New music by Orenda Fink, she’s one half of the duo Azure Ray, and has a new solo album of gentle songs called Blue Dream, and from looping cellist Matthew Schoening who has a new album called Narrow Path.
Marissa Nadler is a singer-songwriter of delicate dimensions and deep atmospheres. She plays music live from her latest album July, accompanied by cellist Janel Lepin of the duo Janel & Anthony.
John Luttrell has just released an ambitious new album of guitar and keyboard orchestrations called The Dream Exchange.
Kaya Project is the Ethno-Techo outlet for Seb Taylor. He’s just released a new album called Firedance that ups the rhythmic ante in a frenzy of darbuka grooves and seductive melodies.
Yoed Nir was trained as a classical cellist in Israel, but then began playing with rock artists like Regina Spektor and Rufus Wainwright. On his solo albums, he forges an ambient chamber music of looping, multi-tracked and electronically processed cello to create his own 21st century orchestra. We’ll hear him play music from his album, The Next Dream, live on Echoes.
Fin Greenall, who records as Fink, has transformed from a techno artist to a transcendental folkie. He has a new album out called Hard Believer. We’ll also hear from Saul Stokes and his new CD of homemade electronics, LFOUFO.
Guitarist Mark McGuire is a modern rock guitarist who looks to 1970s progressive rock for his influences. The former Emeralds guitarist has created a work of epic proportions called Along the Way. He talks about his prog evolution.
Muriel Anderson was a fingerstyle champion and a mentee of Chet Atkins and Les Paul. She creates a pastoral music drawing from folk, jazz and classical music playing acoustic six-string and harp guitar. She talks about her star-studded double CD, Nightlight Daylight with its illuminated cover.
Yoed Nir was trained as a classical cellist in Israel, but then began playing with rock artists like Regina Spektor and Rufus Wainwright. On his solo albums, he forges an ambient chamber music of looping, multi-tracked and electronically processed cello to create his own 21st century orchestra.
Electronic provocateur William Orbit has crafted electronic hits for Madonna and Britney Spears but on his own he creates quirky, often profound electronic songs. We talk to the peripatetic artist about the joy of sound.