This weekend we explore Agnes Obel’s Myopia, Echoes March CD of the Month. The Danish singer has created another chamber pop song-cycle of seductive moods and interior thoughts.
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.
We’ll hear the latest melodic downtempo take by ELEON from his album, Cerulean. Then it’s Floating Points who dig into more avant-garde modular synth sounds for his new album, Crush.
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s new music by Yppah, an ambient post-rock band that combines live playing with electronics. We’ll also hear the return of Trance Mission, the world fusion band.
Voxfire takes Medieval chants and turns them into free-floating expanses with beautiful vocals. They infuse their chants with ambient moods and even blues harmonica.
New music by Jake Shimabukuro, the Hawaiian Ukulele master. He has a new trio including ambient guitarist Dave Preston and they go off into dreamier spaces that you usually hear the uke in.
We get inside the head of Agnes Obel when we explore her new album, Myopia. The Danish singer has created another chamber pop song-cycle of seductive moods and interior thoughts.
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.
We talk to Lane 8, the electronic artist bans sll cameras at his concerts and calls his sound “dreamy back-rub house music.” We’ll also hear the ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro playing live.
Fink is the recording persona of Fin Greenall, who brings his ambient sensibilities to his deep and emotionally complex songs sung in his resonant tenor. Fink performs live on Echoes.