In the world of space and ambient music, the German group called Cluster are eccentric wizards, musical alchemists who defied traditions, even the ones they helped create in 1970s Berlin. One half of this influential band, Dieter Moebius, died on July 20 at the age of 71. We listen back to an interview with Cluster from 1997, and hear some music from Cluster, Harmonia, and Cluster and Eno.
Ólafur Arnalds is one of the signature composers of ambient chamber music, and in the last year, he’s released an album based on the compositions of Chopin, scored BBC TV series, Broadchurch and recorded an all electronic project as Kiasmos.
It’s a Slow Flow Echoes with new music from James Hood who has a new double CD of Hang Drum moods called Pure Ceremony. We’ll also hear ex-King Crimson violinist David Cross reworking a composition from that band called “Starless.”
Howling brings together an Australian singer and German electronic artist who met on Skype. They have a new album of electro-pop called Sacred Ground. We’ll hear that and new, surprisingly mellow music from the Japanese guitar assault band, Mono.
Andrew Dobson started performing as Digitonal in 1997 and began recording with the 2002 album, 23 Things Fall Apart. With the addition of Egyptian violinist Samy Bishai Digitonal hit its stride with the 2008 album, Save Your Light for Darker Days.
Heather Woods Broderick has performed with Sharon van Etten and Efterklang, but on her own, she creates richly-textured worlds for her introspective songs. With her CD Glider, Heather Wood Broderick has created one of the most enveloping and sustained song-cycles of 2015.
Coming up on Echoes, Sufjan Stevens, the acclaimed and idiosyncratic songwriter goes back to his folk roots, but with a spacey sound on Carrie and Lowell.
Singer-songwriter Kristin Hoffmann has been recording since she was 17 with a music she called Ethereal Renaissance Pop.
Heather Woods Broderick has performed with Sharon van Etten and Efterklang, but on her own, she creates richly-textured worlds for her introspective songs. With her CD Glider, Heather Wood Broderick has created one of the most enveloping and sustained song-cycles of 2015.
To celebrate Independence Day, Echoes takes a trek across American Landscapes with music evoking the purple mountain majesties and fruited plains.