The Echoes Top 25 for April 2020 features Michael Whalen’s Sacred Spaces, AVAWaves, Tigerforest Emancipator, Paul Speer, Purity Ring, and 19 other CDs. See if your favorites made the list.
New music by Drogtech, a Polish musician creating ambient soundscapes on his new album, Fractured. We’ll also hear from Karavan Sarai, the world fusion electronic project.
We hear the multi-keyboard orchestrations of music of Naneum, live. Naneum is Jon Solo, and he creates ambient chamber music featuring piano, synthesizers, Fender Rhodes and Melotron.
We travel to Ukraine to talk with Andrei Ivanov who records as Vonavi. Last year this electronic composer released his impressive debut album, Reflection with collaborators like Run Rivers.
It’s dreamy, downtempo music by JFDR, that’s an abbreviation of her more complicated Icelandic name. We’ll also hear electronic music by Spinger from the album, Invisible Tree.
Nicholas Gunn got bullied as a young flute player, but that’s not why he put down his instrument in favor of electronics. Join John Diliberto when he talks with Nicholas Gunn.
The French Band AIR was one of the seminal electronic pop groups of the 1990s and oughts. Founding member Nicolas Godin has a new solo album out that began as an architectural art project.
Singer Channy Leanagh fell off a roof and broke her back, but that didn’t stop her from recording a great album with her group, Polica. We talk about the album When We Stay Alive.
Hear new music by Dreaming of Ghosts, the duo of electronic artist Robot Koch and singer Fiora creating an atmospheric dream pop, and we’ll hear the latest by ELEON off his album, Cerulean.
Guitarist Lawson Rollins continues his Nuevo Flamenco ways on his album True North. And Aquiver takes us into the down-tempo dub typical of a musician from the Desert Dwellers circle.