Music from Arooj Aftab, the Pakistani-American singer who wraps you in dark sultriness. We’ll hear from her album, Night Reign. We’ll also hear a psychedelic band called Magic Fig.
Playlists
Friday, Aug 2, 2024 – Echoes Program 2431E
Year: 2024
Coming Up
Thursday, Aug 15, 2024 – Klaus Schulze’s Blackdance at 50
We celebrate Klaus Schulze’s Blackdance. Released in 1974, it was Schulze’s third release and the first to see him moving in the direction of music for which he’s best known.
Playlists
Thursday, Aug 1, 2024 – Echoes Program 2431D
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we’ll hear a Japanese electronic artist who records as Yaffle. He’s got a beautiful ambient chamber music release recorded with several Icelandic musicians.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Aug 14, 2024 – Tangerine Dream Phaedra at 50
Head into psychedelic space on the 50th anniversary of Tangerine Dream’s Phaedra. This is a seminal album that essentially launched the whole sequencer school of electronics.
News
Kinobe Release Nostalgic Video for It’s Only a Dream
Kinobe, the downtempo band centered by Julius Waters, creates an seductive, 60’s cinematic music on new album, Out of the Blue. They’ve released a video for the song “It’s Only a Dream.”
Playlists
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 – Echoes Program 2431C
Loreena McKennitt revisits her classic album, The Mask and Mirror. She’s currently touring that album in Europe, and released a live album from 1994 on the original’s 30th anniversary.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Aug 13, 2024 – Moby’s Play at 25
Moby’s Play turns 25. This influential landmark album remains an important signpost of electronic music and electronic pop and “Porcelain” might be the first standard of electronic pop.
Playlists
Tues, July 30, 2024 – Echoes Program 2431B
Tori Amos’ Unrepentant Geraldines turns 10. We talked to Tori in 2014, and we revisit that interview to go behind the songs of Unrepentant Geraldines, which now has a new deluxe edition.
Coming Up
Monday, Aug 12, 2024 – Seven Conversations Interview
We have one conversation with a trio that has released an album called Seven Conversations. They are Jeff Oster, Vin Downes and Tom Eaton. We talk to them about improvising in ambient space.
Living Room Concerts
Tori Amos Performing Live on Echoes
Tori Amos is an icon among singer-songwriters. Her 1992 solo debut, Little Earthquakes still resonates more than 32 years later and now that she’s hit 60, Amos is showing no signs of mellowing in a music that is as politically and socially charged and as musically adventurous as ever. In 2014, she released Unrepentant Geraldines,…