Explore the chill of Iceland through the chilled music of Hugar. Their album Varða is the Echoes CD of the Month for September. It’s beautiful ambient chamber music to take you into Autumn.
Sun Rings from the Kronos Quartet and Terry Riley is a project combining the Kronos strings with NASA space sounds. It actually goes back to 2002 but has just been released on CD.
Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning releases The Munich Session. We also go back to 1981 for John Foxx’s The Garden, and Mark Dwane returns to 1988 to revisit his debut with Martian Apparitions.
We’ll hear new releases from Fink, an English musician who takes an ambient approach to the singer-songwriter paradigm, as well as Tom Caufield, Bill Frisell, Lana del Rey and more.
Yann Tiersen is a wonderful composer who has scored films like Amelie and Goodbye Lenin, but he also composes his own music for multiple keyboards, percussion, strings and more. He plays live on Echoes.
Explore the chill of Iceland through the chilled music of Hugar. Their album Varða is the Echoes CD of the Month for September. It’s beautiful ambient chamber music to take you into Autumn.
On a Slow Flow Echoes we explore early Japanese ambient music from a collection called Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Environmental, Ambient & New Age Music 1980-1990. We’ll aslo sample another collection: Cosmic Duality, on Astro Pilot.
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.