Jan Hammer was the keyboardist from Mahavishnu Orchestra and the creator of the famed Miami Vice TV score. Jan Hammer casts back on his long and influential career on Echoes.
Songs you’ve heard before, performed live by Mary Fahl. The immaculate voice of the 90s band October Project has a new solo album covering songs from her youth called I Can’t Get It Out of My Head.
We talk with Airport People about his album of creaky piano centered compositions Nine Mornings and Rival Consoles taking us inside his chromium electronic songs..
We’ve got two folk-baked songs. We’ll hear from Air Waves, off the album Dance, and a song from the score to Where the Crawdads Sing. It’s by Taylor Swift. Yep. Trust me.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, a journey of sequencer-driven sounds by Colin Rayment from his album, Equilibrium. We’ll also hear Sherry Finzer and VeeRonna Ragone from their album, Mystic Breezes.
New music by Dead Can Dance singer, Lisa Gerrard. She teams up with Italian-Argentinian composer Marcello De Francisi on a new album of ecstatic exoticism called Exaudia.
Ryan West records as Rival Consoles, a resolutely electronic project, but he still thinks of his chromium plated compositions as songs. He has a new album called Now Is.
We talk with Airport People: not weary airline travelers, but ambient chamber music artist Leon Todd Johnson. He has an album of creaky piano centered compositions called From Nine Mornings.
We hear from an opera singer turned alt-rock diva when Zola Jesus talks about her new album, Arkhon. It’s a mix of religion and science fiction as she grapples with these dystopian times.
The guitar duo of Rodrigo Y Gabriela take of lot of pleasure in covering rock tunes. They’ve done everything from Metallica to Pink Floyd. Now they’ve taken on Radiohead’s Weird Fishes.