We all watched TV during pandemic isolation, but Marissa Nadler got an album out of it. It’s called The Path of the Clouds, and it’s inspired by the Unsolved Mysteries TV show.
We have a preview of the Big Ears Festival 2022. Founder Ashley Capps tells us about some highlights of the line-up that includes Patti Smith, John Zorn and Meredith Monk.
Singer-songwriter Tori Amos releases her 16th album, Ocean to Ocean. It’s an album born in grief, turmoil and hope during pandemic isolation. She talks about it on Echoes.
We talk with Australian singer-songwriter Brigitte Bardini. She’s influenced by shoegaze and dreampop artists. She’s just released her impressive debut, Stellar Lights.
The January CD of the Month is Nocturnes by Ben Jackson recording as The Great Northern. He usually produces country and pop in Nashville, but we’ll hear him as an electronic ambient composer.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Erik Wøllo. The Norwegian guitarist and electronic artist has a new album called Sojourns. We’ll also hear the electronic designs of Time Wharp.
An icon of German electronic music returns. Guitarist Michael Rother from Cluster, Harmonia, and Neu! has a new album with Vittoria Maccabruni called As Long As the Light.
Marissa Nadler has a new EP of covers and extra tracks called The Wrath of the Clouds. We’ll also hear from guitarist Randal Meek and his homage to Hawaii called Longings.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by The Album Leaf, revisited. Jimmy Lavalle has gone back to his 2001 album, One Day I’ll Be On Time, and reworked it as One Day XX (Twenty).
We have new music by Tom Caufield, except he isn’t recording under his own name, but as Gatefold Sleeve. His new album Vessels of the Essence is an ambient improvisational journey.