Stark Reality has been played on NTS over 40 times, featured on 44 episodes and was first played on 3 August 2011.

Stark Reality was an American jazz/rock fusion band most famous for their 1970 album "Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop", a heavily-improvised reinvention of a 1958 children's album by songwriter Hoagy Carmichael. The album has been sampled by many hip-hop groups.

Band members:

Monty Stark vibraphone & vocals Carl Atkins saxophones & flute John Abercrombie guitar Phil Morrison bass Vinnie Johnson drums