Cigarettes After Sex has a new single, continuing his sultry, pillow-talk sound. We’ll also hear Desire Marea, a daring artist from South Africa who might be that country’s version of Bjork.
Get ready to be sliced and diced when we hear music by Wax Tailor, the French electronic artist who likes to cut-up archival voice samples. We’ll hear from his album, Fishing for Accidents.
Music by Moby. Back in 2022 and 2023, he released a series of singles with other musicians, one of which was with Dutch-Sudanese vocalist Gaidaa, called “Transit”. It eventually was included on the album Always Centered at Night. We’ll hear that and music by Mayfly, from Hideaway Volume 1.
Keyboardist Tom Eaton and guitarist Vin Downes are veterans of work with Will Ackerman and are in a trio with Jeff Oster. They have an album of ambient duets called Until the Light Was Gone.
Our May CD of the Month is Counting Sunsets by the ambient country band, Suss. Suss includes Pat Irwin, a former member of the B-52s. They go into deep ambient terrain on this new album.
Techno DJs Felsmann & Tiley take the ambient classical pill and dial up a cinematic electronic sound on their second album, Protomensch. They explore the idiocy and ingenuity of mankind.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Bill Nelson from the album Marvellous Realms. We’ll also hear from former NPR staffer and creator of Tiny Desk Concerts, Bob Boilen.
It’s all a fantasy when we hear music by M83 off an album of dreamy synths, big chorales and emotional songs called Fantasy. We’ll also hear from Röyksopp’s Profound Mysteries III.
Jaymie Rose Hennegan was born in Philadelphia, but takes inspiration from her current home in New Mexico for the album, Desert Goddess. It’s a sound born in 1970s Berlin Space Music.
Stand at attention when we hear General Fuzz. The Bay-area electronic artist has gone into another profession, but we’ll hear one of his last recordings. We’ll also hear music by Unloved.