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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Friday, May 29th, 2015-Echoes Program 1521E
Tag: downtempo
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Another Fine Day in Echoes Podcast
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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.
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2015-Echoes Program 1521B
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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Jeff Oster in Echoes Podcast
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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.
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2015-Echoes Program 1520C
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.
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2015-Echoes Program 1520B
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 in Echoes Podcast
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Bing & Ruth mix reed instruments, two double basses, cello and delay electronics into a haunting, hypnotic ambient chamber music sound.
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Thursday, May 7th, 2015-Echoes Program 1518D
New music on Echoes from singer Heather Woods Broderick. She’s played with artists like Efterklang and Sharon Van Etten. We’ll also hear from trumpeter Jeff Oster’s new CD, Next.
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Lanterna in Echoes Podcast
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Henry Frayne has put out a string of wonderful albums bder the name Lanterna. It’s been nine years since he released an album, but he’s finally returned with Backyards. Frayne talks about his time away and the music it helped produce, a sound that was born on acoustic guitar.
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Johan Agebjorn in Echoes Podcast
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Johan Agebjorn recently released the album Notes, an ambitious song cycle exploring chamber and electronic moods with singers. Agebjorn has been a fixture on Sweden’s ambient and pop music scene for years. In the pop world he’s the mastermind behind Sally Shapiro, the electro-pop project with a singer whose identity remains cloaked, although it may be revealed in our interview. In ambient music he’s released several beautiful, often pastoral albums.