The Lunar Orbit Zach Sizemore

This week! 🚀 I’m bringing you part two of our Fund Drive special! A second week of all new post-rock, ambient, and instrumental goodness to celebrate all the awesome work that WRIR has been up to. Of course, you’ll get a chance to be a part of that too when you donate!

If you would like to donate to the station it seriously would mean the world, to do so please visit wrir.org/donate.

Playlist:

Salt+ "Not It" from Not It - Single
Mothership Mercury "Messenger" from Mothership Mercury
What Aleph Said "Astral" from Aulasy
Myriad Drone "Valediction" from Valediction - Single
goader "The Divine Worm" from Older Gods
Skyggekat "ShadowCat" from At the End of the Rope EP
The Sun Burns Bright "The Wave That Took Us Under" from Our Eyes Were Drawn To the Inevitable
sleepmakeswaves "All Hail Skull" from It's Here, But I Have No Names For It
Movement of Static "Perception" from Projections
Ranges "X." from X. - Single
Thought Trials "Oligo" from Oligo - Single
Winters Lane "December" from Trails
Maybeshewill "October" from October - Single
Maneframe "Fading Metropolis" from Echoes of the Beginning
James Dorsett "Hope" from Defeat/Hope - Single

This week I’m pulling out all the stops for WRIR's 2024 Spring Fund Drive! This episode will be the first of two shows featuring new music from the past couple months, including a fantastic mix of post-rock, ambient, and a little electronica. Plus of course, you’ll get to hear all about the awesome work WRIR has been up to, and all the great benefits of donating!

If you would like to donate to the station it seriously would mean the world, to do so please visit wrir.org/donate.

Playlist:

Tottomori "Sunshine and Rotting Wood" from Dream Merchant
MONO "Oath" from Oath (Triptych) - EP
fade into obscurity "let them float" from the grief aftermath
O'Bear "The Shore" from The Shore - EP
Sidus "Seismic Wave (Live in Athens, 10.12.2023)" from Seismic Wave (Live in Athens, 10.12.2023) - Single
So Far As I Know "When Stars Collide And Fall Upon Us" from Awe
Halfway Line "A Mountain Passage" from Halfway Line - Single
Cosmic Call "Good Days Will Come (feat. Hereafter & Parker)" from There Is Always Hope
Tars "To the Stars" from Per Aspera
Overhead, The Albatross "Your Last Breath" from Your Last Breath - Single
Solars "A Hill to Die On" from A Hill to Die On - Single
Mason van Kraayenburg "Draco (feat. Coastlands)" from Draco (feat. Coastlands) - Single
From Beyond These Walls "Distant Light" from The Dawn
Helsinki Horizon "Cellar Door" from Sirens
Atonalita "From The Furthest Sky" from From The Furthest Sky - Single

Tonight is something like a heavy dream-wavy show. Kind of ethereal sounding, mixed with a lot of distortion. It’s an interesting vibe, and a ton of great music with bands like @east_thelane @astronomiesband @chanisswimming @sleepmakeswavesaus @thesunburnsbright and many more!

Playlist:

BLEED You Fucking Skies "Northstorm" from Prototype
Chan Is Swimming "Operation Caroline" from Chan Is Swimming
Deeparshi Roy "In Nothingness" from In Nothingness - Single
Nava Calma "A Last Hurrah for the Bedlam" from A Last Hurrah for the Bedlam - Single
Glories "Chosen Forms" from Chosen Forms - Single
sleepmakeswaves "All Hail Skull" from It's Here, But I Have No Names For It
East, the Lane "Potsdam" from Close Your Eyes! Every Sun Sets to Rise Again
Tin-Ear "Untitled" from Cadastral Maps
Terrestrial "Sunrise" from Landscapes - EP
The Sun Burns Bright "Perpetual" from Our Eyes Were Drawn To the Inevitable
The End of the Ocean "On Floating" from In Excelsis - EP
Legendary Skies "Red Tails" from Navigation
The Low Blow "Angels" from The City of Glowing Metal
Anti Quant "There In the Beams of the Moon" from EP 1 - EP
Seeress "Empathy" from Empathy - Single
bottomshelf "Clot" from Bright Days - EP
herveil "Pale Light" from Swirl - EP
Shirley & The Pyramids "High and Low" from Maid of Time
Murmurer "Destierro" from Pristinus - EP
Astronomies "After I Fall Asleep" from After I Fall Asleep - Single

After a little unplanned hiatus The Lunar Orbit returns. But, more importantly, the celestial event of the decade is upon us!! This week’s show is of course decided to the solar eclipse, and we’ll bring it in with a fun mix of post-rock, psych, ambient meditations, and some fun facts!

Playlist:

Skraeckoedlan "Cosmic Dawn" from Vermillion Sky
A Collective Subconscious "Turiya" from Turiya
Moonshiba "Es Mi Tortuga (La Tortuga)" from Buscando / Perderse - EP
The Last Summer For Lucy "Kamtchatka Ice Surfers" from Congratulations to the Millionth Visitor at the South Pole
Dobbeltgjenger "Atomic" from When I've Gone to Space
Kaschalot "Supernova" from Zenith
Elder "Illusory Motion" from The Gold & Silver Sessions
Around the World In 80 Days "Virus" from Dissonance
Watermill "Planets" from Origins - EP
Lighter Co. "Gideon" from Out of the Furrow
Moons Eat Stars "Scattered Fragments of a Lost Memory" from Exile
Tenchio "I Don't Understand (Verdeir Ver.)" from 004 Sigh-TM Stutter - EP
Shy, Low "Saudade" from Hiraeth
Argo Vals "Koiduskaudid" from Nokturn
Pile "Firewood" from Green and Gray
Mono "Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn" from Hymn to the Immortal Wind

Please join me for what is quite possibly one of the corniest themes I have ever come up with. March 14, 3.14, Pi-Day – which obviously means we’re doing an entire show of MATH rock. Why has no one thought of it before. The best pun ever made! Anyway, should be really good hope you enjoy!

Playlist:

LITE "Deep Inside" from Strata
Totorro "Yaaaago" from Come to Mexico
toe "エソテリック" from For Long Tomorrow
Thank You Scientist "The Amateur Arsonist's Handbook (Audiotree Live Version)" from Thank You Scientist on Audiotree Live - EP
The Robot & Me "The Kill" from Canoe - EP
Rooftops "Year as Lift" from A Forest of Polarity
Origami JP "Idea" from Idea - Single
Floral "Climbing a Wall" from Floral EP
Piglet "Anthropology Anthology" from Lava Land - EP
Lowercase Numbers "Sexting Under the Stars" from No Songs About Girls - Single
mouse on the keys "aom" from machinic phylum - EP
Scale the Summit "Atlas Novus" from Scale the Summit (Digital Collection)
American Football "Honestly?" from American Football
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die "Heartbeat in the Brain" from Whenever, If Ever
Strawberry Girls "First Kiss" from Tasmanian Glow
Velocirapture "Mountain Scar" from Planet Fun - EP
LOOP POOL "The World Tree" from Circle
jizue "atom" from story
downy "左の種" from 第一作品集『無題』再発

This episode, we are back live with brand new music! Highlighting some awesome post/math rock releases from February! Come tune into hear bands like @nightverses, @aburialatseaband @ifthesetreescouldtalk @redpinemushroomofficial and many more! Really big month of new music so this will be fun!

Playlist:

Night Verses "Glitching Prisms (feat. Brandon Boyd)" from Glitching Prisms (feat. Brandon Boyd) - Single
A Burial At Sea "DALL" from Close to Home
Erin Malone "Worth More" from Florescence - EP
The Lightsenders "Root" from The Burning of Llangernyw Yew
My Unknown Friend "Elbrus Climbing" from Journey of a Lifetime
Yakhchal "Alex Dalgarno" from Beggars and Comets - Single
Goodbye Meteor "This Is Not Here" from We Could Have Been Radiant
If These Trees Could Talk "Trail of Whispering Giants" from Trail of Whispering Giants - Single
From Beyond These Walls "The Dawn" from The Dawn - Single
Only Ever "Diatom Bloom" from Diatom Bloom - Single
goader "Soothsayer" from Soothsayer - Single
Mason van Kraayenburg "Corona Borealis (feat. Zealand the North)" from Corona Borealis (feat. Zealand the North) - Single
Schubmodul "Renegade One" from Lost In Kelp Forest
Red Pine Mushroom "I. Ur" from Enki
Halfway Line "Tide Pools" from Halfway Line - Single
Hans Zimmer "Lisan al Gaib" from Dune: Part Two (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)