Neuland is a project featuring two former members of Tangerine Dream, Peter Baumann and Paul Haslinger. They’ve gotten together for an all-electronic project that takes them beyond their roots.
It’s the 36 strings of The California Guitar Trio and the Montréal Guitare Trio. These two virtuoso groups get together to play music from their 2019 CD of the Month, In a Landscape, live.
This weekend we explore Agnes Obel’s Myopia, Echoes March CD of the Month. The Danish singer has created another chamber pop song-cycle of seductive moods and interior thoughts.
We’ll hear the latest melodic downtempo take by ELEON from his album, Cerulean. Then it’s Floating Points who dig into more avant-garde modular synth sounds for his new album, Crush.
It’s a Throwback 30 on the next Echoes when we explore the Norwegian band Bel Canto and their 1990 album, Birds of Passage. Bel Canto had a dream pop sound before dream pop.
Voxfire takes Medieval chants and turns them into free-floating expanses with beautiful vocals. They infuse their chants with ambient moods and even blues harmonica.
We’ll hear music by Nova Soon, who calls his music space folk, and while we’re in space, set the controls for electronic artist Michael Bruckner’s The Undercurrent.
We get inside the head of Agnes Obel when we explore her new album, Myopia. The Danish singer has created another chamber pop song-cycle of seductive moods and interior thoughts.
We talk to Lane 8, the electronic artist bans sll cameras at his concerts and calls his sound “dreamy back-rub house music.” We’ll also hear the ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro playing live.
Fink is the recording persona of Fin Greenall, who brings his ambient sensibilities to his deep and emotionally complex songs sung in his resonant tenor. Fink performs live on Echoes.