As if the world isn’t scary enough, we’ve got an Echoes Halloween. John Diliberto is your sonic crypt keeper, creating a soundscape of whispered voices, ambient ghosts and hip death goddesses.
Lay back on the couch and listen to singer-songwriter Benjamin Jayne. When he’s not making vaguely psychedelic folk music, he’s a psychiatrist. He has a deeply melancholy album called Broken.
Enter the monastery with Kevin Keller’s November CD of the Month. It’s called Evensong and it is centered around chants from the medieval Abbess, Hildegard von Bingen.
The artist known as BT is a polymath who gets into the code of his music. He has a new album, The Secret Language of Trees, and although it’s forest inspired, it’s not a pastoral romp.
Darkside is the trippy electronica duo of Nicolas Jaar & Dave Harrington who released their debut album 10 years ago. They talk about that and we remember Carla Bley, a true iconoclast.
The Grammy winning group, Opium Moon is creating a middle eastern world fusion that is equal parts sacred and sensual. I talk to this ensemble which includes acclaimed violinist Lili Hayden.
New music by Slowdive, the shoegaze band who came to renown in the 1990s. They’re back with a new album, Everything Is Alive. We’ll also hear a track from VEiiLA.
We have new music by Shekina Rose, a singer from Sedona who’s got a song for whales. We’ll also hear the electronic Arabic fusion of Didon remixed by Bombay Dub Orchestra.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we enter the temple of Steve Roach’s Sanctuary of Desire. We’ll go into one of the long, evolving tracks from this master of sequencer driven music.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Numatik, He’s an American artist and, despite the name and steady pulse, he’s actually inspired by ecological and spiritual concerns in his music.