Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders has released Valve Bone Woe, an album that reveals a jazzier side, that also has a bit of atmospheric ambience about it. We’ll also hear from Kitaro and Brian Eno.
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by Bruce Cockburn. The singer-songwriter has a new album of solo acoustic guitar pieces. We’ll also hear new electronic music by Nigel Mulaney.
We go inside the music of Tycho with Scott Hansen and singer Saint-Sinner. They talk about their collaboration, Weather, which takes Tycho’s music into a dream pop direction.
Pianist Peter Kater just won his second Grammy. He’s known for sweetly romantic music, but he has another side with a dark childhood and beginning as a hitch-hiking itinerant musician.
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.
On a Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear new music by Sonic Yogi. He’s actually an acoustic guitar player, Jonathan Adams and his album of meditative guitar is called Be the Love You Seek.
On the next Echoes, we’ll hear from Tigerforest off his new album of orchestrated electronics called Discovery. We’ll also hear Nicolas Godin, one half of the French duo Air.
We go into the chill of Iceland for some music inspired by that chill when we talk with Hugar. The ambient chamber music duo released their second album, Varda, last year.