This weekend on Echoes, Hugar’s Varða, the September CD of the Month, a definitive album of ambient chamber music. Then hear ambient chamber music live when Yann Tiersen comes in to play live.
Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning releases The Munich Session. We go back to 1981 for John Foxx’s The Garden and Mark Dwane returns to 1988 to revisit his debut with Martian Apparitions.
On Echoes, new music by Fink, the performance name of Fin Greenall, the sophomore release by the new age supergroup, FLOW and Lana Del Rey’s homage to Norman Rockwell, sort of.
Yann Tiersen is a wonderful composer who has scored films like Amelie and Goodbye Lenin, but he also composes his own music for multiple keyboards, percussion, strings and more. He plays live on Echoes.
Explore the chill of Iceland through the chilled music of Hugar. Their album Varða is the Echoes CD of the Month for September. It’s beautiful ambient chamber music to take you into Autumn.
This weekend on Echoes, Meat Beat Manifesto, the legendary British artist, talking about electronic music past and present. We’ll also hear harpist and singer Emilie Kahn playing live.
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by Steve Hackett, formerly the guitarist with Genesis. We’ll also hear a classic 70s track by German electronic pioneer, Klaus Schulze.
Pianist Chad Lawson came up through classical and jazz, but now he’s creating ambient music, treating his piano with electronic processing to give him a more atmospheric sound.
Guitarist William Tyler calls his music “rural New Age” with tongue only part way in-cheek. He’s taken the Windham Hill aesthetic, and carried it to new dimensions. He talks about it on Echoes.
Harpist and singer Emilie Kahn creates a probing music with just her harp and voice. She used to record as Emilie & Ogden. Ogden is her harp. It’s still there when she plays live on Echoes.