Coming up on Echoes we’ll hear a couple of artists exploring an ambient pop sound. Ry X, is a musician from Canada an album called Under Water and we’ve got Baby Alpaca, a whimsical name for a group that has Depeche Mode in their DNA.
Last October, legendary French electronic musician Jean-Michel Jarre released his collaborative album, Electronica 1: The Time Machine. Now he’s put out the second volume, The Heart of Noise.
Maia Vidal started in music playing hard edged punk Now she makes reflective dream pop playing instruments like the autoharp. Maia Vidal talks about her life and her new album, You’re the Waves.
Hans Christian is a musician of the world. Classically trained on cello in his native Germany, he now plays Indian instruments like the sarangi and sitara and the Swedish nyckelharpa.
Singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler returns to Echoes to play live, performing music from her new album, Strangers.
Echoes goes country, but not the way that might imply. Guitarist William Tyler has a new album out called Modern Country that employs his Nashville heritage but takes it into minimalist, ambient and experimental spaces.
We climb a Black Mountain on the next Echoes. Black Mountain is a Canadian group that veers from Black Sabbath metal to Pink Floyd spaces.
Mutual Benefit is a music project of singer-songwriter Jordan Lee. He’s been acclaimed in places like Stereogum and Pitchfork.
On the next Echoes, a new generation of space musicians when we talk to Ascendant. They’re an electronic duo out of California who have been releasing albums of melodic electronics.
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.