The August CD of the Month is Rain Before Seven by Penguin Café, the successor to The Penguin Café Orchestra launched in 1976 on Brian Eno’s Obscure Label. The music continues to be one-of-a-kind.
We travel to China via the impressionistic music of Robert Rich. His latest album, Travelers’ Cloth, is inspired by an ancient Chinese poet and his journey through the countryside.
Actress Kaelen Ohm has been seen in the TV series “Hit & Run” and “From.” But you can hear her as Amaara, making deep, psychedelic dream pop on her new album, Child of Venus.
The artist known as BT is a polymath who gets into the code of his music. He has a new album, The Secret Language of Trees, and although it’s forest inspired, it’s not a pastoral romp.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music from ELEON, one of the recording personas of Michael A Foster, from his latest album, Hidden In Time. We’ll also hear an electronic duo who record as Iluiteq.
New music by Fenne Lily who has just released her third album, Big Picture. We’ll also hear from an emerging electronic pop artist, Skyemoon Maria, with a new album called Dreaming Out Loud.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we premiere the new single from Kinobe, Falling Star. It’s from their forthcoming album, Over the Horizon. We’ll also hear new music by Johan Agebjörn.
A live electronic trip with Taiyo Rey and Saul Stokes. They are actually the same person and have been creating inventive and singular electronic music for decades. Hear it performed live on Echoes.
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Nathan Speir’s music ranges from pure electronic to solo piano to ambient chamber music. We talk to him about his music and the spiritual search it embodies.