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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, THE RARE ORIGINAL 'DAVID HYKES AND THE HARMONIC CHOIR ' HARMONIC MEETINGS' TRI FOLD TWO LP AMERICAN RELEASE ON CELESTIAL HARMONIES RECORDS , IN MINT NEW CONDITION WITH DIRECT METAL MASTERING (DMM) PERHAPS NEVER PLAYED OR AT MOST A TRACK OR TWO FOR THE RADIO BROADCAST
EVERY AUDIOPHILE KNOWS THAT THE ORIGINAL LP'S HAVE THE BEST FIDELITY AND THIS IS NO EXCEPTION THIS CAN BE FOUND IN CD FORM BUT NOT IN THE RARER LP FORMAT
IT IS IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION FROM THE DISC ITSELF TO ITS SLEEVE TO ITS LP COVER
THIS AND ALL MY NEW AGE OFFERINGS CAME DIRECTLY FROM THE MUSIC LIBRARY OF THE SYNDICATED MUSIC PROGRAM 'MUSICAL STARSTREAMS.' IN ITS DAY IT WAS THE DEFINITIVE NEW AGE MUSIC PROGRAM. BELOW IS A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PROGRAM
Musical Starstreams (aka Starstreams) is a terrestrial and internet radio program that first aired in the San Francisco bay area in December 1981. Originally known as Music for Your inner Space, it has been produced, programmed and hosted by Forest, originally in Mill Valley and now from Maui, for its entire nearly thirty-five year history, except for a twelve-month period from mid-2002, when Madison Cole hosted the show.
In 1983 the two-hour weekly show began syndication on commercial terrestrial radio, and in 1985 was picked up for distribution outside the US. It has been heard on over 200 noncommercial and commercial radio stations. Although initially scoring good ratings nationwide, the show peaked in numbers of terrestrial stations in 1991, the same year it was nominated for Billboard magazine's 'Adult Syndicated Program of the Year.' With the volatile nature of commercial radio stations continually changing formats, terrestrial station coverage has significantly declined which they attribute to the decline in terrestrial station listening and the increased popularity of the internet where more listeners have chosen to listen online to the program in its current form. A more music intensive version of the program called The Starstreams Channel can be heard online, hosted by Madison Cole and by Forest himself as simply Starstreams on Mixcloud.
Back in the 1980s the show played a mix of electronic, new-age and a small amount of jazz, Today, it has more of a Chill music core, sometimes characterized as mid- to down-tempo "exotic electronica". Back in the early days it was also sometimes described as "Marin County hot-tub music" a tongue in cheek reference to its former home just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco
WHEN FOREST, THE ORIGINATOR OF THE SHOW AND HOST MOVED THE SHOW FROM CALIFORNIA TO NEVADA IN THE 90'S, HE DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO DIGITIZE HIS LIBRARY AND SINCE I HAD BEEN IN REGULAR CONTACT WITH HIM, HE OFFERED TO SELL ME HIS ENTIRE LP LIBRARY OF WHICH THIS LP WAS A PART. I RECEIVED HIS LIBRARY OF OVER 300 LP'S IN NEW CONDITION AND THEY HAVE BEEN LOVINGLY STORED IN AIR CONDITIONED NON SMOKING COMFORT SINCE. I HAVE NEVER PLAYED ANY OF THEM I AM OFFERING FOR SALE.