Natalie Merring records as Weyes Blood and she’s released a gorgeous album of dream pop called Front Row Seat to Earth. John Diliberto brings us that and music by Sin Fang, an Icelandic musician who hangs with Sigur Ros.
Danish singer Agnes Obel’s third album, Citizen of Glass is a conceptual work that takes the fragile singer into new musical terrain, from muted pianos to choirs. She talks about it on Echoes.
Syrinx was an obscure Canadian band making an electronic space music a few years before Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze’s seminal works. They released to albums in 1970 and 1971 and then faded away.
In the early days of Trip-Hop, right alongside Massive Attack, was the trio Morcheeba with Skye Edwards on vocals over the trippy, seductive grooves and moods of the Godfrey brothers.
Coming up on a Slow Flow Echoes it’s music from Gustaf Fjelstrom, whose main instrument is electric bass. On his new album, Intention, he uses it to create a lush and melodic post-rock sound.
They used to be called Sister Crayon, but now, as Rituals of Mine, the austere drum and vocal duo has released Devoted. We’ll hear that and new music from the soulful electronica of Boxer Rebellion.
Peter Gabriel releases an homage to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and Sin Fang adds his Spaceland album to the legion of Icelandic pop releases. We’ll hear them on Echoes.
Fire up the lava lamp and don your paisleys and bell bottoms. Morgan Delt is a musician from LA making a psychedelic sound that merges San Francisco’s expansiveness and early Pink Floyd’s tripped out whimsy. They play live on Echoes.
In the early days of Trip-Hop, right alongside Massive Attack, was the trio Morcheeba with Skye Edwards on vocals over the trippy, seductive grooves and moods of the Godfrey brothers.