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The Lunar Orbit
Zach Sizemore
78 episodes
4 weeks ago
The Lunar Orbit is a weekly(ish) exploration of all things post-rock, shoegaze, ambient, instrumental, esoteric, and beyond. We explore music which helps you feel like you’re being taken out into space and invite you to tune in and relax to as much as you want. Show is hosted first on WRIR 97.3 Richmond (wrir.org) Friday's at 1am, then published on all podcast feeds the next day. For a full collection of every song ever played on the show visit: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/48TS78dqDrfTsgctqA84s2?si=81fc5f94f1ab4774 The rights to all songs played on this show belong to the respective bands or artists. If you like something you hear, please go support them! This show is meant to share the music I love with a wider audience.
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The Lunar Orbit is a weekly(ish) exploration of all things post-rock, shoegaze, ambient, instrumental, esoteric, and beyond. We explore music which helps you feel like you’re being taken out into space and invite you to tune in and relax to as much as you want. Show is hosted first on WRIR 97.3 Richmond (wrir.org) Friday's at 1am, then published on all podcast feeds the next day. For a full collection of every song ever played on the show visit: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/48TS78dqDrfTsgctqA84s2?si=81fc5f94f1ab4774 The rights to all songs played on this show belong to the respective bands or artists. If you like something you hear, please go support them! This show is meant to share the music I love with a wider audience.
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The Lunar Orbit
October 3, 2025 – Overdrive October 2025 Pt. 1!!
It’s finally that time of year again! The chill is in the air, the spooky skeletons have come out from their graves, the vampires and werewolves are ready to rock…. that’s right its OVERDRIVE OCTOBER!! Tune in all month for the heaviest riffs, biggest sounds, and most in your face post-rock I can find. Catapulting us into Halloween! Playlist: Snooze "Harked" from I KNOW HOW YOU WILL DIE Skin Thief "Growing Endless" from Frozen in the Act of Breaking Black Flak and the Nightmare Fighters "Squall" from Ode to Ebb and Flow Thumos "The Euthyphro" from The Trial of Socrates Scale & Feather "Generations" from Severed Ashbreather "Beef, Egg & Cabbage (Out of Stock)" from La Grande Bouffe Altar Solar "Triangulación" from Altar Solar Sundrowned "Jacob's Ladder" from Higanbana Gifts From Enola "Benthos" from From Fathoms Civil Service "Black Giraffes" from Black Giraffes - Single Origami Phase "Oceans in the Dark" from Ostara - EP Celestial Vault "Owl" from Solar Throne After-Math "The Fault is Mine (feat. Greybloom)" from Live In Awe of Our Dire Existence Thot "Sleep Oddity" from Sleep Oddity - Single Money "Billy Pilgrim" from Stovepipe Kadavrik "Seven Years" from Grimm I & II soothe "Sleep" from Bleed Out Whitewater "Brain Fog" from Afterlife
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4 weeks ago
2 hours 2 seconds

The Lunar Orbit
July 25, 2025 – Post-Fest Review!
It’s that time of the year again! The magical week at the end of July where herds of post-rock fans invade the sleepy hamlet of Indianapolis, to chant, break bread, and make merry with their favorite bands. That’s right, it’s Post-Fest 2025! The largest post rock and post rock adjacent festival in the US (afaik), a magical event, and a great excuse to bring you a tailored list of some of the most interesting artists featured over the three stages. I’ve assembled a diverse cast to bring you this week, so jump in! Playlist: This Will Destroy You "Grandfather Clock" from Young Mountain Ranges "Tower" from Babel Pianos Become The Teeth "Genevieve" from Drift Signal Hill "Van Gogh Sky" from Chase the Ghost Driving at Night "Fading but Fighting" from Fading but Fighting Glacier "Distant/Violent" from A Distant Violent Shudder PILLARS "Black Prayer" from Cavum Rainbows Are Free "Electricity on Wax" from Head Pains standards "Special Berry" from Fruit Island Isolation Drills,Katherine Carlson "The Bahia Honda Bridge" from Year Two Emma Ruth Rundle "Shadows Of My Name" from Some Heavy Ocean Circus Trees "Trap Door" from This makes me sad and I miss you Bongripper "Terrible Bear Attack" from Hippie Killer Ranges "The Greater Lights" from The Ascensionist Newmoon "Eternal Fall" from Temporary Light Respire "Keening" from Hiraeth Turquoise "Suns Over The Yardarm" from Fermented Fruit Surrounded by Water "In Solitude We Take Our Last Breath" from S/T Nrthrn "SLEEP" from LITHIUM
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3 months ago
2 hours 2 seconds

The Lunar Orbit
July 11, 2025 - Post-Rock Solar Flare!
Bringing you a rebroadcast of a new music show from this time last year - It's a post-rock summer, and its HOT. Playlist: Walk Among Statues "Surfer Skies" from Surfer Skies - Single Wohl "Dai" from Dai - Single God Is an Astronaut "Falling Leaves" from Embers Khan Tengri "Apocalypse Man" from Apocalypse Man - EP Mountainscape "Astrium" from Iridescent Dying Serenade "Beyond Her Eyes" from Beyond Her Eyes - Single Dotzd "Viento" from Viento - Single Oh Hiroshima "Swans in a Field" from All Things Shining Scale & Feather "Haze and the Clarity" from Haze and the Clarity - Single World Times Three "Til the Robins Come" from In Hearts and Stone Planisphere "Shutter Speed" from Mindstory Glasgow Coma Scale "Syntagma" from Apophenia X / Live at Freak Valley Yomi Ship "Ronin's Lament" from Feast Eternal Astetal "Subluminal" from Subluminal - Single Outlander "Orbit" from Acts of Harm This World Has Bees "Something That Just Is" from This Barren Place - EP
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3 months ago
1 hour 57 minutes 52 seconds

The Lunar Orbit
June 27, 2025 – Moonlight Sonata
For the past few weeks, I’ve been listening to a ton of classical music. So, I got it in my head to put together a playlist of post-rock themed around those elements. Losts of strings, symphonic movements, crescendos – the two genres have so much in common this was an easier venture than I thought! Playlist: If These Trees Could Talk "Deus Ex Machina" from Above the Earth, Below the Sky MONO, Platinum Anniversary Orchestra "Nowhere, Now Here - Live with the Platinum Anniversary Orchestra" from Beyond the Past Live in London with the Platinum Anniversary Orchestra Laura "Radio Swan Is Down Part 1" from Radio Swan Is Down God Is An Astronaut "Komorebi" from Epitaph Yndi Halda "A Sun-Coloured Shaker" from A Sun-Coloured Shaker Silent Whale Becomes a Dream "Before The Coming Sun" from Canopy Remastered Balmorhea "Truth" from All Is Wild, All Is Silent Star of Heaven "The Harp" from The Harp The Ascent of Everest "As the City Burned We Trembled for We Saw the Making of Their Undoing in Our Own Hearts" from How Lonely Sits the City Wolcensmen "Lady of the Depe" from Songs from the Mere KAUAN "Akva" from Sorni Nai Industries of the Blind, Samuel Gallo "The Lights Weren't That Bright, but Our Eyes Were so Tired" from Chapter 1: Had We Known Better Fourteen Nights At Sea "Glass Monster" from Great North Osi And The Jupiter "Appalachia" from Stave
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4 months ago
1 hour 56 minutes 42 seconds

The Lunar Orbit
June 13, 2025 – More Music for Momentous Times
We’re absolutely spoiled for choice this summer with post-style releases. I’ve assembled a list from all over the genre with a bit of post-rock, ambient electronic, somber piano, and even some avant-garde jazz! Playlist: Emma Ruth Rundle "Still the Morning Chorus" from Music from the Bella Vista kristeva "The Inside of the Sun Frozen Solid (pt 1)" from kristeva VESUVE "L'HORIZON DES EVENEMENTS, Pt. 1" from L'HORIZON DES EVENEMENTS - Single Shuta Hasunuma "Robot Mechanic (feat. ヨシダダイキチ)" from "Design Ah! neo"3 in:tides "Samsara" from Samsara - Single Shane Andre "Tightrope" from To Land Afar Wave Mosaic "Falling (Loud Noises)" from Living Artifacts THE NARROWS "Doctor Waivers" from Sloth & Envy - EP White Noise Generator "One" from Myriads Red Pine Mushroom "Voice of the Mushroom" from Voice of the Mushroom - Single Pelican "Flickering Stillness" from Flickering Resonance Scale & Feather "Fledglings" from Fledglings - EP The Depth Beneath Us "117B" from Descent Damn Dirty Apes "New Norm" from New Norm Swans "Red Yellow" from Birthing You Are a Soul "Ambiguity" from Peace and Struggle
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4 months ago
1 hour 56 minutes 20 seconds

The Lunar Orbit
May 2, 2025 – Gazing at Footprints on the Moon
We’re all looking down tonight, starting at our laces, glancing at our heels, shoooooe gazing! It’s been a while since I did an indie, shoegaze, alt-rock kind of show and I’ve been missing that vibe. Well, miss that vibe no more I say! Because that’s what I’m bringing your way tonight – tons of awesome bands, some loud, some soft, some just off the wall. Check out the playlist below! Playlist: Kid Mammoth "Hummingbird" from Past, Present, Future Unwed Sailor "Rock Candy" from Monster Collecting Kamasi Washington "Lazarus" from Lazarus (Adult Swim Original Series Soundtrack) Alberta Cross "Black Mountain - Woodstock Raw" from Black Mountain (Woodstock Raw) Modern Color,Audiotree "On & Off - Audiotree Live Version" from Modern Color on Audiotree Live Lysistrata "Answer Machine" from The Thread Slow Teeth "Still You Speak" from I sleepmakeswaves,Audiotree "How We Built The Ocean - Audiotree Live Version" from sleepmakeswaves on Audiotree Live (session #2) From Beyond These Walls "This Is Where We Land" from The Dawn Clowder "window seat" from window seat Sundaze "Afterparty" from Be There Giant the Vine "Protect Us from the Truth" from A Chair at the Backdoor Magnet School "The Raven" from The Raven Wantamnam 我地希望 "是 Am" from 是 Am Hongza "Out Of Place" from Out Of Place Magū "Full Canoe" from Dwell
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5 months ago
1 hour 59 minutes 33 seconds

The Lunar Orbit
May 16, 2025 – The Albums of April!
Geez this year is totally flying by – we’re already to the middle of May meaning it’s time to review all the awesome new music from the last 30 days. Tune in! Playlist: Pelican "Pining For Ever" from Gulch Unwed Sailor "Slab City" from Cruel Entertainment Challenger Deep "Zero to Midnight" from The Cruelty of Fangs City of the Lost "Secret Street" from Luminar Transmissions "Rebirth Bloom" from BLOOM Breathe In. Asphyxiate. "The Blinding Light Ignites on the Darkest of Days" from The Blinding Light Ignites on the Darkest of Days Thimble "Mimic" from Mimic Hiroe "Tides" from Tides Goodnight Sweet Prince "Tohoku" from Tohoku Downriver Dead Men Go "Truth" from Truth Lights of Hyperspace "The Protector" from Jupiter Jonathan McNutt "Take Shape" from Take Shape Yvette Young "Qi" from Qi City By The Sea "now i wither" from now i wither IOTA CENTAURI "Lullaby for a Dying Sun" from SUPERMASSIVE Brotsjór "Think" from Think The Absolute End Of The World "Waiting for summer to end" from Hikikomori Cosmic Call, After-Math "Look up at the Stars (I Will Be There)" from Look up at the Stars (I Will Be There)
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5 months ago
1 hour 58 minutes 42 seconds

The Lunar Orbit
April 5, 2025 – The Albums of March
The Lunar Orbit is back, as promised, with all new music! Tons of great stuff was released last month, and I’m going to try and highlight as many of my favorite tracks as possible! Playlist: Scale & Feather "Creosote" from Creosote - Single Kusanagi "Polymorph" from Polymorph - Single L.O.E, Alan Watts "After All Is Said & Done (feat. Alan Watts)" from After All Is Said & Done (feat. Alan Watts) - Single Moraines "Anima" from Future Histories There Was a Yeti "Matriarch" from Asymmetry Pelican "Indelible" from Flickering Resonance Musuem of Light "Get Paid" from Diviner Ghosts of the Sun "Blood Ritual" from Blood Ritual - Single Verbian "Pausa Entre Dias" from Casarder Isolation Drills "Ruriden" from Year Two Metempsychosis "Ocean Metamorphosis" from Gaia Fable Kinski "Stumbledown Terrace" from Stumbledown Terrace Airships on the Water "In Place of Distance" from In Place of Distance - Single Idiogram "Bevel" from Reunion of Broken Parts Orca "Impeccable" from Title City of the Lost "Memories" from Memories - Single BARRENS "Periastron" from Periastron - Single
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6 months ago
1 hour 58 minutes 57 seconds

The Lunar Orbit
March 21, 2025 – Pi-Divided-By-25′
We may be a little late, but I won’t miss a yearly tradition. Doing the show every other week means I missed, 3.14...PI Day! I can't miss PI DAY! That means we’re celebrating the only way we can – 3.1415926535 seconds of all math rock! Playlist: Rooftops "I Fast Early" from A Forest of Polarity Via Luna "Unwinder" from Heavy Light Suffer Like G Did "Beow" from Beow - Single toe "Dual Harmonics" from Our Latest Number - EP Chinese Football "Game Start / Electronic Girl 游戏开始 / 电动少女 (Audiotree Live)" from Chinese Football (Audiotree Live) - EP The Most "F.A.C." from At Once Of Two Minds "Natural Light" from Natural Light - EP Trying Science "Math Salts" from Next - EP Parachute Day "Frisbee" from Thank You Notes - EP Desert Vows "Miyazaki Frontier" from Long Time, No See Shaolin "Castle Freak" from Adiaphora - EP Origami JP "From the Train Window" from Trains - EP Zoo Strategies "A Single Hat Lost at Sea" from Languager Illegal Jazz Brunch "The Long Night" from Slice of Life Defórmica "Novelesco" from Páramo Floral "Ebullient" from Floral LP Delta Sleep "Maconiklaus Culkinski" from Management Stage Kids "Jafari's Revenge" from Killer Tofu Cuzco "You Said Number 11" from A Medicine for Melancholy - EP
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7 months ago
1 hour 59 minutes 3 seconds

The Lunar Orbit
March 7, 2025 – A General Theory of Relativity
Einstein theorized that objects experiencing a greater gravitational pull will be subjected to time dilation, meaning the more gravity, the slower time passes. Well – he was right, and to counter that effect on The Lunar Orbit we had to move the whole dang show up 2 hours! Since we’re premiering a new time slot and might have some new listeners I’ve prepared a Post-Rock Primer, an Intro 101 course, with some of the biggest bands, post rockiest sounds, and longest crescendos I can find! P.S. Even though we're changing times, the podcast shouldn't experience any hiccups! Only difference is now the show will be coming out every two weeks. Apologies for less episodes, but I think this will give me a chance to put a lot more effort into each one and bring you a better show than before! Playlist: L.O.E "Reboot in Progress" from L.O.E EP Caspian "Wildblood" from On Circles God Is an Astronaut "Odyssey" from Embers Explosions In the Sky "Last Known Surroundings" from Take Care, Take Care, Take Care Kokomo "Go, Mordecai" from If Wolves Radiohead "Lotus Flower" from The King of Limbs Yndian Mynah "Socks On Astroturf" from The Boys Scribbled Like Mad And So I Watch You From Afar "A Beacon, a Compass, an Anchor" from Heirs hubris. "Delmos to Phobos, Pt. 2" from Apocryphal Gravity Under Old Trees "Citadel" from Kelo - EP We Lost the Sea "Challenger Part 2 - A Swan Song" from Departure Songs SLIFT "Ummon" from UMMON Deer Park Ranger "Shapeshifter" from Adaptation
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7 months ago
1 hour 52 minutes 55 seconds

The Lunar Orbit
February 1, 2025 – 2024 Best of Two and New!
The Lunar Orbit returns to finish our Top 2024 releases list! Then after that I wanted to feature some fantastic new releases from groups like Living with Giants, Deeparshi Roy, Ysbryd Mawr, NRTHRN and many more! Some of these I missed from 2024, some just came out last month, and all are excellent! Tune in, will be a great show! Playlist: Mono "Oath" from OATH A Burial At Sea "DALL" from Close to Home uppergaff "Progeny of This Universe" from Quiescent Yet Violent - EP God Is an Astronaut "Heart of Roots" from Embers Whale Fall "El Jinete" from Five Living With Giants "On The Fall and Rise of The Light" from On The Fall and Rise of The Light - Single Deeparshi Roy "A Cascade of Collapse" from Dream Sequence Ysbryd Mawr "Gwenci" from Pollen Woollen Ulysses Station "All Light From Within" from All Light From Within - Single Second Joy "Around The World" from Second Phase - EP Nrthrn "HIGH" from LITHIUM Illyria "Wanderlust (Instrumental)" from Wanderlust (Instrumental Edition) [Instrumental] Van Gogh Season "the forest of raining sun" from all's right with the world. Separated Skies "Your Thoughts Laid in Lavender" from Along With the Clouds, We Go - EP The Reasonable Hope "Amidst the Pines" from Reminiscences - Single
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9 months ago
1 hour 58 minutes 44 seconds

The Lunar Orbit
January 25, 2025 – Top Albums of 2024 (Pt. 1)!
This week, I finally made it to the studio to bring you The Lunar Orbits Top Albums of 2024! I have combed through a lot of the fantastic music from last year and come out on the other side with a 20-track long list of my absolute favorites. No particular order here, I can’t pick favorites that granularly, but rest assured everything you’ll tonight is stellar! Tune in to hear all the selections and get the scoop on some honorable mentions! Playlist: toe "キアロスクーロ" from Now I See the Light After Math "Making Memories (feat. Solar Sleeper & Oreana)" from Pathétique - EP We Came From The North "Send/Return" from We Came From the North - EP Glories "Totem" from An Expanse of Color Planisphere "Bees Bees Bees" from Mindstory Wess Meets West "Virtues" from Anclas Unwed Sailor "Dusty" from Underwater Over There Thought Trials "Glioma" from This Has Always Been With You From Beyond These Walls "City of Dystopia" from The Dawn Treebeard "Erebus" from Snowman Mirror "Fight For Fools" from VOICES The Supervoid Choral Ensemble "Track 7" from Live From the Downwhen Terminus Tars "I'm Steady" from Per Aspera Solars "Inertia" from A Fading Future Mothership Mercury "Messenger" from Mothership Mercury
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9 months ago
1 hour 53 minutes 57 seconds

The Lunar Orbit
January 11, 2025 - Approaching Warp Speeds (Originally Broadcast June 24, 2023)
Another winter storm blew through RVA last night, and the *heaviest* stuff hit right as I was supposed to go on air! Unfortunately, I don’t like being stuck in the snow, so I'm bringing you another rebroadcast this week. It's a great one, but I can’t wait to finally get back and bring you this best of episode! Stay tuned! Lots of fun fast paced music on tonight’s show, math rock and other esoterica! Playlist: Challenger Deep "Like Giving Wings to a Tiger" from The Stuff of Legends Yndian Mynah "Socks On Astroturf" from The Boys Scribbled Like Mad Japanese Sunday "Because You're Still Breathing" from Black Box Volume 1 Trampoline "Escher (Live)" from Escher (Live) - Single Elephant Gym "Witches" from Dreams tricot "Android" from Fudeki Sawce "Shonen" from Shonen - Single tide/edit "Ten" from Foreign Languages The Joy Formidable "Left Too Soon" from Into the Blue (Deluxe Edition) MUTEMATH "Blood Pressure (Live In Chicago)" from Play Dead Live Gabba "Overcurrent" from Overcurrent - Single Akiba's Treat "Akihabara" from Akihabara - Single Lightspace "Oak Tree" from Levias - EP Southern Space "Untangled" from Untangled - Single Tom's Story "Mugatu" from Tom's Story Pretend "Those Luminous Noises Are God" from Bones in the Soil, Rust in the Oil Kaz Moon "Mantra" from Bleed - EP toe "1/21" from New Sentimentality - EP
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9 months ago
1 hour 57 minutes

The Lunar Orbit
January 3, 2025: A Snowstorm on Mars (Originally Aired Dec 16, 2023)
Happy New Year! It's finally cold outside, a winter storm is brewing - what better time than to listen to this winter wonderland of an episode! Originally aired back in December of 2023, I had to put it back at the top of your feed! Lots of chill, cozy, atmospheric vibes perfect for a hazy winter walk or some contemplation by the fire. A lot of music in this genre can evoke a calm, slower atmosphere which, to me at least, feels perfectly suited to winter, but I made sure to get some music with that holiday chime as well. Hope you enjoy listening! Playlist: Old Solar "Your Goodness & Mercy" from Quiet Prayers (Redux) - EP Explosions In the Sky "Climbing Bear" from Big Bend (An Original Soundtrack for Public Television) False Horizon "Walking Barefoot on Grass" from Transition rhubiqs "Motifs in F# Major" from Motifs in F# Major - Single Mesozoic "A Slow Success" from We Create Because All Will End Pillars "Of Salt and Sea" from Of Salt and Sea Codes In the Clouds "Sixes and Seventeens" from Codes in the Clouds Mooncake "Chess Knight" from Zaris .Less.Is.More. "Birds Aren't Real (Chilled)" from This Small, Finite World Winterlight "Memories Are Flotsam" from Gestural Abstractions Caspian "Sea Lawn" from The Four Trees The Glass Pavilion "Signs & Wonders" from When the Blazing Sun is Gone Asleep Within Waves "Middle Cove" from Statera Satellites "Tallest Trees" from Familiar Shorelines Startle the Heavens "Lull" from All that Is Wild & Alive Cats Never Die "Care" from Morphine Slow Meadow "Palemote" from Palemote - Single Ethereal Silence "Creation of Life" from Creation of Life - Single
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10 months ago
1 hour 56 minutes 19 seconds

The Lunar Orbit
A Lunar Orbit Christmas 2024!
It’s time to deck the docking stations and tinsel the rocket, it’s a Lunar Orbit Christmas ‘24! Join me for some all-time classic post rock holiday/winter tracks from bands like Shy Low, Sigur Rós, Manchester Orchestra, Low, and many more!! We’re blasting off into the week of Christmas and New Years with a favorite yearly tradition, so don’t miss it! 🚀🎄 Playlist: Keith Kenniff "Flow & Branch" from Branches Theta Naught "Carol of the Bells" from Naught Christmas Pomplamoose "Here We Come a-Caroling" from Here We Come a-Caroling - Single Shy, Low "O Holy Night" from Homesick: a Spartan Records Christmas Album Manchester Orchestra "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" from Christmas Songs, Vol. 1 The Stolen Orchestra "Noël" from Noël - Single Mimicking Birds "Walking in the Air" from Walking in the Air - Single Nathan Drake "O the Deep Deep Love of Jesus (Instrumental)" from Hymns of the Spirit: Instrumentals (Reawaken Hymns) [Instrumental] Alison Moyet "The Coventry Carol" from A Very Special Christmas Delicate Steve "White Christmas" from The Christmas Album Sigur Rós "Untitled #3 (Samskeyti)" from ( ) David Crowder Band "Go, Tell It On the Mountain" from Oh for Joy Steven Cravis "Greensleeves" from Greensleeves - Single Maudlin of the Well "Interlude 4" from Leaving Your Body Map Sufjan Stevens "Star of Wonder" from Songs for Christmas I Hear Sirens "Rise + Fall" from Stella Mori Low "Long Way Around the Sea" from Christmas Caspian "Our Breath in Winter" from The Four Trees There Will Be Fireworks "In Excelsis Deo" from Because, Because - EP
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10 months ago
1 hour 56 minutes 50 seconds

The Lunar Orbit
December 14, 2024 – The Science of Extreme Time Dilation
This week, I have pulled together a little bit of everything from across the post-rock spectrum! We have ambient electronica, hard rock crescendos, harmonious midwestern sparkles, and whatever This Patch of Sky is! Featuring tons of great artists including Johnathan Corley, Zombie Wester, Kontakte, Sky Flying By and many more! Playlist: Jonathan Corley "Trackside" from Another Pioneer Moonlit Sailor "A Century Under the Influence" from We Come from Exploding Stars This Patch of Sky "Time Destroys Everything, But Our Foundation Remains" from This Patch of Sky Followed By Ghosts "King, My Queen" from Still, Here Beware of Safety "Bullet" from Lotusville Zombie Western "A Pilgrim's Departure" from The Great Migration Seas of Years "Rely On Thermal Winds" from Drifting Ever Shifting Epigram "Nostradamus" from Anything That Comes to Mind Kontakte "With Glowing Hearts" from We Move Through Negative Spaces Our Ceasing Voice "The Only Ones Dead (Are Those Who Are Forgotten)" from When the Headline Hit Home The Seven Mile Journey "The Engram Dichotomy" from Notes for the Synthesis Whale Fall "Tahquitz" from The Madrean Sky Flying By "A Total Lack of Understanding" from What's the Farthest You Can See?
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10 months ago
1 hour 59 minutes 14 seconds

The Lunar Orbit
November 30, 2024 – The Weightless Orbit After a Long Burn
This week, after a month of misfires we’re finally ready to light this candle! I am finally able to bring you the show I was planning to do at the beginning of November. Which means this episode be prepared for some more toned-down vibes, especially compared to the October shows. Everything from If These Trees Could Talk, to Caspian, Bear the Mammoth, Retrograde Motion, and even…. The Cure?! Playlist: If These Trees Could Talk "Deus Ex Machina" from Above the Earth, Below the Sky The Cure "Warsong" from Songs Of A Lost World Our Lost Infantry "Day After Day" from The New Art History Long Hallways "The Only Way out Is Through" from Close Your Eyes to Travel Gifts From Enola "Benthos (Remastered)" from From Fathoms (Remastered) Minor Movements "We Dreamed to Each Other" from Bloom Caspian "Dust and Disquiet" from Dust and Disquiet Whale Fall "True Places" from Sondersongs Bear the Mammoth "Eyes Still" from Years Under Glass All Shall Be Well (and All Shall Be Well and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well) "Beyond Us, Only Darkness" from Zwartgroen The Allstar Project "Shifting Poles" from Into the Ivory Tower Lost In the Riots "Just Tiny Little Rocks" from Move On, Make Trails Retrograde Motion "Calm Before the Storm" from Here on Earth When Waves Collide "Cataclysm" from Chasm - EP
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11 months ago
1 hour 59 minutes 10 seconds

The Lunar Orbit
November 23, 2024 – The Post-Moon Mining Operation! (Originally Aired November 18, 2023)
I'm lost in the woods again this weekend, so I'm bringing you a replay of an awesome show from this time last year! A little bit of everything on tonight’s show, post-doomgaze all the way to ambient soundscapes. Wanted to make sure to include the new tracks from last week’s show we couldn’t get to including brand new music from Lowercase Noises, and Seeress! Playlist: Have Near "Pervasive" from Facing Forward - Single Rocket Miner "Lotus" from Song for an October Sky (Remixed & Remastered) Seeress "Holograms" from Holograms - Single Arroway "Escape Velocity" from Hover Over - EP All You've Seen "Old Formula" from Translucence Deadhead "U.R.O.K" from Bad Dog The TreeHouse Experience "Timeless Gatherings" from Timeless Gatherings - Single Parker "The Catalyst I" from Departure The Sound of Rescue "Forms (Seven)" from Forms concrete twin "Silent Abyss" from Sound Source #04 "Re:Encounter" - Single City of Satellites "Skeletons (Manual Remix)" from Remixed -Ghost Island- "Your Doubt" from Assimilation Yuzame Radio "Franceska" from Franceska - Single Sky Flying By "Wave Function" from Transformation as a Survival Tactic - EP Archeress "Wild Ocean (Cold)" from Pastel Houses Way Station "Last Launch Part II" from The Ships
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11 months ago
1 hour 57 minutes 18 seconds

The Lunar Orbit
November 2, 2024 – All Rockets Must Launch Before Winter
We’re coming down from Overdrive October with a bit more chill show. Great vibes to bring you into a (hopefully) chilly fall. Leaves changing, cider in a mug, rocket launches ever 3.14 minutes to keep the schedule of lunar refitting on track! Quick boys before we have to light these candles before winter, after that the migratory birds will block the flight path!! Playlist: Wander "Soar" from Mourning Whale Fall "Fjord Lightning" from Five Waking Aida "Blue Shelled" from Full Heal Saxon Shore "This Shameless Moment" from The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore Stage Kids "The Seven Pillars of Gulu" from Killer Tofu Vasudeva "On the Up" from Generator Ranges "Seven Sisters" from The Ascensionist Land Wars "Llori" from Land Wars Moonlit Sailor "New Zealand" from So Close to Life Alex Henry Foster "A Silent Stream (feat. Momoka Tobari)" from Kimiyo (feat. Momoka Tobari) Codes In the Clouds "Washington" from As the Spirit Wanes Years of Rice and Salt "Antarctica" from Antarctica - Single The Illusory Explainer "Deleted Scenes, Forgotten Sense’s" from Earth’s Core Bear the Mammoth "Eyes Still" from Years Under Glass Guilt & The Bear "The City In Fog, Pt. I" from The City
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1 year ago
1 hour 54 minutes 29 seconds

The Lunar Orbit
Overdrive October 26, 2024 – The Finale: Spooky Space Monsters and Cosmic Calamity!
Happy Halloween!! We are on our final week of Overdrive October! Tonight, we go out with a bang, a night of spooky space monsters, and cosmic calamity! The show this evening is full of mythical beasts’ head banging to crazy guitar riffs. A giant mythical Anubis dances to the sound of distorted horns, a band of skeletal astronauts’ jam with instruments made out of satellite scraps, cosmic horrors emerge from the depth of black holes, just to see how rad this party is! It’s our Halloween show, it’s a fund drive show, it’s the end of Overdrive October, what a blast! Playlist: Clutch "Behold the Colossus" from Monsters, Machines, and Mythological Beasts The Sword "Winter's Wolves" from Age of Winters Margarita Witch Cult "Be My Witch" from Margarita Witch Cult Twin Wizard "Sky Burial" from Glacial Gods High Priest of Saturn "Son of Earth and Sky" from Son of Earth and Sky Mt. Echo "Lighthouse at the End of Time" from Cirrus Morass Of Molasses "Hellfayre" from End All We Know Black Sabbath "Children of the Grave" from Master of Reality 10,000 Years "From Suns Beyond" from 10,000 Years - EP Hemelbestormer "Satre" from Satre - Single Yojimbo "Battlefield" from Yojimbo - EP Digital Domination "Cosmic Requiem" from Cosmic Requiem - Single Redwitch Johnny "You, Me, & The Devil" from Tales of the Electric Mistress The Scimitar "Void Traveler" from Doomsayer Lachlann "Jormungandr" from Bliss in the Abyss - EP Moonstone "Mushroom King" from Moonstone
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1 year ago
1 hour 51 minutes 16 seconds

The Lunar Orbit
The Lunar Orbit is a weekly(ish) exploration of all things post-rock, shoegaze, ambient, instrumental, esoteric, and beyond. We explore music which helps you feel like you’re being taken out into space and invite you to tune in and relax to as much as you want. Show is hosted first on WRIR 97.3 Richmond (wrir.org) Friday's at 1am, then published on all podcast feeds the next day. For a full collection of every song ever played on the show visit: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/48TS78dqDrfTsgctqA84s2?si=81fc5f94f1ab4774 The rights to all songs played on this show belong to the respective bands or artists. If you like something you hear, please go support them! This show is meant to share the music I love with a wider audience.