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.
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.
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.
Music by 9 Theory and Torii Wolf from their collaboration, Soft Realms. 9 Theory is producer Gabe Lehner and Torii Wolf is a singer and producer who comes out of the Massive Attack mold.
Air’s Moon Safari album gets an epic and ambient rework by Vegyn. It’s called Blue Moon Safari. Vegyn maintains the downtempo mood of the original but takes it into new atmospheres.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by German multi-instrumentalist, Marcator. Earlier this year he released the album, PanAroma. Now he has an album of remixes called PanAroma Reincarnations.
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.