KAOS (Olympia, WA)
- Growth-Haruomi Hosono (Just waking up? Feeling sluggish? Can't remember where you put your keys, glasses, or toothpaste? Need an instrumental that underscores your muddled confusion? This is for you. After the first minute of listening, I thought it would work in a life-cycle-of-plants documentary. Appropriately, this piece, which at times sounds like a discordant carnival, is from the album, "Watering A Flower.")
- Hopeless-Dionne Farris (I remember hearing Farris's song, "I Know," a lot on the former WVRV. These heartfelt, tastefully sung ruminations, with appropriately cascading instrumentation, deserve at least as much airplay as "I Know" had at its peak.)
- Antonin Dvorak: Humoresque No. 7 in G-flat major (Boston Symphony Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa, conductor; Itzhak Perlman, violin, Yo-Yo Ma, cello) (This piece, fit for a panoramic vista at dawn, allows a solo violinist's tone to resonate brightly over the orchestra.)
- Running Up That Hill-Meg Myers (Myers's powerful alto voice honors Kate Bush's original version.)
- Cuban Slide-The Pretenders (With a chorus this strong, why hasn't this received airplay on more stations?)
