New music by Azam Ali. The vocalist from Niyaz has released a new single, this time singing a hymn by Abbes Hildegard von Bingen. We’ll also hear music by Saafi Brothers.
An Echoes Summer Solstice. We mark the beginning of summer with a soundscape drawn from Aukai, Jake Shimabukuro, Angel Olsen and the man for all seasons, George Winston.
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Tonight’s Echoes includes music from Emancipator surrounding his interview as well as new music by Moby, Atomic Skunk and Steve Roach as well as a classic from Sun Ra.
New music by French guitarist Pierre Bensusan. He came up during the days of Windham Hill guitarists like Michael Hedges who named a song after Bensusan. He has a new album called Azwan.
Pianist Peter Kater is interviewed and we hear a suite of his music as well as new music from Moby, bassist Michael Manring, and German electronic artist Robert Schroeder.
Guitar dreams by John Gregorius from his album, Full of Life, the June Echoes CD of the Month. We also have an interview with electronic musician Doug Appling of Emancipator.
We talk to Lane 8’s Daniel Goldstein. The electronic artist bans cellphone usage at his concerts and calls his sound “dreamy back-rub house music” with tongue firmly in cheek.
It’s music by electronic dream pop singer Half Waif. The daughter of an Indian refugee from Uganda and an Irish-American, she heard Indian bhajans and Celtic pop growing up.
Emancipator is Douglas Appling, an electronic musician who mixes synthesizers, sampled sounds and folk instruments like banjo and dulcimer into a hallucinatory sound. We talk to him on Echoes.