Two guitarists with expansive sounds: Carl Weingarten, from a new album of rustic chamber music, Ember Days, and Robert Jurjendal with a more ambient approach on Water Finds a Way.
Our 10th Icon, Enya, created a revolutionary but serene sound with her heavily layered vocals, sung in Gaelic, Elven, Latin and Loxion. She’s influenced everything from New Age to Dream Pop.
The Norwegian singer Ane Brun has been one of the understated sirens of dream pop. She talks about the loss and loneliness that informs much of her latest recordings.
The ambient chamber music of A Winged Victory for the Sullen, a collaboration between Dustin O’Halloran and Adam Wiltzie, explores darker terrain on Invisible Cities.
Wax Tailor’s new album, The Shadow of their Suns, slices and dices social injustice in the 21st century. It’s his most political album to date, still fueled by great beats and riotous vocal cut-ups.
Music from Steve Roach’s album of modular synthesizer sequencer symmetry dervishes called Tomorrow. We’ll also hear Zero 7, Peter Gabriel, and a single from Lana Del Rey.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, Slow Motion. That’s a new album by French electronic artist Thierry David. We’ll also hear some solo flute by Sherry Finzer recorded in an industrial steel tank.
It’s the 9th Icon of Echoes, Robert Rich. Robert Rich is an electronic pioneer of dreamy, sometimes dark, and always evolving, electronic dreamscapes. We survey his career.
Hear new music by Jess Lamb and The Factory. This is a collaboration out of Cincinnati by singer Jess Lamb and electronic musician Warren Harrison, who used to be in the duo, Hungry Lucy.
Wax Tailor’s new album, The Shadow of their Suns, slices and dices social injustice in the 21st century. It’s his most political album to date, still fueled by great beats and riotous vocal cut-ups.