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.
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Tuesday, May 7, 2019 – Echoes Program 1919B
Tag: Ambient
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Friday, May 3, 2019 – Echoes Program 1918E
Coming up on Echoes, the latest from by Saul Stokes. The electronics wizard created live electronic music with no synthesizers and a setup that looks like an electrician’s workbench.
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Thursday, May 2, 2019 – Echoes Program 1918D
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Djam Karet, the American progressive rock group has a new album that taps into their world music and folk influences called A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof.
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Wednesday, May 1, 2019 – Echoes Program 1918C
Buck Curran, formerly half of the psychedelic folk duo Arborea, is creating his own music born of blues, raga, psychedelia and more. His taking American Primitive guitar global.
Best Of
Echoes April 2019 Top 25: CGT & MG3, Unkle Lead
The Echoes Top 25 for April 2019 has the CD of the Month “In a Landscape” by California Guitar Trio & Montreal Guitar Trio at the top, followed by UNKLE, Frostlake, Weyes Blood, and 21 more.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2019 – Echoes Program 1918B
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.
CD of the Month
May 2019 CD of the Month: Massergy’s Fire Opal
Massergy’s ambient music is suffused with psychedelic influences from Mexican Indian rituals to Pink Floyd and Grateful Dead. His album Fire Opal is Echoes May CD of the Month.
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Friday, April 26th, 2019 – Echoes Program 1917E
New music by Indarra, an entrancing band with a supernatural Basque name centered on the declamatory vocals of Sue Hutton. We’ll also hear the latest by the chant trio White Sun on Echoes.
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Thursday, April 25, 2019 – Echoes Program 1917D
On a Slow Flow Echoes, Thomas Newman from his score The Highwaymen, the movie about the two Texas Rangers who hunted Bonnie & Clyde. Then from the highway to the spaceways with Chuck Van Zyl.
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019 – Echoes Program 1917C
It’s music from Switzerland when the minimalist jazz ensemble, Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin come in to play live. The ECM band create a music out cyclical interlocking patterns that evolve over time.