Singer Olivia Chaney has recorded in the folk rock group Offa Rex with The Decemberists, but there is more than folk to this enchanting singer with a lilting, classic British voice.
Primer is the prep coating of paint. It’s also a textbook. And it’s the name chosen by Alyssa Midcalf, a Detroit based artist for her stripped down electronic pop. She explores dark terrain.
On the next Echoes we heed the call of Horace Greeley and head west, but not the west of manifest destiny. We’ll hear guitarist William Tyler whose latest album is called Goes West.
Kevin Keller takes us in the big chill with his March CD of the Month, Ice Worlds. A pioneer of ambient chamber music, Kevin Keller goes all electronic on this album retro-futuristic album.
On a Slow Flow Echoes we explore early Japanese ambient music from a new collection called Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Environmental, Ambient & New Age Music 1980-1990.
Talos, is an Irish band exploring a dreamy electronica pop sound. They have a new album called Far Out Dust. We’ll also hear English singer-songwriter Lucy Rose from her EP, No Words Left.
Flutist Suzanne Teng and percussionist Gilbert Levy talk about their world fusion band, Mystic Journey, which sounds like the house band in an exotic Middle Eastern palace of the imagination.
You need a big mind to explore the Big Ears Festival 2019. Big Ears celebrates its 10th anniversary in Knoxville, as one of the widest-ranging, furthest thinking music festivals in America.
Kevin Keller takes us in the big chill with his March CD of the Month, Ice Worlds. A pioneer of ambient chamber music, Kevin Keller goes all electronic on this album retro-futuristic album.
Get ready for some nuanced guitar filigree when Tommy Emmanuel and John Knowles come in to play live. They have a new album of older pop tunes called Heart Songs.