Composer Steve Reich is 86 years old but he’s still making the music of tomorrow. He has a new album, Reich/Richter, inspired by paintings of Gerhard Richter and a new book, Conversations.
Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater talks about their new album, The Great Awakening. It’s a subtle work of ambient songs employing nature sounds that Meiburg recorded all over the world.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by David Arkenstone and Wouter Kellerman. The two musicians got together for an album of joyful world fusion called Pangaea.
The Smile is Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood from Radiohead, producer Nigel Godrich, and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner. We’ll hear from their debut, A Light for Attracting Attention.
Music from the wilds of Siberia when we hear the latest single by Otyken called “Storm”. We’ll also hear a dream pop artist with a name that’s out of season, I Am Snow Angel.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, Tony Gerber & Giles Reaves combine Native American flutes, percussion and synths on the album, The Tree. We’ll also hear The Expanding Universe from their album, One.
Alison Wonderland is Australia’s Alexandra Margo Sholler, who is a DJ, producer and singer. We’ll hear from her album, Loner. We’ll also hear from S. Carey and his album, Break Me Open.
Ibeyi are twin sisters born in Paris, whose sound is somewhere between rap and Africa, with a dreamy allure. Their father was a Cuban percussionist and their mother was a French Venezuelan singer.
It’s time for The Best of Echoes 2022, So Far. It’s been a pretty great year for music thus far. Out of the hundreds of recordings we’ve received in 2022, only 25 will make this list.
David Helpling takes us inside his new double CD that’s just titled IN. The title is simple but the music is an expanse of dynamic ambient orchestrations for guitar and synthesizers.