On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Aukai (Markus Sieber) who specializes in the South American instrument called the charango. He carves out delicate, brush stroked music on his album, Apricity.
On a Slow Flow Echoes, music by Mark Dwane. His instrumental music for guitar synthesizer usually is about extra-terrestrial imagery but his new album is called Earthlings.
Karmacoda is an electronic downtempo band from San Francisco inspired by the trip-hop sound of Massive Attack. Echoes premiers their new single, Time (Birds of the West Remix).
Music from Plaster Cast. They aren’t related to the Plaster Casters of the 1960s. This is a band creating a downtempo slo-core sound reminiscent of The XX. We’ll also hear Rebecca Pidgeon.
We remember Mark Shreeve. The British electronic musician pulled his final patchcord on August 31. He recorded numerous solo albums and film scores, and was in the groups Redshift and ARC.
Bjork has released her latest video to blow your mind. If you want to live in a land of magic, mushrooms, alien beings and mystical revelations, then plug yourself in to “Atopos”
Jan Hammer was the keyboardist from Mahavishnu Orchestra and the creator of the famed Miami Vice TV score. Jan Hammer casts back on his long and influential career on Echoes.
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.
Songs you’ve heard before, performed live by Mary Fahl. The immaculate voice of the 90s band October Project has a new solo album covering songs from her youth called I Can’t Get It Out of My Head.
We hear from an opera singer turned alt-rock diva when Zola Jesus talks about her new album, Arkhon. It’s a mix of religion and science fiction as she grapples with these dystopian times.