Composer Michael Whalen talks about his CD of the Month, Sacred Spaces. It’s a return for Whalen to his progressive rock roots as he turns a classical composition into a synthesized fantasy.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2020 – Michael Whalen Interview
Tag: Ambient
Playlists
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 – Program 2019B
We explore the ambient chamber music of Naneum. On his album, Life Cycle he recorded a local choir singing their traditional music but then sliced it up into his own arrangements.
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Monday, May 25, 2020 – An Echoes Memorial Day Soundscape
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.
Playlists
Monday, May 11, 2020 – Echoes Program 2019A
The French Band AIR was one of the seminal electronic pop groups of the 1990s and oughts. Founding member Nicolas Godin has a new solo album out that began as an architectural art project.
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Weekend, May 23-24, 2020 – Kevin Braheny & David Helpling
It’s the return of a New Age pioneer when we talk with Kevin Braheny Fortune. Then David Helpling takes us into the runic and oceanic influences of his January CD of the Month, Rune.
Playlists
Weekend, May 9-10, 2020 – Programs 2018A & 2018B
AvaWaves is an ambient chamber music duo who have released their debut album, Waves. Then we interview Steve Roach, the electronic artist who has been part of Echoes for all of its 30 years.
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Friday, May 22, 2020 – New Music from Simrit Kaur
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.
Playlists
Friday, May 8, 2020 – Echoes Program 2018E
One half of the band, Air, Nicholas 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.
Interview Podcast
Echoes Podcast: Poliça and Nicholas Gunn
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Poliça and Nicholas Gunn in Echoes Podcast https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/EchoesPodcast-Polica-NicolasGunn.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS In the Echoes Podcast we talk to singer Channy Leaneagh of Poliça and electronic musician Nicholas Gunn. Channy Leaneagh fell off a roof and broke her back, but that didn’t stop her from recording a great album with her group, Poliça . John…
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Thursday, May 21, 2020 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes we go through Portals, a collection of electronic music sub-titled “A Kosmische Journey”, nodding to roots in 70s German Space music. We’ll also hear Liminal Drifter.