Ryan Karazija, frontman with Low Roar, has left the planet at age 40. He released 5 albums of dream pop since his 2011 debut and his music was heard in the video game Death Standing.
Brian Eno’s new album, Foreverandevernomore, is part hymn, part protest, and part lament, contemplating environmental catastrophe in deeply ambient songs. It’s our CD of the Month.
New music on Echoes by Weyes Blood from her album And in the Darkness Hearts Aglow, and a release by Moby from his new label, teaming up with Jamaican-Asian singer Akemi Fox.
The Black Angels are a psychedelic band out of Austin, who sound like they mainlined the Nuggets collection. Alex Maas and Christian Bland talk about music born in a hallucinogenic dream.
Ambient avatar Brian Eno releases a vocal album that ponders the end of the world. He does it in hymn-like ambient songs on FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE, where Eno is at his most naked ever.
As if the world isn’t scary enough out there, we’ve got an Echoes Halloween. It’s a soundscape of whispered voices, ambient ghosts and hip death goddesses as we soundtrack your Halloween night.
Harpist Andreas Vollenweider plays live. Echoes connects remotely with the Swiss artist in his home for an exclusive performance of music from his new album, Slow Flow and Dancer.
Keith Jarrett is still the standard for solo pianists. The legendary pianist has been sidelined by strokes, but ECM has gone back to a 2016 live solo performance, Bordeaux Concert.
We head to the badlands. Not the location, but the electronic pop singer Badlands, who is Swedish producer, Catharina Jaunviksna. Her new album is Call to Love. We heed the call on Echoes.
New music by the German electronic artist Klangwelt. He is stretching the sound of sequencer-driven music on his new album, Here and Why. We’ll also hear from Joseph L Young.