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.
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.
Ryan West records as Rival Consoles, a resolutely electronic project, but he still thinks of his chromium plated compositions as songs. He has a new album called Now Is.
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.
We talk with Airport People: not weary airline travelers, but ambient chamber music artist Leon Todd Johnson. He has an album of creaky-piano-centered compositions called From Nine Mornings.
Weekend Echoes listeners hear Mary Fahl playing live with songs from “I Can’t Get It Out of My Head.” We’ll also hear keyboardist Jan Hammer talking about his career and new album. Interview
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.
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.
The guitar duo of Rodrigo Y Gabriela take of lot of pleasure in covering rock tunes. They’ve done everything from Metallica to Pink Floyd. Now they’ve taken on Radiohead’s Weird Fishes.
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.