It’s new music by Simrit Kaur. She is an extraordinary singer who takes kirtan chants in a rapturous world fusion direction. We’ll hear a track from her latest album, When We Return.
On a Slow Flow Echoes we go through Portals, a collection of electronic music sub-titled “A Kosmische Journey”, nodding to roots in 70s German Space music. We’ll also hear Liminal Drifter.
It’s music by electronic dream pop singer Half Waif. The daughter of an Indian refugee from Uganda and an Irish-American, she heard Indian bhajans and Celtic pop growing up.
Guitarist David Helpling takes us into the runic and oceanic influences of his January CD of the Month, Rune. He talks about ambient guitar, the ocean and ancient runes.
We talk with New Age Pioneer Kevin Braheny Fortune. After 22 years, he has four releases of ambient music. He talks about his name change, years of silence and his new music.
The French Band AIR was one of the seminal electronic pop groups of the 1990s and oughts. Founding member Nicolas Godin has a new solo album out that began as an architectural art project.
We’ll hear a great version of Phil Collins’ In the Air Tonight by Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky. We’ll also hear from Tigerforest’s album of orchestrated electronics called Discovery.
Pianist Peter Kater goes Hawaiian. He taps traditional Hawaiian music and musicians and creates a lush landscape around them. We’ll also hear new music by the electronic artist Kayobe.
We travel to Ukraine to talk with Andrei Ivanov who records as Vonavi. Last year this electronic composer released his impressive debut album, Reflection with collaborators like Run Rivers.
We explore the ambient chamber music of Naneum. On his album, Life Cycle he recorded a local choir singing their traditional music but then sliced it up into his own arrangements.