Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning releases The Munich Session. We go back to 1981 for John Foxx’s The Garden and Mark Dwane returns to 1988 to revisit his debut with Martian Apparitions.
Rachel Eckroth started out as a jazz pianist before she found her voice and emerged as a singer-songwriter. On her last album, When It Falls she moved into electronic dream pop.
On Echoes, new music by Fink, the performance name of Fin Greenall, the sophomore release by the new age supergroup, FLOW and Lana Del Rey’s homage to Norman Rockwell, sort of.
Illenium is a current headliner of the EDM scene. He has a new album with a lot of guest vocalists on it called Ascend. Among them are the Portland duo Echo and singer Anna Clendening.
Yann Tiersen is a wonderful composer who has scored films like Amelie and Goodbye Lenin, but he also composes his own music for multiple keyboards, percussion, strings and more. He plays live on Echoes.
Electro-R&B group Beacon talk about the influence of religion and the writings and art of Walter Russell, a 20th century renaissance man who created his own Cosmogony.
Explore the chill of Iceland through the chilled music of Hugar. Their album Varða is the Echoes CD of the Month for September. It’s beautiful ambient chamber music to take you into Autumn.
Eve Maret brings her synthesizers and voice to perform the music of her debut album, No More Running, live. Maret is a resolutely electronic artist, influenced by ’70s and ’80s electropop.
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by Steve Hackett, formerly the guitarist with Genesis. We’ll also hear a classic 70s track by German electronic pioneer, Klaus Schulze.
Pianist Chad Lawson came up through classical and jazz, but now he’s creating ambient music, treating his piano with electronic processing to give him a more atmospheric sound.