Author and composer Albert Glinsky talks about his book, Switched-On, Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution. It’s a deep dive into the inventor who changed the face of modern music.
Hear Rebecca Pidgeon live on Echoes. She’s best known as an actress in The Spanish Prisoner and State and Main, but her latest album explores themes of the mind, consciousness and meditation.
It’s Indigenous Peoples Day, the answer to Columbus Day. We’ll hear an American soundscape from before America with Native American music from R. Carlos Nakai, Joanne Shenandoah and others.
Daniel Lanois is the famed producer of U2, collaborator with Brian Eno, and a musician who is usually found behind a guitar or a pedal steel guitar. He has an album of ambient piano works.
Weekend listeners hear The October CD of the Month, Revolve by electronic maestros Ian Boddy and Erik Wøllo and then an interview with the electronic artist Animalweapon.
Songs you’ve heard before, sung by Mary Fahl. The immaculate voice of the 90s band October Project has a new solo album covering songs from her youth called I Can’t Get It Out of My Head.
New music by Dead Can Dance singer, Lisa Gerrard. She teams up with Italian-Argentinian composer Marcello De Francisi on a new album of ecstatic exoticism called Exaudia.
Music by Klaus Schulze from the final album by the legendary German electronic artist, Deus Arrakis. We’ll also hear from Sharon Van Etten from We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Delay Tactics, a progressive rock band from the 1980s that has recently reformed with original members Carl Weingarten, David Udel, and Walter Whitney.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Aukai (Markus Sieber) who specializes in the South American instrument called the charango. He carves out delicate, brush stroked music on his album, Apricity.