On the next Echoes, an ambient supergroup when we hear the collaboration between electronic artist Brannan Lane, guitarist John Gregorius, and bassist Sean O’Bryan Smith.
Two artists from Japan: Kitaro from his album, An Enchanted Evening, which has just been reissued, and Hiroki Okano from his latest, Kyoumei. That translates as sympathy or resonance.
The ambient guitar duo, Hammock, return with a new album of inner contemplations and moody guitar excursions called Nevertheless. It’s a music that sits somewhere between here and there.
New music by Quiet Resonance. That’s the pseudonym of Mississippi pastor, Tony Pounder. He takes ambient guitar in new directions on his latest album, Asleep at the Wheel.
An electronic excursion with Rival Consoles. Landscape from Memory is the ninth studio by the UK artist, Ryan Lee West, and it may be his most kinetic and accessible yet.
Marconi Union talk about their CD of the Month, The Fear of Never Landing. After losing a founding member, Jami Crossley and Duncan Meadows have continued on with a new, refreshed sound.
Ankylosing Spondylitis is a spinal disease causing immense pain. But Jessica Robbins, who records as Course, creates some beautiful music out of that pain on her album, Hue Mirror.
Echoes’ July CD of the Month is a gem of dream-pop from the husband and wife duo of Aeseaes. They’ve been honing their organically conceived sound by streaming concerts online once a week.
Anoushka Shankar has released an impressive trilogy of EPs in the last year that take her sitar in different directions including deep ambient music. We talk to this master musician.
On a July 4th we take you into twanguility with an Ambient Americana Soundscape. It’s country and western distilled though Brian Eno ambiences, but still with that country twang.