Azam Ali takes her love of modern electronic music to create her new album, Phantoms. John Diliberto talks to her about a sound born from social and political darkness and electronic grooves.
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Monday, September 9, 2019: Echoes Program 1937A
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Weekend, September 7-8, 2019: Echoes Program 1936A, 1936B
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.
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Friday, September 6, 2019: Echoes Program 1936E
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.
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Thursday, September 5, 2019: Echoes Program 1936D
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.
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Wednesday, September 4, 2019: Echoes Program 1936C
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.
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Tuesday, September 3, 2019 – Echoes Program 1936B
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.
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Monday, September 2, 2019: Echoes Program 1936A
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.
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Friday, August 30, 2019 – Echoes Program 1935E
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.
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Thursday, August 29, 2019 – Echoes Program 1935D
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.
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Wednesday, August 28, 2019 – Echoes Program 1935C
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.