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Angela Sheik is a 21st century singer-songwriter who doesn’t just sit at a piano or play a guitar. With live looping, she creates her own elaborate orchestrations using those instruments plus autoharp, theremin, flute and whatever else she can get her hands on.
Coming up on the next Echoes it’s new music by singer Sharon Van Etten We’ll hear something from her new EP called “I Don’t Want to Let You Down.”
If you love the charm of a broken music box, a building in decay, and moss covered gardens, then the fractured elegance of Digitonal is for you. The ambient chamber music band has released their first album in 7 years. It’s called Beautiful Broken and it’s the CD of the Month for June.
Coming up on an Echoes Slow Flow Friday, we’ll hear new music by Paul De Jong, one half of the idiosyncratic art-rock group, The Books.
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Another Fine Day has a new CD called A Good Place to Be. It’s a seductive album of ambient jazz explorations.
Another Fine Day is the performance moniker of Tom Green, an English musician who came to renown playing early morning sets at the Big Chill Festival for most of its 18 year run.
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Trumpeter Jeff Oster creates and ambient jazz sound on his new album, Next, joined by veteran session musicians like Nile Rodgers and Bernard Purdie.
The ZMR Music Rewards are handed out each year by the Zone Music Reporter’s roster of DJs playing New Age, ambient and electronic music. We’ll hear the results with artists from the Echoes galaxy who won.
Jeff Oster has taken his trumpet and flugelhorn into New Age and ambient directions over the years. On his new album, Next, he explores some ambient jazz. He talks about tone, funk and ambience on Echoes.
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Bing & Ruth mix reed instruments, two double basses, cello and delay electronics into a haunting, hypnotic ambient chamber music sound.