Music from the Hearts of Space Guide - Anna Turner and Stephen Hill

Music from the Hearts of Space Guide by Anna Turner and Stephen Hill / 116-page paperback, 8 x 8.75 inches / Co-published by Colpa Press and Amaya Productions, 2025 printing

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The Hearts of Space Guide to Cosmic, Transcendent and Innerspace Music

Originally published in 1981 and reprinted in 2019, this classic guide to New Age music is an annotated listing of the music heard on the influential radio program Music from the Hearts of Space, hosted by Stephen Hill and Anna Turner, since 1973.

Created and co-produced by Anna Turner and Stephen Hill (b. 1944, USA), Hearts of Space began airing on Sunday nights from 11pm to 2am on Berkeley, California's KPFA radio beginning in 1973. Nearly a decade into the program's run, Turner and Hill self-published The Hearts of Space Guide to Cosmic, Transcendent and Innerspace Music, an annotated introduction to the generous international sampling of music featured weekly on the program. The book's structure brings the nocturnal radio project into clear view, divided as it is into such "flexible/organic" categories as "ambient," "new age," "electronic space music," "cosmic rock," and many more. Shortly after the release of this guide, Hearts of Space was syndicated to 35 public radio stations through NPR; to date, there have been over 1,100 broadcasts of the program.