Amon Tobin, pioneer of jazz driven electronic music, has returned with new music and pseudonyms. Sufjan Stevens goes all electronic on a darkly melodic new album called The Ascension.
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Weekend, Oct 24-25, 2020 – Programs 2042A & 2042B
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Friday, Oct 23, 2020 – Echoes Program 2042E
Norwegian guitar legend Terje Rypdal returns to the form of his 70s classic albums on a new one called Conspiracy. We’ll also hear from ambient chamber music group Digitonal.
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Thursday, Oct 22, 2020 – Echoes Program 2042D
After his keyboard symphony Sacred Spaces, Michael Whalen returns with a more meditative album for keyboards and the Japanese shakuhachi flute played by Blue Monk. It’s called Karmic Dreams.
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Wednesday, Oct 21, 2020 – Echoes Program 2042C
Todavia is a dream-pop band from Los Angeles that is channeling The Cocteau Twins. They have a new album, Orange Faint of Sky. We’ll also hear from singer Marya Stark off her album, Sapphire.
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Tuesday, Oct 20, 2020 – Echoes Program 2042B
Sufjan Stevens goes all electronic on an album of life ruminations called The Ascension, maybe his most darkly melodic album ever. Also going deep but more acoustic is Ane Brun.
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Monday, Oct 19, 2020 – Echoes Program 2042A
Amon Tobin, early pioneer of jazz driven electronic music, has returned after a four-year hiatus with new music under pseudonyms, including psychedelic persona Figueroa, where he even sings.
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Weekend, Oct 17-18, 2020 – Programs 2041A & 2041B
The California Guitar Trio’s album, Elegy, was recorded in AirBnB living rooms pre-Covid. Shpongle’s Simon Posford spent his time in quarantine creating a pandemic lockdown soundtrack.
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Friday, Oct 16, 2020 – Echoes Program 2041E
Music from the Orb, the legendary ambient band with a new album called Abolition of the Royal Familia. We’ll also hear new music by Nicholas Gunn from his album, Pacific Blue.
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Thursday, Oct 15, 2020 – Echoes Program 2041D
We travel through time for the German Sci-Fi TV series, Dark, which has an ambient underscore by Ben Frost, and songs by artists like Agnes Obel, Mimi Page, and Robot Koch.
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Wednesday, Oct 14, 2020 – Echoes Program 2041C
We talk with Mark Dwane, a long time fixture on Echoes. This purveyor of expansive, cinematic melodies, and propulsive grooves talks about his music on Echoes.