Idiosyncratic folk-rocker Sufjan Stevens has a five volume set of deeply ambient compositions called Convocations. It’s partly a response to deaths in the family and the pandemic.
Jess Lamb and the Factory are a Cincinnati band fronted by singer Jess Lamb and with Warren Harrison. They’ve created a deep spiritual meditation partly shaped by Pandemic called You Are.
Electronic pop from Decouplr, a pair of musicians from Philadelphia who are tapping a deep vein of soulful synthesis. We’ll also hear music from Scotland’s Moqwai.
On A Slow Flow Echoes, a space music epic by David Wright. The Lost Colony is a soundtrack for a graphic novel by Matt Howarth. We’ll also hear something by Comit from An Ocean of Thoughts.
The 21st Icon is Peter Gabriel. From Genesis, solo albums and the score to The Last Temptation of Christ, we’ll hear a suite of his music and the world music he’s nurtured on his Real World Music label.
Leandrul creates beautiful electro-pop music with deep psychological implications. Psychosis of Dreams is not a metaphor. It’s about real trauma with mental health and recovery.
Jess Lamb and the Factory are a Cincinnati band fronted by singer Jess Lamb and with Warren Harrison. They’ve created a deep spiritual meditation partly shaped by Pandemic called You Are.
On our May CD of the Month, Californian Soil, the English trio London Grammar explore love, loss, feminism and America with their lush atmospheres and Hannah Reid’s intoxicating voice.
Music by Kevin Keller from The Front Porch of Heaven and we’ll hear something by two members of the industrial rock group Throbbing Gristle, Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti.
New music by Gary Numan, a pioneer of electronic pop. He’s changed considerably since the 1980s, and you’ll hear that on his new album, Intruder. We’ll also hear from guitarist Tom Caufield.