Actress Kaelen Ohm has been seen in the TV series “Hit & Run” and “From.” But you can hear her as Amaara, making deep, psychedelic dream pop on her new album, Child of Venus.
The August CD of the Month is Rain Before Seven by Penguin Café, the successor to The Penguin Café Orchestra launched in 1976 on Brian Eno’s Obscure Label. The music continues to be one-of-a-kind.
We travel to China via the impressionistic music of Robert Rich. His latest album, Travelers’ Cloth, is inspired by an ancient Chinese poet and his journey through the countryside.
On a Slow Flow Echoes it’s music by Evenfall, the collaboration of multi-instrumentalist Cass Anawaty and flute player Sherry Finzer. We’ll also get some ambient chamber music by Naneum.
New music by Beach House. They have a new EP called Become that continues their dream pop sound. We’ll also hear The National from their album, The First Two Pages of Frankenstein.
The Goth sound has permeated music since the early 1980s. Author and musician John Robb created a definitive chronicle of this movement in his book, The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Quiet Resonance, a guitarist from Mississippi who creates ambient landscapes. His latest album is Snowblind. We’ll also hear from George FitzGerald.
La Luz singer and guitarist Shana Cleveland plays live on Echoes. Playing music from her solo release, Manzanita, each song carries Shana’s unique blend of folk, indie, and dreamy pop.
We look back at A Produce. That was the moniker of Barry Craig in the ’80s and ’90s. He died young in 2011. His music is being reissued so Echoes goes back to their 1996 interview.