were fortunate to be able to host Robert Rich as he stopped in Pittsburgh as part of his 2006 Spring Tour. Along with the Carnegie Science Center we hosted an evening with Robert at the CSC Buhl Planetarium. Robert’s performance was absolutely astounding and nothing could take the place of seeing it first hand, but we thought we would try to bring you a peice of it, along with an interview with Robert.

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Lotuspike takes a road trip to discover what things are happening with other musicians and labels across the country.

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Special Valentine’s Day edition. A soundtrack for a romantic evening featuring music from many of the Lotuspike releases.

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Happy Holidays from Lotuspike!

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lotusCast – Lotuspike Podcast for #5 – October, 2005

featuring music by Darshan Ambient, along with music and an interview with Jeff Pearce!

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The fourth installment of LotusCast.

In this edition of lotusCast, we feature music from Darshan Ambient, Craig Padilla and Zero Ohms, Terra Ambient and an exclusive interview with Ministry of Inside Things from Philadephia…Plus new and event updates for the month of August 2005.

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Jeffrey Paul Cox was born at 5:50pm EDT on Monday, June 27, 2005 at Magee-Women’s Hospital in Pittsburgh. He was 7lbs. 5oz. and 20″ long. Mom is doing great, and she and Dad and Jeffrey’s big sister Becky and his Mna are proud as can be.

Congratulations also go out to lotusFriends and fellow new dads Craig Padilla and Maurice Rickard!

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The third installment of LotusCast.

This month we feature music by lotuspike artist and co-founder Ben Cox, new lotuspike artists Craig Padilla & Zero Ohms (Richard Roberts), and a track from ambient pioneer Robert Rich.

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Welcome to our second installment of the lotusCast podcast!

This time we feature an exclusive interview with Michael Allison (aka. Darshan Ambient) and a rare track from Daniel Pipitone.

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Well, here it is, our first lotusCast podcast installment. From time to time we will be producing these to keep you in the loop on Lotuspike goings-on, and all of the latest news and info related to music and artists on the Lotuspike label.

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You decide. On the left: Jerome Bettis. On the right: Marvin Gaye.

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OK, so here are the “founders’ picks”, or “recent favorites”, which we would say we’ve have been listening to most recently – most of them released fairly recently (in the last year…or so) :

DANIEL:

Steve Roach and Vir Unis – Blood Machine
Ian Boddy – Chiasmata
Steve Roach – Life Sequence
Numina – Sanctuary of Dreams
Brian Eno & J Peter Schwalm – Drawn From Life
Adham Shaikh – Fusion
Eno/Budd – The Pearl
H.U.V.A Network – Distances
AES DANA – [ Memory Shell ]
Robert Rich – Open Window

I find that my listening goes in phases. One week, nothing electronic or ambient at all, other times only radio streams (OEM RADIO, Groove Salad (somaFM), Drone Zone (somaFM), Digitally Imported – Chillout), and other times nothing at all. There always seems to be jazz around…Coltrane (naturally), Ella Fitzgerald, Hancock, and plenty of old school. Even some Charlie Parker (I highly recommend Birdland NYC 1949)

However, if you ask me what’s in my most recently played items in iTunes today, that list above is a safe bet.

…back to the grind.

JEFF:

These are the CDS that stood out to me this year. I will say that this has been a surprisingly “quiet” year for music. There wasn’t a whole lot jumping out at me as “WOW”. Nonetheless, these CD’s deserve merit.

Chad Hoefler -Twilight in the Offing [hypnos]
Roach/Sellig/Metcalf – Mantram [projekt]
Darshan Ambient – Autumn’s Apple
Patrick O’Hearn – Beautiful World [self-relelase]
Robert Rich – Open Window [self release]
Numina-Sanctuary of Dreams [hypnos]
Arc – Blaze [DiN]
Adham Shaikh – Fusion [self release]
Steve Roach – Life sequence [self release]
Ian Boddy – Chiasmata [DiN]
Lanterna – Highways [self release]

For myself… I only listen to what Daniel tells me to listen to.

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So, after nearly hurting myself trying to sort this out…I’ve done it! I found a way to blog these images from the Inaugural lotuspike event @ the Mattress Factory from January 7, 2005.

For those who might be curious and could not be there, this is what it looked like:

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I’ll begin my blog entries with a quick review of something non-musical…homebrewed beer.

My wife gave me my first homebrew kit for Christmas this year, and we are just now, this evening, tasting it after three weeks of fermenting and priming. Do we need a food and drink area for this stuff?

Anyway, here are the tasting notes :

Tasting notes (by Erica De Angelis) :
The fizzing sound started with the slightest (less than an 1/8) twist of the cap, and the smell of the beer was noticeable immediately after. My bottle didn’t have much fizz, but the flavor was semi-sharp, although it never made the entire journey to crisp, and the smooth texture (Guinness-y) finish started too soon after the sharpness ended. I liked the smell, loved the flavor and appreciated the amber color but it was a bit flat at the finish.

Tasting notes (by Daniel Pipitone) :
While I know for a fact that each bottle was carefully primed with an equal amount of sugar, there was substantially less carbonation in the bottle I opened, versus the bottle Erica opened. While the aroma was nice, a bit strong, and hoppy, it seemed over-carbonated. The taste was downright fruity, or so it seemed, although not crisp. A tiny bit flat with “chunky” large carbonation. Smooth, pleasant taste at room temperature. Being that this is my first homebrew experiment, and one bottle was just right and the other not quite right, I have hope.

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