The return of Elizabeth Fraser. The spell-binding singer of wordless incantations from The Cocteau Twins finally has a new project, Sun’s Signature, and they have put out their debut EP.
Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater talks about their new album, The Great Awakening. It’s a subtle work of ambient songs employing nature sounds that Meiburg recorded all over the world.
October Project singer Mary Fahl digs into her past with a new album of covers called Can’t Get It Out of My Head. It’s mostly 60s and 70s songs rendered in Mary Fahl’s immaculate voice.
New music by Angel Olson. The alt-rock singer has taken a country turn on her new album, Big Time, but she does it with a flare of Ambient Americana. It’s a big time in a chilled way.
We hit the trail and take an electronic journey with Tone Ranger. That’s Alex Simon, and he’s creating desert southwest landscapes that merge electronics with guitar and pedal steel guitar.
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.
Lumenette is Christine Byrd, the wife of Hammock’s Marc Byrd. On her debut as Lumenette, she sheds her Christian background to illuminate her emotional trauma and love.
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.
Thievery Corporation’s Eric Hilton has put out four albums during the pandemic, the latest is Lost Dialect. We’ll also hear Klaus Schulze’s posthumous release Deus Arrakis, on Echoes from PRX.
Ibeyi are twin sisters born in Paris, whose sound is somewhere between rap and Africa, with a dreamy allure. Their father was a Cuban percussionist and their mother was a French-Venezuelan singer.