Shimmer is Kevin Keller’s latest release, following up on 2020’s The Front Porch of Heaven. it’s another ambient chamber music beauty and Echoes October CD of the Month.
CD of the Month
Echoes October 2021 CD of the Month: Kevin Keller-Shimmer
Tag: downtempo
Coming Up
Weekend, Oct 16-17, 2021 – Stephan Micus
We’ll hear that, and an interview with world music composer Stephan Micus. and Liquid Bloom teams up with PERE from Israel for an album of tribal electronic moods called Afar.
Playlists
Friday, Oct 1, 2021 – Echoes Program 2139E
We hear some of the last music created by Harold Budd. The ambient artist passed last December, but he left his soundtrack to HBO’s I Know This Much Is True. We’ve got a track from that.
Coming Up
Monday, Oct 11, 2021 – Liquid Bloom & PERE, Tigerforest
Liquid Bloom teams up with PERE from Israel for an album of tribal electronic moods called Afar. We’ll hear that, and Tigerforest’s album, Discovery remixed as Re:Discovery.
Coming Up
Weekend, Oct 9-10, 2021 – Kevin Keller & Hybrid
Weekend Listeners hear October’s CD of the Month, Shimmer by Kevin Keller. Hear that and an interview with Hybrid talking about their August CD of the Month.
Coming Up
Friday, Oct 8, 2021 – New Music from Anoushka Shankar
Sitarist Anoushka Shankar is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, but she’s going even further afield than her father. We’ll hear a track from Love Letters PS, featuring her sister, Norah Jones.
Coming Up
Thursday, Oct 7, 2021 – Slow Flow Echoes
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music from French 79, whose new album, Joshua takes a retro-electronic spin. We’ll also hear new music by Phil Keaggy‘s Acoustic Sketches 3.
Coming Up
Tuesday, Oct 5, 2021 – Hybrid’s Fallen Angels
The electronica duo Hybrid takes us into the sometimes dark world of their new album, Black Halo. John Diliberto talks to Charlotte and Mike Truman about their album on Echoes.
Playlists
Weekend, Sept 18-19, 2021 – Programs 2137A & 2137B
We talk to Gunnar Spardel, who composes somber and serene chamber music under his own name and upbeat, progressive electronic music under the guise of Tigerforest.
Coming Up
Friday, Oct 1, 2021 – Harold Budd and Eric Hilton
We hear some of the last music created by Harold Budd. The ambient artist passed last December, but he left his soundtrack to HBO’s I Know This Much Is True. We’ve got a track from that.