The enchanting chamber pop of Gracie and Rachel is like a meeting of Erik Satie and Max Richter with your favorite singer-songwriter. Gracie and Rachel come in to play live.
Performing as The Greatest Hoax, Washington, D.C.-based composer Taylor Jordan has created a conceptual album of ambient chamber music called Expiration Compositions. It’s a recording of melancholy expanses contemplating death, that avoids being morose or macabre.
Jim Ottaway lives on the Gold Coast of Australia and his music heads into the oceans of space. He’s an electronic musician who came to it late in life but he’s making up for lost time with two dozen albums in the last decade.
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by Radium 88 from the album, Perpetual Emotion Machine. We’ll also hear Dungen off their album, Haxan Versions by Prins Thomas.
Head into space on the next Echoes when we talk to Quindar, the electronic duo of art historian James Merle Thomas and Wilco keyboard player Mikael Jorgensen. They use the sounds of NASA to create the electronic moods of their debut album Hip-Mobility.
Flutist Suzanne Teng returns with Mystic Journey for their first album in 13 years, a lush and seductive journey into world fusion. It’s the Echoes CD of the Month for September.
Quaeschning & Schnauss’ “Synthwaves” Hangs Ten in the Echoes Top 25 for August. Riding inside the curl behind them are folktronica artist Gordi’s “Reservoir” and Yaima’s New Age World Electro Fusion “Ovo.”
Björk once again pulls out all the stops in this New Age fantasy of a video for The Gateway, a fantasy of Universal love with state-of-the-art CGI. Put this up full screen for total immersion.
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The Greatest Hoax is both a political statement, a commentary on life and death, and beautiful ambient chamber music. Hear Taylor Jordan talk about the soundtrack of dying in Echoes Podcast.
Hite is the performance name used by Julia Easterlin. She has a new album, Light of a Strange Day, and she comes in with her band to perform music from it live.
On the Next Echoes, the enchanting chamber pop of Gracie and Rachel. Their music is like a meeting of Erik Satie and Max Richter with your favorite singer-song-writer topped by the unaffectedly pure voice of Gracie Coates.
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by English electronic band Radium 88’s “Perpetual Emotion Machine” and Dungen get remixed on “Haxan Versions by Prins Thomas.”
On the next Echoes the tribal sound of an electronica singer, Zola Jesus from her new album “Okovi”. We’ll also hear Maya Jane Coles from her new album, Take Flight.
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded the Award-Winning radio program Echoes a $20,000 grant to continue it’s work in bringing new and innovative music to public radio and beyond.
