Weekend Echoes listeners get into some ambient chill with The Royal Arctic Institute playing live and an interview with ambient artist Steve Roach and Linda Kohanov.
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.
It’s all a fantasy when we hear new music by M83 off the new album of dreamy synths, big chorales and emotional songs called Fantasy. We’ll also hear from Röyksopp’s Profound Mysteries III.
Hammock swings into first place on the Echoes Top 25 for February, followed by Bill Nelson, The Royal Arctic Institute, Ladytron and 21 more great artists. Did your favorites make the list?
Stand at attention when we hear General Fuzz. The Bay-area electronic artist is returning after a long period of silence, with a new single. We’ll also hear music by Unloved.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Orchestra Indigo, which isn’t an orchestra, but just Richard Randlett. When he isn’t playing blues rock he creates electronic ambient chamber music.
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.