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.
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.
Jónsi drops a single for these times, “Exhale.” The singer from Sigur Ros creates a work that begins hymnal and ends exultant with the image of a slow motion dancer in garbage bag plastic.
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Kitaro & Tigerforest’s Gunnar Spardel in Echoes Podcast https://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/echoes.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/EchoesPodcast-Spardel-Tigerforest-Kitaro.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS In the Echoes Podcast Two Generations of Electronic Artists: Tigerforest’s Gunnar Spardel & Kitaro From electronic space to ambient chamber music, we talk to Gunnar Spardel, who composes somber and serene chamber music under his own name and upbeat,…
Polica’s Channy Leanagh fell off a roof and broke her back. Nicholas Gunn got bullied as a young flute player. But that didn’t stop either of them from recording amazing music.