Jim Ottaway lives on the Gold Coast of Australia and his music heads into the oceans of space. He came to electronic music late in life but he’s released two dozen albums in last decade.
Playlists
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 – Echoes Program 2030B
Tag: Ambient
Coming Up
Monday, Aug 10, 2020 – Shpongle’s Simon Posford
Shpongle’s Simon Posford has spent his time in Pandemic Quarantine creating a soundtrack that plays out like the 10 Stages of Pandemic Lockdown. We hear about Flux and Contemplation.
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Monday, July 27, 2020 – Echoes Program 2030A
Ben Blackett plugs in computers instead of guitars to create dance floor trances and melodic contemplations. He talks about virtual synthesizers, choir samples, and his wife’s voice on Echoes.
Coming Up
Weekend, Aug 8-9, 2020 – CGT’s Elegy, CD of the Month
California Guitar Trio’s Elegy, Echoes August CD of the Month is featured this weekend as well as an interview with electronic musician Dave Bessell and we remember director Alan Parker.
Playlists
Weekend, July 25-26, 2020 – Programs 2029A & 2029B
We talk to Yppah, a band that makes a joyful sound out of psychedelia, hip-hop and minimalism. Then Nicolas Godin has a new solo album out that began as an architectural art project.
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Friday, July 24, 2020 – Echoes Program 2029E
New music by dream pop singer Sohn & the Metropole Orchestra who turn his electronic pop into pop symphonies. We’ll also hear music from Aukai off their new album of world fusion, Game Trails.
Coming Up
Thursday, Aug 6, 2020 – Slow Flow Echoes
New music by Australian pianist Fiona Joy Hawkins, from her new album, Moving Through Worlds, born of pandemic and the Australian bush fires.
Playlists
Thursday, July 23, 2020 – Echoes Program 2029D
Simon Posford of Shpongle has a new album of ambient moods, Flux & Contemplation and Tom Holkenborg a.k.a. Junkie XL, has a new soundtrack for White Lines. Go outside the lines on Echoes.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Aug 5, 2020 – New music by Braids
Music by Braids from their new album, Shadow Offering, inspired by an eclipse. We’ll also hear singer Miriem Ben Amor from her new album of Tunisian electronica, Once Upon a Time.
Playlists
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 -Echoes Program 2029C
New music by Yaima, the dream pop duo whose music is suffused with nature imagery and hang drum rhythms. We’ll also hear from Julianna Barwick’s new album of her looped gothic chants.