Jake Shimabukuro has done for the ukelele what Jimi Hendrix did for the electric guitar. His new album, Calm Seas, explores a more soothing, minimalist influenced sound combined with nature.
The voice of Azam Ali is heard on TV and films, with the groups Vas and Niyaz, and on several solo releases in a mix of ancient Persian and modern styles. She talks about her latest album, Synesthesia.
Marissa Nadler is something beyond a singer-songwriter. Her seductive voice is wrapped in elaborate stories and bathed in psychedelic overtones and reverb.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music from Anoushka Shankar who has released the third and final EP of her Trilogy. It’s called Chapter III: We Return to Light. We bring you to the light.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, Ian Boddy teams up with German drummer and electronic musician Harold Grosskopf. Grosskopf played on several Klaus Schulze albums and in Ashra and Wallenstein.
Music from Arooj Aftab, the Pakistani-American singer who wraps you in dark sultriness. We’ll hear from her album, Night Reign. We’ll also hear a psychedelic band called Magic Fig.
It’s another Journey into Long Tracks on the next Echoes. We’ll be hearing the title track to Michael Hoenig’s Departure from the Northern Wastelands, some Mike Oldfield, Nils Frahm, and more.
On the next Echoes, new music by Parra for Cuva. It sounds Latin but it’s a German electronic artist who has a bit of a Latin feel to his downtempo music on the album, Mimose.
The Medieval electronics of Qntal. This brilliant German group, fronted by vocalist Sigrid Hausen, turns medieval texts into electronica songs that seem to come from a cosmic cathedral.
It’s Long Tracks III as we dig into some more expansive sounds for you. It will include a deep ambient meditation, a lost classic of German space music, a world fusion journey, and more.