New music from a pair of duos. We’ll hear Sweden’s Johan Agebjorn and Mikael Ogren with Artefact, and Bluetech and Steven Moore have a new downtempo collaboration, Liminal Migration.
The 23rd Icon, Norwegian guitarist Erik Wøllo. Since the mid-1990s he’s been sculpting celestial landscapes for guitar and synthesizer. We’ll hear a vintage live Echoes Performance.
New music by Mirabai Ceiba. This duo of Markus Sieber and Angelika Baumbach from Aukai started as a chant group but have evolved considerably on their new album, The Quiet Hour.
Gary Numan paints a dystopian nightmare where earth takes revenge for a civilization that has fostered environmental and military catastrophe. We ponder the apocalypse with Gary Numan.
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.
Deep ambient chamber music by Joshua Van Tassell whose album title says it all, Dance Music Volume II: More Songs for Slow Motion. We’ll also hear German downtempo artist, Tauon.
New music by Tor, the electronic musician with a hypnotic, downtempo sound. He has a new album called Oasis Sky. We’ll also hear from Jomoro, A project headed by Joey Waronker
The 22nd Icon, Patrick O’Hearn, came to renown with Frank Zappa, was a pop star in Missing Persons, then crafted personal electronic music on a string of albums starting with Ancient Dreams.