This weekend on Echoes, Digitonal return with their third CD of the Month, Set the Weather Fair. Digitonal are avatars of ambient chamber music and this is one of their best.
Coming Up
Weekend, Nov 7-8, 2020 – Digitonal’s CD of the Month
Tag: downtempo
Playlists
Tuesday, Oct 20, 2020 – Echoes Program 2042B
Sufjan Stevens goes all electronic on an album of life ruminations called The Ascension, maybe his most darkly melodic album ever. Also going deep but more acoustic is Ane Brun.
Coming Up
Weekend, Oct 31-Nov 1, 2020 – Lemmer & Pabst and Lisher
It’s a new generation of German electronic artists when we talk to Thomas Lemmer & Sebastian Pabst. Then we hear from rock refugee Gregory Allen Lisher (Camper Van Beethoven & Monks of Doom)
Playlists
Friday, Oct 16, 2020 – Echoes Program 2041E
Music from the Orb, the legendary ambient band with a new album called Abolition of the Royal Familia. We’ll also hear new music by Nicholas Gunn from his album, Pacific Blue.
Coming Up
Thursday, Oct 29, 2020 – Music from Bob Moses
We have music from the duo Bob Moses. They have a new album of propulsive electronic pop, and we’ll hear the title track, “Desire,” featuring the musician known as Zhu.
Playlists
Thursday, Oct 15, 2020 – Echoes Program 2041D
We travel through time for the German Sci-Fi TV series, Dark, which has an ambient underscore by Ben Frost, and songs by artists like Agnes Obel, Mimi Page, and Robot Koch.
Coming Up
Monday, Oct 26, 2020 – Thomas Lemmer and Sebastian Pabst
It’s a new generation of German electronic artists when we talk to Thomas Lemmer and Sebastian Pabst. They’ve been churning out downtempo dreams and electro-lounge moods at a prolific pace.
Interview Podcast, Program Highlights
Echoes Podcast: Rival Consoles
Coming Up
Tuesday, Oct 20, 2020 – Music from Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan Stevens goes all electronic on an album of life ruminations called The Ascension, maybe his most darkly melodic album ever. Also going deep but more acoustic is Ane Brun.
Program Highlights
Tuesday, Sept 29, 2020 – Program 2039B
Ryan West records as Rival Consoles, a resolutely electronic project, but he still thinks of his chromium plated compositions as songs. He calls it “songwriting with an electronic palate.”