Flutist Sherry Finzer takes us inside the tank. It’s a 70 foot tall water tank with its own special echo. Sherry talks about playing inside it and some of her other musical projects.
We ride a Hellbound Train with Steve Tibbetts, an icon of Echoes who has a new double CD of music from across his 40 years at ECM. We talk about his unique approach to music and guitar.
We hear from an opera singer turned alt-rock diva when Zola Jesus talks about her new album, Arkhon. It’s a mix of religion and science fiction as she grapples with these dystopian times.
Animalweapon. The name comes from the Dead Pool superhero comic but no animals are harmed in the music of Patrick Cortes. But he does uses animal recordings as part of his electronic songs.
For July 4th we take you into twanguility with an Ambient Americana soundscape. It’s country and western distilled though Brian Eno ambiences, but still with that country twang.
New music by Eric Hilton. Half of Thievery Corporation, he’s spent his pandemic time releasing four albums to date. His new one is Lost Dialect. We accept all dialects on Echoes from PRX.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Vic Hennegan. He started out as a disciple of German space music but he’s gone in a more percussive direction for his new album, Time Ritual.
Electronic artist Michael Whalen draws upon his roots in 70s and 80s European electronic music to create his album, Imaginary Trains. He talks about the journey of this album.
It’s the psychedelic shoegaze sound of Mountains of Jura, a band channeling Pink Floyd and Slowdive. We’ll also hear from Radium 88 from their album, We Are All Dreaming Now.
There’s a Hellbound Train coming into Echoes when we hear a track from a new collection of music by guitarist Steve Tibbetts. We’ll also hear from NaNa, a band from Japan with a downtempo sound.