SOUNDWAVE : 27 : JONATHAN AMMONS

<p>Today’s guest deejay is Jonathan Ammons, a journalist, radio producer, and musician living in Asheville, North Carolina. You can find his music on&nbsp;<a href="https://jonathanammons.bandcamp.com">Bandcamp</a>&nbsp;and listen to his radio show from <a href="https://www.wpvm.org" title="WPVM">WPVM</a> and <a href="https://pacificanetwork.org" title="Pacifica Radio Network">Pacifica Radio Network</a> at the <a href="http://www.dirty-spoon.com" title="Dirty Spoon">Dirty Spoon.</a></p> <p>Jonathan is yet another amazing person I was introduced to through my old friend, <a href="https://www.ashevillefm.org/show/mental-notes/" title="Steven Howard">Steve Howard</a> (listen to Steven’s SOUNDWAVE mix <a href="http://josephaleo.com/blog/soundwave-4/" title="SOUNDWAVE : 4">here</a>). Meeting Jonathan is one of the unexpected pleasures in the evolution of SOUNDWAVE.</p> <p>I launched SOUNDWAVE to help cope with the stress of the pandemic. In the first few months of COVID-19 it seemed that stepping outside your house might kill you. If that wasn’t terrifying enough, my family was scattered about the country so for a long time it was just me and my dog. That took a toll on me and my usual distractions, music, reading and television, could not hold my interest at all. In fact, they annoyed me or angered me. The only thing that provided any comfort was ambient, classical, experimental and instrumental music. I reasoned that if that music was giving me solace it might help others as well so I launched SOUNDWAVE. Very soon afterwards I decided to invite the talented people I know who might enjoy or, more importantly, need to share a mix of their own. And that very quickly led to asking my friends who they knew personally who might want to participate in the show. That decision introduced me to such wonderful people as <a href="http://josephaleo.com/blog/soundwave-25/" title="SOUNDWAVE : 25">Adrian Utley</a>, <a href="http://josephaleo.com/blog/soundwave-26/" title="SOUNDWAVE : 26">Hannah Peel</a>, <a href="http://josephaleo