Electric Chamber Music on Edge with AVAWAVES & Mark Dwane Remembered This Weekend on Echoes
This weekend on Echoes, AVAWAVES talk about their new album, Heartbeat. AVAWAVES is the British electric chamber music duo of violinist Anna Phoebe and keyboardist Aisling Brouwer. Their fusion of electronic and music and compositional verve can be heard on their soundtrack to Apple TV series, The Buccaneers and their new album, Heartbeat. All three of their recordings have been linked to tumultuous times: Brexit, Covid Lockdown and now, political, social and global uncertainty. They aren’t ready to make nice.
Anna Phoebe: And at the moment . . . the wars and what’s going on. You can’t not be affected by that. And I think making nice music with violin and piano is good for the soul sometimes, but then there is a little bit more rawness and it feels like this now is not the time to hide behind the sheen of lots of reverb.
Join John Diliberto when he talks to AVAWAVES on Echoes from PRX.
Weekend Echoes listeners also get to hear our remembrance of Mark Dwane. Mark Dwane has been a fixture on Echoes since we first launched 36 years ago. He released his debut album, Monuments of Mars in 1988 and has continued through some 25 records to carve out a space of melodic electronics, all of it generated from his guitar synthesizer. Sadly, Mark left the planet on July 24. I had just emailed him about three weeks before to inquire about his album, Aeons. I gave him the pro forma “How are you doing?” querry and got back the news that he had been in chemotherapy for the last 6 months and had now been given 6 months to live. Sadly, it was to be only a few weeks as pancreatic cancer took him. In this half hour, we remember Mark. We’ll hear our 2010 feature with him where he explained his process and his obsession with all things mythical, fantastical and alien and tracks from four of his albums..
Read John Diliberto’s Tribute.
Read Mark Dwane’s 5 Best Albums