Veteran film composer, Rob Simonsen talks about his first solo album, Reveries. The composer of scores for Nerve, Love, Simon and others creates a nostalgic ambient chamber music album.
Coming Up
Monday, September 16, 2019: Rob Simonsen Interview
Tag: Ambient
Playlists
Monday, September 2, 2019: Echoes Program 1936A
Explore the chill of Iceland through the chilled music of Hugar. Their album Varða is the Echoes CD of the Month for September. It’s beautiful ambient chamber music to take you into Autumn.
Coming Up
Weekend, September 14-15, 2019: Azam Ali Interview
Weekend Echoes listeners hear an interview with Vas & Niyaz singer Azam Ali about her all-English electronic album, Phantoms. We’ll also hear free improvisation with Swana-Motzer-Hirlinger.
CD of the Month
September 2019 CD of the Month: Hugar’s Varða
Hugar’s Varða is the Echoes September CD of the Month. The Icelandic duo creates a perfect ambient chamber album of Autumnal colors and chilled moods inspired by Icelandic landscapes.
Best Of
Echoes August 2019 Top 25: David Pritchard to Angel Olsen
The Echoes Top 25 for August 2019 features the CD of the Month “Evanescent” by David Pritchard at the top, followed by Lamb, Azam Ali, Eve Maret, and 21 more recent recordings.
Playlists
Friday, August 30, 2019 – Echoes Program 1935E
On a Slow Flow Echoes we explore early Japanese ambient music from a collection called Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Environmental, Ambient & New Age Music 1980-1990. We’ll aslo sample another collection: Cosmic Duality, on Astro Pilot.
Coming Up
Thursday, September 12, 2019: Slow Flow Echoes with FLOW
New music by FLOW, the quartet of Fiona Joy, Lawrence Blatt, Jeff Oster and Windham Hill founder Will Ackerman. We’ll also hear guitar-synthesist Mark Dwane on a Slow Flow Echoes.
Playlists
Thursday, August 29, 2019 – Echoes Program 1935D
Pianist Chad Lawson came up through classical and jazz, but now he’s creating ambient music, treating his piano with electronic processing to give him a more atmospheric sound.
Living Room Concerts
Eve Maret Performs Live on Echoes
Eve Maret brings her synthesizers and vocal processing to perform the music of her debut album, No More Running, live. Maret is a resolutely electronic artist, influenced by ’70s and ’80s electropop.
Playlists
Wednesday, August 28, 2019 – Echoes Program 1935C
Guitarist William Tyler calls his music “rural New Age” with tongue only part way in-cheek. He’s taken the Windham Hill aesthetic, and carried it to new dimensions. He talks about it on Echoes.