Middle Eastern Ambiences featuring newly released music by the late Cheb I Sabbah with Peter Murphy of Bauhaus and Azam Ali. We’ll also hear the Zikr Project with Jef Stott & Mah Ze Tar.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Mark Dwane. His instrumental music for guitar synthesizer usually is about extra-terrestrial imagery but his new album is called Earthlings.
Jomoro is the project of electronic and acoustic percussionists Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco, with guest artists including Sharon Van Etten and Lucious. We talk to Jomoro on Echoes.
We take a Stairway to Heaven on the 50th Anniversary of Led Zeppelin IV, an album that influenced musicians across genres. We’ll hear cover tributes and some Led Zeppelin tracks.
Rena Jones is a polymath. She plays violin, cello and synthesizers and immerses her music in the imagery of nature and philosophy. We talk about hidden meanings and her new album, Allegories.
The transmission is clear on the new album by Marconi Union, the electronic trio from England. The album is Signals and it finds this atmospheric group in a much more rhythm charged sound.
It’s the hip sounds of the now crowd when we hear music from Bill Nelson’s Modern Moods for Mighty Atoms. We’ll also hear Norwegian guitarist Erik Wøllo from his album, Winter Tide.
New music by Jim Ottaway, an electronic musician from the edges of the Australian outback. His new album is Threshold of the Universe. We’ll also hear from Deep in the Forest by ELEON.
Jeffrey Ericson Allen creates ambient music under the name Chronotope Project. A cellist who adds electronics to his work, he tends toward the mystical and cosmic. He has a new album, Gnosis.
She sang back-up for Madonna for a decade, but for the last 20 years, Donna De Lory has been pursuing her own music. She has a new album of layered vocals called Gone Beyond.