The June CD of the Month ia Eight Fragments of an Illusion by Ulrich Schnauss and Jonas Munk. Schnauss is a member of Tangerine Dream. Munk records shoegaze influenced electronics as Manual.
Idiosyncratic folk-rocker Sufjan Stevens has a five volume set of deeply ambient compositions called Convocations. It’s partly a response to deaths in the family and the pandemic.
Gary Numan paints a dystopian nightmare where earth takes revenge for a civilization that has fostered environmental and military catastrophe. We ponder the apocalypse with Gary Numan.
Jess Lamb and the Factory are a Cincinnati band fronted by singer Jess Lamb and with Warren Harrison. They’ve created a deep spiritual meditation partly shaped by Pandemic called You Are.
It’s just about the right time for a Mint Julep, not the drink or candy, but the dreampop duo of Keith and Hollie Kenniff. They have a new album, In a Deep and Dreamless Sleep.
New electronic pop from Decouplr, a pair of musicians from Philadelphia who are tapping a deep vein of soulful synthesis. We’ll also hear music from Scotland’s Moqwai.
New music from a pair of duos. We’ll hear Sweden’s Johan Agebjorn and Mikael Ogren with Artefact, and Bluetech and Steven Moore have a new downtempo collaboration, Liminal Migration.
On A Slow Flow Echoes, a space music epic by David Wright. The Lost Colony is a soundtrack for a graphic novel by Matt Howarth. We’ll also hear something by Comit from An Ocean of Thoughts.
The 23rd Icon, Norwegian guitarist Erik Wøllo. Since the mid-1990s he’s been sculpting celestial landscapes for guitar and synthesizer. We’ll hear a vintage live Echoes Performance.