On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Loga Ramin Torkian, one half of the Persian fusion group, Niyaz. He has a new solo album out of micro-tonal guitar and cello called Brink of Absolute.
Idiosyncratic folk-rocker Sufjan Stevens has a five volume set of deeply ambient compositions called Convocations. It’s partly a response to deaths in the family and the pandemic.
Sitarist Anoushka Shankar is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, but she’s going even further afield than her father. We’ll hear a track from Love Letters PS with her sister, Norah Jones.
We hear some of the last music created by Harold Budd. The ambient artist passed last December, but he left his soundtrack to HBO’s I Know This Much Is True. We’ve got a track from that.
Jomoro is the project of electronic and acoustic percussionists Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco, with guest artists including Sharon Van Etten and Lucious. We talk to Jomoro on Echoes.
German Composer Robot Koch has gone from death metal to deep ambient chamber music in his career. We follow the course of this inventive artist up through his latest offering.
Electronic artist Ian Boddy’s new album, Axiom, with a classic retro-space music sound. We’ll also hear ambient piano by Jon Durant and ambient chamber music by Digitonal.
The sultry sound of Morcheeba with music from their album, Blackest Blue and new ambient chamber music by South American composer Sebastian Plano from his album, Agos.
Jess Lamb and the Factory are a Cincinnati band fronted by singer Jess Lamb and with Warren Harrison. They’ve created a deep spiritual meditation partly shaped by Pandemic called You Are.
We get Shpongled when we talk to Simon Posford and Raja Ram of the psychedelic electronic duo, Shpongle. They talk about their hallucinogenic sound and their deep music backgrounds.