Shimmer is Kevin Keller’s latest release, following up on 2020’s The Front Porch of Heaven. it’s another ambient chamber music beauty and Echoes October CD of the Month.
CD of the Month
Echoes October 2021 CD of the Month: Kevin Keller-Shimmer
Tag: electronic
Coming Up
Weekend, Oct 16-17, 2021 – Stephan Micus
We’ll hear that, and an interview with world music composer Stephan Micus. and Liquid Bloom teams up with PERE from Israel for an album of tribal electronic moods called Afar.
Coming Up
Friday, Oct 15, 2021 – Slow Flow Echoes
Two guitarists with expansive sounds: Carl Weingarten, from a new album of rustic chamber music, Ember Days, and Robert Jurjendal with a more ambient approach on Water Finds a Way.
Playlists
Friday, Oct 1, 2021 – Echoes Program 2139E
We hear some of the last music created by Harold Budd. The ambient artist passed last December, but he left his soundtrack to HBO’s I Know This Much Is True. We’ve got a track from that.
Playlists
Thursday, Sept 30, 2021 – Echoes Program 2139D
On a Slow Flow Echoes some fast guitar from Andy McKee, a leading light on the finger-style guitar scene. He has a new EP called Symbols. We’ll also ride the grooves of Byron Metcalf.
Coming Up
Wednesday, Oct 13, 2021 – Robot Koch Interview
German Composer Robot Koch has gone from death metal to deep ambient chamber music in his career. We follow the course of this inventive artist up through his latest offering.
Playlists
Wednesday, Sept 29, 2021 – Echoes Program 2139C
In honor of National Hispanic American Heritage Month, we’re going to the Latin side of Echoes. Not what you might expect: We’ll hear a different, more ambient part of the Latin aesthetic.
Playlists
Tuesday, Sept 28, 2021 – Echoes Program 2139B
It’s the 50th Anniversary of the greatest unsung band of Progressive Rock, Jade Warrior. Launched in 1971, they created a quartet of the most brilliant world fusion albums.
Coming Up
Monday, Oct 11, 2021 – Liquid Bloom & PERE, Tigerforest
Liquid Bloom teams up with PERE from Israel for an album of tribal electronic moods called Afar. We’ll hear that, and Tigerforest’s album, Discovery remixed as Re:Discovery.
Coming Up
Weekend, Oct 9-10, 2021 – Kevin Keller & Hybrid
Weekend Listeners hear October’s CD of the Month, Shimmer by Kevin Keller. Hear that and an interview with Hybrid talking about their August CD of the Month.