Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater talks about their new album, The Great Awakening. It’s a subtle work of ambient songs employing nature sounds that Meiburg recorded all over the world.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2022 – Shearwater Interview
Tag: Ambient
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022 – Echoes Program 2228C
Lumenette is the stage name of Christine Byrd, wife of Marc Byrd from the group Hammock. She’s sung on many of their albums and now she has her own dream pop release, “All Around My Head.”
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Tuesday, July 26, 2022 – New Music by Angel Olsen
New music by Angel Olson. The alt-rock singer has taken a country turn on her new album, Big Time, but she does it with a flare of Ambient Americana. It’s a big time in a chilled way.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2022 – Echoes Program 2228B
Flutist Sherry Finzer takes us inside the tank. It’s a 70 foot tall water tank with its own special echo. Sherry talks about playing inside it and some of her other musical projects.
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Monday, July 25, 2022 – Steve Tibbetts Interview
We ride a Hellbound Train with Steve Tibbetts, an icon of Echoes who has a new double CD of music from across his 40 years at ECM. We talk about his unique approach to music and guitar.
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Monday, July 11, 2022 – Echoes Program 2228A
We hear from an opera singer turned alt-rock diva when Zola Jesus talks about her new album, Arkhon. It’s a mix of religion and science fiction as she grapples with these dystopian times.
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Weekend, July 23-24, 2022 – Animalweapon Interview
Animalweapon. The name comes from the Dead Pool superhero comic but no animals are harmed in the music of Patrick Cortes. But he does uses animal recordings as part of his electronic songs.
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Weekend, July 9-10, 2022 – Programs 2227A & 2227B
For July 4th we take you into twanguility with an Ambient Americana soundscape. It’s country and western distilled though Brian Eno ambiences, but still with that country twang.
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Friday, July 22, 2022 – New Music from Eric Hilton
New music by Eric Hilton. Half of Thievery Corporation, he’s spent his pandemic time releasing four albums to date. His new one is Lost Dialect. We accept all dialects on Echoes from PRX.
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Friday, July 8, 2022 – Echoes Program 2227E
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music from the Myndstream Collection Volume 1, featuring Mark Isham, Rick Wakeman and more. We’ll also hear from Steve Roach & Michael Stearns.