New music by Angel Olson. The alt-rock singer has taken a country turn on her new album, Big Time, but she does it with a flare of Ambient Americana. It’s a big time in a chilled way.
We hit the trail and take an electronic journey with Tone Ranger. That’s Alex Simon, and he’s creating desert southwest landscapes that merge electronics with guitar and pedal steel guitar.
We ride a Hellbound Train with Steve Tibbetts, an icon of Echoes who has a new double CD of music from across his 40 years at ECM. We talk about his unique approach to music and guitar.
Lumenette is Christine Byrd, the wife of Hammock’s Marc Byrd. On her debut as Lumenette, she sheds her Christian background to illuminate her emotional trauma and love.
Animalweapon. The name comes from the Dead Pool superhero comic but no animals are harmed in the music of Patrick Cortes. But he does uses animal recordings as part of his electronic songs.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, some fast guitar from Andy McKee, a leading light on the finger-style guitar scene. He has an EP called Symbols. We’ll also ride the grooves of Byron Metcalf.
Thievery Corporation’s Eric Hilton has put out four albums during the pandemic, the latest is Lost Dialect. We’ll also hear Klaus Schulze’s posthumous release Deus Arrakis, on Echoes from PRX.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, new music by Vic Hennegan. He started out as a disciple of German space music but he’s gone in a more percussive direction for his new album, Time Ritual.
Enter the sanctuary of Bass Temple. She is an EDM downtempo musician out of Colorado and she’s just released her debut EP, The Beginning. We’ll also hear new music by HAAi.