The Echoes June CD of the Month: Eight Fragments of an Illusion by Ulrich Schnauss and Jonas Munk and NPR’s Bob Boilen goes full ambient on his album, Hidden Smiles this weekend on Echoes.
Music by Norwegian electronic artist Sverre Knut Johansen, from an album of ambient moods called Dreams Beyond. We’ll also hear from Granmmy-winning guitarist Jim Kimo West.
Lisa Gerrard returns in full force. Her ecstatic sound is all over a new collaboration with Jules Maxwell called Burn. We’ll also hear from All India Radio’s Afterworld.
The 24th Icon of Echoes is Harold Budd. We’ll remember this artist who influenced ambient and chamber music composers for half a century, right up until he passed away last year.
NPR’s Bob Boilen is more than the host of Tiny Desk Concerts and All Songs Considered. He’s also a composer of music from ambient to punk rock. We talk about his pandemic album Hidden Smiles.
The June CD of the Month ia Eight Fragments of an Illusion by Ulrich Schnauss and Jonas Munk. Schnauss is a member of Tangerine Dream. Munk records shoegaze influenced electronics as Manual.
Gary Numan paints a dystopian nightmare where earth takes revenge for a civilization that has fostered environmental and military catastrophe. We ponder the apocalypse with Gary Numan.
It’s just about the right time for a Mint Julep, not the drink or candy, but the dreampop duo of Keith and Hollie Kenniff. They have a new album, In a Deep and Dreamless Sleep.
New music from a pair of duos. We’ll hear Sweden’s Johan Agebjorn and Mikael Ogren with Artefact, and Bluetech and Steven Moore have a new downtempo collaboration, Liminal Migration.
The 23rd Icon, Norwegian guitarist Erik Wøllo. Since the mid-1990s he’s been sculpting celestial landscapes for guitar and synthesizer. We’ll hear a vintage live Echoes Performance.