We hit the trail and take an electronic journey with Tone Ranger. That’s Alex Simon, and he’s creating desert southwest landscapes that merge electronics with guitar and pedal steel guitar.
New music on Echoes by Weyes Blood from her album And in the Darkness Hearts Aglow, and a release by Moby from his new label, teaming up with Jamaican-Asian singer Akemi Fox.
The Black Angels are a psychedelic band out of Austin, who sound like they mainlined the Nuggets collection. Alex Maas and Christian Bland talk about music born in a hallucinogenic dream.
Ambient avatar Brian Eno releases a vocal album that ponders the end of the world. He does it in hymn-like ambient songs on FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE, where Eno is at his most naked ever.
Harpist Andreas Vollenweider plays live. Echoes connects remotely with the Swiss artist in his home for an exclusive performance of music from his new album, Slow Flow and Dancer.
Keith Jarrett is still the standard for solo pianists. The legendary pianist has been sidelined by strokes, but ECM has gone back to a 2016 live solo performance, Bordeaux Concert.
New music by the German electronic artist Klangwelt. He is stretching the sound of sequencer-driven music on his new album, Here and Why. We’ll also hear from Joseph L Young.
New music by Ólafur Arnalds – kind of. The Icelandic composer has gathered a bevy of other musicians to reinterpret the songs from his album, Some Kind of Peace, on piano.
New music by Yaima, a new age dream pop duo who have been making enchanting music for a while now, fronted by singer Pepper Proud. We’ll hear a track off their Earth Trilogy series.