On a Slow Flow Echoes, we’ll hear a Japanese electronic artist who records as Yaffle. He’s got a beautiful ambient chamber music release recorded with several Icelandic musicians.
We’ll survey the landscape of women electronic musicians from pioneers like Wendy Carlos, Delia Derbyshire and Suzanne Ciani to contemporary artists from Laurie Anderson through Eve Maret.
Dive into the mystic with Steve Roach & his wife, author and string player Linda Kohanov. They talk about revisiting the spirit of Structures from Silence on the new album, Rest of Life.
Cigarettes After Sex has a new single, continuing his sultry, pillow-talk sound. We’ll also hear Desire Marea, a daring artist from South Africa who might be that country’s version of Bjork.
The Royal Arctic Institute creates an atmospheric guitar-centric sound, like the Ventures gone slow-mo and psychedelic. They play songs off From Coma to Catharsis live on Echoes.
Kaki King is celebrating the 20th anniversary of her debut album, Everybody Loves You. She performs some of that music that made the finger-style guitar world’s collective jaw drop on Echoes.
The Arabic fusion of Didon. We talk to Carmen Rizzo and Meriem Ben Amor about their fusion of traditional vocal sounds and electronic arrangements heard on their debut, Tunisian Tale.
We float through ambient space with Rest of Life by Steve Roach. It’s a double-CD of ambient electronic dreams from the master of that sound and it is the Echoes March CD of the Month.
New music from Babitha, that’s the stage name of Imogen Grist from Australia. She’s making a country-inspired dream pop on The Brighter Side of Blue. We’ll also hear music by Hansan.
It’s the sounds of Ireland on a Celtic Soundscape for St. Patrick’s Day. We head into the serene and mystic side of Ireland with music from Clannad, Enya, Afro Celt Sound System and more.