Robots need love too and on the next Echoes, Canadian musician Patrick Watson has a dreampop ode for them.
Playlists
Friday, August 21st, 2015-Echoes Program 1533E
Month: August 2015
Interview Podcast
Digitonal in Echoes Podcast
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Clarinet isn’t an instrument you often hear in electronic music, but it’s a central part of the sound of Digitional the English ambient chamber music band headed up by Andrew Dobson. Along with violinist Samy Bishai, Dobson creates a music of haunting melodies and luxurious moods. Their latest album is Beautiful Broken, where they find a common ground between chilled electronic grooves and the modern classicism of Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt.
Playlists
Thursday, August 20th, 2015-Echoes Program 1533D
Swedish singer Rebekka Karijord is a musician of rare vocal gifts and a conceptual approach to music represented on her latest album, We Become Ourselves.
Echoes Online, Wordless Echoes
Wordless Echoes: Celestial Tides
As the summer wears on, and we pass through the Perseid meteor shower, it’s clearer than ever that we’re affected by the steady rhythms of celestial cycles. We’ll hear some of those rhythms, and smoothly-flowing tides, from Twilight Archive, Erik Wollo’s Echotides, David Cross & Robert Fripp, Kristin Hoffmann’s Amazing Space, and much more, in a six-hour, uninterrupted instrumental spacescape.
Playlists
Wednesday, August 19th, 2015-Echoes Program 1533C
The ambient chamber music ensemble Bing & Ruth comes in to play their haunting, slow flowing ambient classical jazz live.
Interview Podcast
Chronotope Project in Echoes Podcast
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Chronotope Project is the name used by electronic musician and cellist Jeffrey Ericson Allen to deply his free-floating atmospheric compositions that merge concepts of Buddhism, astrophysics and ambient music. he talks about his new album, Dawn Treader.
Playlists
Tuesday, August 18th, 2015-Echoes Program 1533B
Nels Cline is best known as the guitarist with Wilco, but long before he joined that band he had a burgeoning solo career as a an outside jazz guitarist and he still maintains that path with groundbreaking albums with his group the Nels Cline Singers and experimental work that pushes the boundaries of electric guitar.
Reviews & Commentary
The Church and The Psychedelic Furs
The Church and The Psychedelic Furs were two bands who waved their flags high during the New Wave era, spawning hits, critical acclaim and devoted audiences. Now that their classic eras are paste, they seek relevance in the 21st century. One of them does, and one of them doesn’t.
Playlists
Monday, August 17th, 2015-Echoes Program 1533A
Radiohead has been one of the leading rock bands of the last two decades, pushing the envelope of the genre sonically and lyrically.
Playlists
Weekend, August 15 & 16, 2015-Echoes Program 1532A
Chronotope Project is Jeffrey Ericson Allen, a musician who has made a few transformations in his life. He began his recording career as New Age artist Jeff Defty, before taking on his family name as a person, and Chronotope Project as an artistic identity.