Azam Ali takes her love of modern electronic music to create her new album, Phantoms. We talk to Azam Ali about a sound born from social and political darkness and electronic grooves.
Playlists
Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020 – Echoes Program 2002B
Tag: Ambient
Coming Up
Monday, Jan 27, 2020 – David Helpling Interview
On the next Echoes, guitarist David Helpling takes us into the runic and oceanic influences of his January CD of the Month, Rune. He talks about ambient guitar, the ocean and ancient runes.
Playlists
Monday, Jan. 13, 2020 – Echoes Program 2002A
We take a deep dive into the world of Steve Roach. The prolific electronic artist released several albums in 2019, including Bloom Ascension and Trance Archeology.
Coming Up
Weekend, Jan 25-26, 2020 – All India Radio & Grammys
All India Radio’s Martin Kennedy talks about the progressive space rock and his December CD of the Month, Eternal and Echoes goes to the Grammys. It’s not all Lizzo and Rap.
Playlists
Weekend, Jan. 11-12, 2020 – Programs 2001A & 2001B
David Helpling’s Rune is a deep-dive electric guitar excursion into sumptuous textures and slowly evolving melodies. Listen to David Helpling’s Rune, the January CD of the Month on Echoes.
Coming Up
Friday, January 24, 2020: New Electronic Music
Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning releases The Munich Session. We go back to 1981 for John Foxx’s The Garden and Mark Dwane returns to 1988 to revisit his debut with Martian Apparitions.
Playlists
Friday, Jan. 10, 2020 – Echoes Program 2001E
We’ll hear new releases from Fink, an English musician who takes an ambient approach to the singer-songwriter paradigm, as well as Tom Caufield, Bill Frisell, Lana del Rey and more.
Coming Up
Thursday, Jan 23, 2020: Slow Flow Echoes
Guitarist Lawson Rollins continues his Nuevo Flamenco ways on his album True North. And Aquiver takes us into the down-tempo dub typical of a musician from the Desert Dwellers circle.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Fink’s Mid-Life Lament
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Fink’s Dream Blues https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/EchoesPodcast-Fink2019.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS In the Echoes Podcast we talk with Fink. He’s a British electronic musician turned ambient singer-songwriter, who creates deep ruminative songs sung in his mellifluous tenor. He talks about his latest album, Bloom Innocent and finds links between blues, electronica and New Orleans.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Jan 22, 2020: New music by Nicolas Godin
One half of the band, Air, Nicolas Godin, has a new album of retro electro-pop out called Concrete and Glass. We’ll hear that and a duo called Dreaming of Ghosts, with Robot Koch and Fiora.