New music by Norwegian electronic artist Sverre Knut Johansen. It’s an album of ambient moods called Dreams Beyond. We’ll also hear from Hawaiian slack key guitarist Jim Kimo West.
We’ll hear new recordings from two extraordinary singers: another single by Ane Brun from her still untitled album, and London Grammar with the soulfully searing voice of Hannah Reid
We travel through time for the German Sci-Fi TV series, Dark, which has an ambient underscore by Ben Frost, and songs by artists like Agnes Obel, Mimi Page, and Robot Koch.
On the next Echoes, a magical concert of Chamber pop when we hear Heather Woods Broderick come in to play live. Her latest album, Invitation, is a journey of the spirit and soul through nature.
Composer Michael Whalen talks about his CD, Sacred Spaces. Then Tangerine Dream invented a new genre of music. We explore their evolution from psychedelic aggression to electronic dreams.
New ambient chamber music by Naneum from Life Cycle, a work for electronics and choir. We’ll also hear Daniel Avery and Allessandro Cortini from their collaboration, Illusion of Time.
Polly Scattergood is the singer for OnDeadWaves and now she has a new solo album called In This Moment. We’ll also hear a hymn for the pandemic by Mimi Goese and Ben Neill.
Emancipator is Douglas Appling, an electronic musician who mixes synthesizers, sampled sounds and folk instruments like banjo and dulcimer into a hallucinatory sound. We talk to him on Echoes.
Tangerine Dream invented a new genre of music. In the Echoes documentary we go back to their first release in 1970 with founder Edgar Froese and members from across the Dream’s 50 years.
Composer Michael Whalen talks about his April CD of the Month, Sacred Spaces. It’s a return for Whalen to his progressive rock roots as he turns a classical composition into a synthesized fantasy.