AeTopus is the name used by Bryan Tewell Hughes to create his electronic music soundscapes. He has degrees in Fine Arts and Psychology, but the music of science fiction and space music got him into synthesizers and soundscapes.
Steve Kimock is a veteran of the jam band scene, although he hates that term. He’s played with just about every member of the Grateful Dead. He talks about his new album of rustic ambient guitar, The Last Danger of Frost on Echoes.
Her name is ironically ostentatious, but her music isn’t. Emmy the Great is Emma-Lee Moss. She was born in Hong Kong, spent her teen years in London, and has bounced between there, New York and Los Angeles.
We talk with Moby about his new memoir, and his recent Long Ambient recordings.
Coming up on Echoes we’ll hear a song by Metallica. It won’t be them playing it, but the band of sisters known as SHEL.
Coming up on Echoes, it’s new music by Explosions in the Sky. The instrumental rock band who came to renown with their score to Friday Night Lights have a new CD of guitar explorations called The Wilderness.
Aidan Knight cites Combat Rock by The Clash as one of his biggest influences, but you may not hear that in his music. The Canadian singer-songwriter has a much more introspective sound that tends toward slow tempos and atmospheric moods with an array of instrumental styles from humming and strumming guitar to more orchestral arrangements.
Dave Preston is a guitarist who makes the kind of ambient guitar music that would find him in the company of Robert Fripp, Jeff Pearce or Ashra, but that same music also found him in the company of Justin Timberlake.
We talk with Moby about his new memoir, and his recent Long Ambient recordings.
Singer-songwriter Haroula Rose’s Here the Blue River is an album of poetic beauty, both in the lyrics and the music. Its title is from a Ralph Waldo Emerson poem, and it leads to the water imagery that dominates the metaphorical language of the album.