Guitarist William Tyler calls his music “rural New Age” with tongue only part way in-cheek. He’s taken the Windham Hill aesthetic, and carried it to new dimensions. He talks about it on Echoes.
Harpist and singer Emilie Kahn creates a probing music with just her harp and voice. She used to record as Emilie & Ogden. Ogden is her harp. It’s still there when she plays live on Echoes.
Meat Beat Manifesto is the legendary British electronic artist who came up during the industrial and trip-hop sampling days. Founder Jack Dangers is a scholar of electronic music.
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.
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.
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.
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.