Patrick Watson is a Canadian band that has been making a dreamy art pop since the early 21st century. On their latest album, Love Songs for Robots, they use sci-fi metaphor and ethereal arrangements for a deeper, more introspective sound.
It’s notes from the Tunisian underground when we hear the amazing Emel Mathlouthi performing live. Emel is a singer whose song was an anthem for Tunisia’s Arab Spring.
Suzanne Ciani was a leading figure in New Age music with albums like Velocity of Love and Pianissimo. But behind her sweet, classically derived melodies was an avant-gardist who came of age with the Buchla modular synthesizer in the 1970s.
Coming up on Echoes music from the Arab underground when we hear Yasmine Hamdan and her new album Al Jamilat (The Beautiful Ones). We’ll also hear new music from Clannad’s Moya Brennan and her album, Canvas.
Coming up on Echoes, it’s a collaboration between the Decemberists and Olivia Chaney exploring British Folk music as Offa Rex and a hymn to Coachella by Lana Del Rey.
Mike Oldfield is best known for his 1973 epic, Tubular Bells, but one of his most beloved recordings is his third album, Ommadawn. After 4 decades, Oldfield talks about his Return to Ommadawn.
Tamsin Wilson, is an English singer who records in the group, Wilsen, creating evocative pop songs about restlessness, identity and nostalgia with some surprising imagery including a centipede.
Suzanne Ciani was a leading figure in New Age music with albums like Velocity of Love and Pianissimo. But behind her sweet, classically derived melodies was an avant-gardist who came of age with the Buchla modular synthesizer in the 1970s.
Maggie Koerner is a soul belter from Louisiana who has discovered a more contemplative and ambient side on her EP, Dig Down Deep, produced by another singer with an ambient sensibility Fin Greenall, better known as Fink.
Six Hours of instrumental music ebbing and flowing in waves of ambient sound. It includes music from George Winston, Marconi Union, Suzanne Ciani, Erik Wollo, Klaus Schulze, and many others.