The electronic pop band, Decouplr, tackles themes of pandemic and isolation. The Philadelphia duo have released their 80s inspired album of electro-pop called Digital Bonfire.
The April CD of the Month, Ember Days, is an album of intricate and pastoral excursions by Carl Weingarten. He weaves multiple guitars and pedal steel into the sound of country meets heaven.
Ambient chamber composer Kevin Keller goes spiritual when heart surgery stops his heart from beating. He contemplates that experience on his album, The Front Porch of Heaven.
It’s a Slow Flow with new music by Lisa Bella Donna from The World She Wanted, Native flutes and Peruvian pan-pipes from Pamela Whitman & Cesar Villalobos, and the chill of Gold Lounge.
SUSS is the tripped-out band that merges country, ambient, and psychedelic music and their side project, Numuen. Are they ambient Americana or psychedelic country. We suss it out.
The 15th Icon, Ludovico Einaudi, has supercharged classical music with his driving rhythms, ambient textures and melodic themes. We look back on his work over the last three decades.
Lisa Gerrard returns in full force. She was barely on the last Dead Can Dance album, but her ecstatic sound is all over a new collaboration called Burn. We’ll also hear from All India Radio.
Ambient chamber composer Kevin Keller goes spiritual when heart surgery stops his heart from beating. He contemplates that experience on his album, The Front Porch of Heaven.
The German duo Grandbrothers, who play a grand piano hooked up with electronics and a machine for an orchestral sound. We tickle the ivories and program the drum machines of Grandbrothers.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Eric Hilton, one half of the brain trust of Thievery Corporation. His new album, Infinite Everywhere is a laid-back ambient lounge release.