Coming up on Echoes we step into the Cosmic Chill Lounge. That’s a series of ambient electronic compilations from the German Sine Music label. They’ve released volume 8 in this series.
Sherry Finzer is a multi-faceted flute player creating New Age dreamscapes as a solo artist, progressive moods with Cass Anawaty in Majestica and intuitive flute and duets with Tom Moore.
Dead Can Dance Singer Lisa Gerrard recorded an album with The Mystery of Bulgarian Voices called Boocheemish. We talk to her and the album’s producers about this Bulgarian World Fusion.
Swing into the December CD of the Month with Hammock. The acclaimed ambient chamber music guitar duo from Nashville have a new album of deep moods and existential explorations called Universalis.
It’s music from Switzerland when the minimalist jazz ensemble, Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin come in to play live. The ECM band create a music out cyclical interlocking patterns that evolve over time.
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by Solar Fields. The Swedish electronic artist aka Magnus Birgessontakes his downtempo sound in a more cinematic direction on “Ourdom.”
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke scores a horror film. The 1977 horror classic Suspiria, is being remade and Thom Yorke composed the score. We’ll hear that and the latest by William Fitzsimmons
Coming up on Echoes, new music by Saul Stokes. The electronics wizard created live electronic music with no synthesizers and a setup that looks like an electrician’s workbench.
Laraaji is an icon of ambient and new age music. He was in Brian Eno’s Ambient music series and continues to make music, with his partner, Arji. We talk to Laraaji and Arji on Echoes.