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.
Playlists
Thursday, May 7th, 2015-Echoes Program 1518D
Tag: downtempo
Interview Podcast
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.
Interview Podcast
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.
Interview Podcast
Sonomad in Echoes Podcast
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Sonomad is a conceptual work about a “sound wanderer,” that involves concepts of life, infinity and beyond.
Playlists
Tuesday, April 14th, 2015-Echoes Program 1515B
Sonomad is a project of keyboardist/programmer Ramin Sakuria and guitarist Geoffrey Brandin from The Supreme Beings of Leisure. As Sonomad, they create a downtempo space opera for a galactic sound wanderer.
Playlists
Thursday, April 9th, 2015-Echoes Program 1514D
On the next Echoes we hear new music from singer-songwriter Laura Marling’s Short Movie and electronica artist Olulo, aka Magic Sound Fabric with Ego Hacker.
CD of the Month
Erik Wøllo’s Timelines
It’s a cliché, I know, but as soon as an Erik Wøllo album starts, you know you are on a journey. It’s like the moments before take-off, only Wøllo’s ascent doesn’t throw you back in your seat with G-Force thrust. It’s a gentle rise into euphoric space. Timelines is a beautifully sculpted example of…
Program Highlights
Tonight Sky’s Jason Holstrom in Echoes Podcast
Hear About Beach Boys, Ukuleles and Space Music with Tonight Sky in the Echoes Podcast. Jason Holstrom has been on the Seattle music since the turn of the millennium playing in groups like Wonderful and United States of Electronica. But none of that music would prepare you for the serenely feel good vibrations of his…
Program Highlights
Surf’s Up with Tonight Sky
Jason Holstrom has been on the Seattle music since the turn of the millennium playing in groups like Wonderful and United States of Electronica. But none of that music would prepare you for the serenely feel good vibrations of his project,Tonight Sky. He’s taken Beach Boys harmonies and sent them into electronica space. In Seattle,…
Living Room Concerts
Still Corners Live on Echoes Tonight.
Tonight on Echoes, Still Corners Live. Still Corners is a critically-acclaimed Dream-pop band from England. They visit Echoes with their full ensemble to unfold the atmospheric delights of their latest CD, Strange Pleasure. A track from this performance is on our latest CD, Transmissions: The Echoes Living Room Concerts V19. Find your local Echoes station…