Our 10th Icon, Enya, created a revolutionary but serene sound with her heavily layered vocals, sung in Gaelic, Elven, Latin and Loxion. She’s influenced everything from New Age to Dream Pop.
The Norwegian singer Ane Brun has been one of the understated sirens of dream pop. She talks about the loss and loneliness that informs her latest recordings.
The ambient chamber music of A Winged Victory for the Sullen, a collaboration between Dustin O’Halloran and Adam Wiltzie, explores darker terrain on Invisible Cities.
It’s the vocal cut-ups and trip hop beats of Wax Tailor, slicing and dicing social injustice in the 21st century. These terrible times have rarely been so much fun. Set irony o 11.
Music from Steve Roach’s album of modular synthesizer sequencer symmetry dervishes called Tomorrow. We’ll also hear Zero 7, Peter Gabriel, and a single from Lana Del Rey.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, Slow Motion. That’s a new album by French electronic artist Thierry David. We’ll also hear some solo flute by Sherry Finzer recorded in an industrial steel tank.
It’s the 9th Icon of Echoes, Robert Rich. Robert Rich is an electronic pioneer of dreamy, sometimes dark, and always evolving electronic dreamscapes. We survey his career.
Hear new music by Jess Lamb and The Factory. This is a collaboration out of Cincinnati by singer Jess Lamb and electronic musician Warren Harrison, who used to be in the duo, Hungry Lucy.
It’s the vocal cut-ups and trip hop beats of Wax Tailor. The French composer’s new album, The Shadow of their Suns slices and dices social injustice in the 21st century.
Time Traveler’s debut album, Sky Falter is a melodic meeting of downtempo and space music and it’s the February CD of the Month. Then an interview with Henrik Lindstrand.