Some chilled music for the hot summer with Nicholas Gunn’s August CD of the Month, 30. It’s an expansive album that celebrates the 30th anniversary of Gunn’s album, Music of the Grand Canyon.
AVAWAVES talk about their new album, Heartbeat hot on the heels of their soundtrack to The Buccaneers and we remember Mark Dwane, the guitary-synth artist who passed on July 24.
On the Next Echoes, music from Course, the project of Jessica Robbins. On the album Hue Mirror, she turns her medical journey into deeply-felt songs of both despair and hope. We’ll hear a couple of tracks along her journey.
The electronic sounds of Lisa Bella Donna. She’s a musician with keyboard chops mixing soaring lead lines with modular synthesizer sequences in a euphoric swirl of sound.
On the next Echoes, we get psychedelicized. We’ll explore psychedelic music from the 1960s right up through the electronic hallucinations of the 2000s. It’s Peace Love and blown minds.
We remember Mark Dwane, the guitar-synthesist who passed on July 24. We’ll hear from our interview with Mark, and music from some of his 30 albums that have been part of the Echoes soundscape from the beginning.
AvaWaves talk about their new album, Heartbeat. Hot on the heels of their soundtrack to The Buccaneers, the keyboard and violin duo put a darker edge on their electric chamber music.
Ankylosing Spondylitis is a spinal disease causing immense pain. But Jessica Robbins, who records as Course, creates some beautiful music out of that pain on her album, Hue Mirror.
Air’s Moon Safari album gets an epic and ambient rework by Vegyn. It’s called Blue Moon Safari. Vegyn maintains the downtempo mood of the original but takes it into new atmospheres.
On the next Echoes, an ambient supergroup when we hear the collaboration between electronic artist Brannan Lane, guitarist John Gregorius, and bassist Sean O’Bryan Smith.