New music by French guitarist Pierre Bensusan. He came up during the days of Windham Hill guitarists like Michael Hedges who named a song after Bensusan. He has a new album called Azwan.
Pianist Peter Kater is interviewed and we hear a suite of his music as well as new music from Moby, bassist Michael Manring, and German electronic artist Robert Schroeder.
Guitar dreams by John Gregorius from his album, Full of Life, the June Echoes CD of the Month. We also have an interview with electronic musician Doug Appling of Emancipator.
We talk to Lane 8’s Daniel Goldstein. The electronic artist bans cellphone usage at his concerts and calls his sound “dreamy back-rub house music” with tongue firmly in cheek.
It’s music by electronic dream pop singer Half Waif. The daughter of an Indian refugee from Uganda and an Irish-American, she heard Indian bhajans and Celtic pop growing up.
Emancipator is Douglas Appling, an electronic musician who mixes synthesizers, sampled sounds and folk instruments like banjo and dulcimer into a hallucinatory sound. We talk to him on Echoes.
The French Band AIR was one of the seminal electronic pop groups of the 1990s and oughts. Founding member Nicolas Godin has a new solo album out that began as an architectural art project.
New music by French guitarist Pierre Bensusan. He came up during the days of Windham Hill guitarists like Michael Hedges who named a song after Bensusan. He has a new album called Azwan.
We travel to Ukraine to talk with Andrei Ivanov who records as Vonavi. Last year this electronic composer released his impressive debut album, Reflection with collaborators like Run Rivers.
The French Band AIR was one of the seminal electronic pop groups of the 1990s and oughts. Founding member Nicolas Godin has a new solo album out that began as an architectural art project.