On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Loga Ramin Torkian, one half of the Persian fusion group, Niyaz. He has a solo album featuring his micro-tonal guitar and cello, called Brink of Absolute.
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.
Pianist George Winston, the 30th Icon, came into the Echoes Living Room in 1999, and performed tunes from his latest album at the time, Plains, his classic December and more.
Sitarist Anoushka Shankar is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, but she’s going even further afield than her father. We’ll hear a track from Love Letters PS with her sister, Norah Jones.
We hear some of the last music created by Harold Budd. The ambient artist passed last December, but he left his soundtrack to HBO’s I Know This Much Is True. We’ve got a track from that.
Jomoro is the project of electronic and acoustic percussionists Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco, with guest artists including Sharon Van Etten and Lucious. We talk to Jomoro on Echoes.
German Composer Robot Koch has gone from death metal to deep ambient chamber music in his career. And Sphongle began in hallunciation and makes hallucinations. Their stories on Echoes.
Electronic artist Ian Boddy’s new album, Axiom features a classic retro-space music sound. We’ll also hear ambient piano by Jon Durant and ambient chamber music by Digitonal.
The sultry sound of Morcheeba with music from their album, Blackest Blue and new ambient chamber music by South American composer Sebastian Plano from his album, Save Me Not.