Pianist Peter Kater is interviewed and we hear a suite of his music as well as new music from Moby, bassist Michael Manring, and German electronic artist Robert Schroeder.
Danish singer Agnes Obel creates a haunting ambient chamber pop music. On Myopia, she explores states of mind from insomnia to loss, all couched in her muted arrangements and whammy bar voice.
Composer Michael Whalen talks about his CD of the Month, Sacred Spaces. It’s a return to his progressive rock roots as he turns a classical composition into a synthesized fantasy.
It’s a new generation of Ukulele player when we talk with Taimane. She’s creating her own ukulele fusion that takes the instrument out of the luau and into the world.
On an Echoes Memorial Day Soundscape, it’s music to contemplate the loss and the carnage of wars across time including music from Loreena McKennitt, The Zombies and Hans Zimmer.
Guitar dreams by John Gregorius from his album, Full of Life, the June Echoes CD of the Month. We also have an interview with electronic musician Doug Appling of Emancipator.
It’s the return of a New Age pioneer when we talk with Kevin Braheny Fortune. David Helpling takes us into the runic and oceanic influences of his January CD of the Month, Rune.
We talk to Lane 8’s Daniel Goldstein. The electronic artist bans cellphone usage at his concerts and calls his sound “dreamy back-rub house music” with tongue firmly in cheek.
It’s new music by Simrit Kaur. She is an extraordinary singer who takes kirtan chants in a rapturous world fusion direction. We’ll hear a track from her latest album, When We Return.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Iona, the English group who specializes in an ethereal form of progressive rock. They have a new collection out, The Book of Iona.