The 16th Icon, Robert Fripp, is the founder of King Crimson and a pioneer of progressive rock and ambient music. We’ll hear an exclusive live performance from the Robert Fripp String Quintet.
Loreena McKennitt arises as the 14th Icon. We’ll hear a profile of this one-of-a-kind artist. Then we remember Constance Demby, a New Age Queen who died on March 20, 2021
The electronic pop band, Decouplr, tackles themes of pandemic and isolation. The Philadelphia duo have released their 80s inspired album of electro-pop called Digital Bonfire.
Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy take us on a trip to Ravenna. The two musicians take us inside their musical creation which has elements of folk, classical and even some rock slips in.
The April CD of the Month, Ember Days, is an album of intricate and pastoral excursions by Carl Weingarten. He weaves multiple guitars into the sound of country-meets-heaven.
The German duo Grandbrothers, who play a grand piano hooked up with electronics and a machine for an orchestral sound. We tickle the ivories and program the drum machines of Grandbrothers.
Ambient chamber composer Kevin Keller goes spiritual when heart surgery stops his heart from beating. He contemplates that experience on his album, The Front Porch of Heaven.
NPR’s Bob Boilen is more than the host of Tiny Desk Concerts and All Songs Considered. He’s also a composer of music from ambient to punk rock. We talk about his pandemic album Hidden Smiles.
It’s a Slow Flow with new music by Lisa Bella Donna from The World She Wanted, Native flutes and Peruvian pan-pipes from Pamela Whitman & Cesar Villalobos, and the chill of Gold Lounge.
We declare winter over with an Echoes Vernal Equinox Soundscape. We’ll hear music for the turning of the seasons and the cycle of celestial events to drive winter away.