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.
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.
The end of the year is coming and that means it’s time for the Best of Echoes 2019. We play our Top 25 albums from this past year. See if your favorites are there.
There aren’t a lot of plugged-in female musicians but I have one who is trying to change that, synth-pop artist Eve Maret. She talks about her music and debut recording, No More Running.
We’ll hear new music by Nova Soon, that’s the persona of England’s Noah de Grunwald. He calls his music space folk. We’ll hear music from his new album, You Are Alive.
New music from Barrett Martin, a percussionist who has played with REM, Queens Of The Stone Age, and Screaming Trees. But in his own group he creates a percussion based world fusion.
We talk to Fink, a British electronic musician turned singer-song-writer about the smoky, blues-inflected meditative songs of his latest album, Bloom Innocent.