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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, THE RARE 'SATYAGRAHA' BY PHILIP GLASS LP BOX SET COMPLETE WITH BOOKLET, A TWO PAGE PROMOTIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR RADIO STATIONS TO USE AND ON THE BACK IS STAMPED A SPECIAL PROMO SEAL INDICATING THAT IT WAS SENT TO THE RADIO STATION FOR PROMOTION. IT WAS 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 bay area in December 1981. Originally known as Music for Your inner Space, it has been produced, programmed and hosted by Forest, originally in and now from , for its entire nearly thirty-five year history, except for a twelve-month period from mid-2002, when 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 , systems, the , XM channels and . Although initially scoring good ratings nationwide, the show peaked in numbers of terrestrial stations in 1991, the same year it was nominated for 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 to a point where by their own website's count, they list only 10 noncommercial and commercial (as of 3/11) 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 , new-age and a small amount of , 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