May CD of the Month: Michael Whalen's Our April Tigers
Keyboardist and composer Michael Whalen is someone who has been around Echoes for a long time. We’ve been hearing him with his nature documentary soundtracks on the Narada label in the 1990s and his first ambient album, Night Scenes, released in 1996. Since then he’s authored scores of albums ranging from solo piano to ambient piano, electronic orchestrations and hard fusion. Last year, his album, Imaginary Trains was an Echoes CD of the Month. Now his latest, Our April Tigers, is the CD of the Month for May 2023. It’s a fascinating and seductive album with an all-star cast of musicians including electric bass icon Michael Manring, Indian percussionist Karsh Kale, film composer and guitarist Michael Brook and trumpeter Jeff Oster. It’s a beautiful, intuitive album, that belies the fact that none of the musicians ever played together or even knew what to play. We ride the tiger with our May CD of the Month on Echoes from PRX.
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Weekend, May 6-7, 2023 – Echoes Program 2318A |
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Start Time |
Group Name |
Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:00 | Heather Woods Broderick | What Does Love Care | Labyrinth |
| 0:07:45 | Michael Whalen | Over Water | Our April Tigers |
| 0:13:07 | Secret Sky | Ride The Wind | Opium |
| 0:19:27 | Grandbrothers | On Solid Ground | Late Reflections |
| 0:22:11 | Delerium | Coast to Coast (feat. PHILDEL) | Signs |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:00 | Michael Whalen | Disappear | Our April Tigers |
| 0:35:05 | Bill Nelson | Heaven is a State of Mind | Marvellous Realms |
| 0:38:32 | Taiyō Rey | Spirit Control | Shattering Stimuli |
| 0:43:15 | break | ||
| 0:44:17 | Michael Whalen | Visceral Organ | Our April Tigers |
| 0:48:37 | Ane Brun | The Waiting | After the Great Storm |
| 0:52:38 | Bluetech | Behold A White Horse | Bluetech: The Four Horsemen Of The Electrocalypse |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:00 | Patrick O’Hearn | Adagio from Fantasy for a Gentleman | Adagio: A Windham Hill Collection |
| 1:06:00 | Michael Whalen | Hope Haunts | Our April Tigers |
| 1:10:23 | Talitha Rise | Chapel Bell | An Abandoned Orchid House |
| 1:15:01 | Lucinda Chua | I Promise | Yian |
| 1:17:53 | Bernd Scholl | Time Stands Still | Imagine: Music for Reading (va) |
| 1:21:27 | Vangelis | Perihelion | Rosetta |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:00 | Michael Whalen | Morning Bell | Our April Tigers |
| 1:34:33 | Lana Del Rey | Grandfather please stand on the shoulders of my father while he. . . (Featuring Riopy) | Did You Know There was a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd |
| 1:38:29 | Christoph Sebastian Pabst | Ibiza | Southern Isles Ep |
| 1:41:25 | break | ||
| 1:42:18 | Michael Whalen | So Fragile | Our April Tigers |
| 1:46:10 | Depeche Mode | Before We Drown | Memento Mori |
| 1:50:02 | Vic Hennegan | Solar Star Lights Pt.2 (Star’s End 11-6-2022) | A Moment in Time |
New music by Fenne Lily who has just released her third album, Big Picture. We’re also going to hear an emerging electronic pop artist, Skyemoon Maria. She was actually recommended to us by Leandrul. She has a new album called Dreaming Out Loud. Where better to do that but on Echoes from PRX.
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Weekend, May 6-7, 2023 – Echoes Program 2318B |
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Start Time |
Group Name |
Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:00 | Delerium | In the Deep (with Kanga) | Signs |
| 0:06:00 | Rona Mac | Sense | Sense (Single) |
| 0:09:43 | The National | Your Mind is Not Your Friend (Feat. Phoebe Bridgers) | The First Two Pages of Frankenstein |
| 0:13:56 | Nashville Ambient Ensemble | Band In Boston | Light and Space |
| 0:18:28 | Skyemoon Maria | Introvert | Dreaming Out Loud |
| 0:22:18 | Grandbrothers | On Solid Ground | Late Reflections |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:00 | Great Lake Swimmers | I Tried To Reach You | Uncertain Country |
| 0:34:17 | Rodrigo Y Gabriela | Descending | In Between Thoughts… A New World |
| 0:37:09 | Maps | Windows Open | Counter Melodies |
| 0:42:20 | break | ||
| 0:43:33 | Robert Rich | High Mountain Shelter | Travelers’ Cloth |
| 0:53:03 | Yaima | High Priestess | High Priestess |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:11 | Fenne Lily | Dawncoloured Horse | Dawncoloured Horse (single) |
| 1:06:01 | The Album Leaf | Near (with Bat for Lashes) | Future Falling |
| 1:11:00 | Erik Wøllo | Le Paysage | The Shape of Time |
| 1:15:36 | Beach House | Devil’s Pool | Become (EP) |
| 1:19:28 | Heather Woods Broderick | Wherever I Go | Labyrinth |
| 1:23:07 | Michael Whalen | Hope Haunts | Our April Tigers |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:00 | Lucinda Chua | Echo | Yian |
| 1:33:59 | Kerala Dust | Moonbeam Midnight Howl | Violet Drive |
| 1:39:36 | Otyken | Phenomenon | Phenomenon |
| 1:45:22 | break | ||
| 1:46:10 | Monster Taxi | A Walking Stranger | A Walking Stranger (single) |
| 1:49:35 | Desire Marea | Skhathi | On the Romance of Being |
| 1:53:32 | Bernd Scholl | Seduction | Imagine: Music for Reading |
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