Singer Channy Leanagh fell off a roof and broke her back, but that didn’t stop her from recording a great album with her group, Polica. We talk about the album When We Stay Alive.
It’s Ambient Chamber Music dreams this weekend when we talk with Blue Landscapes and AvaWaves, two very different duos creating a sound merging classical elegance and ambient atmospheres.
Guitarist Lawson Rollins continues his Nuevo Flamenco ways on his album True North. And Aquiver takes us into the down-tempo dub typical of a musician from the Desert Dwellers circle.
We talk to multi-instrumentalist, world fusionist, and former drummer with Screaming Trees, Barrett Martin. He specializes in global percussion and has created a world fusion sound.
Everyone is trapped in their homes, but we open the windows for an Echoes Earth Day Celebration. We’ll hear a soundscape to bring you into the world as spring awakens.
Two women from the classical world go ambient with AvaWaves. Violinist Anna Phoebe and keyboardist Aisling Brouwer have crafted a haunting and unremittingly beautiful sound on their debut.
Swim through Blue Landscapes, the duo of flutist Damjan Krajacic and pianist Robert Thies. They talk about improvising impressionistic ambient chamber music with only acoustic instruments.
We hear the multi-keyboard orchestrations of music of Naneum, live. Then it’s Gunnar Spardel, who composes serene chamber music under his own name and upbeat electronic music as Tigerforest.
We hear music by Kevin Keller from an collection called 12.25, representing 12 albums in 25 years. And David Helpling also goes deeply ambient with RUNE, his January CD of the Month.
Native American flute has been making a return to the Echoes Soundscape and on a Slow Flow Echoes we’ll hear two of them, Kenneth Hooper’s Directions and Vicki Logan’s Born Out of Chaos.