Outkast’s Andre 3000 goes ambient and new age. We’ll hear music from the rapper’s Grammy-nominated solo debut album, New Blue Sun which is all instrumental and features no real beats and lots of flute.
We go back to the 1976 album, New Age of Earth by Ash Ra Tempel, the German band led by guitarist Manuel Göttsching. This album is pretty much a solo release of deep, floating ambient music.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we enter the temple of Steve Roach’s Sanctuary of Desire. We’ll go into one of the long, evolving tracks from this master of sequencer-driven music.
It seems like only yesterday that Erik Wøllo released his album, Solastalgia and now he has new one, Where the River Widens. It’s inspired, once again, by his home in Norway.
It’s a meeting of electronic generations with Ian Boddy and Harald Grosskopf. They’ve created an album called Doppelganger that looks back at the golden age of Krautrock.
Ólafur Arnalds and his ensemble performed live on Echoes back in 2011, playing music from the album he had just released at the time, “And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness.”
New Zealand Electronic artist David Parsons left the planet in February. We remember him with a suite of his music that combined electronics with sitar and other world music elements.
It’s the sounds of Ireland on a Celtic Soundscape for St. Patrick’s Day hear mutantrumpet player Ben Neill talk about his fascinating book, Diffusing Music on Echoes
The March CD of the Month is a meeting of Krautrock & Ambient Country when Immersion get together with SUSS on the album, Nanocluster Volume 3. It sends western twang into ambient spaces.
New music by Japanese Breakfast, the Philadelphia dream pop band fronted by Michelle Zauner. They have a new pastoral single off their album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women).