Guitarist David Helpling takes us into the runic and oceanic influences of his January CD of the Month, Rune. He talks about ambient guitar, the ocean and ancient runes.
We travel to Ukraine to talk with Andrei Ivanov who records as Vonavi. Last year this electronic composer released his impressive debut album, Reflection with collaborators like Run Rivers.
We explore the ambient chamber music of Naneum. On his album, Life Cycle he recorded a local choir singing their traditional music but then sliced it up into his own arrangements.
We hear the multi-keyboard orchestrations of music of Naneum, live. Naneum is Jon Solo, and he creates ambient chamber music featuring piano, synthesizers, Fender Rhodes and Melotron.
It’s dreamy, downtempo music by JFDR, that’s an abbreviation of her more complicated Icelandic name. We’ll also hear electronic music by Spinger from the album, Invisible Tree.
Swim through Blue Landscapes, the duo of flutist Damjan Krajacic and Robert Thiese. They talk about improvising their impressionistic ambient chamber music with only acoustic instruments.
Native American flute has been making a return to the Echoes Soundscape and on a Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear two of them, Kenneth Hooper’s Directions and Vicki Logan’s Born Out of Chaos.