On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by guitarist Tom Caufield who has put out three great albums in less than a year. His new one is Wash the Dusk With Silver. We’ll also hear new music by ambient chamber group, Balmorhea.
50 years ago, Pink Floyd blew the minds of the London underground with their debut album, Piper at the Gates of Dawn. In a Flashback 50, we talk to Floyd drummer Nick Mason who takes us back to the seminal days of this iconic rock group from sonic experiments to chemical experiments.
An icon of seventies futuristic music reaches his own future as Klaus Schulze turns 70. We’ll celebrate the birthday of this electronic legend and hear new music by a dream pop group called Gordi.
Synthwave is all the rage in electronic circles. On the next Echoes, two musicians with a direct lineage to that sound, Thorsten Quaschning and Ulrich Schnauss. Each is a solo artist and a member of Tangerine Dream.
Endless Field is a duo of guitarist Jesse Lewis and bassist Ike Sturm. They’ve played with saxophonists Donny McCaslin and Chris Potter, trumpeters Wynton Marsalis and Kenny Wheeler and singer Bobby McFerrin.
Coming up on Echoes, it’s a collaboration between the Decemberists and Olivia Chaney exploring British Folk music as Offa Rex and a hymn to Coachella by Lana Del Rey.
It’s notes from the Tunisian underground when we hear the amazing Emel Mathlouthi performing live. Emel is a singer whose song was an anthem for Tunisia’s Arab Spring.
Tamsin Wilson is an English singer who records in the group Wilsen, creating evocative pop songs about restlessness, identity and nostalgia with some surprising imagery – including a centipede.
Ry X is a musician from Australia who sings like he’s talking to you from the other side of consciousness. He brings his ambient pop into Echoes and plays music from his latest album, Dawn, live.