Forty years ago, no one ever suspected that Brian Eno’s ambient works would make such beautiful vehicles for acoustic ensembles. Yet, Music for Airports and Apollo-Atmospheres and Soundtracks have been magnificently covered by acoustic ensembles, Bang on a Can All-Stars and Icebreaker respectively.
Miranda Lee Richards’s parents were 70s underground comic writers. Metallica’s Kirk Hammett gave her guitar lessons and she was discovered by The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
Coming up on a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new ambient music by Tom Eaton, a producer and engineer, who goes to the other side of the glass for his album Abendromen. We’ll also hear from Vic Hennegan’s Space & Shadows.
Ashley Capps created the Bonaroo Festival, but at the other end of the spectrum, he’s also created Big Ears, a festival in Knoxville that embraces Sun Ra, Yo La Tengo, Philip Glass and The Gloaming’s Celtic aires.
Scandinavian singer-songwriter Ane Brun’s music is always personal, touching on themes of love and life’s tribulations. But on her latest album, When I’m Free, Brun sings songs of empowerment.