Thomas Bartlett performs as Doveman and plays in the Celtic group, The Gloaming. Nico Muhly is a contemporary classical composer. Together, they adapt Balinese gamelan to pop.
The latest by two different dream pop artists. We’ll hear some dream pop noir by Cigarettes After Sex and their new single, “Crush” and the latest by English chanteuse, Lyla Foy on Echoes.
The Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society is less of a fan club and more of an electronic, deep ambient duo with Garry Hughes of Bombay Dub Orchestra and Harvey Jones.
Bassist Erik Scott played psychedelic music, performed with Alice Cooper and Flo and Eddie and has survived cancer. So what does he do at the age of 70? Make beautiful melancholy musc.
On the next Echoes rising EDM star, CloZee comes in to talk about a sound that she has called World Bass. She mixes sampled sounds of global instruments and motifs and mixes them.
On the next Echoes, a legend of ambient and new age music when Laraaji comes in to play live. Laraaji’s 1980 album, Day of Radiance was the 3rd album in Brian Eno’s Ambient series.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, ambient chamber music by pianist Lena Natalia from Lonely Satellite. We’ll also hear new electronic music out of Germany by Thomas Lemmer and Christoph Sebastien Pabst.
New music by Indarra, an entrancing band with a supernatural Basque name centered on the declamatory vocals of Sue Hutton. We’ll also hear the latest by the chant trio White Sun on Echoes.
Ed Harris was raised on heavy metal but went ambient. As Edamame he uses field recordings made on his phone, sampling birds and outside chatter and turning it into percussion and melody.
Dead Can Dance talk about their conceptual album, Dionysus, a wedding of Greek mythology, tribal culture and global ritual sounds. Brendan Perry talks about hallucinogens to ecstasy on Echoes.