Bat for Lashes, the Gothic dream pop project of singer Natasha Khan, goes even more dark, mystical and electronic on a new album called Lost Girls. We’ll hear from it tonight.
The art of improvisation when we talk with trumpeter John Swana, guitarist Tim Motzer and percussionist Doug Hirlinger, all veterans of progressive, jazz and avant-garde music.
Chill out your Christmas with seasonal songs unlike what you’ve been hearing in the shopping malls, inlcuding Tom Caufield’s “I Heard It Was Christmas Day,” and SHEL’s “Winter Fairyland”.
Get the sugar plums dancing with an Echoes Night Before Christmas. It’s a time when life seems suspended between the Christmas build-up and the explosion of Christmas morning.
It’s Christmas and Hanukkah week and we’ll hear some music for it including a Hanukah tune from Grammy winners Opium Moon and new sounds from Matt Borghi’s Ambient Guitar for Christmas.
On Echoes Sonic Seasonings, it’s FLOW and Friends. They get together in new configurations to reinvent the sound of Christmas, creating an intimately chilled and musically adventurous mood.
Bundle up for the Winter Solstice Soundscape. It’s a winter fantasy with no Christmas Carols, but a sleigh full of music taking you into the celestial and chilled side of the season.
Mary Lattimore is a diva of new music harp who has performed with Harold Budd, Kurt Vile, Thurston Moore and dozens of others with her electric instrument. We talk about ambient harp.
New music by Julianna Barwick. The singer creates ambient gothic choirs out of her voice on a new EP, Circumstance Synthesis. We’ll also hear from cellist Anne Muller.
We don’t have 12 days of Christmas. But we do have 12 months of Echoes CD of the Month Picks and we’ll go through them on Echoes. First forward from January and then Backwards.