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.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, the ambient guitar twang of The Royal Arctic Institute. We’ll hear from their latest album, From Catharsis to Coma. We’ll also hear from Craig Padilla and Marvin Allen.
Deadmau5 is one of the more adventurous of EDM artists. His new single takes its name from the feathered serpent of Aztec mythology, Quetzalcoatl. That and more tonight on Echoes.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, we’ll hear a Japanese electronic artist who records as Yaffle. He’s got a beautiful ambient chamber music release recorded with several Icelandic musicians.
Loreena McKennitt revisits her classic album, The Mask and Mirror. She’s currently touring that album in Europe, and released a live album from 1994 on the original’s 30th anniversary.
On the next Echoes, music from New Age diva, Marya Stark. She teams up with multi-instrumentalist Daniel Berkman playing Kora, Cello and Ondomo. Their album is Underground River.
Tori Amos’ Unrepentant Geraldines turns 10. We talked to Tori in 2014, and we revisit that interview to go behind the songs of Unrepentant Geraldines, which now has a new deluxe edition.
Kaleida are a dream-pop duo from England and America sculpting a personal sound born of evocative, but minimally deployed electronics and sensual singing. Their new album is In Arms.
The August CD of the Month is the debut recording of Jaymie Rose Hennegan. She has spun an album of delirious sequencers and free-form synth solos, improvised live on the album, Transition.