Al Jewer plays flutes. Andy Mitran plays keyboards and percussion. When they aren’t crafting commercial jingles in Chicago, they create music that ranges from world fusion to pure ambient. Winners of a ZMR Award in 2016, they talk about their music on Echoes.
Hannah Georgas started out as kind of a very peppy pop artist, but now she’s gotten a bit more introspective and intimate recently. She has a wonderful new album called For Evelyn, named for her grandmother.
For many years, Swiss born musician Martin Tillman was the first call cellist for Hollywood film scores, especially if they wanted sounds that went beyond cello. He has a new album out called Superhuman.
Haroula Rose grew up hearing the Greek music of her immigrant parents but went on to be influenced by singers like Judee Sill, Joni Mitchell and Bobbie Gentry. She plays music from her new CD, Here the Blue River, live.
Coming up on Echoes I’ve got new music by Ukulele maestro, Jake Shimabukuro. He has a new album called Nashville Sessions, but it’s more rockin’ than country.
Coming up on Echoes, we hear from Angel Olsen and her new album, My Woman. And we’ll take a seat at The Slow Club.
On the 10th anniversary of his death, we remember electronic composer Richard Burmer. Burmer was among the California electronic scene of the early 1980s that included Steve Roach, Robert Rich and Michael Stearns.
Merrin Karras is the performance name used by Irish musician Brendan Gregoriy, as his vehicle for ambient electronic sounds born in analog synthesizers. Brendan Gregoriy talks about the metal exorcism of Merrin Karras.
Haroula Rose grew up hearing the Greek music of her immigrant parents but went on to be influenced by singers like Judee Sill, Joni Mitchell and Bobbie Gentry. She plays music from her new CD, Here the Blue River, live.
The Album Leaf was on the leading edge of Post-rock, creating glitch strewn, melodic and ambient rock landscapes that embodied everything that the word “cinematic” implies. Almost every song on Between Waves has the feel of scenery streaming past a train window, a non-stop, yet shifting panorama of sound.