Pianist Chad Lawson came up through classical and jazz, but now he’s creating ambient music, treating his piano with electronic processing to give him a more atmospheric sound.
Guitarist William Tyler calls his music “rural New Age” with tongue only part way in-cheek. He’s taken the Windham Hill aesthetic, and carried it to new dimensions. He talks about it on Echoes.
Harpist and singer Emilie Kahn creates a probing music with just her harp and voice. She used to record as Emilie & Ogden. Ogden is her harp. It’s still there when she plays live on Echoes.
Meat Beat Manifesto is the legendary British electronic artist who came up during the industrial and trip-hop sampling days. Founder Jack Dangers is a scholar of electronic music.
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by Steve Hackett, formerly the guitarist with Genesis. We’ll also hear a classic 70s track by German electronic pioneer, Klaus Schulze.
Rachel Eckroth started out as a jazz pianist before she found her voice and emerged as a singer-songwriter. On her last album, When It Falls she moved into electronic dream pop.
Illenium is a current headliner of the EDM scene. He has a new album with a lot of guest vocalists on it called Ascend. Among them are the Portland duo Echo and singer Anna Clendening.
Electro-R&B group Beacon talk about the influence of religion and the writings and art of Walter Russell, a 20th century renaissance man who created his own Cosmogony.
Eve Maret brings her synthesizers and voice to perform the music of her debut album, No More Running, live. Maret is a resolutely electronic artist, influenced by ’70s and ’80s electropop.
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.