We open fall with an autumnal CD of the Month, the debut album by Slow Meadow. Slow Meadow is Matt Kidd who previously made music as Aural Method. With the guidance of the post-rock band Hammock, Slow Meadow creates a serene expanse of elongated melodies and deep textures. This is music that owes as much to Arvo Pärt as Brian Eno.
Ólafur Arnalds is one of the signature composers of ambient chamber music, and in the last year, he’s released an album based on the compositions of Chopin, scored BBC TV series, Broadchurch and recorded an all electronic project as Kiasmos.
Slow Meadow is the performance name of Matt Kidd who started out as a guitarist playing in church and Christian music bands before venturing out on his own ambient journey.
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Slow Meadow is the performance name of Matt Kidd who has collaborated with the band Hammock, but has created his own approach to ambient chamber music. We walk through the fields of Matt Kidd’s Slow Meadow.
Echoes celebrates the arrival of fall with a soundscape of autumnal moods and melancholy ambiences. These shows tend to take on a more pastoral acoustic tone and there will be plenty of that, but also some electronic tone poems and ambient excursions. Turn your fall foliage into a lightshow with an Echoes Autumnal Equinoxe
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Michael Spriggs is an A-list session guitarist in Music City who has played on, and written, dozens of country hits. But when he goes home, he plugs in to a different sound, turning country into Ambient Americana, with touches of Celtic music.
Slow Meadow is the performance name of Matt Kidd who started out as a guitarist playing in church and Christian music bands before venturing out on his own ambient journey.
Howling brings together an Australian singer and German electronic artist who met on Skype. They have a new album of electro-pop called Sacred Ground. We’ll hear that and new, surprisingly mellow music from the Japanese guitar assault band, Mono.
Andrew Dobson started performing as Digitonal in 1997 and began recording with the 2002 album, 23 Things Fall Apart. With the addition of Egyptian violinist Samy Bishai Digitonal hit its stride with the 2008 album, Save Your Light for Darker Days.
Ben Neill sounds the clarion of his muttantrumpet in a Slow Flow Echoes along with new release from Ian Boddy’s dIN label by Parallel Worlds & Self Oscillate.