On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by David Arkenstone. He built his reputation on expansive orchestral new age music goes to his electronic side on an album called Colors of the Ambient Sky.
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.
It’s a double Flashback 50 on the next Echoes. We’ll explore the Grateful Dead’s second album, Anthem of the Sun and a psychedelic band from England called Family who released their debut, Music in a Doll’s House, 50 years ago.
On the next Echoes we travel to Victoria Place. That’s the name our building and it’s also the name of the new Echoes Live CD. All of it was recorded inside the walls of Victoria Place exclusively for Echoes.
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.
On the next Echoes, veteran electronic musician Chuck Van Zyl comes in with a room full of analog synthesizer modules and creates spacescapes born from his roots in 70s German Space music.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, it’s new music by Tom Caufield. The guitarist plays with a string quartet playing pieces by David Bowie, Max Richter and original songs.
Music from singer Neko Case who has just released a new, harder edged album called “Hell-On.” We’ll also hear music by Warren Harrison, the electronic half of the duo, Hungry Lucy.