We open fall with an autumnal CD of the Month, the debut album by Slow Meadow. Slow Meadow is Matt Kidd who previously made music as Aural Method. With the guidance of the post-rock band Hammock, Slow Meadow creates a serene expanse of elongated melodies and deep textures. This is music that owes as much to Arvo Pärt as Brian Eno.
One of the icons of electronic music are on another leg of their endless swansong tour. They haven’t produced an album in 12 years, yet they are selling out venues across the country for an audience hungry for the original avatars of electro-pop.
Julia Holter released her album “Have You in My Wilderness” earlier this year. Now she has a new video of a stark live performance of “Betsy on the Roof” which she takes into Cecil Taylor territory.
Steve Roach is an icon of electronic music whose albums, Structures from Silence and Dreamtime Return are considered classics. In a rare east coast performance, he brought his music before a sold out audience at The Gatherings Concert series in Philadelphia.
March 1st 2013 marked the 40th anniversary of the release of The Dark Side of The Moon. To celebrate, we put together The Dark Side of the Moon Reimagined. It’s a version of the album drawn from cover tunes.
Hans Christian is a classical cellist turned global music explorer. As a founding member of the Hind- Chant Fusion group Rasa and on his own solo albums he creates a global orchestra of the imagination playing instruments from India, Swedish Nyckleharpe, cello, lap steel, percussion and more.
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Clarinet isn’t an instrument you often hear in electronic music, but it’s a central part of the sound of Digitional the English ambient chamber music band headed up by Andrew Dobson. Along with violinist Samy Bishai, Dobson creates a music of haunting melodies and luxurious moods. Their latest album is Beautiful Broken, where they find a common ground between chilled electronic grooves and the modern classicism of Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt.
The Church and The Psychedelic Furs were two bands who waved their flags high during the New Wave era, spawning hits, critical acclaim and devoted audiences. Now that their classic eras are paste, they seek relevance in the 21st century. One of them does, and one of them doesn’t.
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Dieter Moebius was a founding member of influential German bands Cluster and Harmonia, creating a sound that was known as Krautrock and collaborating with Brian Eno. Moebius died on July 20 at the age of 71. We go back to an interview with Moebius and bandmate Hans-Joachim Roedelius from 1996.
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https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/EchoesPodcast-OlafurArnalds2015.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHear Olafur Arnalds’ interview above or download the podcast from iTunes. When we first started playing Ólafur Arnalds five or so years ago, he was a little-known secret. But in the last couple of years, he has exploded as a leading avatar of a new neo-classical sound, ambient chamber music.…